In Defense of Despair (opens in new tab)
Hanif Abdurraqib The New Yorker
inputs
A noncomprehensive list of works by others that I've found interesting.
Essays
Machines of Loving Grace (opens in new tab)
Dario Amodei darioamodei.com
Young Morality and Old Morality (opens in new tab)
Hamilton Nolan How Things Work
Let's Build a Fleet and Change the World (opens in new tab)
Adam Mastroianni Experimental History
I Can’t Sleep (opens in new tab)
Paul Biggar Paul Biggar Blog
A Vision of Metascience (opens in new tab)
Michael Nielsen and Kanjun Qiu Science++ Project
How Arabs Have Failed Their Language (opens in new tab)
Hossam Abouzahr New Lines Magazine
In the Name of Beauty (opens in new tab)
Tressie McMillan Cottom Thick: And Other Essays
I Find Myself Defending Pigeons (opens in new tab)
Keith S. Wilson Poetry Foundation
The I in the Internet (opens in new tab)
Jia Tolentino CCCB Lab
The Varieties of Material Existence (opens in new tab)
Michael Nielsen Cognitive Medium
The Importance of Stupidity in Scientific Research (opens in new tab)
Martin A. Schwartz Journal of Cell Science
Joyas Voladoras (opens in new tab)
Brian Doyle The American Scholar
A Valediction for Edward Said (opens in new tab)
Christopher Hitchens Slate
Pale Blue Dot (opens in new tab)
Carl Sagan The Planetary Society
What Problems to Solve (opens in new tab)
Richard Feynman Farnam Street
How I See the World (opens in new tab)
Albert Einstein Mein Weltbild
more to be added
Conversations
Extremist Futures (opens in new tab)
Omar El Akkad NPR
State, Freedom, and How Society Unravels (opens in new tab)
Wael Hallaq with Abdulrahman Abumalih Finjan Podcast
Envy (opens in new tab)
Natalie Wynn ContraPoints
We Should Rewrite the Social Contract (opens in new tab)
Ezra Klein & Tressie McMillan Cottom The Ezra Klein Show (The New York Times)
James Baldwin’s Fire (opens in new tab)
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. NPR One
more to be added
Books
Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge (opens in new tab)
Wael B. Hallaq Columbia University Press
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures (opens in new tab)
Eric R. Kandel Columbia University Press
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science (opens in new tab)
Jim Al-Khalili Allen Lane / Penguin Press
Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance (opens in new tab)
Noam Chomsky Metropolitan Books
Meditations (opens in new tab)
Marcus Aurelius Penguin Classics
Specifically, the translation by Gregory Hays.
The Brothers Karamazov (opens in new tab)
Fyodor Dostoevsky Penguin Random House
Specifically, the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Candide and Other Stories (opens in new tab)
Voltaire Penguin Random House
Chaos: Making a New Science (opens in new tab)
James Gleick Viking
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (opens in new tab)
Malcolm X with Alex Haley Grove Press
My most reread book.
more to be added