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