Long reads

Essays, features and reporting from magazines and papers: The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Aeon, Quanta, the Economist and more.

Top publicationsThe New York Times 74BBC 33The Guardian 27Wired 27The Wall Street Journal 26Bloomberg 25The Atlantic 24The New Yorker 21The Washington Post 16The Economist 14Atlas Obscura 12Nature 10

514 articles.

• It ended in 1767, yet this experiment is still linked to higher incomes and education levels today

  The Washington Post · 2018-11-10

• The Soviet Children's Books That Broke the Rules of Propaganda

  Atlas Obscura · 2018-11-03

• Opinion | The Japanese Man Who Saved 6,000 Jews With His Handwriting

  The New York Times · 2018-10-18

• How deep is the decline of the West?

  New Statesman · 2018-10-18

• The Coddling of the American Mind and Its Discontents

  The Atlantic · 2018-10-17

• Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property?

  The New Yorker · 2018-10-16

• Yan Lianke’s Forbidden Satires of China

  The New Yorker · 2018-10-15

• Radley Balko

  The Washington Post · 2018-10-15

• Mr. Right or Mr. Right Now... The Case for Good Enough

  The Atlantic · 2018-10-12

• Left in Polytheism

  Los Angeles Review of Books · 2018-10-11

• Prehistoric art hints at lost Indian civilisation - BBC News

  BBC · 2018-10-05

• The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

  Bloomberg · 2018-10-04

• Finding Franklin by Marc M. Arkin

  The New Criterion · 2018-10-03

• The Grievance Studies Scandal: Five Academics Respond

  Quillette · 2018-10-03

• Fake News Comes to Academia - WSJ

  The Wall Street Journal · 2018-10-03

• Banned Books Week: 10 Pop Fictions to Annoy the Politically Correct

  Quillette · 2018-09-27

• Social Justice in the Shadows

  Quillette · 2018-09-19

• Washington Monthly | Playing With Numbers

  Washington Monthly · 2018-09-10

• When Censorship Is Crowdsourced

  Quillette · 2018-09-10

• Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole

  Quillette · 2018-09-07

• America's Elite Universities Are Censoring Themselves on China

  The New Republic · 2018-09-04

• What Really Happened to Michael Rockefeller | History

  Smithsonian · 2018-09-03

• It’s not science I don’t trust – it’s the scientists

  The Spectator · 2018-08-24

• The Abandoned, Apocalyptic Architecture of One Bold 1970s Retail Chain

  Atlas Obscura · 2018-08-23

• The Map Of Native American Tribes You've Never Seen Before : Code Switch

  NPR · 2018-08-20

• How a Transplanted Face Transformed a Young Woman’s Life

  National Geographic · 2018-08-16

  This was a difficult and harrowing story for me to read.

• Why is English so weirdly different from other langu...

  Aeon · 2015-11-19

  "Why is english so weirdly different from other languages" . Thanks for the link @tweetfrome.

• My Dad Tried to Kill Me with an Alligator | Outside Online

  Outside · 2015-05-14

• Lost languages leave traces on the brain

  Ars Technica · 2014-11-22

• The Importance of Making Big Data Accessible to Non-Data Scientists | Innovation Insights | Wired.com

  Wired · 2013-05-11

• 'Big Data' Means Business Needs Mathematicians - Technology Review

  MIT Technology Review · 2011-09-28

• "When you're done talking, stop"

  The Atlantic · 2011-08-14

  Choice quotes from Shaun FitzPatrick, Major USMC. ^2 >By the way toughest interviews I ever did were on NPR, not because of harsh treatment or anything like that, but because the radio reporter asks you to describe in detail for listeners…

• Don’t touch me, I’m British

  Financial Times · 2011-03-13

• Dubai on Empty | Culture

  Vanity Fair · 2011-03-12

• Middle-earth according to Mordor - Laura Miller - Salon.com

  Salon · 2011-02-22

• What Happens in Vagueness Stays in Vagueness by Clark Whelton

  City Journal · 2011-02-21

• The Youth Unemployment Bomb - BusinessWeek

  Bloomberg · 2011-02-08

• Parent's Corner: Polish Hand Magic: Scientific American

  Scientific American · 2011-02-07

  alternative methods for calculations..

• The King's Speech: good movie, very bad history. - By Christopher Hitchens

  Slate · 2011-01-24

• BBC News - Mansion unlocked after 100 years

  BBC · 2011-01-18

• A Light in India - NYTimes.com

  The New York Times · 2011-01-11

• Did Bankers Rob the Middle Class? - Derek Thompson - Business

  The Atlantic · 2011-01-11

• Letters: On doctoral degrees, polluting ships, Richard Holbrooke, British pubs

  The Economist · 2011-01-07

• India's New Generation of Caste Busters - NYTimes.com

  The New York Times · 2011-01-01

• A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation - NYTimes.com

  The New York Times · 2010-12-21

• Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic

  The Economist · 2010-12-18

• The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast - NYTimes.com

  The New York Times · 2010-12-16

• Albert Einstein Solves the Equation - Lapham’s Quarterly

  Lapham's Quarterly · 2010-12-15

• BBC - History - British History in depth: Was the American Revolution Inevitable?

  BBC · 2010-12-13

• Sexual selection: Hunkier than thou

  The Economist · 2010-12-11