Occasional Musings

Recently came across a great collection of articles from David Brooks in the NYtimes. It has been Brook’s recurring list as Sydney Awards. Here is the list and brief commentary on each from David Brooks [NYTimes article Link] Here are the articles mentioned the above link:

• How to tell you’re being cancelled, by Nick Gillespie in Reason Magazine
• My Mother’s Dreams for Her Son, and All Black Children, by Hilton Als in The New Yorker
• Systemic Racial Bias in the Criminal Justice System Is Not a Myth, by Brandon Vaidyanathan in The Public Discourse
• The Shape of the Shore, by Rana Awdish in Intima (covid)
• How the Pandemic Defeated America, by Ed Yong in The Atlantic
• Liberalism and its Discontents, by Francis Fukuyama in American Purpose
• Postliberal Epistemology, by Tara Isabella Burton in Comment
• The Erosion of Deep Literacy, by Adam Garfinkle in National Affairs [I had posted a previous blog post about this]
• The Last Children of Down Syndrome, by Sarah Zhang in The Atlantic

Few on the lighter side of things, also from the same NYTimes article:

• On the Many Mysteries of the European Eel, by Patrik Svensson in Literary Hub
• Dupes and Duplicity, by Jennifer Lee Noonan in Damn Interesting
• What Happens When Trust the Rides of Their Lives to the Magic of the Universe, by Kim Kross in Bicycling