- Rusty Guinn: Anatomy of a Narrative Virus. A case study of our collective disregard for truth.
- Branko Milanović: Defeated by reality. A post-mortem to neoliberalism.
- Doug Muir: Five technological achievements! (That we won’t see any time soon.) A healthy dose of techno-pessimism.
- Helen Andrews: The Great Feminization. A just-so story of our current condition. Note that “only a woman could have written this” does not necessarily make it true.
- NYT: Nick Offerman Woodworked His Way to Playing the President. A portrait.