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César Hidalgo
Why Information Grows
4
11 min
Max Chafkin
The Contrarian
3.6
16 min
Sonia Shah
The Next Great Migration
3.9
26 min
Elissa Stein
Flow
3.7
14 min
Johnny Joey Jones
Unbroken Bonds of Battle
4.5
17 min
Kate Kirkpatrick
Becoming Beauvoir
4.3
17 min
William D. Cohan
Power Failure
4.3
10 min
Shane O'Mara
In Praise of Walking
3.3
9 min
Cass R. Sunstein
The World According to Star Wars
3.2
12 min
Andrew Weissmann
Where Law Ends
4.4
15 min
James Comey
Saving Justice
3.9
16 min
Pico Iyer
The Half Known Life
3.6
14 min
Colin Ward
Anarchism
3.5
8 min
Vanessa Wood
Survival of the Friendliest
4.1
19 min
Chris Clearfield
Meltdown
4.1
15 min
Linda Geddes
Chasing the Sun
4
10 min
Sam Leith
Words Like Loaded Pistols
3.8
11 min
Henry M. Paulson
Dealing with China
3.8
12 min
Adam Fisher
Valley of Genius
4.1
26 min
John Kay
Other People’s Money
3.9
16 min
Robert J. McMahon
The Cold War
3.9
26 min
Walter Scheidel
The Great Leveler
3.8
13 min
Rob Brotherton
Suspicious Minds
3.9
13 min
Chris Dixon
Read Write Own
4
13 min
Roma Agrawal
Built
4.1
19 min
Mary Pilon
The Monopolists
3.7
15 min
Edith Hall
Aristotle’s Way
3.7
26 min
Mark Spitznagel
The Dao of Capital
3.9
15 min
James Stavridis
Sea Power
3.7
23 min
Craig Wright
The Hidden Habits of Genius
4
13 min