Riley Strong
  • The Useless Agony of Going Offline

    www.newyorker.com
    May 29, 2017
    Matthew J. X. Malady forsakes his handheld devices for seventy-hours after reading David M. Levy's "Mindful Tech."
  • Barack Obama on food and climate change: ‘We can still act and it won’t be too late’

    www.theguardian.com
    May 28, 2017
    The long read: The former president addresses some of the biggest problems facing the world, and what we can do about them
  • The great London property squeeze

    www.theguardian.com
    May 28, 2017
    The long read: As affordable housing in Britain’s capital is replaced by luxury towers, people on middle incomes are being priced out, while the poor are forced to pay extortionate rents for shocking ...
  • Remembering Mr. Rogers, a True-Life 'Helper' When the World Still Needs One

    ew.com
    May 28, 2017
    Anthony Breznican recalls his interaction with Fred Rogers,
  • Lyndon B. Johnson: Commencement Address at Howard University: "To Fulfill These Rights."

    www.presidency.ucsb.edu
    May 25, 2017
    The American Presidency Project contains the most comprehensive collection of resources pertaining to the study of the President of the United States. Compiled by John Woolley and Gerhard Peters
  • Transcript of New Orleans Mayor Landrieu’s address on Confederate monuments | The Pulse

    pulsegulfcoast.com
    May 25, 2017
    Just hours before workers removed a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee — the fourth Confederate monument to be dismantled in New Orleans in recent weeks — Mayor Mitch Landrieu gave a special ...
  • How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality

    www.nytimes.com
    May 24, 2017
    An enormous entitlement in the tax code props up home prices - and overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy and the upper middle class.
  • Why Israel needs a Palestinian state

    www.economist.com
    May 22, 2017
    THE victory of Israel over the Arab armies that encircled it in 1967 was so swift and absolute that, many Jews thought, the divine hand must have tipped the scales. Before the six-day war Israel had f...
  • A Religion for the Nonreligious - Wait But Why

    waitbutwhy.com
    May 22, 2017
    Not a theist? Okay so what are you then?
  • Neuralink and the Brain's Magical Future - Wait But Why

    waitbutwhy.com
    May 20, 2017
    I knew the future would be shocking but this is a whole other level.
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Riley Strong

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Hello! This is mostly a collection of things I've read, but occasionally I write my own posts.