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At a far pole from accountable public trust, or constitutional duty, Hoover corrupted the FBI to wage political war.

Taylor Branch • At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68

If you’re going to basically declare that Twitter is a sacred public good, the world’s town square, you’ve got to at least acknowledge—and presumably have an argument to justify—the fact that there’s something just a little troubling about the richest man in the world buying the town square.

Steven Johnson • Solving For Twitter

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D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

Alan Jacobs • The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

AMERICAN ROYALTY

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One

The argument for the free market is that it is free. But freedom becomes superfluous if an enemy is threatening the very basis of all freedoms.

Garry Wills • Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

“My Prerogative.”

John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit

I’ve met Ayn Rand fanatics all over—among Silicon Valley venture capitalists, at the office of the Tampa Bay Tea Party, even on a road paving crew. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (who read Atlas Shrugged in high school) brought her pitiless philosophy of egoism to policymaking on Capitol Hill. Libertarianism speaks to the American myth of the self-

George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

We will start to realize that being chained to your mobile phone is a low-status behavior, similar to smoking.