Forever is composed of nows, the interest burden, a Powell dance and the politics of American doctors

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Emily Dickinson on time

Source: Poetry Foundation

Hilarious

Kyla Scanlon @kylascan

The Federal Reserve Recap with Jerome Powell

Interest burden

Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon

*The nosedive* The share of interest payments as % of Germany's federal budget has strongly declined from the late 1990s (when it was >15%) to close to zero. It's now below levels in the 1950s and 1960s. h/t @PhilippaSigl

On the politics of American doctors

Jules Agustin Frédéric Regnault @JARegnault

@DaBlackVirgilTX @adam_tooze Doctors data employed by Adam, based on an old WSJ article (Oct.19) based on older Gallup data (2016). This is more serious: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai… and specially this, pnas.org/content/113/42… For a birds view, nytimes.com/2016/10/07/ups… My favorite graph (probably redder today)

Duchamp on the shock of socialist realism

In an interview from mid-1960s, Marcel Duchamp observed that the only shocking thing in contemporary art was work being made in Russia, painted, he said, as “in the 1850s, very naturalistic and anecdotal.” For the Western public, that is, “for us who have been beyond and away from that,” Duchamp said, “when we see it today, it’s shocking to see the young girl at the window on the Red Square, seeing the parade of the soldiers.” Barry Schwabsky in @Artforum

Art Forum

Alan Macfarlane’s interviews ….

with anthropologists, historians, molecular biologists, sociologists, philosophers and many other fascinating people. A series started by Jack Goody.

An extraordinary source for listening and watching opened up for me by John Raimo one of today’s most productive hunter-gatherers in the archives of the web.

Revision as a dynamic practice of revisitation

“I was beginning to understand revision as a dynamic practice of revisitation premised on ethically reimagining the ingredients, scope and primary audience of one’s initial vision. Revision required witnessing and testifying. Witnessing and testifying required rigorous attempts at remembering and imagining. If revision was not God, revision was everything every god ever asked of believers.” (Kiese Laymon)

“Black rhetorical abundance” Listened to this fabulous conversation btw @tressiemcphd & @KieseLaymon on the @ezraklein show. They talked about writing and the ethics of revision. Truly fascinating! Highly recommended. I mean it.

Link to the Ezra Klein Podcast

Red Square

Nick Short @nickfshort

The oldest photograph of Red Square in Moscow. 1856. Just after the end of the (for Russia) disastrous Crimean War. #History #Russia