Join Favorite Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Stefan's read, .
For instance, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ruth Marcus writes in the Washington Post that black men are “two and a half times more likely than white men to be killed by police.” This figure reflects the fact that the black population makes up 14 percent of the American population but 34 percent of fatalities at the hands of law enforcement. While these figures are correct, important context is missing. White Americans are twice as likely to be killed by police as Asian Americans after adjusting for population benchmarks, but this doesn’t reflect racism against whites—it reflects differing rates of criminality among whites and Asians.
Black Lives Matter and the Mechanics of Conformity
Matthew Blackwell
Pure democracies can degenerate into autocracies. Republics are what you want.
Tweets From Naval
@naval on Twitter
But we lie to ourselves for assurance. And it is not they who are to blame for everything - we ourselves, only we.
Live Not by Lies
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise