Melissa Oppenheim (Harvard): The Dark Data Cycle: How the U.S. Government Has Gone Rogue in Trading Personal Data from an Unsuspecting Public. From The New Yorker, the Prism: Jill Lepore on privacy in an age of publicity. Pentagon data shows that 52 percent of military suicides were committed by active-duty servicemembers who had never been in combat. Big Data meets the Bard: John Sunyer on Franco Moretti and a “literary lab” that believes reading with computers is the future. The Gallic gadfly: Pascal Bruckner is fast becoming the leftist intellectual whom conservatives love to quote. From Swans, Michael Barker on the macrobiotic faithful: The legacy of spiritual capitalism within the organic movement (in three parts). Let’s make a baby: Republicans are fretting about birthrates — and whether immigrants can give them the young conservatives they need.
