One of the best requests we’ve ever received came from a reader named Nicole Jones. (Hi, Nicole.) Here’s what she said:
I wish y’all had like a “Best Essays of the Week” section or something. Because if there’s anything I want from y’all, other than more and more content, it’s for y’all to also edit the internet for me. Collect the best. Be my algorithm.
Be my algorithm! It’s a phrase that stuck with us.
We’re having an ongoing debate about the best way to be your algorithm—the best way to save you time so you don’t have to spend all day scouring the web. (We love reading the internet. Yes, we’re a bunch of masochists.)
We’re batting around different ideas. Would you like a daily collection of links? A weekly digest summarizing the best pieces of the week? (Tell us at: tips@thefp.com.)
For now, we are trying out something simple: reprints of the best journalism you might have missed.
So for today:
Rob Long, the executive producer of six TV series (including Cheers), writes about the upcoming writers strike—and how, though he comes from a long line of union-busting industrialists, working in Hollywood has turned him into an unlikely union man. (Originally published in Commentary.)
Ted Gioia, whose newsletter The Honest Broker has fast become one of our must-reads, on the most important natural resource in the world.
And last: what does it look like to live in truth, even when you are inside a cage? Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was sentenced Monday by a Moscow court to 25 years in prison for criticizing Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, shows us how in his powerful, final speech. Read this one to your kids.
Enjoy. And, as always, tell us what you think in the comments.
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"Living in Truth—Even Inside a Russian Cage"
Well Bari, I am little more interested what is going on in US and our cage. Especially, since at same time we are witnessing how our own country is dealing with whistleblowers. Snowden in Russia (showed American people truth, that our government is spaying on us), Assange is in prison in UK, for showing us dirty secrets of DNC and our war machine. That leaker from last week is getting shredded on every signe MSM.
After these mentioned cases, will you say that we are in much better position? That being dissident to our government is save and sound job?
Lets plese stop looking what is going on with Russian dissidents, but look what our government is doing to ours, because there were plenty of dissidents and whistleblowers at home, who were delt very swiftly and in many cases with absolute support of the media. God knows how many people would be willing to step out, but watchign what is beeing done to Assange alone, brings cold sweat.