What I Intend to Read Today: March 18, 2018.
Today’s reads have to do with Russia, information theory and warfare, democracy, racism, and religion:
- “What We Know, and Don’t Know, About the Firing of Andrew McCabe,” by Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes, Lawfareblog.com, March 17, 2018.
- “The Cambridge Analytica Files: ‘I Created Steve Bannon’s Psychological Warfare Tool‘,” by Carole Cadwalladr, The Guardian, March 17, 2018.
- “Follow-Up Questions for Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Trump Campaign on Massive Breach,” by Justin Hendrix, Justsecurity.org, March 17, 2018.
- “Cambridge Analytica: links to Moscow oil firm and St Petersburg university,” by Carole Cadwalladr and Emma Graham-Harrison, The Guardian, March 17, 2018.
- “Finding Hope in Europe’s Most Atheist Country,” by Rod Dreher, The American Conservative, March 17, 2018.
- ” ‘The Responsibility of Intellectuals’: An Exchange,” by George Steiner and Noam Chomsky, New York Review of Books, March 23, 1967.
- “Texas AG Ken Paxton ramps up fight against schools’ ‘illegal electioneering‘,” by Emma Platoff, Texas Tribune, March 16, 2018.
- “Exploding packages tap into simmering tensions over Austin’s racial segregation,” by Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post via Texas Tribune, March 16, 2018.
By the way, SXSW 2018, that is, the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, has been one wild, crazy week:
