TouchStone Reads - April 11th, 2025

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We often set aside articles that are longer, deserve a re-read, are broader in scope…or just for fun - for weekend reading. Below are some from this week - pour yourself a hot cup of coffee & enjoy...

  • Jonathan Haidt: Taking Back Childhood from Phones - Finally (The Free Press)

  • Marrying Up and Marrying Down (No Mercy No Malice)

  • How Brazil built a world-beating aircraft manufacturer. Embraer was founded as a majority owned state company, with its founders coming from both ITA and DCTA. (Noahpinion)

  • Watch: Today, These Americans Stood up to Trump (The Andy Borowitz Show)

  • Turkish proverb "When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king; the palace instead becomes a circus"

  • Who’s Boring Now? The Corporate Capture of our Fight Against Boredom (The Flaw)

  • Trump Tells Inner Circle That Musk Will Leave Soon (Politico)

  • Does Exercise Fight Inflammation - Or Make It Worse? (Outside Magazine)

  • Why are car headlights so blindingly bright now? (Vox)

  • Niall Fergusson - Will Trade War become a Real War? (Honestly TFP)

  • H-Mart Stays Winning: How the cult grocer went from a single Korean corner store in Queens, NY to America’s largest Asian supermarket with $1B+ in sales. (SatPost by Trung Phan)

  • ‘The Office’ Turns 20: An Oral History of Season 1 From the Writers Who Shaped It (Hollywood Reporter)

  • Wind and solar have overtaken nuclear and are closing in on hydro. (Source: EI Statistical Review of World Energy)

What are you reading or listening to?