Peter Beinart
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Links: October 2018
Hello, dear reader!
October is gone, but its links remain.
I was mired in personal matters throughout October, so there wasn’t any activity on my site apart from the horror extravaganza that is Robtober, which was thankfully not disrupted. I finally finished a project that had been in the works for a few months: a custom-designed story with ProPublica Illinois about a family’s heartbreaking experience with an ill-conceived psychiatric clinical trial.
This round of links… See more →
Links: September 2018
Hello, dear reader!
September is gone, but its links remain.
It was a big month for me, as I finally finished the project I was preoccupied with for most of the summer: Incomplete Open Cubes Revisited, inspired by Sol LeWitt. I also wrote about why and how I did it.
This month’s newsletter is a few days late because I wanted to include Robtober 2018, my annual deep dive into horror films which always takes… See more →
Links: March 2018
Hello, dear reader!
March is gone, but its links remain.
I gave a brief talk about designing information at the annual Society for News Design conference, and also shared my notes from the other talks I took in.
Always ahead of the trends, I left Facebook at the beginning of the month, a little over two weeks before the news about Cambridge Analytica broke (news which long-time readers may not have found shocking). Since think… See more →
Links: October 2017
Hello, dear reader!
October is gone, but its links remain.
For my part, I wrote a bit about my first ten years on Twitter, dusted off the ol’ dream journal, and published the full calendar for Robtober, my annual horror movie binge. I also wrote a bit about each of the 31 movies included in Robtober this year. They’ll all be collected on my site later, but for now they’re available on Letterboxd.
With Robtober keeping… See more →
Links: July 2017
All the “wellness” products Americans love to buy are sold on both Infowars and Goop
Interesting look at how the same snake oil is marketed to very different audiences.
Trump and Putin’s Rashomon Summit
[T]he establishment of a cybersecurity working group with the two countries is somewhere between a head-scratcher and a punchline.
The Logic of Trump’s Sexist Attacks
The more a woman conforms to traditional gender norms, the more likely she is to experience… See more →
Links: September 2016
Fear of a Female President
To understand this reaction, start with what social psychologists call “precarious manhood” theory. The theory posits that while womanhood is typically viewed as natural and permanent, manhood must be “earned and maintained.” Because it is won, it can also be lost. Scholars at the University of South Florida and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reported that when asked how someone might lose his manhood, college students rattled off social… See more →