Archive - Matthew Zeitlin's Newsletter

My year in reading, 2023

Welcome back! It was never my idea for this to become a newsletter published on an annual cycle, but that’s life for you. When I started this I was a…

Dec 28, 2023 •

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December 2022

My year in reading, 2022

Hello! As my inbox tells me, I have many more subscribers today than I did a year ago, despite writing one post in the interim. My understanding is that…

Dec 31, 2022 •

Matthew Zeitlin

April 2022

The food crisis is real

I'm back! Sorta

Apr 5, 2022 •

Matthew Zeitlin

December 2021

My Year In Reading, 2021

I'm back, sort of.

Dec 30, 2021 •

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May 2021

Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Defenders of Criminals

When the white shoe is on the other foot

May 27, 2021 •

Matthew Zeitlin

Optimism of the Vaccine, Pessimism of the Will

How do you convince people who don't think Covid is a big deal to get vaccinated?

May 4, 2021 •

Matthew Zeitlin

April 2021

Notes on the Political Economy of Britain

What’s the deal with Britain? I will not pretend to be an expert on the British economy or the country’s politics. I’m more of an interested observer…

Apr 13, 2021 •

Matthew Zeitlin

March 2021

Make America Early 2020 Again

We need to go back

Mar 19, 2021 •

Matthew Zeitlin

January 2021

Personnel Isn't Policy, Policy Is Personnel

Or: The Calling of Larry Summers and Janet Yellen

Jan 22, 2021 •

Matthew Zeitlin

December 2020

My Year in (Not) Reading

or, how I can only read nonfiction in a pandemic

Dec 31, 2020 •

Matthew Zeitlin

The checks paradox

Or why Milton Friedman and Charles Murray may not be far-reaching defenders of the welfare state

Dec 23, 2020 •

Matthew Zeitlin

The Feudal Lords of the Internet

Who elected Visa, Mastercard, and Nick Kristof?

Dec 18, 2020 •

Matthew Zeitlin

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