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Living Document. Last Updated 3-12-25
Abundance: Healthcare
Healthcare abundance: an agenda to strengthen healthcare supply, Lawson Mansell
Abundance: General/Non-Healthcare
“Someone has to get hurt, occasionally”: How factories were made safe, Jason Crawford
Landsailor Fan Video, Vienna Teng and Rowan Oake
Medieval Kings Would Envy You, Kelsey Piper
Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
I feel obligated to mention this even though it seems almost too-obvious
Classical Liberalism & Enlightenment Values
How to Write for The Argument, Jerusalem Demsas (Last Section)
Funnily enough, my favorite punchy pitch for liberalism, which I find myself returning to whenever someone needs a quick but powerful summary, isn’t an essay - it’s the last section of The Argument’s freelance pitch page.
Youth Rights
Dear Graduating Sixth Graders, Duncan Sabien
Surgery
War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, Shawn Christian Nessen, M.D. Lounsbury, Dave Edmond, M.D. Hetz, Stephen P.
Tumescent Technique – Tumescent Anesthesia and Microcannular Liposuction, Jeffrey A. Klein, M.D.
Patients’ Rights
UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings. David Armstrong, Patrick Rucker, Maya Miller
First Person Medicine
I got dysentery so you don’t have to, Georgia Ray
A Way Out: Dying With Dementia, Sara Ness
Brain on Fire, Susannah Cahalan
Misc
Causality Explainer Series, Rishi Banerjee
In my opinion this is the best totally beginner-friendly intro to causal modeling. The link goes to the first post in the series, but you can also skip around using the post guide (scroll down to “Causality”).


