"...it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” — Senator Robert Kennedy, 1968 in Capra & Henderson (2013:2).

When I started reading about economics as a teenager around 2000 all I found was stuff saying how outdated GDP was as an indicator. Today I am still reading the same type of articles. GDP is just so easy to explain while other stuff is complex. Source: buff.ly/T7BUssO

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— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600.bsky.social) April 15, 2026 at 9:00 PM

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As the planet gets hotter, cities around the world are experiencing rain storms with record-smashing intensity. I spent the last few months visiting places -Copenhagen, Hoboken, & NYC- that have adopted a counterintuitive idea: the safest city is one that can take water in. In @newyorker.com

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— Eric Klinenberg (@ericklinenberg.bsky.social) April 6, 2026 at 9:24 AM

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Reimagining the Future of Ireland. ✍️ Colm Tóibín For and Against a United Ireland @nybooks.com @fotoole.bsky.social @sjamcbride.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) April 3, 2026 at 1:01 PM

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) March 29, 2026 at 10:33 AM

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It's unreadable. Disappointing.

"Saunders’s newfound enlightenment may have done wonders for himself personally, but it’s done his fiction no good whatsoever." ✍️ Dwight Garner www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/b...

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) March 24, 2026 at 8:22 PM

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This week marks the first birthday of ‘The Southern Tour’ from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social - a History Today book of the year 2024, which hopefully still reads well in 2025. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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— Jonathan Chatwin (@jmchatwin.bsky.social) May 20, 2025 at 7:10 AM

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Where to start with : Hanif Kureishi. @ruvaniranasinha.bsky.social @theguardian.com ​ www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) February 2, 2026 at 5:48 PM

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) February 4, 2026 at 11:12 AM

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Victor Lodato joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden,” by Denis Johnson, which was published in The New Yorker in 2014.

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The Dark Secrets of Denis Johnson’s ‘Train Dreams’ @wyatt-williams.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/m...

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) December 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM

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Vladimir Nabokov’s Best Books: A Guide. @nytimes.com ​ www.nytimes.com/article/vlad...

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM

Where to start with Saul Bellow (and why you should) | American Masters | @pbs.org ​ www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM

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Letter from a Region in My Mind. “Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.” By James Baldwin, November 9, 1962 @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/196...

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) September 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM

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My street (reimagined). #SketchUp

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) February 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM

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Alison Gopnik, The Gardener And The Carpenter

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Reading : Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka. “Algorithmic recommendations control the majority of what we see and hear online. Though they promise personalization, the net result of so many algorithms is a homogenization of culture.“ www.kylechayka.com/filterworld

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) December 21, 2024 at 10:55 AM

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Reading : Language City. The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York. ​#RossPerlin #GroveAtlantic Cover art : Ralph Fasanella "New York City, 1957"​ groveatlantic.com/book/languag...

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) May 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM

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Reading : Abundance. @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social @dkthomp.bsky.social "We have a startling abundance of the goods that fill a house and a shortage of what's needed to build a good life." www.simonandschuster.com/books/Abunda...

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM

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Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Alison Gopnik www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/p...

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) June 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM

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