Archive: English List of articles in English published in Nota Bene. 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 All articles (Portuguese and English) 2025 31.12 Syria is the Economist’s country of the year for 2025 2024 20.12 Bangladesh is the Economist’s country of the year for 2024 2023 29.12 Greece is the Economist’s country of the year for 2023 2022 28.12 Ukraine is the Economist’s country of the year for 2022 03.08 What is Linus Torvalds’s MacBook model? 2021 27.08 The fleas in Yuval Noah Harari’s ‘Sapiens’ 25.08 Branko Milanovic on the boring lives of social scientists 03.08 Slate Star Codex and the ‘New York Times’ 02.08 California is ‘symbolically liberal, but operationally conservative’ 04.06 Sam Altman on being right and misunderstood 31.05 Did Michel Foucault lose the left and win the right? 30.05 Paul Graham: ‘What I worked on’ 17.04 ‘On the experience of being poor-ish, for people who aren’t’ 15.04 Public toilets in the United States 12.04 ‘Why do members of the political elite insist that they’re not?’ 10.04 How to think about conspiracy theories 09.04 A comparison between the ‘New York Times’ and the ‘Los Angeles Times’ 08.04 Late bloomers or opsimaths? 07.04 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, racism, and the ‘New York Times’ 06.04 Interview with Martin Baron 05.04 Scott Alexander on ‘the tragedy of legible expertise’ 30.03 Tyler Cowen has changed his mind about Brexit 24.03 Uncertainty and nuance in the COVID-19 era 23.03 The WHO guideline on drugs to prevent COVID-19 is flawed 23.02 Paying people to be vaccinated could backfire 22.02 Agnes Callard: ‘I want you to listen’ 2020 29.12 The Economist’s country of the year: Malawi 15.12 The most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years 14.12 You can’t have the best of all possible worlds using virtual machines 07.12 Alex Ross on the greatest pop album ever made and his guilty pleasure 19.11 Racists’ statues: five articles on the controversy 29.08 VGDensetsu on the Gigaleak and video game preservation 23.08 Facebook censors Nicholas White video about chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine 10.08 A letter on Emmanuel Farhi’s death 08.08 Nicholas White on the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for prevention of COVID-19 13.07 Poultry processing in the United States 2019 21.05 Stupidity and journalism 2018 30.04 Jordan Peterson: ‘Ideologues love vagueness’ 14.01 ‘Journal of Political Economy’, 125 09.01 Tyler Cowen on ‘Bloomberg View’ 06.01 Sebastián Piñera, economist 2017 01.10 More Brazil 26.09 Brazil in the ‘AEJ: Applied’ 26.09 ‘Will we ever use any of this algebra?’ 30.04 Death wishes: Brazil and Japan 23.01 Republicans, Democrats and ‘the true underlying political economy of deficits’ 21.01 Prison massacres in Brazil 21.01 ‘Burke was right’ 2016 06.10 Japan and the ‘Galapagos syndrome’ 15.03 Mount Stupid 30.01 Media criticism in Brazil 2015 18.12 Racial map of Brazil 12.12 Brazil’s weird justice 12.08 Frei Betto, by the way 06.08 Harm reduction 05.08 Sergio Fausto: past, present and future of the PSDB 04.08 ‘Brazil: The Corruption of Progress’ 25.07 Structural problems of the Brazilian economy 01.07 Hello, world Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Print (Opens in new window) Print