Why your ability to repair a tractor could also be a matter of life and death | John Naughton

Wilson eventually filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about the dispute, which may explain why his local dealership then discovered that it did want his business after all. The last thing a giant US corporation needs at the moment is to have an FTC chaired by Lina Khan taking a close interest in its business practices.

Difficult chaptersThe Fiction That Dare Not Speak its Name is a long, interesting essay by Morten Høi Jensen on the travails of those who write biographies of writers.

Give us a minuteThe Billable Hour Is a Trap Into Which More and More of us Are Falling is a thoughtful blogpost by Tim Harford on the consequences of believing that time is money.