Author Zujaja Tauqeer

Has the luxury of boundless possibilities paradoxically made timeless human endeavors like getting a job, raising children, and living in a house-with-a-white-picket-fence impossibly difficult? From the cynical rhetoric of economists, environmentalists, politicians, and most remarkably from millennials—the generation defining the #yolo present—it seems that expecting to have a decent, well-paying job and not hate your children might be too much to ask, as highlighted in this curation of 3QD picks.

What do a physicist, a Victorian, and a civil rights activist have in common? Before they were heroes, saints, and cultural icons, they were deeply flawed human beings.

For economists, 2014 will go down as the year Thomas Piketty’s Capital arrived on America’s shores. But what does “r > g” really mean and what are Capital’s most critical lessons? 3QD editor Zujaja Tauqeer explores this in a walk through 3QD’s archives.