This year’s MacArthur Fellows have been announced. The program has always struck me as one of the best things going — a variety of artists and scientists, each granted $500,000 with no strings attached, chosen by an anonymous process so that “nominators can’t be lobbied.” Brilliant.
This year’s winners include the writers Adrian LeBlanc, George Saunders, and, one of my favorites, Atul Gawande.
