The Hottest Musician in 2026 Is 'Problematic' Michael Jackson
And that's exactly what the music business wants
CROSSPOST: WILL LOCKETT: Starship Is Going Nowhere
Pre-IPO filings open SpaceX’s black box of financials. What spills out is a wildly expensive rocket, heroic technical risk, and a justified-equity-valuation story that leans heavily on very very...
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below.
The Bangladeshi Left Won’t Survive If It Doesn’t Change Gear
There is a peculiar silence that surrounds the otherwise very vociferous left in Bangladesh. It is not exactly the silence of repression alone — though that has been real and often brutal — but a deep
Sunday links: time as your enemy
Mark Carney’s Trickle-Down Nation-Building
There is no doubt Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is popular. In the year since becoming Liberal Party leader, he has assembled a majority government through defections. His support has not budged
Unsustainable Things Rarely Sustain
If the chip rally of 2026 feels out of control to you, you're not alone
Why Can't AI Tell Jokes?
Hyperpolation is why AI is both so smart and so dumb
A Left Moral Vision Needs a Political Economy to Match
“Today, it’s no longer about class struggle between capital and labor but about an economy that either serves life or death.” This remark by Gustavo Petro was at the center of a on “The Economy for L
Rex Reed (1938 – 2026) Film Critic
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How I Became a Writer
My 4 principles of writing
Without Pity or Platitude
The guardrails were dismantled by the people who never needed them
Hollywood Invented the Girlboss
The Criterion Collection has a running called “Office Romances,” about the popular movies from the 1930s through the 1950s dealing with “the ever growing number of working women” that catalyzed a new
Is This a Bubble?
A closer look at the Nasdaq 100 today versus the dot-com bubble. The post Is This a Bubble? appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
Writing Residencies and What They Give You
Notes from MacDowell, and a list of residencies I've heard good things about
The hundred best novels of all times
From The Guardian: This week, we reveal our list of the 100 greatest novels published in English, as voted for by authors and critics around the world. We polled 172 authors, critics and academics for
The Secret to Ending Arguments Faster
Angela Haupt in Time Magazine: When your best friend or partner or kid snaps at you, it’s easy to frame them as difficult. Anna Elton, a marriage and family therapist in Palm Beach, Fla., would like y
Chevron wants a school district tax break for a data center power plant
The move could save the oil company hundreds of millions in Texas, even as state lawmakers start looking at reining in incentives for data centers.
No, Bulgaria’s New Premier Isn’t Pro-Kremlin
In a news environment dominated by the most severe global energy crisis in history and ongoing war in the Middle East, it is unusual for an election in a small Balkan country to capture headlines in t
Leigh Magar (1968 – 2026) Milliner
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Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns
Thanks for checking in with us this weekend. Here are the most clicked on items on Abnormal Returns for the week ended...
Sunday Poem
The Poet The poet sits and dreams and dreams; He scans his verse; he probes his themes. Then turns to stretch or stir about, unless in thoughts, his strength gives out. Then off to bed, for he must ri
Can AI Replace Me Already?
Results of an AI Turing test survey: Women are ready for our new reality, old people aren't
Breaking: Ukraine Fires Hundreds of Drones at Moscow
Zelensky tries to show some muscle in a large drone attack on Moscow. Will Putin finally drop the hammer?
Clarence Carter (1936 – 2026) Soul Singer
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Links 5/17/2026
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Challenging the Narrative of European Decline, Continued
I do not think that word “productivity” means what people think it means
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Dersu Uzala (1975) Run Time: 2H 21M Bonus: Bizarre New Band!
Dersu Uzala is a movie about deep friendship and high adventure.
Top Links 1105 America’s dependence for Rare Earths. Russia's Wartime Economy. ASEAN Energy & the German SPD
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Building a solidarity ecosystem for AI ⊗ Dawn of the electric world order
No.403 — Being harvested by the future ⊗ The impact of AI-generated text ⊗ Paris staged a huge stress test for extreme heat ⊗ Mesmerizing cat-5 super typhoon
Interpreting Lavrov’s Proposal That India Mediate Between Iran & The Gulf Kingdoms
Russian Foreign Minister offers reminders of BRICS inability to be counterweight to US geopolitical order.
Caitlin Taylor: Building a ‘Legible’ Food System
by Robert Jensen Caitlin Taylor believes that a sustainable food system needs “legible” infrastructure, which is why she proposes—not entirely in jest—building slaughterhouses next to farmers markets.
Dating advice for men
Don't believe the incel stuff. Romance is very possible for regular, average men.
The illusion of Generative AI, the insanity of massive bets on hyperscaling, and the case for world models and neurosymbolic AI
Three excellent new interviews
On Letting Mystery Be Mystery; Or, Recent Regrets From Knowing Too Much
by Lei Wang Stephen Colbert in conversation with the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson: COLBERT Which is better, to know or not to know? TYSON To know. Of course. COLBERT But why? Why is it always be
Iran War: More Speculation that US Will Restart War, Along with Possible UAE Operation Against Key Iran Island, Big Explosion at Israel Weapons Factory; Yet More on Imminent Real Economy Damage
Today's Iran war news: Rumors on Trump to decide on restarting war, possible UAE action, Israel explosion, plus info on real economy damage
New Online Class: Philip K. Dick's Philosophical Novels
join us for a 10-week deep dive into science fiction emploring deep philosophical themes
Middle Age and the Art of Self-Renewal: An Extraordinary Letter from Pioneering Education Reformer Elizabeth Peabody
"The perilous time for the most highly gifted is not youth... The perilous season is middle age, when a false wisdom tempts them to doubt the divine origin of the dreams of their youth..."
Season of change
Having a MAMLM at Your Elbow Is a Great Help Confronting Cicero's Latin, But Not Enough of One: Saturday Humanitas
When Cicero breaks your brain: Latin, cases, word order, and my AI co‑pilot to serve as my Ariadne through the labyrinthine stuffing of clauses within clauses…
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