The Coup Belt
Gavin Jacobson interviews Rahmane Idrissa in Equator: To what extent is the current offensive in Mali unprecedented? The violence itself isnât unprecedented by the standards of the Sahel. What is spec
DRAFT: Social Theory for the Mid-21st Century
2024 Philosophy, Politics, & Economics Society Keynote Lecture :: Westin New Orleans Hotel, New Orleans, LA :: J. Bradford DeLong :: U.C. Berkeley :: [email protected] :: as prepared for...
The Grinning Defiance of Chinese Soft Power
Iza Ding in The Ideas Letter: At last yearâs climate summit COP30 in BelĂŠm, Brazil, a phrase I hadnât thought about for years suddenly reappeared on my radar: âsoft power.â The venue was an enormous m
Against Carbon Shock Therapy
Daniela Gabor and Benjamin Braun in Phenomenal World: At the end of April in Santa Marta, Colombia, two months into the US-Israeli war on Iran, fifty-nine countries attended the first high-level confe
Kleptocracy Inc
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What is happening in the world
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Sunday Thread + Mailbag
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The Man Who Hunts Monster Stocks
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On Politics And Governance
The key innovation that has powered the modern era is: organizations.
Tony Mazzocchi Embodied the Best of the Labor Movement
In 1948, the radical sociologist C. Wright Mills published a book called , which examined the careers of postwar labor leaders who emerged from industrial union struggles in the 1930s. At the time, th
David Malouf (1934 â 2026) Novelist and Poet
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Business Leaders Say Adapting to AI Is Essential to Survival
Erin McMullen in Time Magazine: At a TIME100 Talk on Friday night in Miami, just a few miles from the breakneck vehicular speed on display at the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix, business leaders gathered
Sunday links: the age of uncertainty
Explicit Racial Discrimination in College Debate
Plus other madness
A Diaspora Turned Against Itself
Home may be perilous and the destination out of reach But there are no paths without an end, do not grieve â Hafiz My cousinâs message arrived on January 21 at 8:39 p.m. After the January massacres in
J. Craig Venter (1946 â 2026) Genomics Pioneer
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Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Magnify Your Aliveness
"Do you need a prod? Do you need a little darkness to get you going?"
Theories of Economic History VIII: In Place of a Conclusion :: Roughly-Edited Transcript:
J. Bradford DeLong [email protected] :: 2026-04-28 :: All Souls' College, Oxford :: The 2026 Sir John Hicks Memorial Lecture in Economic History
Theories of Economic History VII: Successive Post-1875 "Modes of Production" :: Roughly-Edited Transcript:
J. Bradford DeLong [email protected] :: 2026-04-28 :: All Souls' College, Oxford :: The 2026 Sir John Hicks Memorial Lecture in Economic History
Theories of Economic History V: Commerce & Industry & Empire :: Roughly-Edited Transcript:
J. Bradford DeLong [email protected] :: 2026-04-28 :: All Souls' College, Oxford :: The 2026 Sir John Hicks Memorial Lecture in Economic History
The Donroe Doctrine: Making LatAm an Investorâs Paradise
Venezuelaâs sweeping new , passed on April 9, is the latest in a series of domestic âreformsâ purportedly directed at rebuilding the countryâs sectors. This follows years of debilitating US sanctions
How popular is Donald Trump?
Silver Bulletin approval ratings for President Trump â and all presidents since Truman.
Whoâs ahead on the generic congressional ballot?
Our constantly-updating tracker of polls for the most important indicator in the race for Congress.
Rhythm and Reason
On Easy Listening, AI, and the Externalization of the Human Essence
George Baselitz (1938 â 2026) Neo-Expressionist Artist
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Higher Gas Prices
Will gas prices hit $6/gallon? The post Higher Gas Prices appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
Reinventing the Wheel
Youâve probably heard itâs futile, but that hasnât stopped plenty from tryingâsome successfully, shockingly. Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from a periodic contributor, John Ohno, who last showed u
California will soon have more than 300 data centers. Where will they get their water?
A proposed data center in the Imperial Valley would need 750,000 gallons of water a day. Satisfying the thirst of 24 more facilities expected to open in the state will be challenging, experts and offi
We Are Watching the Rise of Democratic Fascism
âAmerican fascism would . . . be correspondingly democratic in the American fashion.â â Bertolt Brecht, Journals At the end of last year, Donald Trump deployed more than two thousand Immigration and C
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...
The Sexual Economy Isn't What You Think
Disturbing '70s-London pulp horror from an underrated master, an ambling stoner conspiracy thriller, and more
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Chartbook 445: Is a "China shock" coming for the "big ag" food regime?
Chinaâs integration into the world economy is the most dramatic development of modern economic history.
Sunday Poem
The Moon Rose Over the Bay. I had a Lot of Feelings I am taken with the hot animal of my skin, grateful to swing my limbs and have them move as I intend, though my knee, though my shoulder, though som
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Top Links 1091 Price shocks. The economics of fathering. Dandyism, intellectualism and Japanese feminism.
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The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Iphigenia (1977) Run Time 2H 8M
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The Extinction of the Human Species Wonât Matter
by Thomas R. Wells All things come to an end eventually, including the human species. From the perspective of the universe it wonât matter, and so it also shouldnât matter to us now. The discontinuanc
Hopkins on the power of imagination â Feral thought experiments
No.401 â Why are Londonâs top galleries full of laptops? â This is how we get moral AI companies â Space to Breathe â The zero-days are numbered â A complete guide to the AMOC â The GDT Nature Photogr
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