Where Does Politics Take Place?
Ege Yumusak in The Point: The starkest, most disquieting scene from the film was printed on postcards and handed out at the door. We picked up our postcards as we hurried into the theater to secure ou
The Long Civil Rights Movement
Shehryar Fazli in The Ideas Letter: âThe white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing,â says the Black nurse Belize in Tony Kushnerâs Angels in America, set in the 1980s, âHe set
China and the World to Come
Pankaj Mishra interviews Zhang Weiwei in Equator: Pankaj Mishra: [âŚ] thereâs very little coverage in the Western press of how people in China view these developments. Can you tell us something about t
Through Every Eye
A poem
Algorithmic Indifference: Seeing More, Feeling Less
Further readings on the age information overload, mass desensitization and dehumanization, and how we can exercise our agency to navigate this.
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below.
Billie Holiday-Strange fruit
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Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong â They Canât Take That Away From Me
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Sunday links: a feedback loop of short-termism
The War For Status
and an event in NYC
Frederick Wiseman (1930 â 2026) Filmmaker and Documentarian
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Rich Old People
What happens to the housing market as baby boomers die off? The post Rich Old People appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
Scientists have found another alarming pattern in wildfires
Around the world, the conditions that brew massive blazes are ... syncing up?
Jesse Jackson (1941 â 2026) Politician and Civil Rights Leader
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William ColĂłn (1950 â 2026) Salsa Musician
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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...
Max Beckmann, an Unintentionally Political Artist
German artist Max Beckmann is often regarded as interwar Germanyâs foremost apostle of despair. Yet while he emphasized his own apolitical character, his work was also the product of a spiritual foreb
On the use of historical analogies in writing about AI
Something big is happening, but how do we describe it?
Top Links 1021 Asia as manufacturing hub. Revaluing the RMB. Golf in DC & Endgame.
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Links 2/22/2026
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My Life as a âTerroristâ
Historian Steve Fraser looks back on the strange experience in 1969 when he and fellow New Leftists were accused of plotting to blow up Philadelphiaâs Liberty Bell. What is it like to face long-term i
Tariff Policy by the Numbers
Understanding what just happened and what can come next
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Andrei Rublev (1966) Run Time: 3H 2M plus bonus documentary
Andrei Rublev is a film about art and life in medieval Russia.
The best work is work youâd pay to do
A counter-intuitive thought experiment for finding meaningful work
The next great transformation â AI and the futures of work
No.391 â Perhaps AI is the paperclip â The imagination curriculum â On algorithmic wage discrimination â Romania and the link between economic growth and high emissions â Origami to imagine emergency
When Protesters Shut Down the World Trade Organization
The new documentary WTO/99 reconstructs the 1999 protests against a global neoliberal trade order, the violent police repression, and the hope for a different world that found vibrant expression on th
On the Varieties of Unseeing â China MiĂŠvilleâs âThe City & The Cityâ
by Christopher Hall The problem with teleological thinking as far as authoritarianism goes is that we can delude ourselves into believing that, given that we are not in an Orwellian State, and it look
Do You Trust Epstein Elite With Nuclear Weapons?
No arms limitation treaties, few diplomatic channels, AI integration into nuclear command systems, and an elite with Epstein social values. What could go wrong?
Weekend Update #173: Ukraine Liberates Hundreds Of Square Kilometres, What Might It Mean?
People Stop Taking The Negotiations Seriously. Good.; Flamingos In Action
Zohran Mamdani Wants to Reclaim Efficiency From the Right
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is trying to demonstrate that the public sector can match or even surpass the private sector in excellence. Itâs high time the Left reclaimed the value of âefficienc
Does anyone know why we're still doing tariffs?
The ridiculous policy has taken on a life of its own.
In Praise of the Sketch
by Priya Malhotra We stand in front of a painting and extol its brilliance. We listen to a piece of music and call it genius. We watch a film and admire its evocativeness. We hold a beautifully design
How Gig Capitalism Came to Thrive in Nordic Labor Markets
Platform companies havenât overthrown Nordic labor institutions. But they have navigated around them, growing by exploiting the Nordic modelâs uneven and conditional protections. A Foodora food delive
Dragoncatcher: The voice of the computer
What And Who Makes My Life Full?
a bit more developed answer to a good question
Attention is All You Need to Bankrupt a University
Unbalancing the books
#334 Wins, Big and Small
The AI Impact Summit, Tariff Rollback, and Robin Hood Tax Goes to America
How Jeffrey Epstein Became a Public Intellectual
It's amazing what money can buy nowadays
Our Modern Mistake
People hate to be given direct orders, especially if they will have to visibly follow such orders, and especially if they feel rivalrous with those who give orders.
Pizza, Grape Soda and Cream Cheese Babies: An Inquiry Into Yet More Epstein Internet Nonsense
I first aired my general scepticism of the Epstein mythology last July, and I think that piece has held up well.
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