Takaichi Whirlwind

Elena Korshenko in Sidecar: When Sanae Takaichi took over as leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) last October, the party, which has dominated Japan’s postwar politics, was mired in one

Sanchismo’s Last Stand

Ekaitz Cancela in The Ideas Letter: European social democracy is undergoing its deepest existential crisis in decades. The French Socialist Party is moribund. Keir Starmer’s Labour, despite its landsl

Pluralism and the Modern Poet

Seamus Perry in London Review of Books: In November 1907​ William James, professor of philosophy at Harvard, received an invitation from Oxford. It came from Manchester College – now Harris Manchester

Sparks of Genius to Flashes of Idiocy

Vinay Chaudhri in Singularity Hub: Modern AI chatbots can do amazing things, from writing research papers to composing Shakespearian sonnets about your cat. But amid the sparks of genius, there are fl

Sunday poem

Morning Why do we bother with the rest of the day, the swale of the afternoon, the sudden dip into evening, the night with his notorious perfumes, his many-pointed stars? This is the best— throwing of

Links 3/1/2026

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A country of geniuses ⊗ Collapse: A framework

No.392 — We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate ⊗ Our emerging planetary nervous system ⊗ A handbook for strategic foresight ⊗ A Cookie for Dario? ⊗ This city turned its rooftops

Deportation Was Always Political

From its beginnings, deportation has been a tool used to threaten, suppress, and break dissent. ICE’s targeting of political enemies like Mahmoud Khalil is no exception. Mahmoud Khalil serves as a tra

On Usable Rage

by Marie Snyder How can we possibly approach the world today without being in a constant stage of rage? Philosopher and psychoanalyst Josh Cohen’s All the Rage suggests how to make this feeling more u

Lessons From Singapore: National Service

by Eric Feigenbaum On Christmas Eve 1965 – roughly five-and-a-half months after the nascent Singapore’s independence – “The Mexicans” arrived. Their job: to help build and train a Singaporean military

I Saw the Roots of Mandelson’s Rise and Fall

“The people whose company I enjoy most are those from a strictly bourgeois background,” Peter Mandelson wrote to his childhood friend Steve Howell in 1973. It was, Howell observes, deeply ironic that

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