“There is a great disorder under the heaven. The situation is excellent”
A review of Westad and Chen, The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
Collateral Damage
The impact of the war spreads beyond the Middle East
Eating The Rich Won’t Fix Climate Change
Per dollar of spending, richer people contribute less harm than any other group
Media To Consume This Week Instead of Doomscrolling - The Politics of Literature
Notes on the writer aesthetic, the misconceptions of Wuthering Heights, storytelling, reading as resistance, finding meaning through intellect, hidden women's literary labor, and more.
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below.
Sunday links: doing their job
A New Fine-Tuning Argument That Avoids Every Objection
If the physics checks out, naturalism is in big trouble
What Dostoevsky Understood About Political Rage
Moderate boomers and radical zoomers
Literary Celebrity, Mussolini’s Mouthpiece, AND American Traitor: Who Was Ezra Pound?
Stephen Harding in Literary Hub: By the spring of 1939, the widely acknowledged dean of Anglo-American Modernist poetry, fifty-three-year-old Ezra Pound, had lived in Europe for three decades. After l
Hegseth Iran Presser Cold Open – SNL
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Dozens of former employees of Noma tell of abuse &...
Dozens of former employees of Noma tell of abuse & violence at the hands of its chef/owner, René Redzepi. Punching, screaming, shoving, stabbing, slamming, intimidation, ridicule, blacklisting. What a
How Do Higher Oil Prices Impact Stock Market Returns?
Will higher oil prices derail the stock market? The post How Do Higher Oil Prices Impact Stock Market Returns? appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
A Fight for the Soul of One of Australia’s Biggest Unions
The United Workers Union is one of Australia’s largest unions, and an upcoming ballot will see members choose between militancy and the status quo. An election in one of Australia’s largest unions wil
Paywalls For Minimalists
What’s the least you can do to build an effective paywall for creators that’s mostly open-source? If we can figure that out, that might make it easier to cut out the big platforms. One of the reasons
Gas prices are set to go vertical
It's not exactly a bold prediction to suggest this will be bad for Trump's political standing.
Insider Journalism
Insider Journalism
The fight for the heart of the US Environmental Protection Agency
One year after the Trump administration threw the EPA into chaos, former employees continue to push back—and to dream of an agency reborn.
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
Alone Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don’t believe I’m wrong That nobody, But nobody Can ma
Is Palantir Under Contract to Surveil the Federal Workforce?
Implementation of the White House’s return-to-office directive will be aided by the tech firm Palantir. It remains unclear why a spy-tech company should be tasked with things like “employee seat assig
Oil Crises, Past and Possibly Future
What the 70s can and can’t teach us
Writing about getting to the Funnery
Learning about AI through teaching about it
Links 3/8/2026
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Iran War: More Trump Bluster as US and Israel Weapon Stocks Thin and Claims of Success Questioned; Report of Plans to Send Special Forces to Seize Nuclear Material Among Signs of US Troop Mobilization
This Iran war update focuses on US claims for damage done to Iran and its level of stockpiles versus available evidence.
Top Links 1035 Chinese and American fiscal exceptionalism. How the UK ended coal & Keynes on the "short run", in which we are "still alive”.
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
The Labor Movement Must Go All In on Organizing Amazon
The CIO unionized General Motors in 1937 and saved the labor movement. Today's unions need to do the same to Amazon if there is any hope of stopping the slow death of American labor. Every era has its
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: In This House Of Brede (1975) Run Time: 1H 44M plus Jazz bonus!
In This House of Brede is a film about the cloistered life and the peace it can bring.
An obscure media theory ⊗ World literacy
No.393 — The future belongs to the creative generalists ⊗ Media’s bad idea with Kalshi ⊗ Reimagining realism ⊗ Labor market impacts of AI ⊗ World record for fusion plasma ⊗ Apocalypse no
Eating The Rich Won’t Fix Climate Change
by Thomas R. Wells The world’s richest 1% have more purchasing power, and hence more command over what the economy produces than ordinary people. They can afford a more extravagant lifestyle – at the
The Iraq War Was Not About Oil
As Donald Trump launches a dangerous war on Iran, understanding what really drives US imperial aggression is more urgent than ever. The 2003 invasion of Iraq, which many critics wrongly claim was abou
What Is the US Exit Strategy From Its War on Iran?
How about defeat?
I’m not driving the bus, but I’m glad I was along for the ride
by Bonnie McCune Political discussions and debates leave me cold. That’s because I abhor conflict, and politics always seem to be accompanied by disagreements, fights, raised voices, and anger. When I
A Third Way for the Humanities
A Declaration
The Toxic Finance Behind Europe’s Plans for Ukraine
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has revived plans to draw on frozen Russian assets to make loans to Ukraine. Yanis Varoufakis writes for Jacobin that the idea is unworkable and incompatible with e
Ghosts, Love, And The Search For Readers, Part 2: A Continuing Conversation With Writer Kipling Knox
by Philip Graham In the first part of our conversation at 3 Quarks Daily, the writer Kipling Knox and I spoke of the parallels of our recent books: dappled with ghosts, in similar Midwestern landscape
Weekend Update #175: The Week In Which Ukraine Stood Up To Help The USA And The USA Stood Up To Help Russia
Also, Ukrainian Territorial Gains And Russian Personnel Losses in February
notes on february
month report on reads, watches, recs, what i've been up to etc!
Revenge, Retribution, Punishment and the Aristotelean Dynamic of Anger
A paper presented at an Annual Student and Faculty Conference, Indiana University Northwest
#336 Of Wars and Races
Another War in West Asia, and the Social Foundations of AI Diffusion
Something feels weird about this economy
Is it AI? Tariffs? The immigration crackdown?
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