How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love
"Since our consciousness plays some part in what comes into being, the play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged."
How Not to Waste Your Life
“Let me not seem to have lived in vain,” the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe whispered on his deathbed, not realizing that the astronomical tables he was leaving behind would become the portal through w
In which Marco Rubio receives a standing ovation from the Eurotards for his speech attacking mass migration, "the climate cult" and liberal universalism
Almost exactly a year ago, the newly minted U.S.
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
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Anti-Economics Is Shooting the Messenger
People get mad when logic and research contradict their political convictions
Mature Cultural Desire
A common immature attitude to desire is to assume that you are entitled to what you passionately desire, and to then cry if you don’t get it, to pressure others to give it to you.
Sunday links: absolute vs. relative terms
Subverting Hell
Charlie Ericson in Aeon: If all the writing that claimed to ‘subvert’ our expectations actually did so, society would have long since learned to live without expectations. The word has become a staple
Epstein Family Values
Melinda Cooper in Equator: Among the weirder features of the contemporary American far right is the emergence of primal fathers – Old Testament patriarchs who want to sire not just a family, but a rac
Non-Hegemony
Ilias Alami, Tom Chodor, and Jack Taggart in Phenomenal World: More than three decades ago, John Ruggie offered a definition of one of the most vexed terms in political science. Multilateralism, he wr
Bud Cort (1948 – 2026) Actor
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Some Thoughts on Grief
Some thoughts on my big brother a year later. The post Some Thoughts on Grief appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean (Live 1983)
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George Johnson – The Whistling Coon – 1891 (The first recording by an African-American)
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America's Future Leaders Are Learning To Become Grifters
Claims of disability are highest at elite universities
Native families were promised free solar. Trump took it away.
From elders struggling with high electric bills to lost economic development opportunities, Trump’s gutting of Solar for All is felt by residents of northern Plains reservations.
Greg Brown (1969 – 2026) Guitarist for Cake
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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...
Chartbook 433 Globalization as a eurasian story.
World Economy Feb 2026
Sunday Poem
Human Chain Seeing the bags of meal passed hand to hand In close-up by the aid workers, and soldiers Firing over the mob, I was braced again With a grip on two sack corners, Two packed wads of grain I
Ebo Taylor (1936 – 2026) Afrobeat Musician
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Links 2/15/2026
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Top Links 1014 19th-century brutalism. Gender gaps. Sinophobic Sinophilia & the biography of Habermas.
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Who Is Paying the Trump Tariffs?
A wonkish guide for the confused
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Defamation (2009) Run Time: 1H 31M Plus Bonus Jazz!
Defamation is a movie about the exploitation of anti-Semitism to keep Jews fearful and compliant.
Against Success
by Katalin Balog Winners and losers It might seem that the idea that one should remain indifferent to success is for losers. Yes, it is my own professional and personal setbacks that all of a sudden s
What technology takes from us ⊗ Private sufficiency, public abundance
No. 390 — A surveillance dragnet (almost) ⊗ Open-Source foresight on global transformation ⊗ The thinking game ⊗ China’s CO2 emissions “flat or falling” for 21 months ⊗ Japan’s most influential archit
Weekend Update #172: Is Ukraine Causing More Russian Losses Than Putin Can Replace?
Rubio, Russia, Ukraine And The European Reaction: A Notable Ukrainian Reaction To Developments In The War
Desire Machines
The second place story in our Bridges contest holds a mirror to one of the world's favorite hobbies. A tale of gambling, fandom, and mechanical leviathans, whose bones litter the world...
It Ain’t Food Till The Feet Come Off
by Mike Bendzela The recently passed American holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas are decidedly irreligious affairs in our starkly secular, two-person household. The tall tales and deeply rutted cu
Trump’s DHS Is Pushing the Boundaries of Probable Cause and Due Process to Fuel a Farm Labor Crisis
Agricultural employers are scrambling to find replacements and the administration is turning to guest workers.
<cite>Mano Dura</cite> Comes to Costa Rica
Costa Rica’s surge in violent crime should have been a liability for President Rodrigo Chaves’s right-wing party. Instead, his handpicked successor, Laura Fernández, won resoundingly by promising law-
Was he an outlier? Does it matter?
by Dilip D’Souza Nearly six years ago, I lost a good friend to cancer. It was tragedy compounded, because he had lost his wife to cancer a few years earlier. That left their two daughters, orphaned in
Trump’s Immigration Police Keep Abducting Children
ICE’s arrest and detention of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in Minnesota last month sparked national outrage. The episode was just one among many instances of federal immigration agents abducting yo
Mothers Are on the Front Lines of the Nordic Care Crisis
In Sweden today, maternal activism is uniting around a politics of collective care, turning private burdens into claims about public obligation and democratic rights. Sweden’s motherhood movements co
How technology has already changed the world in my lifetime
A timely repost.
Quark's Replicator
AI;DR & The Reader's Contract
Pricks, Devils, and Phlegm. John Aubrey and the Fertile Facts of English Biography.
The four hundredth anniversary of a genius of the commonplace.
Undoing as Remaking: How Abraham Lincoln Drew Poetry and Power from His Suicidal Depression
Life-affirming inspiration from a man who knew intimately “that intensity of thought, which will some times wear the sweetest idea thread-bare and turn it to the bitterness of death.”
Saturday links: converging costs
Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didn’t get to earlier in the week. You can check out...
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