Divertimento on a Footnote to Gruzinski
1. It is all very easy to accept that dog and chien are but arbitrary signs, sharing not at all in the essence of the dogs themselves.
Whoâs ahead on the generic congressional ballot?
Our constantly-updating tracker of polls for the most important indicator in the race for Congress.
Weekend Update #185: The Week Of Contrasts
Ukraine Shows Not Only How It Is Superior To Putin's Russia But Also Trump's USA
Saturday discussion post
Itâs Saturday.
Russiaâs Antiwar Prisoners Are Outcasts in Their Own Land
Russiaâs political prisoners are âoutcasts in their own land,â Sergei Dudchenko, a biker tortured and framed by the security services, his trial judges this month before being handed a seven-year pri
Why Capitalismâs Origins Matter
How did the medieval world give birth to our modern system of capitalist accumulation and competition? A new book by Matthew Costa, a Marxist historian and mandarin at New South Walesâs treasury, offe
Saturday links: naming the problem
Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didnât get to earlier in the week. You can check out...
The New York Post Releases the Most Idiotic Hitpiece I Have Ever Read
Nearly every sentence is wrong, rarely in just one way
NYC event on May 27th @ McNally Jackson Seaport
My book, Whatâs So Great About The Great Books?, is coming out on May 26th.
Anyone Noting Israelâs Crimes Will Be Accused of âBlood Libelâ
No sooner was columnist Nicholas Kristofâs about Israeli soldiersâ systematic sexual torture of Palestinian prisoners published this past week than the charge of âblood libelâ was suddenly leveled e
25 years of equal marriage coin
25 years ago, the Netherlands was the first country in the world to open marriage to same-sex couples. To celebrate theyâve issued commemorative Euros designed by Koos Breen using type from an LGBTQ d
What should be on a list of almost Great Books?
Give your suggestions in the comments
We Need to Move Beyond Robot Doomerism
For all our concern with the rise of robotics and the threat to workers these machines pose, the robots keep coming. In Japan, the aviation industry is struggling to meet labor requirements, and one a
Spheres by Default
How U.S. concessions are quietly becoming Chinese influence.
Dragoncatcher: The big button
Wild blueberry farms across Maine suffer as climate change upends growing seasons
Like lobster rolls, wild blueberries are iconic in Maine. But heat and drought have set the plants back to a point where many small farmers are struggling against reduced yields and increased costs fo
Scotland Has No Escape Route From Britainâs Political Crisis
In the end, Scotlandâs election last week played out largely as the polls had said it would. John Swinneyâs ruling Scottish National Party (SNP) went into May 7 as the countryâs primary political forc
Cowboy Space Corporation
A Great Example of The Great Differentiation
Reading List 05/16/26
Tokyoâs cheap housing and expensive land, the House response to the Senate housing bill, an IED near an Alabama dam, Fervoâs IPO, and more.
Links 5/16/2026
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Iran War: Economic Pressures Rise and Bond Market Jitters Increase as Gulf States Rebel, Constraining Trump Even More
Today's Iran war news: Trump faces actual or incipient revolts from bond investors and Gulf States, with shortages also becoming visible.
Top Links 1104 Target balance within the Eurozone. Veblen babies. potato blight of the 1840s. US troops in Germany.
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
G. Elliott Morris on Vibes and the Midterms
The political scene after redistricting
How to Be a (Happy) Skeptic: my new book, one month out
A note to Figs in Winter readers on whatâs coming â and why now.
Michael Hudson: US Designs on Iran and the Trump-Xi Summit
With Iranian journalist Ali Alizadeh, Michael Hudson debunks White House spin on the Trump-Xi talk and gives a historical view of the war
Pluralistic: Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire (16 May 2026)
Today's links Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire: Don't mistake "powerful" for "durable." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence:
AI as the new avatar of American capitalism
Why "AI populism" is just "populism"
You canât prepare for the next pandemic without confronting the last one
On Covid media, haunting, and hantavirus
Whatâs Black and White and Reveals Historic Porpoise Distributions?
Centuries-old newspaper clippings from Sweden The post Whatâs Black and White and Reveals Historic Porpoise Distributions? appeared first on Nautilus.
What the Trump-Xi Summit Won't Solve
A conversation with Orville Schell.
Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on who should read...
Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on who should read books about physics. âThe question of âWhat is space-time?â doesnât belong only to scientists. It belongs to everyone who has ever wondered about
The 4 Abilities Every Investors Needs to be Successful
Why studying market history is so important. The post The 4 Abilities Every Investors Needs to be Successful appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
New NASA Graphic Captures Human Activity at Night
Bright lights in a dark world The post New NASA Graphic Captures Human Activity at Night appeared first on Nautilus.
Quaker principles line up quite well with modern...
Quaker principles line up quite well with modern parenting research. âInfused in all of these practices is the conviction that children are not lesser proto-adults, but fellow beings worthy of respect
Bull Run, butterflies, Jeep Cat, prom
On the stone bridge that crosses Bull Run, where the first shots of the first land battle of the Civil War were fired, a group of teenagers in sparkly gowns and fancy dresses whose sequins caught the
Ancient Teeth Hint at Homo Erectus-Denisovan Interbreeding
The human family tree gets more complicated The post Ancient Teeth Hint at Homo Erectus-Denisovan Interbreeding appeared first on Nautilus.
The Revolt Against the Girl BossesâŚ...
The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses⌠âEmpowerment wonât fix the mess weâre in. Women know it now. Theyâre mad as hell. Anyone trying to sell them advice instead of a way to use that anger to build a be
CROSSPOST: Ilari Mäkelä, Steven Broadberry, & Bishnupriya Gupta: The Big Picture: Measuring the Origins of the "Modern" World
Lots to talk about here: Around 1600, living standards in India and Britain are similar; by 1750, Indian real wages are less than half of British real wages (in grainâwage terms). Under Mughal and...
Filtered for bad addresses and good emotions
1. I love this terrible fake address generator: We have spent 3 years collecting data from every country to generate this enormous database. âŚit promises. These are not English addresses: "2 Scott Com
The Night Witches: The Female Nazi Hunters of WWII
The Night Witches were an all-female Soviet bomber regiment that attacked Nazi forces during World War II. An attack technique of the night bombers involved idling the engine near the target and glid
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