Media To Consume This Week Instead of Doomscrolling: Webs of Connection
Notes on individualism, the universe, systems thinking, perspective, mycelial networks and dreams, emergence, home, and more.
Is the Tao smarter than the Dow?
A high-return investment hiding in plain sight
Donald McIntyre (1934 – 2025) Operatic Bass-Baritone
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Socialism After AI
Evgeny Morozov in The Ideas Letter: Artificial intelligence has produced a rare kind of popular curiosity. Not only among investors and founders, but among people who open a browser, type a question,
Can machines suffer?
Conor Purcelli in Aeon: Across northern Europe and Canada during the 19th and 20th centuries, workers roamed coastlines and pack ice, beating infant seals to death with clubs. White ice was smeared re
Between Capitalism and the State-System
Quentin Bruneau in Phenomenal World: How should we explain periods of profound global transformation? Scholars have long viewed socio-political change as a reflection of property relations and technol
The new political theology
Arthur Goldhammer in Eurozine: Is Charlie Kirk’s assassination-turned-martyrdom unofficially disestablishing the US constitutional clause against the government forming a national religion? And how as
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below.
A Document For a New American Century (Part 1 of 2)
On the Trump Admin's National Security Strategy: what it is, what it means, and how real is it?
Joseph Byrd (1937 – 2025) Experimental Composer and Musician
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Sunday links: concentration of big winners
A Life That Cannot Be A Failure
How you can prevent animals from spending millions of years in a cage and save hundreds of lives without any personal sacrifice
Phil Upchurch (1941 – 2025) Guitarist
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Endings (and the Writers Who Love Them)
Ask not what your ending is, but what it might do for your book.
The Best Hedge
I shared this chart of inflation by decade this past week: I got a follow-up question in my inbox about this one from a reader: What’s the investment implication of your inflation chart? Should I own
No Stable Sense of Self
The contradictory personas that fuel Nick Fuentes' appeal
Cymbeline book club
SUNDAY 7 p.m. UK time, 2 p.m. Eastern
The EPA was considering a massive lead cleanup in Omaha. Then Trump shifted guidance.
Tens of thousands of Omahans have lead in their yards at levels that experts say is dangerous, especially for kids. Growing momentum to do more cleanup in what’s already the nation’s largest residenti
Kerala Has Abolished Extreme Poverty
Vijay Prashad in Scheerpost: On 1 November 2025, the south-western Indian state of Kerala – home to 34 million people – was declared free from extreme poverty by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Keral
May I Explain the “May I Meet You?” Meme?
Katie Baker in The Ringer: The way the fabled investor Bill Ackman sees it, he was born to move markets. It’s right there in the name: BILL-ionaire ACK-tivist MAN, as the 59-year-old always loves poin
Sunday Poem
The Case of Courage No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live tak
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...
Links 12/14/2025
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Top Links 951 Prime age workers scarcity. Italian alternate history. VW Doubling down on China & The Minimal Winning Coalition.
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism
Despite what you may have heard, colonial plunder didn’t give rise to capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the “colonialism-created-capitalism” argument fails, and why
Affordability, Part III
What should a serious policy agenda include?
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Sweet Movie (1974) Run Time: 1H 38M
Sweet Movie is a film about candy, rebirth, and sexuality just for starters.
Putting the “Art” into Artificial Intelligence, or Banksy on Steroids
by Malcolm Murray As I discussed AI with my cabdriver on a recent trip to Vienna, I was reminded of the fact that the German word for AI is Künstliche Intelligenz. This shares an etymological root wit
Gramsci’s nightmare ⊗ A small slice of human knowledge
No.383 —The future of rules-based international order ⊗ The Agentic AI Foundation ⊗ Protecting the Ecuadorian Amazon ⊗ Iceland’s flowing textures
Making a May Day 2028 General Strike a Reality
In the wake of the historic stand-up strike two years ago, United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain called on the labor movement to prepare to strike together on May 1, 2028. What will it take to make
The Trump presidency is still alive and kicking
There are some strains, but the wheels aren't coming off quite yet.
The joy of having zero New Year’s resolutions
It's a great time of year to admit you have no idea where you’re going.
In an Ohio Suburb, Sprawl Is Being Transformed Into Walkable Neighborhoods
Yale Climate Connections argues that rethinking American suburbs could help people drive less, lowering emissions.
The Barren Midwife: On Socratic Method and Psychotherapeutic Art
by Gary Borjesson I’ve rarely regretted holding my tongue during a session. I’ve rarely regretted drawing out what’s on a patient’s mind instead of offering some (apparently) juicy insight or interpre
Weekend Update #163: Ukraine Goes From Collapsing to Liberating Kupyansk
The Two Negotiations; Stirrings in Europe
Sortition Can Help Cure What Ails Our Democracy
Americans are frustrated with our increasingly oligarchic political system. Selecting an assortment of lawmaking deliberative bodies through random lotteries could help fix it, by empowering ordinary
The Literature of Limits: The Buddhist Horizon (Part II)
by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad In the previous article of this series I started with the exploration of the concept that every civilization eventually arrives at the edge of its own knowing. It was not m
Threatened With Jail for Offering Blankets to Migrants
Twenty-four aid workers in Greece are being tried on trumped-up smuggling charges after they gave blankets and water to migrants. Some have been in pretrial detention for months in a case highlighting
Thomas Aquinas’ Discussion of Law and the Sapiental Mediation of Reason and Revelation in the Summa Theologiae
an agora presentation turned into a paper, which I never got around to publishing
#327 Signal vs Noise
Gauging the 'India Story' Sentiment, US-China Chip Non-war, and India's Absence from Pax Silica
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