Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?
Well, better at men's soccer. And can a World Cup at home finally be the breakthrough?
Empire Suicide Watch
Herman Mark Schwartz in Phenomenal World: Herman Mark Schwartz: We tend to think of empires as a set of power relations that can be physically described on a map, coloring in the territorial reach of
here Where We Live Is Our Country, An Evening with Molly Crabapple
Over at The Brooklyn Institute: The artist and writer Molly Crabapple joins journalist Spencer Ackerman and BISR’s Suzy Schneider in coversation about her new book, Here Where We Live Is Our Country:
Staying Power
Ho-fung Hung in Sidecar: Every time the global economy plunges into turmoil, talk of the coming end of dollar hegemony resurfaces. In March 1978 – in the wake of the collapse of the Bretton Woods syst
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below.
Sunday links: disappearing benchmarks
Sunday Poem
Of the Dark Doves —for Claudio Guillén In the branches of the laurel tree I saw two dark doves One was the sun and one the moon Little neighbors I said where is my grave — In my tail said the sun On m
Slop, productivity, and why the AI-fueled world is going nowhere mighty fast
Just saw a graph at the FT from John Burn-Murdoch that really distills something I have been trying to articulate.
Ted Chiang Is Wrong About AI Consciousness
Plus some other stuff
Tip Toe
I’ve yet to see the new Channel 4 series Tip Toe, but I’ve watched this clip more than a handful of times, nodding along, devastated how true the sentiment rings. Sometimes I feel like I’ve been tip t
This Summer's Sleeper Hit Is About A Man Who Can't Ask A Woman Out
Marjane Satrapi (1969 – 2026) Comic Book Author and Filmmaker
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A Paul Klee Angel Finally Lands in New York
Deborah Solomon in The New York Times: It is not every day that an angel flies to New York. But Paul Klee’s “Angelus Novus” — a small, fragile drawing of a straggly angel that survived the ordeals of
Young People Like Stocks
Stock market ownership by age and income levels. The post Young People Like Stocks appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
Trump uses wartime powers to dole out $700 million to ‘clean, beautiful’ coal
The president announced plans for two new coal plants in Alaska and West Virginia, using the Defense Production Act.
‘Indian, African, American, Muslim, Hindu’: Zohran Mamdani’s Identity Speech
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China’s Hukou System Is Stubbornly Resistant to Reform
Is China abolishing the ? Since the State Council of the People’s Republic of China announced a new guideline on public services on May 18, this question has led to an outpouring of commentary. For de
Obama Blasts Dems for Their Most Obama-Like Traits
As Democrats debate how and whether to use power if they regain control of Congress and the White House, former President Barack Obama has lambasted his party for failing to more aggressively challeng
Limmie Pulliam (1976 – 2026) Opera Singer
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The Era of Cheap AI Is Over
When OpenAI released ChatGPT in late 2022, it quickly broke records as the technology product in history. AI model providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google initially used artificially low flat
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...
Alan Saret (1944 – 2026) Sculptor
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Dragoncatcher: The bigger story
Links 6/7/2026
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Top Links 1125 AI segmentation. India in financial trouble. The African impact of the "Lisbon earthquake" & "nothing is as far as here".
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
AI and the Pitfalls of Innovation
History offers warnings about technological optimism
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Chariots Of Fire (1981) Run Time: 2H 4M Plus Bonus Documentary!
Chariots of Fire is a story of personal determination and the quest for victory.
On metanarratives ⊗ Do not resign from life
No.406 — Sensing the third horizon ⊗ The public should own half of the big AI companies ⊗ Cities that lost the economic development plot ⊗ The illuminated windows of NYC
‘Possum In The Hen House
by Mike Bendzela How did a marsupial end up in one of our hen house nesting boxes? That is the question, and as it sounds like the set-up to a joke, I’ll just say, “Because the hens egged her on!” It
Computex 2026 Debrief
I've never been to a show as big as this.
The Mind of Gavrilo Princip
by Anton Cebalo In the past few months, I have been reading about the personalities present in Young Bosnia for a forthcoming essay. The group was not formalized by any means, made up of decentralized
The Impoverishing Thinking of Central Bankers Who Want Interest Rate Rises
Central bankers look to make a bad problem worse by trying to ensure wages and prices stay down even as energy costs rise.
The Remarkable Life of Plants
by Carol A Westbrook My orchids bloom after the winter solstice, in December, the shortest day of the year. The days begin to get longer after this, and soon it’s early spring. Orchids, like all pla
Weekend Update #188: Ukraine Reaches Out And Touches Putin--Twice
Trump Is Helping Putin As Much As He Can
Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life
We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births of innumerable cells, the splitting of contine
Burning 2.1M Tokens Version of Misadventures in Vibe-Programming: LAUGH OF THE DAY
A 26 billion‑parameter mixture-of-experts LLM loses its mind, burning three War & Peace’s of tokens uselessly as it searches for memories it never formed…
Copping My Style
Can you legally protect an artistic style? Not currently, but an Adobe-backed bill, a seeming reaction to AI, is pitching the idea. Personally, I see a bunch of blurred lines. Two companies that have
An Introduction to Quantitative Spatial Economics
And why we should spend more on highways
#347 Clawing Back
Economic Rearguard Action, Ten Years of Bihar's Prohibition, and Making Sense of the Many Critical Mineral Frameworks
J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”
"Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else (make something new), may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds."
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