Culture
Arts, society, and contemporary cultural analysis
📚 39 publications
📄 346 articles
Stuart Jeffries in The Guardian: This book is a trip. Among other things, it copiously details all the drugs that the US...
- Justin Smith-Ruiu writes a philosopher’s guide to psychedelics
- World’s oldest person had a young microbiome and ‘exceptional genome’
- Ezra Klein talk to political theorist Corey Robin about Trump
The Black Hole That Could Rewrite Cosmology. Astronomers may have found a primordial black hole, perhaps formed by quant...
- The Black Hole That Could Rewrite Cosmology. Astronomers may have found a...
- Former NBA star Reggie Miller's neighbors got him hooked on mountain biking....
- The Music of the Everyday
Consider the snail. One lung, one heart, one foot, 15,000 teeth, and first appeared 200 million years before dinosaurs...
- Consider the snail. One lung, one heart, one foot, 15,000 teeth, and first appeared 200 million years before dinosaurs
- To understand what’s lost when a waiter tells you to scan a QR code, peruse the history of the menu
- What does an essayist need from a reader? To be willing to enter spaces in which solidarity is one of the possibilities
just accept uncertainty...
- Does anyone even know whether students can still read a lot?
- Adam Smith's Burkean view of social cohesion
- Children need more reading time, education needs less politics
In a small village in Uttar Pradesh, Sarita Devi sings to her newborn grandson. Sitting on the ground with the infant ne...
- The Science Behind Centuries-Old Infant Massage Techniques
- What We’re Reading: Oceanic Biodiversity Gets Its Own International Treaty
- The Landmark Settlement That Could Get Plastic Pellet Pollution Out of America’s Rivers
Can they really get away with this?...
- Subscription Prices Gone Wild!
- Is Mid-20th Century American Culture Getting Erased?
- Is the Talk Show Dead?
Introduction (Books I-VI)...
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I probably read the last printed IKEA catalog was in 2021 but spaced on the fact. They’ve since transitioned to digital ...
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Jamelle Bouie warns that Trump's administration is creating an "illusion" of total control. ABC helped make it reality....
- The Kimmel Suspension Shows How Fake Authoritarianism Becomes Real
- The Man Calling Bullshit on the AI Boom
- Read the Jimmy Kimmel Monologue That Led to an FCC Crackdown
Public-option A.I....
- What if the Post Office had its own A.I. model?
- A cracking occult spy novel, a great Robert Redford war epic, and more
- What Type of Guy was the alleged Charlie Kirk shooter?
Esolangs, or esoteric programming languages, highlight the hidden metaphors and conventions that structure mainstream pr...
- The Hacker Folk Art of Esoteric Coding
- Is Life a Form of Computation?
- More Notes on Repetition and Our Brains
Pressed between the pages of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — a favorite book of my childhood, which my grandmother us...
- How Humanity Saved the Ginkgo
- Ode to a Good Pen: Or, How to Write the Book of Love
- The Heart of the Andes and the Invention of Virtual Reality: Frederic Edwin Church’s Immersive 19th-century Paintings of Natural Wonders
One of the weirder 20th-century pulps was called Lonely Island Adventures. It published Robinson Crusoe-style stories ab...
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This fall, the new luddites are rising...
- The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing
- Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
- The killing of Charlie Kirk and the end of the "global town square"
Your Companion Guide to the World of Girl Soldier (And How You Can Snag a FREE Personalized Signed Copy!)...
- Girl Soldier Is Almost Here!
- The SAT Killed the Humanities
- The Publishing Industry Hates Conservatives
faith, fear, & the ache of wanting to believe in something bigger than us...
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On why the World Bank and other multilaterals should recalibrate their climate projects in low-income countries...
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Life is not a story that builds to a climax. It is a story that meanders. In the first half, we accumulate resources—ski...
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An endearing letter from 20-year-old David Bowie...
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Why some writers thrive on deadlines while others need playtime—and how we all have to invent our own relation to time....
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Candy was different from the girls Robert knew. She didn’t care about vampires or makeup, but she knew about the Faces o...
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Zoom code and an introduction for Friday's session....
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A covenant with death, and an agreement with hell; Yale, Du Bois, Bagehot, Pynchon, Fitzgerald...
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Artificial intelligence promises foresight....
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Politics
Governance, policy analysis, and democratic discourse
📚 20 publications
📄 207 articles
Dressed up as a health crusade, MAHA is a proxy for a larger right-wing revolt against science, technology, and public i...
- MAHA and the End of American Modernity
- Trump’s War on Wind Power Is Killing Thousands of Union Jobs
- Nepal’s Protests Are the Result of a Blocked Revolution
Autism diagnoses have increased because diagnostic practices changed....
- The dangerous war on Tylenol
- As federal housing rules retreat, cities rewrite their own
- The obscure coup that changed the world forever
A divide is growing between the region's continental and maritime countries....
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On four eras of the culture war, and more...
- Ten Further Thoughts on Right-Wing Cancel Culture
- Leo Strauss Watching Hitler in Modern Germany
- Pascal's Wager as Spiritual Extortion
Some probably unpopular opinions in this week's Europe Dispatch by Minna Ålander....
- To Shoot or Not To Shoot Down Russian Jets
- Ukraine Can Win The War
- An Update On The Ukrainian Campaign Against Russian Refineries
The Supreme Court’s NIH v. APHA decision creates a harmful “two-track” litigation process, forcing plaintiffs to file du...
- NIH v. APHA and the Inequities of Two-Track Justice
- The Laws of the Market: A Response to Winant
- Title VI Turned Upside Down
PLEASE SEE REVISED SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES...
- Call for Subscriber Writing, September 2025
- Every Time Apple Fans Have Flip-Flopped About Basic Questions of Technology and Computing
- Things Are Really Bad
America’s Troubling Free Speech Moment...
- First Amendment Agonistes
- The Global South Holds the Keys to the New Eco-Ideological Cold War
- Weaponized Legal Realism
Democrats are in what chess players call zugzwang, where there aren't necessarily any winning moves. But focusing on tar...
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This is supposed to be a blog on German politics, but I haven’t posted much in this direction for some weeks....
- Alternative für Deutschland now the strongest party in Germany as Merz's government flounders, weak and bereft of options
- Television pastor likens Germans who criticise state media defamations of Charlie Kirk to the devil
- German state media have systematically slandered Charlie Kirk in the wake of his assassination
It depends...
- Did the Neo-Cons Finally Win?
- Saturday Commentary and Review #195
- Introduction: "Healing the Mutilated Victory" - Italy "Cheated" by Woodrow Wilson
There's a sense of despair but a better future is possible. The Tories must offer the restoration of cultural coherence,...
- What’s the story?
- If you want to stop illegal immigration, this is what you have to do
- When words are said to be violent, violence becomes the response to words
"Every Day, Computers Are Making People Easier to Use"...
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Trump vs. India, The India-EU Open Tech Maitri, and Operationalising Purva Paksha...
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My essay a while back about America’s descent into post-literacy got a fair amount of attention, at least by my standard...
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Economics
Markets, financial systems, and economic thinking
📚 18 publications
📄 142 articles
Politics begins by naming an enemy; the state depends on it. Calling Antifa “terrorist” could be the tool to redefine bo...
- From Al-Qaeda to Antifa: “Phantom Terror” Turned Inward and the Rise of a New State
- Naked Capitalism Fundraiser 2025: Finding High Ground as the Tsunami Rolls In
- Fundraiser 2025: What We Did for You in the Past Year
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze...
- Top Links 871 Big tech boom. "The first law of petropolitics". Writing African independence & forswunk.
- Top Links 870 Slashing Federal R&D. Educational premiums. AI as cultural technology & Ekphrasis.
- Chartbook 410: Malign coincidence - MAGA & the moment of hyperscaling.
This is about ideology and Trumpian fealty, not America’s interests...
- Why Is Trump Bailing Out Argentina?
- Is the Jimmy Kimmel Saga a Sign that the Tide is Turning?
- Break Day
No. Scott Bessent is not an “adult in the room”. Shame on all who are calling him such…...
- Five Lies in Scott Bessent's Attacks on the Fed, & Three Delusions in His Failures to Understand All That NATO Has Done for Us
- Watching People Jacking-in to an ASI Across a Half-Millennium
- On Figuring Out What Your Comparative Advantage Is
With several theoretical problems posed...
- On Equilibrium in Voting and in Product Markets
- Mergers, Collusions, and Prediction Markets
- Should Democrats Moderate on Abortion?
Humans are clever animals. We should make full use of that advantage....
- Tech can fix most of our problems (if we let it)
- Why every country needs to master the Electric Tech Stack
- Indians and Koreans not welcome
Academic finance has uncovered powerful insights, from the efficient-market hypothesis to the Fama-French five-factor mo...
- The Hidden Costs of Passive Investing Index funds and systematic strategies face trading frictions that quietly erode investor returns
- A Thank You and an Update
- Can Economic Growth Alone Fix the Federal Deficit?
No-one who travels to China can remain indifferent to the impact of new technologies....
- Note on new technologies in China and on our human future
- The Age of Discord: Fragmented politics and unhinged discourse
Notes on happiness and meaning, friendly fascism, post-literate society, the meaning of labor, attention, and more....
- Media to consume this week instead of doomscrolling - 21.09.25
- How to find new music beyond the algorithm
Meta Ray-Ban Display, World Labs, Waymo Safety, Colossus 2, Delphi-2M, Ambrook...
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I met Professor Jorge Miglioli in 2000, the year I started my undergraduate studies in Economics at UNESP, Araraquara – ...
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Do you know Naomi Win? She’s a psychologist and behavioral finance analyst (working alongside prior guest on Just Press ...
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Climate
📚 2 publications
📄 45 articles
From deep-sea mining to climate change, this Indigenous woman sees a better future for the world's oceans....
- What would an Indigenous Law of the Sea look like?
- The oceans just hit an ominous milestone
- Trump raised $8 million for Hurricane Helene survivors. Where did it all go?
President Xi Jinping has personally pledged to cut China’s greenhouse gas emissions to 7-10% below...
The post Q&A: What...
- Q&A: What does China’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate action?
- Revealed: Use of heat ‘emergencies’ for rough sleepers hits record in England and Wales
- Cropped 24 September 2025: High Seas Treaty milestone; ‘Erratic’ water cycle; Family food at COP30
Science
Research breakthroughs and scientific understanding
📚 11 publications
📄 53 articles
An ambitious mission seeks to map the flow of crucial chemicals through marine food webs in far-flung oceanic gyres
The ...
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Naomi Saphra thinks that most research into language models focuses too much on the finished product. She’s mining the h...
- To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves
- A Simple Way To Measure Knots Has Come Unraveled
- How We Came To Know Earth
Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is ay an al...
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One of the most important inventions of the 19th century was mauve dye, the first synthetic aniline dye....
- How Common Is Accidental Invention?
- Reading List 09/20/25
- What’s Happening to Wholesale Electricity Prices?
What do the latest projections expect for global food production and yields of different crops?...
- The world is on track for record harvests this year
- My new book — Clearing the Air — is published in the UK today
- The Electrotech Revolution: Some insights into a new way of thinking about the transition
Lithium orotate seems to help with Alzheimer's
Electronics components have gotten very very cheap in the past few decade...
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Finance
📚 7 publications
📄 50 articles
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- Thursday links: removing frictions
- Longform links: the demise of writing
- Wednesday links: manipulating information markets
Some career advice for a 20-something.
The post The Most Important Skill in Finance appeared first on A Wealth of Common...
- The Most Important Skill in Finance
- Animal Spirits: A Mania is Brewing
- Alexander Hamilton, Oasis and the Cost of Envy
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- Animal Spirits: A Mania is Brewing
- Talk Your Book: Making Money When Stocks Are Up or Down
- The Compound and Friends: Tom Sosnoff Will Teach You Trading
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Japan’s Rally Meets Shareholder Activism
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An ETF gains 42% a year; its investors still lose money....
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Here’s a list of great investing books that somehow have fewer than 50 reviews! Being Right or Making Money by Ned Davis...
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Psychology
Mind, behavior, and human cognition
📚 5 publications
📄 31 articles
The group at the heart of American origin stories had a complex relationship with despair – and a need to reckon with it...
- For the Puritans, embracing God’s will could get dangerous
- How to check if an argument is valid
- More than a mugshot
A wide-ranging conversation with Louise Perry...
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climbing the ladder of discomfort...
- middle management is what the other guy does
- subtle and unknowable but quite important
- analysing the explosions
Dorsa Amir has an excellent post titled Modest Advice For New Students. If you are going to read one thing about doing w...
- Some non-obvious advice for psych graduate students
- Free Speech After Charlie Kirk
- Why are so few professors troublemakers?
Philosophy
Big ideas, ethics, and human nature
📚 16 publications
📄 70 articles
Watch the exquisite digital restoration of a ceremonial pre-Incan shield, in which the owl is a symbol of war, not wisdo...
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Ask around!...
- Some People You Know Have Experienced an Apparent Miracle
- I Am Begging My Fellow Liberals to Stop Lying About Tyler Robinson
- All the Arguments Both for and Against Christianity
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nine lectures on these seminal Existentialist works...
- Video And Podcast Resources On Søren Kierkegaard's The Present Age and The Crowd Is Untruth
- Class Reflections: Aristotle On Friendship
- Exclusive Video 17: Two Years After Finishing The 9-Year Long Half Hour Hegel Project
The post Reimagining School In The Age Of AI appeared first on NOEMA....
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A Documentary Film by Sarah Newman and Felipe Rojas...
- Masterpieces from the Ceramics Collection of Iñaki Etxeberri
- Virtual Book Launch for On Drugs
- On Drugs!
The world economy grew by a factor of twenty over the last century, and five over the prior century....
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Part XXXIV of the Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series...
- How to talk about love with Plato
- Practical metaphysics: presentism vs eternalism
- On political violence
Summary of a recent conversation with Marxist Chris Cutrone...
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Beneficence isn't caring about others who might care about you...
- Reciprocity and duties to non-rational animals
- A Refutation of Wollen's Spurious "Proof" of the Existence of God
- Plato on the Form of the Good
Justin Lee on the question of Christian civilization....
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This essay introduces some of the core philosophical issues about atheism: what it is, how and why people accept atheism...
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In theory and in the long run, governments love growth. In reality and in the short run they prefer to take the politica...
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When I was young, wandering the aisles of a local bookstore or public library was a journey of quiet wonder....
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Six prescriptions for the disconnection epidemic...
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Technology
Innovation, digital culture, and the future of computing
📚 19 publications
📄 56 articles
How "Free Speech Culture" Is Killing Free Speech: Part One
“Free speech culture” means that you can call for censo...
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Today's links Rage Against the (Algorithmic Management) Machine: What unions could (must!) do about app-based work. Hey ...
- Pluralistic: Rage Against the (Algorithmic Management) Machine (25 Sep 2025)
- Pluralistic: The billionaires aren't OK (24 Sep 2025)
- Pluralistic: The enshittification of solar (and how to stop it) (23 Sep 2025)
There are bubbles of excess and bubbles of pure betting; some bubbles are both...
- The Trillion-Dollar AI Bet
- You Don't Have to Carry the Entire Planet on Your Shoulders
- A Tandem of GPT-5 And [Mystery Model] Has Beaten the Best Human Coders
Behind the "Blueskyism" debate...
- The Village and the Sewer
- The Aaron Swartz production function
- Repost: Absolute power can be a terrible weakness
Issue #55: Meet Towel Integrity Officer Martinez, Badge #0089...
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A recent Secret Service raid uncovers an insane network of SIM cards—along with perhaps the most unusual piece of hardwa...
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A few articles I really enjoyed, round up of all my content from September, and a short quiz....
- Nvidia Buys Into Intel, Apple’s Modem, Corporate Jobs, and the Billion-Dollar Cable Race
- High Bandwidth Flash: NAND’s Bid for AI Memory
- The Hidden Art Inside Your Microchips
From AI slop to workslop...
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With less human noise to compete with, the birds are able to have ‘deeper conversations,’ says biologist (2020):
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- Filtered for bird calls and catnip
- Get your Claude Code muzak here
- What I think about when I think about Claude Code
Higher education leadership in this moment of crisis...
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Don't give AIs "exit rights" to conversations...
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No.371 — Why 95% of AI commentary fails ⊗ Designing futures you can live in ⊗ AI water usage at data centers ⊗ “Solarize...
- The lost art of thinking historically ⊗ How climate broke reality ⊗ Does the Bitter Lesson have limits?
- AI gets stuck in infinite loops ⊗ A real genius club ⊗ The metabolic logic of AI slop
AI could improve productivity in valuable areas such as scientific R&D, as investments and energy requirements grow...
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AI anxiety and the new language of silicon valley...
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Let’s not obstruct the technology that could have saved them...
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