Culture
Arts, society, and contemporary cultural analysis
📚 39 publications
📄 379 articles
Sarah Lyall in the New York Times: Sometime in the 2000s, the producer Lindsay Doran asked her doctor for a book recomme...
- The Detectives Are Sheep (No, That’s Not a Metaphor)
- Soon, access to frontier AI will be scarce and selective
- The scientists fighting to stop the antibiotic apocalypse
One of the biggest assholes in the Trump regime is Russell Vought — and that’s really saying something; it’s a fierce co...
- How Russell Vought Became the Shadow President
- Omg, Amazon Prime inserted an ad for Febreze in the...
- A very good, very 2026 headline: Japan Runs Out of Robot...
"I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood."...
- How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Confidence
- How to Be Un-Dead: Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the Key to Living Fully
- The Enemy Outside and the Enemy Within: Audre Lorde’s Antidote to Despair
T.M. Scanlon’s 1982 essay “Contractualism and Utilitarianism” heralded the emergence of a new ethical theory...
- T.M. Scanlon’s 1982 essay “Contractualism and Utilitarianism” heralded the emergence of a new ethical theory
- Loud, naïve, ham fisted, needy. The American tourist used to be regarded as the most obnoxious creature in the world
- He was a spy, a Zen priest, a fisherman, and a Bigfoot obsessive: Peter Matthiessen never had just one life
[Anonymous] sent me several questions about translation. She worried that they were somehow “too remedial,” but they wer...
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Hotter, drier weather, poor planning and a ballooning population are putting enormous pressure on the American West’s wa...
- How the West Could Turn a Trickle of Water Into an Endless Supply
- What We’re Reading: Otter-Spotting on Colorado’s Rivers
- Do Sanctuary Cities Work?
I previously shared a 360° video of Weekend Update, but this sketch from SNL is a more entertaining use of the technolog...
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Ted Gioia on the next indie wave...
- The New Counterculture
- Rick Beato Versus the NY Times
- How to Tell If You're Living in a Binary Crisis
The Devil Wears Prada is The Godfather for Millennials...
- You have no idea how many legends have walked these halls and what’s worse, you don’t care.
- He says the early petal-fall is past
- The link between art and life
6 books you must read......
- Where to Start With C.S. Lewis
- How to Become Truly Human Again
- Book Club Recap: The Picture of Dorian Gray
And you're getting a free month!...
- BIG NEWS: Read Max is moving to Patreon!
- A rich and evocative Iraq War (?) rom-com
- 'The Drama' and the microgenerational digital divide
Notes on Kenneth Hale, the Brahma-bull-riding theoretical linguist who spoke 50 languages....
- Paying My Respects to a Linguistic Virtuoso
- The Forgotten Communications Devices of the French Revolution
- The Trouble With Narrative History
The modern university mirrors the very economic system its graduates are taught to defend....
- Why College Turns People Into Socialists
- Which Dostoyevsky Translation Should You Read? (A Brutally Honest Guide)
- Columbia Taught Me Socialism. These Books Taught Me the Truth.
Apparently, reading scores are down not just in America but throughout the world. This means that, on average, contempor...
- This year's trendy new thinker
- How to convince people of color to study at your Great Books program
- This AI-assisted writer had a very strong personal vision for her work
AI is forcing the question...
- What does the "higher" in higher ed mean?
- How to limit unauthorized AI use in the classroom
- Red, White, and Psychedelic
Bezos’s new opinion section has 515 YouTube subscribers. CBS News is at historic ratings lows. The Daily Wire is sheddin...
- Nobody Asked for This Washington Post Podcast
- This Arcade Game Lets You Invade Iran as Trump
- Don’t Fall for the Tucker Carlson Apology Tour
lots of reading, lots of cooking, lots of finding myself again...
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I'm still dissatisfied with the pleasure principle...
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An alarming new study reveals the dire impact AI is having on artists' livelihoods. It does offer some hope, too....
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Nothing was as scary as we thought, and everything was weirder and more friendly....
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Besides the WTC, these were also destroyed...
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Why bureaucrats love metric measures, and agrarians don't....
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Politics
Governance, policy analysis, and democratic discourse
📚 20 publications
📄 162 articles
Philadelphia’s Third Congressional District, considered the bluest in the country, is hosting one of its most competitiv...
- Philly Wants to Send a Socialist to Congress
- Gustavo Petro’s Last Push to Phase Out Fossil Fuels
- Socialism Has a Future. Central Planning Doesn’t.
Promoting competition or promoting a return to price regulation?...
- What the Spirit debate is really about
- The case for clean energy abundance
- There’s no place like home
Why turbulence will make Beijing more assertive....
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Signs of decline can be dramatic or they can be small....
- Trump in China: A Case Study Of US Decline
- Midweek Update #10: Little Changes In US-Iran, Potentially Lots With US-China
- The US Military Is Failing: Facts Need To Be Faced
Democrats are fighting uphill against Republican-leaning courts. But they can’t afford either despondence or complacency...
- On redistricting, Democrats are playing as the away team
- How popular is the Iran War?
- PELE International Football Rankings ⚽
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- Subscriber Writing, May 2026
- The Vicious, Potentially Fatal Anti-Public School Propaganda Cycle
- It's Time For Some People to Let Me Go
What is this thing called capitalism? What, if anything, is the use of legal theory in understanding capitalist society?...
- Law & Political Economy, or Legal Theory & Capitalism?
- Legal Plunder: An Interview with Joe Soss and Joshua Page
- Taking Legislative Primacy Seriously
So, as many of you know, I did a crazy thing two years ago....
- How I lost my mind and bought an old half-restored nineteenth-century Thuringian villa
- NEW POLL: Alternative für Deutschland on the verge of an absolute majority in Sachsen-Anhalt
- Merz tells high-school students that the Americans lack an "exit strategy" in Iran, Trump slaps him with tariffs and troop withdrawals
Zelensky as Hostage, His Corruption and the Corruption of His Inner Circle, How He Was Snookered By the West, Tucker Int...
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The vertigo of individual insignificance and the pathological politics it produces...
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Rights for criminals and limited state capacity are a bad combination...
- Why Is Latin America So Violent?
- How to Get Me to Like You
- The Iliad as Propaganda Justifying Aristocratic Rule
Even Muscovites feel it...
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India's Economic Resilience and One Year of Operation Sindoor...
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If you follow celebrity news at all, you know that the man-bites-dog stories are the ones about stars who never let fame...
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Economics
Markets, financial systems, and economic thinking
📚 18 publications
📄 154 articles
Spanish politics enters the global stage in Mexico. A clash of progressives vs. conservatives where many have underestim...
- Spanish Politics Take the International Stage: Pedro Sanchez vs. Isabel Ayuso
- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa: How They Stack Up on Reusing Waste
- Links 5/14/2026
All of this today from Derek Thompson is very much worth reading—but since it is a paid post, I cannot ethically crosspo...
- CROSSPOST: DEREK THOMPSON: The Six Megatrends That Define 2026
- DeLong vs. Google-Clever-Hans (Not Quite Coyote vs. Roadrunner, But Close): Laugh of the Day
- The Inflation of 2021 Through Mid-2022 Is Back, Baby!: Chart of the Day
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze...
- Top Links 1102 AI circularity. Egypt's land monetization. Young people quitting Beijing & the BJP's triumphant march.
- Top Links 1101 Will "gas" hit $5? Capitalists =/= capitalism. "After Order" & the hidden charms of the "London system".
- Top Links 1100 Big tech's investment spending. Selling India. The first Red Flag. The revolution in tactical medicine.
Corruption pervades everything this administration does...
- Why Did Trump Take Elon Musk to China?
- A Failing, Flailing President Supplicates Xi
- The Apotheosis of Willful Ignorance
A look at the hidden role of private markets in public stock volatility....
- Why Stocks Sometimes Fall for No Obvious Reason
- The Active vs. Passive Distinction Is Broken — And It Matters
- Beyond the Hype: How AI Adoption is Quietly Reshaping Corporate Efficiency
Eaton-Kortum (2002)...
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The "economic divorce" between the two countries is proceeding slowly, but it is proceeding....
- Trump actually started to decouple America from China
- Tyrants are losing wars
- Do billionaires earn their money?
You are here to experience, or: why differentiation is a moral obligation....
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Doing nothing is sometimes better than doing something!...
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For full happiness is possible only in stagnation....
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Somewhere in the state of Maharashtra, a cotton farmer took his own life after years of compounding debt and crop failur...
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Science
Research breakthroughs and scientific understanding
📚 11 publications
📄 68 articles
My underwater dive to discover whether the beautiful ocean organisms are ever coming back
The post Coral Reefs Are at a ...
- Coral Reefs Are at a Tipping Point
- Newly Discovered Asteroid to Make Close Pass by Earth
- Garlic: Culinary Staple, Birth Control for Flies
The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it doesn’t use the energy ...
- How the Bird Eye Was Pushed to an Evolutionary Extreme
- How Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets
- Will We Ever Be Able To Forecast Volcanic Eruptions Like Weather?
The strange path to global monopoly...
- How ASML took over the world
- Pancreatic cancer just met its match
- What is local government good for?
Trapped buildings, in-home data centers, cardboard military drones, Brightline’s potential bankruptcy, and more....
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One morning I got a call from my younger brother Jaime. He was crying. He tells me my mom’s health, which had been slowl...
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AI, stagnation, populism, my theory of wokeism, and more...
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Climate
📚 2 publications
📄 32 articles
Where scientists see climate change at work, others see the designs of a global cabal....
- As tick bites surge, conspiracy theories follow
- First crypto, now data centers: How tech is reshaping this North Carolina community
- The Brazilian government keeps giving out mining licenses in the Amazon – in spite of evidence of gold ‘laundering’
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- DeBriefed 8 May 2026: EU eyes fossil-fuel exemptions | Wind and solar save UK ‘£1.7bn’ | Amazon ‘tipping point’
- Factcheck: What the UK car industry is not saying about EV targets
- Analysis: Wind and solar have saved UK from gas imports worth £1.7bn since Iran war began
Finance
📚 7 publications
📄 47 articles
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- Thursday links: messy people run businesses too
- Longform links: descriptive representation
- Wednesday links: everyday people doing everyday things
On today's show we discuss Ben's new book Risk & Reward, an epic melt-up in the stock market, semiconductor stocks going...
- Animal Spirits: This Won’t End Well
- My New Book: Risk & Reward
- Talk Your Book: Investing in Securitization
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- We Launched a New Investment Strategy
- Animal Spirits: This Won't End Well
- Talk Your Book: Investing in Securitization
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If I hear a talking head say, “the easy money has been made” one more time, I might lose it. If it were so easy: -Why di...
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Philosophy
Big ideas, ethics, and human nature
📚 16 publications
📄 78 articles
‘We’re not sure what it means or how it started’ – the enigmatic ritual that has existed in Switzerland for centuries
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Having empathy for others doesn't require weird metaphysics!...
- The Bizarre Twitter Empathy Meltdown
- You Should Go Vegan to Stop Facilitating Torture of the Innocent
- The Coming Intelligence Explosion
with three reminders from Epictetus...
- Practicing Stoicism When Other People Aren't
- Sadler's Office Hours: Studying Plato's Dialogues
- Christian Philosophy and Renewal of Catholic Intellectual Life
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A fascinating whodunit from ancient Greek philosophy...
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The post The Doomsday Organism appeared first on NOEMA....
- The Doomsday Organism
- We May Be Entering A Second Axial Age
- Virtual Civil Society Is Coming To China
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Artist Jared Madere's new prose of sensation. A strange meditation on when the blades disappear......
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Theories of racism try to answer these questions by trying to identify the essence of racism, the unifying and fundament...
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No one will be around to notice or care, so why should we now?...
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A new chapter and a giveaway!...
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Discernment is no longer optional...
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Psychology
Mind, behavior, and human cognition
📚 5 publications
📄 27 articles
The ineffable in music resides in the gap between saying and not saying. Music neither states nor conceals. It hints
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- You're Invited: A Conversation About the "Troubled" Film
- Conspiracy Theories, Big Brother, Scarcity
- The Long Shadow of Luxury Beliefs
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Some exceptions and why they matter...
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Technology
Innovation, digital culture, and the future of computing
📚 19 publications
📄 53 articles
Today's links Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI": How to be a better AI critic. Hey look at thi...
- Pluralistic: Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" (14 May 2026)
- Pluralistic: Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm (13 May 2026)
- Pluralistic: A fascist paradigm (12 May 2026)
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- Misplaced panic over AI progress
- Agents and ROI
- Breaking news: “they hadn’t figured out how OpenAI would pay for it”
Can you beat it?...
- How This Small Startup Achieved a Near-Perfect Record Against AI Slop
- How to Stop AI Agents From Frying Your Brain
- Elon Musk, Kingmaker
Supreme court's Voting Rights Act ruling cited misleading data from DoJ
“They had to fudge how they’re calculating ...
- The Guardian on Supreme Court’s VRA Data
- Newsweek on John Roberts issues warning
- thehill.com on supreme court reform
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- Dragoncatcher: Laying it on thick
- Dragoncatcher: News travels too fast these days
- Dragoncatcher: Referer reality
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If Byron Allen shows up at your door, you did something wrong with your media business. And BuzzFeed has a visitor. Also...
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A closer look at the wafer-scale architecture, the OpenAI deal, and four design vectors that decide if Cerebras can depl...
- Cerebras IPO and the Four Bottlenecks in Its Custom-Everything Architecture
- 🍪 TWiC: GF-SCALE, Apple-Intel, IREN, Optics, Cisco
- Power Delivery As The Next Physics Wall In AI Datacenters
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- Import AI 456: RSI and economic growth; radical optionality for AI regulation; and a neural computer
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Moloch the stunned governments! Moloch whose mind is pure machinery!...
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No.402 — AI learns language from skewed sources ⊗ We can always do something about the future ⊗ The hidden Sungemite arc...
- Anti-dystopia ⊗ Our horizon of possibilities
- Hopkins on the power of imagination ⊗ Feral thought experiments
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You know when I’m home on my own I don’t watch much TV like actual TV, but I do watch music videos on YouTube on the TV....
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An expansion pack for my NYT story on the "permanent underclass"...
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