Culture
Arts, society, and contemporary cultural analysis
📚 39 publications
📄 351 articles
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- Michal Urbaniak (1943 – 2025) Jazz Musician
- Brigitte Bardot (1934 – 2025) Actor, Singer, Animal Rights Activist
- Sunday Poem
My new favorite description of Christianity’s God is from Vince Staples (~16:05): “a floating man with a blowout”....
- My new favorite description of Christianity's God is from Vince Staples (~16:05):...
- It's Time to Accept That the US Supreme Court Is Illegitimate and...
- The Anthony Bourdain Reader
“In a perfect world, intellectuals would be original, logical, funny and full of common sense. That is, they would be li...
- “In a perfect world, intellectuals would be original, logical, funny and full of common sense. That is, they would be like John Carey”
- The notebooks of Camus offer an impressive array of aphorisms: "Withdraw completely and run your own race"; "Never talk about your work"
- No publicity, no marketing — how did a 70 year old’s debut novel start selling 1,000 copies a day?
Damar explores various topics through animated and interactive visual essays. Dithering Part I is a great (and mesmerizi...
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Moral philosophy in On the Calculation of Volume...
- What do we owe each other once we become different sorts of people?
- No paywall, anywhere
- High performers are late bloomers
This is what's coming in 2026...
- A Woman on a NY Subway Just Set the Tone for Next Year
- The Eight Questions You Must Answer
- Four Perspectives on Bing Crosby
“Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of ...
- How to Bioluminesce: Artist Ash Eliza Williams’s Reveries of Wonder
- When Friends Become Lovers: H.G. Wells on Navigating Blurring Boundaries
- How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change
At a landfill on Majuli, which is said by many to be the world’s largest riverine island, a cluster of ungainly birds pe...
- The ‘Stork Sisters’ Saving a Species on the Brink
- Reasons to be Cheerful’s 2025 Annual Report
- The City That Protected Trans People’s Rights in 1975
The curse of boundless curiosity...
- Why Da Vinci Thought He Was a Failure
- What Christmas Is Really About
- How to Live Through a Great Decline
Over 30 lists and 15,000 words from Read Max friends, foes, and family...
- The Read Max year in review 2025
- The best movies and music I saw/heard this year
- What is "slop," exactly?
A Canadian affiliate accidentally posted the segment Bari Weiss killed. It's just a normal 60 Minutes report, which is e...
- Watch the 60 Minutes Segment CBS Didn't Want You to See
- The Kill Switch
- Watch Rep. Sarah McBride's Powerful Statement on Republicans' Anti-Trans Obsession
I. M. Grinch vs S. T. Nicholas...
- The crime of malicious rottenness
- The anguish must be borne
- All my senses are being tortured simultaneously
The New York avant-gardist deftly navigated two intellectual worlds, somehow evading just about every label along the wa...
- Susan Sontag: A Critic at the Crossroads of Culture
- Genetic Ancestry Doesn’t Tell Your Whole Story
- Chasing the Mirage of “Ethical” AI
And some exciting updates about my work!...
- Merry Christmas from Pens and Poison
- The Strange Death of Literary Women
- The Right Is Wrong About College
The Great Blood in the Machine Guide to All Media...
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The lost art of keeping your opinions to yourself...
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Four movies that are part of who I am......
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Explorations in African leadership...
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my adventures in academic reading part 3...
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Ask not what your ending is, but what it might do for your book....
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The year has been a good one; and hopefully next year will be too....
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to age is a privilege (but we seem to have forgotten)...
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On the value of basic research and funding silly science...
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It's a great time of year to admit you have no idea where you’re going....
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Alexander Chee is a well-regarded literary author who posted recently about the importance of submitting your stories to...
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Politics
Governance, policy analysis, and democratic discourse
📚 20 publications
📄 195 articles
With nothing but a new cut of Kill Bill to offer, Quentin Tarantino has gone into semiretirement right as American cinem...
- The Real Reason We’re All Annoyed With Quentin Tarantino
- Capitalism and the Commodification of Nature
- The Revolutionary Roots of Social Democracy
This is a reminder that our mailbag thread was posted yesterday....
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America needs a defense against drones....
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The Anchorage "Framework"; Storm/Shadow Scalps show the importance of Taurus/Tomahawks...
- Weekend Update #165: Why the Pantomime?
- Annual Review 2025: What I Got Wrong
- The Fewer Soldiers On The Front Line The Better
Many on the left continue to view cryptocurrency as little more than a grift. Yet the crypto industry aims to achieve so...
- Game Over: The End of Financial Regulation as We Knew It
- The Results of the Crypto Bro Elections
- Inside the Failure to Regulate Stablecoins
For Christmas, I’m giving you a listicle....
- The 51 biggest American political moments of the 21st century
- I've tracked my last 800 flights. Here's when you really need to get to the airport.
- ELWAY NFL team projections: Week 17
On the latest "revelations"...
- Merry Epstein Christmas
- "Heritage Americans" Is a Claim to Unearned Status
- New Book, Founding Member Perks, and Hegelian Dialectics with Myself
Three weeks ago, the European Commission fined Elon Musk’s X €120 million for alleged violations of their Digital Servic...
- In which the Trump administration imposes visa sanctions on five very precious hate speech complainers and the EU has a big impotent retarded sad
- Merry Christmas
- Savage's 'Lost Generation', or: Thoughts on the DEI scam and what happened after 2015
whether vampires or Vineland, two Oscar-season heavyweights are being assigned depth and meaning that they just don't po...
- Awards Season Rivals Sinners and One Battle Another Are Both Very Good, Very Fun, and Very Overrated
- God Bless Us, Everyone
- Editing is Only Good If the Editing is Good and a Lot of Editing is Not Good
and Merry Christmas to all...
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I think we've made it past rock bottom?...
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The assassin didn't miss, but the American so-called 'right' seems intent on it - On political radicalization, Weimar Ge...
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Christmas came early to the Lindsey household this year, as a box of hot-off-the-press copies of The Permanent Problem a...
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Three filmic visions of the American endgame...
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Gauging the 'India Story' Sentiment, US-China Chip Non-war, and India's Absence from Pax Silica...
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Economics
Markets, financial systems, and economic thinking
📚 18 publications
📄 159 articles
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- The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Sholay (1975) Run Time: 3H 10M Bonus Cinema Documentary
- Did Israel’s Rivalry With Turkiye Play A Major Role In Its Recognition Of Somaliland?
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze...
- Top Links 965 Oracle's CapEx shock. The German credit crunch of 2022. Work-related deaths & Žižek "chats" with Kotkin about Stalin.
- Top Links 964 Germany's little known-recession. China's connectors. Sudan's scale and slavery today.
- Top Links 963 European divergence. Stablecoin flows. Southern Air Transport. Hamas explained.
From three years ago: 2022-10-27. Did I get this right back then......
- HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: John Holbo on the Horrible Atrocity of Defending Good Causes Badly!
- Two & a Half Hours into "Avatar: Fire & Ash"
- Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality—The SubStack
My interview with Jacek Lempart...
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The world’s biggest economy is exploiting its export prowess to cover for its domestic failures...
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Is our society slowly putting itself back together?...
- Ten things that are going right in America
- Why Everyone Loves Japan
- Why Europe should resist the Second China Shock
Notes on Die My Love, Lynne Ramsay’s latest film....
- When We Stop Performing
- Media To Consume This Week Instead of Doomscrolling: Between Comfort & Discomfort
- The 25 Best Pieces of Media I Consumed in 2025
Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, and Happy Holidays!...
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Electric Slide, Means & Meaning, Cable Caballero, Most Human Wins, Great Differentiation...
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Review of Rana Dasgupta’s “After Nations”...
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Science
Research breakthroughs and scientific understanding
📚 11 publications
📄 81 articles
Sophisticated scent seems to have evolved earlier than previously thought
The post These Slimy Fish May Have Helped Us H...
- These Slimy Fish May Have Helped Us Hone Our Sense of Smell
- Call Your Grandparents This Holiday Season—for Their Health
- One of World’s Rarest Cats Has Finally Resurfaced
Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his childre...
- How Dad’s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA
- The Year in Mathematics
- The Year in Physics
We’ve talked several times on this substack (as well as in my book), about the learning curve, the observation that cost...
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Watch now | Hepatitis B is a tiny virus that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths from liver disease and cancer each y...
- The first cancer vaccine
- Classical statues were not painted horribly
- English has become easier to read.
Talks and writing from Progress Conference 2025...
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Since the recent disappointingly small effects of monoclonal antibodies on Alzheimer's Disease (AD) progression, there h...
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What's coming up in 2026?...
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Finance
📚 7 publications
📄 57 articles
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- Sunday links: it’s a trap
- Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns
- Saturday links: diminishing returns
How to think about risk in the stock market.
The post The Biggest Risk in 2026 appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sens...
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- Animal Spirits: The Biggest Risk in 2026
- Talk Your Book: A Tactical Strategy That Actually Works
- The Compound and Friends: Buy or Die
None of the top stocks from 1985 are still on top today… Fun chart via Visual Capitalist
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- Three New Year's Resolutions plus Wall Street's expectations for 2026
- The war is over. Human advisors won.
- The Concentration Bears Have Steered You Wrong
Assessing how a strategy of avoiding the top-performing sector would have done...
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Climate
📚 2 publications
📄 36 articles
As federal services deteriorate, a patchwork of private companies is taking their place — for better or for worse....
- What happens when disaster recovery becomes a luxury good
- The country’s largest magnesium supplier shut down. Now what?
- The Bad River Band is suing to protect its wild rice from an oil pipeline
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate...
The post D...
- DeBriefed 19 December 2025: EU’s petrol car U-turn; Trump to axe ‘leading’ research lab; What climate scientists are reading
- Guest post: How to steer EVs towards the road of ‘mass adoption’
- Hydrogen emissions are ‘supercharging’ the warming impact of methane
Philosophy
Big ideas, ethics, and human nature
📚 16 publications
📄 65 articles
It's bad to be stupid and evil...
- Senseless Brutality Is Not a Reasonable Political Strategy
- Ranking The Best Charities
- The Objections to Veganism Are All Wrong
and in the end, it doesn't matter all that much to me...
- Lessons Learned From A Fall: That's Going To Leave A Mark
- Nine Ideas From Aristotle For Living A Good Life
- Giving The Gift Of Philosophy
In rare interviews, Russians speak candidly about their lives in the presence of war – animated to protect their identit...
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The public has apparently consistently disliked modernist artistic styles in many areas, including architecture:...
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A look at recent public appearances by yours truly...
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We’re offering a massive discount on annual subscriptions between now and the end of the year....
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Quick highlights from 2025...
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What is a cause? What is it for something to cause something else? This essay presents three of the most important philo...
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Tarrying with its real in the arrival of artificial general intelligence...
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From blackboards to black vestments, experts' "blah blah" words, inevitability, and digital theophanies...
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Psychology
Mind, behavior, and human cognition
📚 5 publications
📄 18 articles
Like characters outgrowing their creator, our teddy bears developed lives of their own
- by Sam Firman
Read on Psyche...
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Speaking with Louise Perry...
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ways of looking at the elephant...
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Maybe not yet—but we’re getting there...
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Technology
Innovation, digital culture, and the future of computing
📚 19 publications
📄 38 articles
You must leave now, take what you need you think will last....
- The AI bubble is all over now, baby blue
- Two takes on AI and the future of America
- Six (or seven) predictions for AI 2026 from a Generative AI realist
Today's links A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance: A final thought for the yule. Hey look at thi...
- Pluralistic: A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance (18 Dec 2025)
- Pluralistic: Happy Public Domain Day 2026! (17 Dec 2025)
- Pluralistic: America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity (16 Dec 2025)
Big price change, and per-post options....
- A Note to Readers: What's Changing in 2026
- NVIDIA-Groq: The Occam's Razor Explanation
- 2025: The Year in Review
Issue #83: Sometimes What is Remembered Most is What is Most Dynamically Changing...
- Memory Research Group: Six Months of Reading Backward Through Time
- The Predation Circuit
- Planetary Tech Support
The unexpected connection between advertising, a 1975 novelty song, CB radio, and some of your favorite modern Christmas...
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What AI really looks like...
- The Shape of Artificial Intelligence
- I Liked the Essay. Then I Found Out It Was AI
- Why Industry Leaders Are Betting on Mutually Exclusive Futures
Holiday fun...
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I’m away with family this week so here are some more scraps from my notes (previously).
Disney is considering a reboot o...
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No.384 —America’s post-apocalyptic maps ⊗ Trying to end the power suck ⊗ Africa’s largest off-grid solar-plus-storage pr...
- AI in 2026 and beyond ⊗ Bioregionalism’s tech-driven revival
- Gramsci’s nightmare ⊗ A small slice of human knowledge
Teaching (Very) Early Math: Part 1 of.... yikes...
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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like t...
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Thanks to Donald Trump, 2025 was a good year...for white-collar criminals
One by one, white-collar criminals have m...
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That's his strength and his weakness...
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We should prepare for the possibility of profound change...
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