The Rise of Chile’s Hard Right
The first round of voting in Chile’s general election in November saw the shocking rise of the far right and the collapse of the country’s new left. It’s a crushing but not total defeat for the moveme
Random Digest: December 16, 2025
10 hand-picked articles from our collection
This digest was algorithmically curated to spark serendipity and encourage intellectual wandering. Each article was chosen at random from our recent collection, creating unexpected connections and delightful discoveries across diverse topics and perspectives.
Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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
Boring Investing Still Works
Boring is beautiful in 2025. The post Boring Investing Still Works appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
Hamnet Is Beautifully Acted and Gorgeously Shot, but It Misses the Point
Dana Stevens in Slate: The curiosity that drove the Irish novelist Maggie O’Farrell to write her bestselling 2020 novel Hamnet sprang from the scarcity of documentation about the book’s title characte
Top Links 944 America's K-shaped economy. Zero haircuts. The Great Derangement & the language of the body.
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
read it in the original
a call for indications of interest
This Black Hole Blasts Cosmic Wind at 130 Million Miles Per Hour
A staggering glimpse into our beautiful, violent universe The post This Black Hole Blasts Cosmic Wind at 130 Million Miles Per Hour appeared first on Nautilus.
How a species of bamboo could help protect the South from future floods
In the face of mounting climate disasters, tribes, scientists, and Southern communities are rallying around a nearly forgotten native plant.
Against Asking For Definitions
You can use words without knowing their definitions
The Navajo Nation said no to a hydropower project. Trump officials want to ensure tribes can’t do that again.
The U.S. Energy Secretary said allowing tribes to weigh in on energy projects on their land creates "unnecessary burdens to the development of critical infrastructure."