Culture
Arts, society, and contemporary cultural analysis
📚 39 publications
📄 346 articles
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- New Discoveries in the Archaeology of the Ancient Americas
- Why Is Ice Slippery? A New Hypothesis
- Google DeepMind robotics lab tour with Hannah Fry
“The Trump administration’s vision for the United States is one of a white Christian nation. And the path to accomplish ...
- "The Trump administration's vision for the United States is one of a...
- A roundup of the words/phrases of the year for 2025, including "rage...
- Born Poor
Edward Gorey’s macabre art is enigmatic, allusive, silly, somber, and haunted by the miseries of childhood...
- Edward Gorey’s macabre art is enigmatic, allusive, silly, somber, and haunted by the miseries of childhood
- Anthony Appiah: “I don’t think encouraging people to resent everything they think is a moral mistake made by everybody else is a good way to prepare yourself for a happy life”
- Luigi Pirandello is a half-forgotten castaway of European letters. Are we living in his world?
My favorite photos from museums contain folks for scale and context. Anton Repponen shares a collection of such images a...
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The affectionate obsession of a great critic...
- John Carey: the Common Reader’s Professor
- Cymbeline book club
- Why we love Jane Austen more than ever after 250 years
Straddling the border between India and Bangladesh, where the rivers Ganges, Meghna and Brahmaputra converge and flow in...
- Roots of Resilience: The Women Preserving Asia’s Ancient Mangrove Forest
- The Beauty of Lining a River With Willow
- The Ecological Havens Flourishing Beneath Power Lines
Here's the link to join...
- Book Club: Beowulf (Session 1)
- The Meaning of the Cross in Different Cultures
- C.S. Lewis's Lesson About Evil
My favorite longform writing of the year...
- The Best Online Articles of 2025
- What Happened to the Library?
- Hollywood Is Turning into a Content Farm for Silicon Valley
In modern society, Simone de Beauvoir observed in her later years, “it is old age, rather than death, that is to be cont...
- A Decalogue for the Dignity of Growing Old: Eva Perón’s Revolutionary Rights of the Elderly
- Favorite Books of 2025
- Beatitude: Poet John Keene’s Spell Against Despair
Isaac Asimov’s “Handbook of Robotics” imagined simple rules for machine morality. But reality is a maze of contradiction...
- Chasing the Mirage of “Ethical” AI
- How Coca-Cola’s Calories-Out Myth Backfired Spectacularly
- 20 Japanese Words for Rain
The post-Kirk purge was never about decency. Trump's response to Rob Reiner's murder proves it....
- The Rules of Grief
- Glenn Beck Made an AI George Washington. It Sounds Exactly Like Glenn Beck.
- What Will 2026 Mean for Journalism? Some Thoughts...
Roundup 12/15/2025...
- A haunting Chinese noir thriller, an ambling heist movie with the year's best ending, and more
- Talking A.I. bubbles and Trump's racist rant with John Ganz
- Three books of smart, funny, hillbilly noir; a gorgeous documentary about Hollywood's images of cyberspace; and more
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the...
- "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
- A 'code red' for AI
- Journalists win a key battle over AI in the newsroom
Alexander Chee is a well-regarded literary author who posted recently about the importance of submitting your stories to...
- Is it viable to self-publish your short fiction?
- Why Teach?
- Some people are bad writers, and they should be discouraged
When the dominant culture abandons cultivating taste and aesthetics through creative excess, they leave open opportuniti...
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The Right’s War on College Is a War on Its Own Intellectual Inheritance...
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all the details from planning to prep to packaging...
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Four movies that are part of who I am......
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On the politics and logics of policy tradeoffs...
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The best essays Johanna and I wrote in 2025, and some reflections on what it was like to write them....
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A fun look at how a picture book comes together...
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Ask not what your ending is, but what it might do for your book....
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By demanding our attention, machines prevent good work from being done....
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A special appeal to support Res Obscura on its Crystal Anniversary...
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From a wild grass in ancient Mesoamerican to a biotech behemoth...
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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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Politics
Governance, policy analysis, and democratic discourse
📚 20 publications
📄 188 articles
Philip Cunliffe’s analysis of world politics after globalization takes the phony rhetoric of leaders like Tony Blair at ...
- Neoliberal Globalization Never Abolished the Nation-State
- The Downfall of Larry Summers Was Long Overdue
- Guest Worker Schemes Are a Machine for Labor Exploitation
In search of Plan B....
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Can JD Vance sustain Trump’s cult of personality?...
- The most important open question about the political future
- A tale of Time and Warner
- Talking myself into a Netflix-Warner merger
Despite its professed commitment to radical libertarianism and a non-state theory of money, the crypto industry is activ...
- The Anarchist Currency with a Government Sponsor
- How the Left Lost the Plot on Crypto (and How to Find it Again)
- Weekly Roundup: Dec 12
How the great GOP bugbear of the past puts Trump to shame....
- What The US Is Doing To Ukraine Is Far Worse Than Yalta
- Weekend Update #163: Ukraine Goes From Collapsing to Liberating Kupyansk
- The Trump Russian Oil Sanctions Con Is Collapsing
unlike most, I have the numbers to justify the feelings...
- For Me, Postpartum Testosterone Decline Has Been Very Real
- Subscriber Writing, December 2025
- Carl Wilson Should Give Himself More Credit
Against indigenous ways of knowing for hillbillies...
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No longer just a Substack: it's one of the 3 emerging factions of the Democratic Party....
- What is Heather Cox Richardsonism?
- The Democratic base isn’t in the mood to compromise
- ELWAY NFL team projections: Week 15
On 5 December, the Trump administration released a concise 29-page document outlining their National Security Strategy a...
- Trump's National Security Strategy and the European Union, or: A sly plan to make life much, much harder for the Eurotards in Brussels
- The European Commission slaps Elon Musk's X with a €120 million fine – the first ever under the Digital Services Act
- Chancellor Friedrich Merz has filed more speech crime charges against detractors than anyone else in the history of the Federal Republic
Ridicule is our last, best weapon...
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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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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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Ukraine's fight against corruption is impossible to imagine right now in America or Russia...
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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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Economics
Markets, financial systems, and economic thinking
📚 18 publications
📄 159 articles
Since decolonization, Africa has experienced a succession of wars whose combined death toll likely reaches into the tens...
- Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Africa’s Enduring Wars
- Doctors, Strikes and the Failures of Wes Streeting and Labour
- Links 12/16/2025
Jane Austen wrote amid a peculiar peace: rents flowed, muskets hung idle, and reputations ruled, and in that context cra...
- Jane Austen Was Born on December 16, 1775
- Pivot to Video!
- CROSSPOST: WILL LOCKETT: Musk’s Pathetic Robot Is Looking More And More Like Bad Vapourware
Understanding the rise of private credit and what it means for investors...
- Direct Lenders: The New Relationship Bankers of Private Equity
- Understanding Valuation Discipline in Private Credit
- Returns of the 10 Largest Real Asset Funds YTD Sept 2025
Let’s take a wonk break...
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Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze...
- Top Links 953 The fiscal politics of gambling. Sanctions are biting. Ubuntu and the "Table of Drops".
- Top Links 952 Tracking google to call the peak. Getting Europeans to love finance & how Sargent fell out of love with portrait-painting.
- Top Links 951 Prime age workers scarcity. Italian alternate history. VW Doubling down on China & The Minimal Winning Coalition.
Contemplating the unknowable....
- My thoughts on AI safety
- The Trump presidency is still alive and kicking
- At least five interesting things: Debunking the Debunkers edition (#73)
What is convenient to measure is not the most important stuff...
- Misallocation is Missing the Point
- What Are We To Do With A Fraudster's Work?
- A Mechanism For Preventing Theft By Roommates
Notes on individualism, the universe, systems thinking, perspective, mycelial networks and dreams, emergence, home, and ...
- Media To Consume This Week Instead of Doomscrolling: Webs of Connection
- Book to Film Adaptations You Should Watch Instead of Doomscrolling
- Where To Find Media To Consume Instead of Doomscrolling - Vol.2
Space Solar, Astera Neuro, Levin on Coherence, Boom Turbines, Axiom Math AI + Solo Founders ++ Cuby +++ World x XMTP...
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Highly Priced ≠ Overpriced...
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My piece in "China Daily"...
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Science
Research breakthroughs and scientific understanding
📚 11 publications
📄 79 articles
Chemical layering deep inside may explain weird seismic wave behavior
The post Is Earth’s Core Like an Onion? appeared f...
- Is Earth’s Core Like an Onion?
- Can True Love Help to Heal a Diseased Heart?
- The Psychedelic Scientist
Explore the year’s most surprising computational revelations, including a new fundamental relationship between time and ...
- The Year in Computer Science
- The Year in Biology
- String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof
It's not because of shorter sentences....
- English has become easier to read.
- Why is South Korean fertility so low?
- Give Works in Progress as a gift
When costs fall, average quality does too...
- In defense of slop
- Announcing Progress in Medicine, a high school summer career exploration program
- New cities, housing policy, and lessons from the YIMBY movement
Boom Supersonic’s gas turbine, the reliability of learning curves, a fake bridge collapse, using coal mines for geotherm...
- Reading List 12/13/2025
- Stagnant Construction Productivity Is a Worldwide Problem
- Reading List 12/06/2025
The opportunity to build a human-nature relationship that is not zero-sum....
- Can we break the human development-environment trade-off?
- What happened on energy and climate in China this year?
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Finance
📚 7 publications
📄 54 articles
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- Tuesday links: reversion to the mean
- Research links: a catchy slogan
- Monday links: collective human intelligence
How reading changed my career.
The post On The Benefits of Reading appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense.
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“One of the hardest things to do in the investment business is to significantly change your allocations after you’ve bee...
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- Talk Your Book: The Anti-AI Portfolio
- The Compound and Friends: It's Like Free Money
- Animal Spirits: Netflix vs. Paramount
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This consistently misguided argument against staying invested is looking dumber than ever...
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Fees appear to have gotten even more predictive....
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Climate
📚 2 publications
📄 32 articles
Low snowpack, leftover burn scars, and abnormally warm temperatures are supercharging the atmospheric rivers hitting the...
- Climate change primed Washington state for historic flooding
- The country’s biggest magnesium producer went bankrupt. Who’s going to clean up the $100M mess?
- How the Trump administration is fast-tracking logging in Illinois’ only national forest
Greenland is closing in on three decades of continuous annual ice loss, with 1995-96 being...
The post Guest post: How t...
- Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2025
- Guest post: Why cities need more than just air conditioning for extreme heat
- DeBriefed 12 December: EU under ‘pressure’; ‘Unusual warmth’ explained; Rise of climate boardgames
Philosophy
Big ideas, ethics, and human nature
📚 16 publications
📄 69 articles
Trump's AI policy doesn't make any sense...
- Madness In Washington
- A Life That Cannot Be A Failure
- It's Bad To Hear Thirty-Seven Reasons Everything Sucks
Despite centuries of trying, the term ‘religion’ has proven impossible to define. Then why does it remain so necessary?
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What measurable outcomes should a futarchy government try to maximize?...
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presentation and criticism of the Epicurean position on divinity...
- Video And Podcast Resources On Cicero's On The Nature Of The Gods book 1
- Thomas Aquinas’ Discussion of Law and the Sapiental Mediation of Reason and Revelation in the Summa Theologiae
- A Classroom Exercise About Temperance: How Many Drinks At The Holiday Party?
The post Noema’s Top 10 Reads Of 2025 appeared first on NOEMA....
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A few recommendations by Figs in Winter for your reading pleasure...
- Suggested Readings
- On the differences between the Stoics and Spinoza
- Early Socratic dialogues: Laches
And other impertinences...
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A quantum physicist, an essayist, and a historian discuss the role of myth in sense-making......
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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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A high-return investment hiding in plain sight...
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Psychology
Mind, behavior, and human cognition
📚 5 publications
📄 22 articles
At a time of rising intolerance, the century-old work of C E M Joad reminds us what tolerance really is and why we need ...
- Tolerance isn’t just nice, it’s a civic virtue we all can build
- Why kama muta is an emotion worth seeking
- The long goodbye
Links and recommendations...
- Monogamous Humans, Erectile Dysfunction, Growth Minds
- No Stable Sense of Self
- Human Nature, Nick Fuentes, Education Exchange
the problem of cognitive hysteresis...
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OR: grindset and bedrot...
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Affirmative action for iconoclasts?...
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Technology
Innovation, digital culture, and the future of computing
📚 19 publications
📄 51 articles
Today's links America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity: America's loss is the pos...
- Pluralistic: America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity (16 Dec 2025)
- Pluralistic: Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses (15 Dec 2025)
- Pluralistic: Federal Wallet Inspectors (13 Dec 2025)
Terrific interview at Marketplace Tech...
- “A case for AI models that understand, not just predict, the way the world works”
- “New Ways to Corrupt LLMs”
- The core misconception that is driving American AI policy
C.S. Lewis on AI writing...
- I Liked the Essay. Then I Found Out It Was AI
- Why Industry Leaders Are Betting on Mutually Exclusive Futures
- 20 Predictions for AI in 2026
Issue #80: How to use LLMs and write like a centaur...
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We have questions. You have answers....
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Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025)
In automation theory, a "centaur" is a per...
- Pluralistic on Reverse Centaurs
- CNBC on Design executive behind
- techtonic.fm on Amateur radio is a superpower
A rational, engineering-centric approach to understanding the future of active electrical cables in the era of CPO and 1...
- CPO Fears, Credo, and Role of AEC in 1.6T Networking
- Executive Brief: How d-Matrix's In-Memory Compute Tackles AI Inference Economics
- How d-Matrix's In-Memory Compute Tackles AI Inference Economics
My new fave thing to go to is live coding gigs, a.k.a. algoraves.
There are special browser-based programming languages ...
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No.383 —The future of rules-based international order ⊗ The Agentic AI Foundation ⊗ Protecting the Ecuadorian Amazon ⊗ ...
- Gramsci’s nightmare ⊗ A small slice of human knowledge
- Taking jaggedness seriously ⊗ All futurists are archivists
Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the W...
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Language without mind and the ends of OpenAI...
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Cultural stagnation is because we're stuck in-distribution...
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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on lattes, ramen, and feedback from readers. If you...
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Trump's new National Security Strategy: what if groypers cosplayed George Kennan?...
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