Culture
Arts, society, and contemporary cultural analysis
📚 39 publications
📄 375 articles
Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now....
- Elisabeth Waldo (1918 – 2026) Violinist And Ethnomusicologist
- Orion Samuelson (1934 – 2026) Agricultural Broadcaster
- Trump Making Calls
From Daphni (aka Caribou), a 7hr DJ set. 7 hours!...
- From Daphni (aka Caribou), a 7hr DJ set . 7 hours!
- The trailer for Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the...
- Ultimate Online Phreak Box . "This is a free...
“What are we, anyway, at our best, but one small, persistent cluster in a greater ferment of human activity — still and ...
- How to Make the Impossible Possible: Cristina Campo on the Crucial Difference Between Hope and Trust
- Decoding the Mystery of Intuition: AI Prophet Margaret Boden on the Three Elements of Creativity
- The Eternal Lyric of Love and Loss: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Poems for the Tragic Love of Her Life
Jamaica Kincaid: “I find England ugly…I hate England; the weather is like a jail sentence…the food in England is like a ...
- Jamaica Kincaid: “I find England ugly…I hate England; the weather is like a jail sentence…the food in England is like a jail sentence”
- Making it in a non-existent profession. The economics of the writing life are grim, mercurial, and infrequently discussed
- "Most historians would rather go out naked in public than prune their copious footnotes." Not Albert O. Hirschman
So many folks sharing photos in different ways on their personal sites. Here’s some recent snapshots that are lovely to ...
- Photo sharing
- A Close Look at Security Envelope Patterns
- Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Letters of Harold Bloom and six poets...
- The Man Who Read Everything
- Just give Helen DeWitt some money
- Buddenbrooks, a masterwork of business and real life. A novel to love and live with.
When he walked out of prison after 28 years, the first thing Allen Burnett did was drive to the ocean. “I just stood the...
- Formerly Incarcerated Mentors Are Changing Lives in California
- Creating Community Wealth and ‘Food Dignity’ in San Diego
- What We’re Reading: Baby Steps Toward U.S. Paid Parental Leave
Why your fight always matters...
- Tolkien's Guide to Defeating Evil
- Book Club Recap: The Sun Also Rises
- How Language Shapes Your Thinking
By channeling the Delphic spirits of his mentors, Lerner manages to avoid heavy-handed commentary in favor of stranger p...
View All Articles →
This is the creepy creed of our time...
- The Ten Commandments of the New AI Religion
- Tells Us What You're Doing
- How to Read the Great Books in 52 Weeks
If you spend any time around established literary writers, you’ll be subjected to baffling advice about how it’s importa...
View All Articles →
Video of our conversation from Night of IDeas...
- Talking the 'Dark Enlightenment' with John Ganz and Maya Vinokour
- A horror adventure set in Dark Ages England, a great new play about love and death, and more
- Is ubiquitous A.I. writing "inevitable"?
Crafting a spacesuit demanded perfection from seamstresses to gluers to engineers — every stitch could mean life or deat...
- The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA
- Curiosity Is No Solo Act
- ‘Backrooms’ and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic
As we accelerate toward superintelligence, our quest for self-mastery takes a spiritual turn.
The Dostoevskian Moment
a...
View All Articles →
Donald Trump threatened to destroy a civilization of 90 million people on a Tuesday morning. We've moved on....
View All Articles →
Plus, Anthropic's new AI model that's 'too dangerous to release,' thoughts on the New Yorker's Sam Altman investigation,...
- AI firms and their US military ties, "a whole civilization will die tonight" edition
- It's open season for refusing AI
Rand, Pound, and second-hand prose...
View All Articles →
Helping me support you better...
View All Articles →
Today’s students can write a perfect sentence that says absolutely nothing....
View All Articles →
your life is the way you choose to respond to the circumstances...
View All Articles →
Everything dies, baby, that’s a fact. But maybe everything that dies someday comes back...
View All Articles →
Bentham: Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure......
View All Articles →
+ personal update and reading recommendations...
View All Articles →
Somehow this ends with a John Tesh story...
View All Articles →
Travels through Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Persepolis, and Yazd...
View All Articles →
Masturbate daily so your clone army doesn't fail...
View All Articles →
From the top of one world, to the bottom of another...
View All Articles →
You can preorder ours today...
View All Articles →
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
Politics
Governance, policy analysis, and democratic discourse
📚 20 publications
📄 177 articles
The Australian Football League is a corporation that longs for global expansion. But in its greed and desperation, the l...
- Australian Rules Football Dreams of World Domination
- For Roman Workers, Life Was Nasty, Brutish, and Short
- Africa’s Health Care Only Works for the Wealthy
The de-escalatory logic that will shape negotiations....
View All Articles →
Ask your questions below....
View All Articles →
But they might be useful as something else: models....
- “AI polls” are fake polls
- How popular is the Iran War?
- Nuclear brinkmanship usually works. It’s also incredibly dangerous.
Costs And Balances In Russian Oil; The Russian Spring Offensive After 3 Weeks...
- Weekend Update #180: The Ukrainians Stop Pretending
- Thinking Live with Phillips O'Brien on War in Iran and Ukraine
- Zelensky Speaks The Truth And Trump Does Too, In A Way
While student loan repayment has resumed, stability is an illusion. Beneath the surface, mounting delinquency, administr...
View All Articles →
Review of Demons, Part 3...
View All Articles →
Last night did not quite usher in the feared Energy Apocalypse....
- Schrödinger's Ceasefire
- Trump: "A whole civilization will die tonight" if Iran does not reach a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz
- The Iran War is Going Poorly
Matt Yglesias & the Legend of Big Muggy. Everyone’s favorite contrarian blogger searches for a mythical giant turtle in ...
- Young Adult Novels, Starring Various Pundits, That I Made Up
- Real Feelings for Fake Beauty
- Perhaps There Are Options Other Than "Toxic Confidence" and Insecurity-as-Identity
On the 2-week ceasefire between Iran and Israel/USA, its precariousness, and assessing the situation as it stands right ...
View All Articles →
From Hormuz to Budapest to DC, nothing makes sense...
View All Articles →
I'm not a constitutional law scholar, but something clearly needs to be done....
View All Articles →
What to Expect from the Islamabad Talks, Pakistan's Role in the Talks, and Geography Comes Back to Bite...
View All Articles →
For as long as I can remember, I have been an enthusiastic believer in and supporter of human progress....
View All Articles →
Where we discuss strategic resilience, financial markets, capital formation, crypto, and the future of India’s growth an...
View All Articles →
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
Economics
Markets, financial systems, and economic thinking
📚 18 publications
📄 153 articles
<a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/04/Links-4-12-2026.html"><img src="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/wp-cont...
- Links 4/12/2026
- Iran War: Negotiations Fail; US Provokes with Destroyer Entry into Strait, Perhaps Pointing to Next Kinetic Moves
- The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Häxan (1922) Run Time: 1H 45M
Will the backwash from Iran threaten our monetary hegemony?...
- The Dollar’s Special Status: Sources and Threats
- Delusions of Grandeur, Hungary Edition
- Talking with Lisa Graves
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze...
- Top Links 1070 From coalstate to electrostate. The revenge of the old economy. Killing cities. “The stance upon the ruined abode”
- Top Links 1068 How Orban's Hungary is lagging. The ruptural unity of crisis. The Prince and his heir & why exams are bad for you.
- Top Links 1067 The collapse of the New Deal financial order. The weakest links in the yield chain. After the Postwar moment, "are we the baddies"?
Marco Arment's Setup as the Canary in the Coal Mine—or, Rather, as the 50 Mac Mini Server Farm Vastly More Efficient tha...
- Is the Day of the Data Center About to Be Over?
- READING: U.S. Grant: Personal Memoirs :: Chapter 68
- Contemporary Governance & Contemporary Prosperity & Past Settler Colonialism & Its Ilk: What Can We Infer, Really?
Firms loaded with goodwill and intangible assets have quietly underperformed....
- The Hidden Risk on Company Balance Sheets
- Understanding How Past Returns Drive Trading Volume—and What It Means for Your Portfolio
- Why the Private Credit Boom Isn’t the Next 2008
A test of models...
- Do the Methods We Use Predict the Things We Care About?
- How Do We Get Basketball Players on the Court?
- Ludwig Straub, Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal
Maybe a little bit, but I have my doubts....
- Will Americans want more housing if it looks prettier?
- Yes, assimilation is good
- I told you this would end badly
My conversation with Alice Liu from the Carter Center...
- Asia’s Rise and the Self-Undermining Logic of Neoliberalism
- How severe is China’s growth slowdown (in historical perspective)?
- The facts of the European (EU27) income convergence
Why did baronial castles go away?...
- "The Bones of a Kingdom" Part 3
- "The Bones of the Kingdom" Part 2
- "The Bones of the Kingdom" (Part 1)
AI vs. Alzheimer's, Substrate x GDM, Robot Lamp, Artemis II, Primer + Extra Doses...
View All Articles →
An interview with Jean-Loup Samaan, author of 'New Military Strategies in the Gulf: The Mirage of Autonomy in Saudi Arab...
- Interview: Why the Gulf struggles to see India as a credible strategic player, plus IMEC in the 'past tense'
- Interview: India's 'timepass reset' with China and the structural forces at play
An oil price shock and its aftermath...
View All Articles →
On experiencing digital and multimedia art to create positive feedback loops through connection....
View All Articles →
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
Science
Research breakthroughs and scientific understanding
📚 11 publications
📄 67 articles
Is it nature or nurture?
The post How Do Fish Know How to Build Nests? appeared first on Nautilus....
- How Do Fish Know How to Build Nests?
- The Bad Seed and the Problem of Blame
- Why Kids Have Nightmares and How to Break the Cycle
Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they ...
- Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI?
- Experiments Ring the ‘Death Knell’ for Sterile Neutrinos
- An Arctic Road Trip Brings Vital Underground Networks into View
After two years of success, our residential seminar for 18–22 year olds is returning again...
- Apply for Invisible College 2026
- The death rays that guard life, Out Loud
- Egg freezing, Australian refugee policy and ASML
Is the Strait of Hormuz open yet, building code cost benefit analysis, Intel joining Terafab, sponge cities, and more....
View All Articles →
Apply to the 4th cohort of this highly-regarded program for progress writers and intellectuals...
View All Articles →
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
Climate
📚 2 publications
📄 37 articles
The tax break is one of the state’s costliest incentive programs and soon to be the most expensive of its kind in the na...
- Texas is giving data centers more than $1 billion in tax breaks each year
- Oil companies accused of massive accounting fraud in New Mexico
- How the Trump administration’s climate math doesn’t add up
Tropical cyclones that rapidly intensify when passing over marine heatwaves can become “supercharged”, increasing the......
- Marine heatwaves ‘nearly double’ the economic damage caused by tropical cyclones
- DeBriefed 10 April 2026: Worst energy crisis ‘ever’ | India withdraws COP33 bid | Drag artists and climate change
- Iran war analysis: How 60 nations have responded to the global energy crisis
Finance
📚 7 publications
📄 46 articles
...
- Sunday links: filtering out the noise
- Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns
- Saturday links: denying scientific consensus
My goal when writing.
The post Plain English appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense.
......
- Plain English
- The Business of Life is the Acquisition of Memories
- Animal Spirits: $1 Million is The Worst Amount of Money
Can you build a WarHedge portfolio? via ManGroup https://t.co/LDgWAOj0JK
The post How to Hedge Against a War appeared fi...
View All Articles →
...
- The Compound and Friends: Stocks Took the Stairs Down and the Elevator Up
- Animal Spirits: $1 Million is The Worst Amount of Money
- Talk Your Book: Income and Momentum
96
Echoes of Junk Bonds Past
p{
mar...
View All Articles →
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
Philosophy
Big ideas, ethics, and human nature
📚 16 publications
📄 65 articles
The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Could AI supplant them?
- b...
View All Articles →
"The children are taking our jobs"...
- A Lot Of Arguments Against Immigration Are Arguments For Anti-Natalism
- What Continental Philosophy Defenders Cannot Explain
- Leading Insect Farm Took Millions In Subsidies, Then Collapsed Into A Waking Nightmare
we sometimes get people wrong by assuming they're more like us than they are...
- Episode 51 - When What Other People Do Just Doesn't Make Sense
- Resources On Simone De Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity
- Upcoming Online Workshop: The Stoic Heart (Saturday, April 18)
......
View All Articles →
The post Quantum Existentialism appeared first on NOEMA....
- Quantum Existentialism
- Why A Liberal Arts Education Will Soon Be More Valuable Than Ever
- The Eradication Of Grief
In defense of quality editors, criticis, and peer reviewers...
View All Articles →
“The science in Project Hail Mary is all pretty firmly grounded....
View All Articles →
Ethical non-cognitivists argue that ethical judgments are, strictly speaking, not beliefs: they are expressions of emoti...
- Ethical Non-Cognitivism: Are Ethical Judgments More Like Desires Than Beliefs?
- Immigration Ethics: An Overview
Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are....
- Random acts of anachronism: How to carry on the digital fast
- The Sacred Triad: Where (and why) to draw the AI-mish line
Well, JSR is still on book leave. So deep is he in his work, in fact, we’re told that if you rouse him in the middle of ...
View All Articles →
Peter Rollins' founding ideas, Barry Taylor's radical theology, John Feldmann's question of structure, and LaVonne Chant...
View All Articles →
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
Psychology
Mind, behavior, and human cognition
📚 5 publications
📄 23 articles
A new way of seeing procrastination helped reduce my self-criticism. But it keeps me honest when I need to be productive...
View All Articles →
Something else is required, even above and beyond talent...
View All Articles →
giving it all away and paying for the privilege...
View All Articles →
OR: if we were playing by Settlers of Catan rules, I'd be dead already...
View All Articles →
A complaint about my field...
View All Articles →
Technology
Innovation, digital culture, and the future of computing
📚 19 publications
📄 57 articles
Today's links Don't Be Evil: Evil genius is just a lack of shame. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object perman...
- Pluralistic: Don't Be Evil (11 Apr 2026)
- Pluralistic: Canny Valley and Creative Commons (10 Apr 2026)
- Pluralistic: Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (09 Apr 2026)
And vindication for Apple’s unfairly maligned 2025 reasoning paper...
- Even more good news for the future of neurosymbolic AI
- The biggest advance in AI since the LLM
- Three reasons to think that the Claude Mythos announcement from Anthropic was overblown
It has started...
- AI Will Be Met With Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It
- Weekly Top Picks #118
- What Happens When AI Gets Too Good at One Thing
...
- Dragoncatcher: Tinfoil
- Dragoncatcher: Reasoning models don't so much think as navigate
- Dragoncatcher: The Galactica option
A meditation on the game of Solitaire and its endless variations, which go well beyond what you can find in Windows 3.1....
View All Articles →
This week in chips: Is Intel back?...
- 🍪 TWiC: Intel with TeraFab+Sambanova+Google, Samsung and Anthropic 🚀, AGI CPU in China
- MicroLEDs vs. Lasers: The Linewidth Tradeoff
- 🍪 TWiC: Samsung SiPho, Mobile Demand, Nvidia+Marvell, Intel Fab, Claude Leak, ++
Teaching with and without AI...
View All Articles →
A brief update on mist, my ephemeral Markdown editor with Google Docs-style comments and suggested edits:
mist is now op...
View All Articles →
NASA Johnson
The NASA flickr account has stunning high-resolution images from the Artemis II trip around the moon....
View All Articles →
The longest single rail line, connecting Lisbon to Laos, is the setting for a bio-thriller in Sachin Benny’s new world-b...
View All Articles →
No.398 — A scathing LLM YouTuber ⊗ “We ran a business LARP” ⊗ Making Sense of Slow AI ⊗ Solar power and chili peppers ⊗ ...
- A peculiar mixture of omniscience and impotence ⊗ Electrostates & physics
- Geist in the machine ⊗ The prospect of Butlerian Jihad
Identifying agents, self-improvement, and artificial clouds...
View All Articles →
Desiderata #39...
View All Articles →
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like t...
View All Articles →
On Ben Recht's fantastic new book...
View All Articles →
Nine factors that practitioners say make bioweapons rare....
View All Articles →
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.
No articles available yet from this publication.