Each week I share the articles and essays that I found most interesting, annoying, challenging, or important. Hope that you check them out too.
| [Joe Biden Was A Shell of Himself by End of Term. Hunter Biden Didn’t Help.] by [Chris Smith] in [Vanity Fair] at [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/joe-biden-was-a-shell-of-himself-hunter-didnt-help?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us] |
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[Can Using the Light Phone III Help Cure Brain Rot? – The New York Times] by [Brian X. Chen] in [New York Times] at [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/technology/personaltech/light-phone-iii-brain-rot.html] Don’t like Chen’s apparent surrender to the smartphone world. Just cause the Light Phone misses stuff, doesn’t mean this isn’t worth pursuing. |
| [Rachel Reeves must break her fiscal rules. Better now than later] by [Phillip Inman] in [the Guardian] at [https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/05/rachel-reeves-must-break-her-fiscal-rules-better-now-than-later?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other] |
| [Opinion | Angels for Sale. Only $1,000. – The New York Times] by [David French] in [New York Times] at [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/opinion/trump-evangelicals-easter.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare] |
| [Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous] by [Timothy Snyder] in [the Guardian] at [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/31/trump-greenland-us-morally-wrong-strategy-disastrous?CMP=share_btn_url] |
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[The Lib Dems should terrify the Tories] by [George Eaton] in [New Statesman] at [https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/liberal-democrats/2025/03/lib-dems-should-terrify-the-tories] The complete ridiculousness of the British Tory Party continue. Eaton is right: they’re misunderstanding the reality of the situation and, if they aren’t careful, Badenoch is leading them to total disaster. |
| [Opinion | Actually, A.I. Is Pretty Mid – The New York Times] by [Tressie McMillan Cottom] in [New York Times] at [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/opinion/ai-tech-innovation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare] |
| [Abundance liberalism versus adversarial legalism] by [Thomas Burke and Jeb Barnes] in [Niskanen Center – Improving Policy, Advancing Moderation] at [https://www.niskanencenter.org/abundance-liberalism-versus-adversarial-legalism/] |
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[Layoffs and Unemployment Grow Among College Graduates – The New York Times] by [Noam Scheiber] in [New York Times] at [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/business/economy/white-collar-layoffs.html] I firmly believe we are in the early stages of the next cultural crisis (to deal with after we deal with the one we’re currently in, I guess.) White collar unemployment is only going to grow due to AI and general consolidation everywhere. Governments will need to figure out how to deal with this. Yes, mostly I think unions are needed. |
| [Small Wasn’t Beautiful] by [Boston Review] in [Boston Review] at [https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/small-wasnt-beautiful/] |
| [No one is further right than me] by [Salvatore Vassallo] in [London Review of Books] at [https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n05/jan-werner-mueller/no-one-is-further-right-than-me] |
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[The Media Is Responding to Trump With a Huge Face-Plant] by [Jason Linkins] in [The New Republic] at [https://newrepublic.com/post/193002/media-trump-doge-failure-economy] A lot of the left are annoying on this. The media did fail, but it’s easy to attack the New York Times without actually having anything important or interesting to say on the issue. Linkins does a good job. |
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[The Abundance Doctrine] by [Mike Konczal] in [Democracy Journal] at [https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/76/the-abundance-doctrine/] Another one on Abundance. A good review worth reading. I echo many of Konzcal’s criticisms. |
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