Articles I liked from May 17 to June 8, 2026

Each week I share the articles and essays that I found most interesting, annoying, challenging, or important. Hope that you check them out too.

The Dead Economy Theory by Owen McGrann in The Palimpsest – Read here
Mark Carney’s Economic Diplomacy and the Battle for Canada by Lisa Van Dusen in Policy Magazine – Read here
Tony Blair’s intervention could spark a Labour civil war by George Monaghan in New Statesman – Read here
A Left case for the Great Books by Valerie Stivers in UnHerd – Read here
The bond market is telling us the free lunch is over by Neil Irwin in Axios – Read here
Andy Burnham is a Starmerite by Rachel Cunliffe in New Statesman – Read here
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born by Baldur Bjarnason in baldurbjarnason.com – Read here
The deregulation agenda is putting Canadians at risk by Bruce Campbell in Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Read here
Great Britain’s one-party state by Chris Deerin in New Statesman – Read here
Scientists Think They Just Accidentally Proved String Theory by Darren Orf in Popular Mechanics – Read here
Why Alberta separatism gets treated with kid gloves by Bhagwant Sandhu in The Hill Times – Read here
How Bidenomics Went Bust: A Midwestern Case Study by Henry M. J. Tonks in American Affairs Journal – Read here
A Tale of Two Technocrats: The Diverging Political Fates of Keir Starmer and Mark Carney by Louis Massé in Policy Magazine – Read here
Why Brexit is back by Mary Harrington in UnHerd – Read here
Bond Yields Hit Highest Level Since 2007 as Inflation Fears Set In by Joe Rennison in New York Times – Read here
Mamdani’s Nakba Day video that never was by Politico in POLITICO – Read here
Andy Burnham’s economic fallacy by Wolfgang Munchau in UnHerd – Read here
Why plutocrats love Trump’s war The base bleeds; the top feasts by Yanis Varoufakis in UnHerd – Read here
Microsoft is trying to stay out of Musk v. Altman by Elizabeth Lopatto in The Verge – Read here
Britain is embarrassing itself by Sohrab Amari in UnHerd – Read here
Hollow Earth Myths and Nazi UFOs on TikTok are Bringing White Supremacism into the Mainstream by Christopher David in The Conversation – Read here
RIP social media. What comes next is messy. by Jennifer Ouellette in Ars Technica – Read here
How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It) by Dana Goldstein, Lauren Lancaster in New York Times – Read here
Why the A.I. Job Apocalypse (Probably) Won’t Happen by Ezra Klein in New York Times – Read here
How a weaker dollar is quietly making life more expensive by Matt Sedensky in ABC News – Read here
All the Religious Trends You’re Wrong About by Derek Thompson in derekthompson.org – Read here
Pakistan Is Taking on a New Role in the Middle East by Surbhi Gupta in New Lines Magazine – Read here