Articles I liked from June 9 to June 30 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.

AI: A God we can’t trust by George Scialabba in UnHerd – Read here
Unnerving Inflation and Remembering Alan Greenspan by Douglas Porter in Policy Magazine – Read here
Stop Talking About Mental Health by Ashley Frawley in compactmag.com – Read here
The Middle East’s Great Divergence Is Underway by Rabah Arezki & Tarik M. Yousef & Daniel Byman & Steven A. Cook & C. Raja Mohan & Hal Brands & Derek Grossman & Decker Eveleth & Suzanne Nossel & Stephen M. Walt in Foreign Policy – Read here
The booming U.S. is for builders and entrepreneurs. Canada is the opposite by Thomas S. Caldwell in Globe and Mail – Read here
Trump was popular in the UAE. Then he went to war. by Rachel Chason in The Wall Street Journal – Read here
The Election System Wasn’t Built for This by Yvonne Wingett Sanchez in The Atlantic – Read here
The room the economy can’t see by Stella in wilsoniumite.com – Read here
The Choice Is Not Babies or iPhones by Christine Emba in New York Times – Read here
Happy Birthday, Trump: Your Generation Trashed American Politics – POLITICO by John F. Harris in POLITICO – Read here
How Gordon S. Wood Shaped the Idea of America by David Waldstreicher in The New Republic – Read here
Let’s Get Something Clear About America’s National Identity by Ross Douthat in New York Times – Read here
What Liberals Get Wrong About the Middle Class by Scott Winship in New York Times – Read here
Amid a Shortage of Trust, Canada Needs a Bigger Japan Pivot by Derek H. Burney in Policy Magazine – Read here
Welcome to ‘the silent society’ by Michael Cuenco in UnHerd – Read here
The Dead Economy Theory by Owen McGrann in The Palimpsest – Read here
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born by Baldur Bjarnason in baldurbjarnason.com – Read here
How Bidenomics Went Bust: A Midwestern Case Study by Henry M. J. Tonks in American Affairs Journal – Read here
All the Religious Trends You’re Wrong About by Derek Thompson in derekthompson.org – Read here
Your LLM Doesn’t Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code. by Hōrōshi バガボンド in katanaquant.com – Read here