Articles I liked from July 1 to August 22 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.
- Republicans Are About to Repeat the Democrats’ Biggest Mistake by Gregory Conti, Aaron Sibarium in New York Times – Read here
- Democrats Pull Back From the Edge of Disaster. Again. by E.J. Dionne Jr. in New York Times – Read here
- Normativity from the Standpoint of Its Victims by Lorna Finlayson in Boston Review – Read here
- ‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster by Andrew Pulver in the Guardian – Read here
- The Human-Origin Story Is Being Radically Revised by Ross Andersen in The Atlantic – Read here
- Who Are the Good Guys and the Bad Guys? I’m No Longer Sure. by Ross Douthat in New York Times – Read here
- The Catholic Church’s New Schism by Luis Parrales in The Atlantic – Read here
- What the Ceuta Crisis Reveals About the New Mediterranean Order by Christin El-Kholy in New Lines Magazine – Read here
- The Most Radical Thing About Texas’ Book List Isn’t the Bible by James Traub in New York Times – Read here
- An Uncomplicated Man by Emily Wilson in London Review of Books – Read here
- ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ by Chrystia Freeland in New York Times – Read here
- In the age of AI, how do we teach young people to think critically? by Jessica Wong in CBC – Read here
- The Conservatives Are Failing at the One Job That Matters by B.E. Rybak in The Walrus – Read here
- A Very British Coup, or He Who Dares, Wins by Jeremy Kinsman in Policy Magazine – Read here
- The Anti-Populist by Gilad Edelman in The Atlantic – Read here
- The End of Reading Is Here by Rose Horowitch in The Atlantic – Read here
- American Loneliness by Yair Lapid in The Atlantic – Read here
- Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster by Alex Reisner in The Atlantic – Read here
- Right-Wing Populism Did Not Kill Neoliberalism by Matías Vernengo in jacobin.com – Read here