Andrew Varsanyi

Articles I liked from 2026-04-21 to 2026-05-17

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

• 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
• Meet the Trump Voters Who Believe He Staged the WHCD Shooting by Will Sommer in The Bulwark – 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
• How a weaker dollar is quietly making life more expensive by Matt Sedensky in ABC News – Read here
• ‘Just looping you in’: why letting AI write our emails might actually create more work by Daniel Angus in The Conversation – Read here
• Goodbye, Information Age by Joel Kotkin in UnHerd – Read here
• The Downgrading of the American Tech Worker by John Herrman in Intelligencer – Read here
• Separating from Canada Would Be an Economic Disaster for Alberta by Tyler Dawson in The Walrus – Read here
• Pakistan Is Taking on a New Role in the Middle East by Surbhi Gupta in New Lines Magazine – Read here
• To my students by Brent A. Yorgey in hendrix.edu – Read here
• The Third Party That’s Pushing the Democrats Left by Monica Potts in The New Republic – Read here
• CUSMA and the New Canadian Statecraft by Colin Robertson in Policy Magazine – Read here
• The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It’s Forgetting How to Code by Denis Stetskov in From the Trenches – Read here
• Do I belong in tech anymore? by Ky Decker in Ky Decker – Read here
• Conspiracy theory over UFOs and missing scientists spreads from web to White House by Edward Helmore in the Guardian – Read here
• The sexual revolution was always a failure by Valerie Stivers in UnHerd – Read here
• If America’s so rich, how’d it get so sad? by Derek Thompson in derekthompson.org – Read here
• Private Assets May Be Coming to Your 401(k). You Should Know the Risks. by Tara Siegel Bernard in New York Times – Read here
• What a 2006 Anti-Immigrant Panic Tells Us About Texas in 2026 by A.K. Sandoval-Strausz in TPM – Talking Points Memo – Read here
• How the Tech World Turned Evil by Timothy Noah in The New Republic – Read here
• Mark Carney, Black Swan Prime Minister by John Delacourt in Policy Magazine – Read here
• Trump and Netanyahu Have Royally Screwed Each Other Over by Alon Pinkas in The New Republic – Read here
• Tucker Carlson says he regrets backing Donald Trump and is ‘tormented’ by Edward Helmore in the Guardian – Read here
• How safe is Starmer’s premiership after his Mandelson vetting statement to MPs? by Jessica Elgot in the Guardian – Read here
• Kevin Warsh and the Erosion of the Dollar by Judy Shelton in WSJ – Read here
• Behind the ‘disappearing scientists’ hysteria by Richard Hanania in UnHerd – Read here
• Back to the Dumb Phone by Magazine Non Grata in Magazine Non Grata – Read here
• Watching The Pitt at the End of an Era for HBO by newrepublic.com in The New Republic – Read here
• Will AI kill off populism? by Richard Hanania in UnHerd – Read here
• Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? | The New Yorker by Ronan Farrow,Andrew Marantz in The New Yorker – Read here
• Waiting for Liberal Democracy in the American South by Alan Elrod in The Bulwark – Read here