Andrew Varsanyi

This week – Articles from 2025-09-30 to 2025-10-14 Each week I share the articles and essays that I found most interesting, annoying, challenging, or important. Hope that you check them out too.

• Assistant Professor, 9 Month Salaried (U.S. History Since 1865) by AHA Career Center in historians.org – Read here
• Opinion | Two Years Later, a Changed Israel Looks Ahead by Constantin Schreiber in POLITICO – Read here
• Opinion | Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer. – The New York Times by Timothy Shenk in New York Times – Read here
• The Moral Stupefaction of the American Public by Joseph Margulies in Boston Review – Read here
• Dear Canada: Nobody is coming to save us by John Turley-Ewart in The Globe and Mail – Read here
• Mark Carney’s Wartime Budget by Lisa Van Dusen in Policy Magazine – Read here
• Guilt Is Good by Erica Komisar in Tablet Magazine – Read here
• Rachel Reeves takes the fight to Reform by James Heale in The Spectator – Read here
• The Man Behind Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful Presidency: Russell Vought – The New York Times by Coral Davenport in New York Times – Read here
• How Can We Live Together? by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò in Boston Review – Read here
• Republican lawmakers face internal rift over abortion by Benjamin Guggenheim, Meredith Lee Hill, Alice Miranda Ollstein in POLITICO – Read here
• Coming to Terms with Fiscal and Trade Deficits by Andrew Smithers in American Affairs Journal – Read here
• Has Farage managed to put Boris to bed? by Madeline Grant in The Spectator – Read here
• The Roberts Court Is Winning Its War on American Democracy by Matt Ford in The New Republic – Read here
• America’s Split-Screen Economy by Meagan Day in jacobin.com – Read here
• Rome gloats as France becomes Italy and Italy becomes France by Giorgio Leali in POLITICO – Read here
• Trump crashes the Fed’s consensus by Victoria Guida in POLITICO – Read here
• Poilievre is Back…With More of the Same by Policy Magazine in Policy Magazine – Read here
• What Charlie Kirk Understood About Power in Trump’s GOP by Ian Ward in POLITICO – Read here
• How Today’s America Came About by Paul Starr in The American Prospect – Read here
• What if the UK isn’t actually the sick man of Europe? by John Burn-Murdoch in Financial Times – Read here
• Can Trump Build or Just Demolish? We’re About to Find Out. by Oren Cass in New York Times – Read here
• The Trump Recession Is Coming by Alex Shephard in The New Republic – Read here
• Opinion | Disney World Is the Happiest Place on Earth, if You Can Afford It – The New York Times by Daniel Currell, Paola Chapdelaine in New York Times – Read here
• The Technofeudal Text by Matt Seybold in substack.com – Read here
• What if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong? – The New York Times by Christopher Cox, James Patrick Cronin, Tanya Pérez, Anj Vancura in New York Times – Read here