This week – Articles from 2026-02-24 to 2026-03-29
Each week I share the articles and essays that I found most interesting, annoying, challenging, or important. Hope that you check them out too.
- Analysis: A new oil shock is building. The next few weeks of war will be decisive for the economy. by Matt Peterson in CNBC – Read here
- NDP says goodbye to the past, ponders what the future holds by cbc.ca in CBC – Read here
- The End of the Carter Doctrine by theamericanconservative.com in The American Conservative – Read here
- Will Mark Carney Make Canada the Sane World Order Superpower? by Lisa Van Dusen in Policy Magazine – Read here
The U.K. is just so screwed. The only way out is big change. Finding a way to tax wealth is the way, as always the American Conservative fails to acknowledge that the situation was CAUSED by the very thing they prescribe.
- The UK’s Fiscal Apocalypse by theamericanconservative.com in The American Conservative – Read here
- To End the Iran War, Trump Must Divorce Israel by Joseph Addington in The American Conservative – Read here
- Democrats Have Fundraising Edge in Virginia Redistricting Battle Ahead of April Referendum by nytimes.com in New York Times – Read here
- Don’t be fooled by the UK’s pre-war inflation print — a ‘brutal’ surge could be coming by cnbc.com in CNBC – Read here
- This Is Why Flying Is So Awful by Ganesh Sitaraman in New York Times – Read here
- Top central banker thinks businesses may be quicker to raise prices due to Iran war by abcnews.com in ABC News – Read here
- Posthaste: Canada sets two new population records as ‘demographic engine’ backfires by Gigi Suhanic in financialpost – Read here
- ‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI by Alice Speri in the Guardian – Read here
- Big Tech’s War on Democracy by Conor McGlynn in compactmag.com – Read here
- The Trump administration still isn’t fascist by Alex J Kay in Prospect – Read here
Can always count on Lee Smith to be silly about things. Always worth engaging with those you disagree with though.
- Who Wants This War? by Lee Smith in Tablet Magazine – Read here
- Why Washington is hamstrung on protecting workers from AI by Yasmin Khorram, Cheyenne Haslett in POLITICO – Read here
This is crazy and must have repercussions if successful.
- Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues by Ernesto Van der Sar in torrentfreak.com – 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
- How the OpenAI-Anthropic Feud Could Warp the Future of AI by Tim Higgins in WSJ – Read here
- The rural Democrats who say their party has affordability all wrong by Irie Sentner in POLITICO – Read here
- Who Is Markwayne Mullin, Trump’s Pick for Homeland Security Secretary? by Madeleine Ngo in New York Times – Read here
- Trump Keeps Gambling With the Economy — And Getting Away With It by Victoria Guida in POLITICO – Read here
- Child’s Play by Sam Kriss in Harper’s Magazine – Read here
So much to say here, academia pretty much has no idea what to do and needs to get its collective head in the game quick to avoid disaster.
- Why Higher Education’s AI Backlash Reveals Some of Its Deepest Cracks by Kyle Saunders in Sacred Cow Bar-B-Q – Read here
- How JD Vance lost the foreign policy war by Sohrab Ahmari in UnHerd – Read here
- Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history by David Smith in the Guardian – Read here
- ‘I Don’t Know That I’ll Ever Be OK With Myself’ by Michael Kruse in POLITICO – Read here
- AI has driven investors to hallucinations by Katie Martin in Financial Times – Read here
- Keir Starmer Richly Deserves This Defeat by jacobin.com in jacobin.com – Read here
- The Green victory changes everything by Jonny Ball in UnHerd – Read here
Everybody read this it seems and it’s notable how completely insane the market reaction was to it. In the light of the weirdly resilient market after the Iran War too, it just shows how distorted and disconnected the stock market is from any reality. This can’t be good.
- THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS by Citrini in citriniresearch.com – Read here
- Trump’s Challenge to Free Market Capitalism by Ben Casselman in New York Times – Read here
- A war foretold:how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them by Shaun Walker in the Guardian – Read here
- Seven Pages of a Sealed Watergate File Sat Undiscovered. Until Now. by James Rosen in New York Times – Read here