Andrew Varsanyi

Articles I liked from September 9 to October 26 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.

• The Case Against (Rate) Hiking by Douglas Porter in Policy Magazine – Read here
• In the Michigan Senate Race, Mike Rogers Is Stoking Jewish Fear. Will it Work? by Jewish Currents in Jewish Currents – Read here
• Physicists Trapped a Particle of Antimatter And Kept It Caged For Months by Michelle Starr in ScienceAlert – Read here
• Neutrinos May Be The Key To Why We Are Surrounded By Matter by Brian Koberlein in Universe Today – Read here
• Beyond Netanyahu: Israel’s election has two political divides by Liran Harsgor in The Loop – Read here
• Big Tech Will Not Broadcast Your Dissent by Alex Nguyen in Mother Jones – Read here
• How Did Life Arise? by William J. Broad, Kenneth Chang, Carl Zimmer in New York Times – Read here
• The Republican Party Is a Mess.It Will Emerge Stronger for It. by Michael Brendan Dougherty in New York Times – Read here
• This Is the Good Scenario? by Ezra Klein in New York Times – Read here
• Leftists Should Learn to Organize Like Evangelicals by Eric Blanc in jacobin.com – Read here
• For the Federal Conservatives to Win, they Need to De-Fringe by Bruce Anderson in Policy Magazine – Read here
• When a Populist Becomes the Deep State by Jude Russo in The American Conservative – Read here
• The Gospel According to J. D. Vance by Scott T. Mornighello in jacobin.com – Read here
• Who is Kemi kidding? by Aris Moussinos in UnHerd – Read here
• Reframing Canada’s Digital Economy for a New Economic Reality by Anne Patterson and Erhan Baydar in Policy Magazine – Read here
• Bring U.S. Forces Home—From Around the World by Doug Bandow in The American Conservative – Read here
• The Tory death spiral by George Owers in UnHerd – Read here
• Francis Fukuyama’s Failures of Imagination by Sean T. Byrnes in The New Republic – Read here
• France’s Appetite for ‘Magic Money’ Has Turned Into a Debt Bomb by Chelsey Dulaney in WSJ – Read here
• Inside Bessent’s Treasury: Tension, Turnover and Unmet Economic Goals by Josh Dawsey in WSJ – Read here
• Israelis Are Exhausted. There Is a Way Out. by Yonatan Touval in New York Times – Read here
• OpenAI Ignored Employees Who Warned It Wasn’t Doing Enough About Security by Sheera Frenkel, Dustin Volz, Dylan Freedman in New York Times – Read here
• The 10-year Treasury yield is at its highest in nearly two decades. How we got here by Deena Zaidi in CNBC – Read here
• Artificial intelligence acts as an ‘ideological chameleon’ and may deepen political polarization, study finds by EurekAlert! in EurekAlert! – Read here
• Canadians Are Deeply Unhappy. Why It’s a Sign of Trouble by Paul Howe in The Walrus – Read here
• The Rise and Fall of Tech Worker Power by JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine in Boston Review – Read here
• Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It by Mark Arsenault, Dana Goldstein, Alan Blinder, Sarah Mervosh in New York Times – Read here