This week – Week of May 5 2025
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 religious right is headed toward a revolutionary victory in the Supreme Court] by [Ian Millhiser] in [Vox] at [https://www.vox.com/scotus/411185/supreme-court-religion-charter-schools-oklahoma-drummond] |
| [Why Trump has gone soft on immigration] by [Lee Fang] in [UnHerd] at [https://unherd.com/2025/04/why-trump-has-gone-soft-on-immigration/] The hollow populism of Trumpism is something that Democrats could exploit if they stopped assuming that all populism+fascism/sane-washing. |
| [Bonfire of the bureaucrats] by [William Davies & More] in [New Statesman] at [https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/04/bonfire-of-the-bureaucrats] |
| [A YIMBY Theory of Power] by [Ned Resnikoff] in [The Nation] at [https://www.thenation.com/article/society/yimby-abundance-power-housing/] |
| [Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? | The New Yorker] by [D. Graham Burnett] in [The New Yorker] at [https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/will-the-humanities-survive-artificial-intelligence?_sp=d0868131-6629-4bbd-8573-c6576bf1a1f2.1745793991056] I continue to think this is a short-sighted question that academics and journalists, due to their (correct) belief in the importance of the written word misunderstand. |
| [Opinion | Trump’s Strength Is His Greatest Weakness – The New York Times] by [David Brooks] in [New York Times] at [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/opinion/trump-administration-energy-strength-weakness.html] |
| [Gen Z Media Illiterates] by [Politico] in [POLITICO] at [https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/23/gen-z-media-tiktok-misinformation-00287561] |
| [JD Vance doesn’t understand the Suez Crisis] by [Kojo Koram] in [New Statesman] at [https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/04/jd-vance-doesnt-understand-the-suez-crisis] Vice-President Vance continues to be the best evidence that so-called elite education is broken. How such an un-principled pseudo-intellect made it through Yale should be a question the ivies should have to answer. |
| [Opinion | America Is Learning the Wrong Lesson from Elon Musk’s Success – The New York Times] by [Adam Grant] in [New York Times] at [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/opinion/elon-musk-leadership-business-education.html] |
| [Free Markets and Fixed Natures] by [Quinn Slobodian] in [Boston Review] at [https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/free-markets-and-fixed-natures/] As always, just read Slobodian. |
| [The King’s Foils] by [Michael Doran] in [Tablet Magazine] at [https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/kings-foils-donald-trump-foreign-policy] One of my absolute favorite idiocies of the week. This article should be read if for no other reason to observe the ridiculous degree of simultaneous sane-washing and total hypocrisy the old right needs to undertake to reconcile Trumpism with conservatism with blind support for an Israeli government that is horrible. |
| [Biden’s Leviathan: The Industrial State and Its Discontents] by [Alex Bronzini-Vender] in [American Affairs Journal] at [https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/02/bidens-leviathan-the-industrial-state-and-its-discontents/] |
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