How our brightest minds get trapped in the City - on.ft.com/4hAQQql via @FT

This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Inevitably, this is what a majority of folks in Texas voted for, whether they really wanted it or not.

Memorie di una vita passata www.ilgiornaledellarte.com/Articolo/Dop...

Opinion | Unintended AI consequence: the return of status markers share.google/AlhmunOxW2T4...

I was an international student at Columbia. It is not clear to me on what authority the federal government should decide how many international students are too many at a particular institution of higher learning...and I'll just stop there.

As president, Trump scrapped the successful diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue and escalated with Iran. After leaving, his criticism of the Gaza war was that Israel wasn't being violent enough. Then people who say they oppose war in the Middle East voted to give him power a second time.

...and I do so hate it.

Trump's being played by Netanyahu and Washington hawks. Regime change in Iran would be Iraq squared. Full on nuts.

So do we really want to do a war of choice, à-la-2003-Iraq? Have we not learned a single damn thing?

How boredom gave us chaos - on.ft.com/45oToDU via @FT

What Do Students at Elite Colleges Really Want? www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/b...

Noem and her masked stormtroopers are coming after LA first because they know we’re the strongest. “Start a fight with the biggest guy in the yard on your first day” logic. they don’t expect to lose. they will lose. be emboldened by their targeting us first—we’re the city they’re most afraid of.

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

this obsession with a handful of high status universities is also low key an indication of elite disdain for the institutions that educate most americans who attend colleges and universities

“You cannot fact-check your way out of status competition.” Very good, by @danwphilosophy.bsky.social www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/status-cla...

Pausing foreign applications to US universities is a terrible idea www.economist.com/leaders/2025... From The Economist

"I never thought the leopards would eat Carol's face!"

I was an international student in the US once Tonight, I’m thinking of the 1000s of international students at Harvard who will stay awake wondering if they will graduate I’m thinking of the 1000s accepted to begin their studies this fall The cruelty of this administration is stunning

New, at Can We Still Govern? The hollow state is the network of state & local, private & non-profit providers that deliver public services. Brint Milward warns that federal cuts will cascade through this network, causing services to collapse. #policysky donmoynihan.substack.com/p/health-car...

You are the Health Secretary! The FDA exists so that people do not, in fact, have to do their own research!

Oh, so he "turned" to falsehoods, did he? And when, pray tell, did this magical shift happen?

Imagine spending the last day of your life with JD Vance

New, from me: Marco Rubio used to boast that he was banned from China, calling it a totalitarian state. Now he combines a) new surveillance capabilities to monitor and punish international students, with b) little accountability or due process. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

The Free Speech Administration strikes again, I see

If these Wall Street types are the "smart money", I'd be curious to meet the "dumb money"

Donald Trump should not have the power to unilaterally torpedo the global economy. The fact that he does is a testament to the breakdown of our constitutional order. www.vox.com/politics/407...

I couldn't have said it better myself