This is just so obviously true. Glad to see people saying it without embarrassment. renewal.org.uk/blog/is-dsa-...

Nice appreciation of a singular musical force. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...

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"Both views ignore what may be Mamdani’s most important contribution in the current moment: he has resurrected a universalist, redistributive, civic-egalitarian politics that had practically vanished from the national and international scene." www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Stunning. music.apple.com/gb/album/lux...

How have we let this annihilation happen.

"Le monde confisqué argues that ‘finite capitalism’, a worldview and system that prevailed in the early modern period, re-emerged in the era of high imperialism and has returned again today, has been the dominant form of capitalism..." newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...

New Riley - Brenner joint in the latest NLR newleftreview.org

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Ackman, Bloomberg, assorted freaks on X, your boy Cuomo took a hell of a beating!

Happening now!

Unreal version of “Helpless” with Joni Mitchell from the new archive series… music.apple.com/gb/album/hel...

COME ON #SAFC

Typically sharp essay from Kundani and Roy. But I was disappointed with the thinness of the historical and conceptual discussion of the idea of civilization itself - a brief nod to "the Enlightenment" boom - 20th century... One thinks of Elias, for example.... www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-cl...

This type of point - regarding China's world leading green energy sector, solar in particular - is so rarely made by people who lazily refer to government policy. It is a whole of society effort for which we should all be grateful. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

"Milei’s Argentina, which has borrowed heavily in a currency – dollars – it lacks, is continuing with self-defeating austerity to maintain access to $40bn in American credit. This is a Potemkin stability." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What a photo

"infections are generally not benign" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

Capitalism in 2025: Music (?) video produced by the Utah-based firm Onset Financial - which now reportedly has $1.9 billion exposure to the collapsed auto parts maker First Brands: youtu.be/rfZGq6yoEmo?...

From the morning run

“Marxism must not forget that…people live toward their future as they understand and imagine it. It is thus a fundamental error to base one’s politics on an appeal to a given status – a present state of social being – and the interests supposed to flow from that.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

John Thompson reviews a new volume of Paul W. Schroeder's essays on America's foreign affairs: issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/R-1...

« ECHO DELAY REVERB : Art américain, pensées francophones » palaisdetokyo.com/evenement/vi...

"It’s not hard to imagine a future where everything — politics, sports and entertainment — blurs into speculation. DraftKings and FanDuel are now under threat of being usurped by up-and-coming platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket..." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

"When you drive from, say, Jakarta to Semarang, and you see people with no prospects, completely disconnected from the land, hawking plastic wares by the roadside, it is hard not to believe some great crime has taken place." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Two Chinese working-class poems, by Xiao Hai worldliteraturetoday.org/2021/spring/...

Interesting, if somewhat eclectic, topic: www.sociologygroup.com/call-for-pap...

"China’s social sciences occupy a peculiar position—highly institutionalized, closely watched, and yet full of genuine curiosity about the country’s transformation." www.pekingnology.com/p/after-the-...

LETS GET CARRIED AWAY MAN #SAFC

“The aim here is to confront, with intellectual honesty, what China’s achievements oblige us to reconsider about modernity, state capacity, forms of political legitimacy, and our own complacencies.” www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-gr...

Please consider supporting my Substack - how to raise slop-resistant children in 27 short letters to some Danish prince

I do not share Charles Taylor's religiosity AT ALL. I am rational for better or worse. But I really think he is on to something normatively, historically crucial in his later work, especially as AI and more general digital isolation and atomization becomes more extreme...

What a topic 🔊🔊

Fascinating insights on how LLM training datasets are actually scraped/stolen www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/t...

Nadia Urbinati reviews Charles R. Beitz “For The People? Democratic Representation in America” for ETHICS at doi.org/10.1086/736743 #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil #moralphilosophy #legalphilosophy

cUriNg CaNcEr www.ft.com/content/47b0...

"If de Waal is anywhere close to right, this conflict will have killed 7.5 percent of the prewar population of Gaza in just two years." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

Now zoning: music.apple.com/gb/album/lik...

Love when the GOAT Hyun Song-Shin checks in to talk a little macro podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

"According to the pragmatic interpretation, the posterior is not, literally, a statement about the way the observed data relate to the unknown parameter μ because those objects live in different worlds..."

"There is actually fairly consistent literature to support this angle, demonstrating that tariffs often disproportionately burden women." mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/man-tariffs

"At the heart of the matter is this: what factors determine whether countries can turn economic pressure meant to weaken them into an opportunity for self-strengthening instead? This is a major question that will be critical in the 21st century." weltinnenpolitik.substack.com/p/what-fried...

(Presenting the findings as an image of course) github.com/deepseek-ai/...

“The view is Democrats must accept the political battlefield as it is…a strategy of accommodation…My reading of the evidence points to a different conclusion…the task isn’t to moderate harder. It’s to give voters a reason to believe politics can deliver real change” open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

How are Brentford only one nil up? total domination.

Sobering: "At the heart of this concern is the sheer scale of exposure, both domestic and international, to American equities." www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Look at these photos nymag.com/intelligence...