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- White supremacy, terrorism and the failure of Reconstruction in the United States.
- When do ideological enemies ally?
- Inflation is here – these 35 metrics tell you how much to worry.
- How vintage video games became big money investments.
- Republicans have taken a brave stand in defence of tax cheats.
- The radical women who paved the way for free speech and free love.
- How Spotify has changed music libraries forever.
- The swashbuckling lawyer who’s taking on the Sackler family.
- J.D. Vance: from Hillbilly Elegy to Hamptons weekender.
- Tokyo 2020: how COVID-19 could still disrupt the Olympic Games.
- Personal Mythologists (1994-97 New Journalism) Introduction.
- Vienna is the new Havana Syndrome hotspot.
- When the applause just won’t end.
- Why Democrats should fear inflation.
- The Anthony Bourdain doc is no hagiography.
- Why are we weird?
- How Western policymakers can engage the new Arab diasporas.
- Political data science with David Shor.
- The end of ‘the end of inflation‘.
- The best and worst of times for South Africa.
- I like your old stuff better than your new stuff (new newsletter post).
- I like your old stuff better than your new stuff (Regurgitator song).
- What the “creator economy” promises – and what it actually does.
- One by one, my friends were sent to the camps.
- The problem of the small landlord and other pandemic relief traps.
- Master’s degrees are the second biggest scam in higher education.
- #FreeBritney update: ‘Killed my dreams.’
- Why Jane Goodall still has hope for us humans.
- What does the Federal Reserve mean when it talks about tapering?
- China, Big Tech and Cyber Defense: The world according to Amy Zegart.
- What makes a cult a cult?
- Haiti and the Trump illusion.
- The Supreme Court’s total war on Congress.
- How heat waves destroy the human body.
- What economist Tyler Cowen is reading.
- What next in Israel and Iran’s shadow war?
- After the end of history.
- Ending lockdown.
- Australia is making a bid for power in the Pacific.
- Fear of deaf cinema.
- The persistent fantasy of a Trump knockout punch.
- The energy revolution is tweaking OPEC out.
- Fox News adds climate coverage to its portfolio of destruction.
- St Vincent’s journey into magical memory.
- No one knows who’s in charge of Haiti.
- Crypto scammers rip off billions as pump-and-dump schemes go digital.
- How COVID could reshape capitalism.
- How all my politically correct bones were broken.
- Canada: America’s nearest ally.
- How Beijing’s narrative of U.S. decline is leading to strategic overconfidence.
- Margaret Atwood on driving lessons.
- The first glimmer of accountability.
- End the war on whistleblowers.
- America’s condos are hitting a tipping point.
- Huxley, Burroughs and the Church of Scientology.
- Why you can’t turn your Roth IRA into a billion-dollar tax shelter.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Leo Strauss.
- Tyler Cowen: abolishing tenure is the least of my proposals.
- What if the truth isn’t out there?
- The revival of Stoicism.
- The published version of my new Futures journal article on Richard Slaughter – free to download for the next 50 days.
- What deadlines do to lifetimes.
- 3 principles now define the pandemic.
- Global tax overhaul endorsed by 130 nations as deal gets closer.
- Iran and U.S. strategy: looking beyond the JCPOA.
- Trump.org CFO indicted: is the big man next?
- The betrayal of justice that set Bill Cosby free.
- The fight against corruption needs to get ugly.
- Aliens in the age of anxiety.
- The attack on ‘critical race theory‘.