Nothing too exciting:

A sober assessment, by a progressive, of the deeply un-sober course the conservative movement in the United States is likely to take in coming years.

A really nice piece...

Sometimes my posts provoke more feedback than other times.  Those are typically the bad posts.  Some other times, no one notices them at all.  That seems to be the case with the demographics piece I...

Adam Tooze on what’s coming: A world not anchored in either Eastern or Western Eurasia, but elsewhere, and increasingly in Africa: “Asia’s return to the center of the world economy dominates the...

I have long appreciated George Orwell’s little essay “Politics and the English language,” though I am not a fanatic about it, as some, I think mistakenly, are. What I admire about the piece is what I...

Just a few links today:

Very good piece by my friend Johann Neem about the current state, and future prospects, of America's historical self-understanding. 

A great story about when scientists...

Just some stuff:

Nice piece on Adorno’s Minima Moralia. “The task of Minima Moralia is to assist us in seeing the redemptive surplus that lies unrealised at the interstices of everyday experience...

A small thing for Saturday: 

There will be 8 billion people alive on this planet by the end of this year; a max human population of 10.4 billion will be reached by 2086; next year, there will be more...

Friday morning links for you all.  A good start to the weekend.

Nice interview with Michael Lewis, one of my favorite non-fiction writers today, and also the author of an exceptional podcast I...

Maybe I'll go a whole work week with a post every day!  (This should make you ask: what am I avoiding doing? Answer: many things.)

I like this, a nice nuanced discussion of the complications in...

Just a few!

Really fine piece on jokes, the nature of online intimacy, and Twitter.  “The mechanism for context-shredding is built directly into Twitter. It’s the retweets.”  Worth reading for...