Tag Archives: December 2025

The New Criterion – December 2025 Preview

THE NEW CRITERION: The latest issue features

Art: a special section

My Grandma Moses by Jane Kallir

America beautiful by James Panero

Leiden lights by Karen Wilkin

Behind the scenes by Michele H. Bogart

The consonant Cushing by Alexandra Cushing Howard

A bull with his own china shop by Eric Gibson

Mittel march by Peter Pennoyer

The unsentimental builder by Michael J. Lewis

The mage of Torino by Philip Rylands

“Architecture unshackled” by Harry Adams

PROSPECT MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 2025 PREVIEW

PROSPECT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How Palantir Infiltrated Britain’ – The government gave Peter Thiel’s firm control over our data. Wil it ever let go?

How Palantir infiltrated the state

At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company

The politics of the potty

Trump’s defecating fighter jet is an emblem of a man in revolt against civilisation

China and the risks of renewables

THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 2025 PREVIEW

THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue featuresVOTE’

Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake

The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.Jonathan Chait

Pay Attention to the First 10 Minutes of SNL

James Austin Johnson’s catchall monologues have become an ideal format for the recent onslaught of political news.Erik Adams

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – NOV/DEC 2025 PREVIEW

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: Genetically optimized babies, new ways to measure aging, and embryo-like structures made from ordinary cells: This issue explores how technology can advance our understanding of the human body— and push its limits.

The race to make the perfect baby is creating an ethical mess

A new field of science claims to be able to predict aesthetic traits, intelligence, and even moral character in embryos. Is this the next step in human evolution or something more dangerous?

The quest to find out how our bodies react to extreme temperatures

Scientists hope to prevent deaths from climate change, but heat and cold are more complicated than we thought.

The astonishing embryo models of Jacob Hanna

Scientists are creating the beginnings of bodies without sperm or eggs. How far should they be allowed to go?

How aging clocks can help us understand why we age—and if we can reverse it

When used correctly, they can help us unpick some of the mysteries of our biology, and our mortality.

Reason Magazine – December 2025 Preview

REASON MAGAZINE: The latest issue features

‘He Never Got To Go Home’

Justin Sanchez is one of more than 6,000 Americans indefinitely detained in a system that wastes money and doesn’t make us safer.

How Weed Surveillance Drones Destroyed the Lives of These Californians

California tried to use drones to find illegal marijuana operations, but they found building code violations instead.

You Can Thank This Ohio Klansman for Expanding Your Freedom of Speech

Brandenburg v. Ohio established the “imminent lawless action” standard. More than 50 years later, partisans keep trying to apply it selectively. Jacob Sullum

How the Punisher, a Murderous Anti-Hero, Became the Mascot for Increasingly Militarized Police Forces

“He is breaking the very laws…that cops are supposed to uphold.”

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2025

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The New Tools of Power’

The Stagnant Order

And the End of Rising Powers by Michael Beckley

A Grand Strategy of Reciprocity

How to Build an Economic and Security Order That Works for America by Oren Cass

The New Supply Chain Insecurity

Fortress America Is Not a Safer America by Shannon K. O’Neil

The Return of the Energy Weapon

An Old Tool Creating New Dangers Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan

Los Angeles Review Of Books – Winter 2024-2025

LA Review of Books (December 11, 2024)The latest issue, #43 – Fixation, features:

Conversation

A Precise Excavation of the Soul: A Conversation with Hilton Als by Melissa Seley

Nonfiction

Mean Mommies: Care in Contemporary Queer Literature by Jenny Fran Davis

Our Ambassadors to the Future: Relics of—and for—ourselves by Christina Wood

The Only Girl in the World: On Madonna and ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ by Brontez Purnell

Homespun Tiara: A Profile of Model and Activist Geena Rocero by Enzo Escober

Syria’s Forgotten Island of Opposition: A report from the al-Tanf military compound by Charlie Clewis

Bedrock: On gravesites literal and not by Charley Burlock

American Blondes: Are we having more fun yet? by Arielle Gordon

Fiction

Bright by Grace Byron

Finishing Moves by Evan McGarvey

Witches of Fresno and Pigfoot by Venita Blackburn

The Good Life by Brady Brickner-Wood

The Aforementioned Journal by David Hollander

Poetry

Srdičko Bolí by Claressinka Anderson

Has Your Spirit Dried Up? by emet ezell

I Haven’t Heard My Brother’s Voice in Ten Years by Douglas Manuel

Montauk by Connie Voisine

Straining for the Noise by Jenny Xie

Art

Lida Abdul