HARPER’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How Gaza Broke MAGA’ – Charlie Kirk and the end of the Israel consensus’
How the GOP consensus on Israel cracked by Andrew Cockburn
What’s really behind your soaring utility bills by Nick Bowlin
The trial of the Sycamore Gap killers by Rosa Lyster
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features ‘Will the AI Bubble burst?’
The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim
Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination by Karen Hao
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race that Will Change the World by Parmy Olson
THE NEW ATLANTIS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features….
In the 2020s, the weird soul of placeless America is being born on Discord servers. Robert Mariani
The planners dreamed of gleaming cities. Instead they brought three generations of hollowed-out downtowns and flight to the suburbs. Joseph Lawler
Trump’s vaunted missile defense system is a plan for America’s retreat and defeat. Robert Zubrin
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features ‘Robert Frost’s ugly feelings’….
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Most Powerful Man in Science’
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science by Michael Scherer
The actor, playwright, and self-made cowboy was also a poet of masculine angst. By Michael O’Donnell
Under Trump, post-liberal intellectuals have abandoned tradition for radicalism and scholarship for vulgarity. By George Packer
Humanoids and the tech-industry hype machine by James Vincent
Is consciousness God? by Christian Wiman
Photographs from Syria by Victor J. Blue
I’m starting to feel some pre-emptive nostalgia when I do a Google search. Yes, it’s true, search can sometimes take you to places you don’t want to go. But at least a ‘classical’ search engine like Google in the 2000s and 2010s took you outside itself, and perhaps implicitly prompted you to evaluate critically what you found there. by Donald MacKenzie
Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was being executed after a battle, or made a human sacrifice, but the institution was taken for granted until the growth of abolitionism in the later 18th century. Liverpool could hardly be an exception when the slave trade was so embedded in its economy. By John Kerrigan
We still live in the long shadow of Habsburg disintegration. In addition to the lingering legacy of 19th-century state formations, European and global politics are shaken by continuing reverberations in states that have disappeared from Europe since 1990: Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, the GDR and, above all, the Soviet Union. By Holly Case
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘VOTE’
The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.Jonathan Chait
James Austin Johnson’s catchall monologues have become an ideal format for the recent onslaught of political news.Erik Adams
Double Theme: “The Culture of Place” and “A Cultural Revolution on the Right”
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