Trump Admits Electoral Defeat; What Does That Mean for the Iran War?

Watch Hegseth and Israel for indicators

A 1998 Income in a 2026 Economy

The impossible economics of medical retirement and survival

The Saudis Are Desperate

There’s a real chance MbS, or even the House of Saud itself, could fall

Cooper Hawk

Feathered musing

Ragged School Museum: Step Into a Victorian-Era School for The Poor

How an Irish man saved tens of thousands of children in London

No One Is Talking About Margo

When an ordinary morning shows us what we should be talking about

A Shadow Running Through My Days

How Neil Young’s Harvest haunts me

Trees Surround Me

And all of their oxygen

Digital Zombies

On letting things die — A Scrittura prompt response

The Liquid Society: Digital Technology and Modern Social Change

The erosion of the bourgeois matrix in the age of platform capitalism

Conservatives Finally Call for Diversity…Because of a Welfare Ad

Needs more Shaniquas

Strait to Disaster

West Asia erupts on the heels of Saudi foolishness and an utter lack of effective diplomacy

Living With the Dead At Çatalhöyük

Understanding why residents of a 9000-year-old proto-city buried the dead beneath their homes

How Chinese Immigrants Enriched Calcutta’s Culinary Landscape

A happy marriage between two of the world’s most popular cuisines — Chinese and Indian

We’re Happily Entering the AI Dictatorship

The AI utopia and forced AI adoption are shaping a new form of dictatorship.

A Nuclear-Equivalent Explosion Struck Nepal and Didn’t Destroy It. A Real Nuke Won’t Destroy Iran.

This talk of deploying a nuke to end the war in Iran is lunacy.

No Rules, No Limits: Inside the Rise of Cheating AI Swarms

Open AI’s incident: The absence of AI regulation left room for swarms of agents to optimize for “cheating“.

The West’s Unanticipated Power Problem

Hypercapitalism and the Policy of Voter Disenfranchisement

Reality Bites: How Climate Change Is Catching Up With Privileged Tourists

This summer, landslides and collapsed trails caught up with European backpackers chasing adventure in Peru.