Week of 2026-0405

Sunday 2026 April 5

• John Ambrosio at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Achilles Heel of Trump’s Mafia-State Authoritarianism“
• Mike O’Brien at 3 Quarks Daily: “Species of leased concern“
• Barry Goldman at 3 Quarks Daily: “Trust the Machine?“
• Liz Bourke at Reactor: “Aragorn’s Tax Policy and Other Weird Shibboleths“
• James Davis Nicoll at Reactor: “Seven Plot-Friendly Ways to Spur Societal Collapse“
• Lorna Wallace at Reactor: “Five Time Travel Stories About Taking Out Hitler“
• Don Kaye at Reactor: “70 Years Ago, Forbidden Planet Changed Science Fiction Cinema“

Monday 2026 April 6

• W. Alex Foxworthy at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Arrow and the Leap: Towards a Shared Framework of Meaning for Humans and AI“
• Paul Krugman: “The Terrorist in Chief“
• G. Eliott Morris at Strength in Numbers: “Why Democrats are suddenly winning back the left — and the “double-haters”“

Wednesday 2026 April 8

• Hussein Banai at New Lines: “The president has backed himself into a corner where making a deal with Iran risks appearing, in his eyes, like a humiliating failure“

Friday 2026 April 10

• Paul Krugman: “From Drill, Baby, Drill to Toll, Baby, Toll“
• G. Eliott Morris at Strength in Numbers: “Why gas prices tend to move presidential approval“

Saturday 2026 April 11

• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “Just Say No to Confederate Nostalgia“
• Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Gun, and Money: “Trump promising preemptive mass pardons“
• Paul Krugman: “Talking with Lisa Graves“
• Joseph Trevithick at The War Zone: “Navy Calls It Quits On Attack Submarine USS Boise’s Never Ending Overhaul“
• Wed O’Donnell: “The Marines Could Take Kharg. Then the Real Disaster Starts“