Week of 2026-0531

Sunday 2026 May 31

• Melik Peter Khoury at The Modern CEO: “The Lie at the Center of Higher Education“
• Paul Krugman: “Who’s Deranged, Exactly?“

Monday 2026 June 1

• Katalin Balog at 3 Quarks Daily: “Motherland on High“
• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Surveying the Criminal Conduct Terrain” (gift)

Tuesday 2026 June 2

• Thomas Fernandes at 3 Quarks Daily: “Quantum Physics in a Wheel“
• Natasha Sarin at The New York Times: “No Wonder Everyone’s Rallying Around This Terrible Idea” (gift)

Wednesday 2026 June 3

• Bill Murray at 3 Quarks Daily: “What to Do Next: Europe after NATO“
• Kate Riga at Talking Points Memo: “SCOTUS Cobbles Together Excuse to Let Alabama Discriminate Against Black Voters in New Order“
• Madiba K. Dennie at Talking Points Memo: “The Proposed Trump NDA Is Following John Roberts’s Bad Example“

Thursday 2026 June 4

• Steve Szilagyi at 3 Quarks Daily: ““Bodies and Screams”“
• Christopher Mathias at Talking Points Memo: “Greg Bovino’s Retirement Plan? Go Full Fascist“
• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “US Attorney Corruption — Let’s Take It National!“
• Emine Yücel at Talking Points Memo: “Senate GOP’s Reconciliation Bill Sets a ‘Very Bad Precedent’“

Thursday 2026 June 5

• Jeroen Bouterse at 3 Quarks Daily: “Why we ought to kill the healthy patient“
• Dilip D’Souza at 3 Quarks Daily: “Antisocial behaviour. Or not.“

Friday 2026 June 6

• Fareed Zakaria at The Washington Post: “Ukraine could be a big win for Trump“
• Howard Altman at The War Zone: “Confessions Of A Navy MH-53E Sea Dragon Minehunter Pilot“
• Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway at The War Zone: “Area 51 Mystery Aircraft Prompts Interest In “Christmas Tree” Stealth Fighter Concept“
• Howard Altman at The War Zone: “Legislators Demand Navy Prove Trump Class Battleships Won’t Sink U.S. Nuclear Shipbuilding“
• Claudia Sahm at Stay-At-Home Macro: “Consumer Sentiment Isn’t Politics, but Politics Is Reshaping It“
• Marc A. Levin & Khalil Cumberbatch at Vital City: “For Cities, Aggressive Partisan Gerrymandering Has a Silver Lining“
• Eric Goldwyn & Marco Chitti at Vital City: “Speeding Up the Bus: Reality Behind the Rhetoric“
• Wes O’Donnell: “Canada’s Gripen Temptation Is About Control, Not Just Fighters“
• Wes O’Donnell: “The Artillery Revolution Nobody Noticed: Soft Recoil Technology in Ukraine“
• Jay Willis at Balls and Strikes: “Antonin Scalia Believed He Was Entitled to Your Respect“