Week of 2025-1005

Monday 2025 October 6

• Ken MacVey at 3 Quarks Daily: “Do We Own Ourselves?“
• Cory Doctorow at Medium: “Conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes“
• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Power Is the Order of the Day, and Other Beds Trump Has Made“
• Paul Krugman: “State Terror, American Style“
• John Fabian Witt at The New York Times: “How to Save the American Experiment“

Wednesday 2025 October 8

• Herbert Harris at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Alien Mirror: Humanizing Artificial Intelligence”
• Shadab Zeest Hashmi at 3 Quarks Daily: “Empire: In Four Objects of Desire“
• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “The Shutdown, Zombie Politics and How Trump Stumbled Into Not Being All-Powerful“
• Jennifer Smith Richards at Talking Points Memo: “Top Trump Education Officials Are Dismantling Public Schools: ‘We’re Going to Have a Lot of Empty School Buildings’“
• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Don’t Believe the Hype: Trump Bum-Rushing DC Reporters Edition“
• Paul Krugman: “Talking AI With Martin Wolf“
• Paul Krugam: “Leprechauns, Effective Tariffs and Inflation“
• Rebeccar Solnit at Meditations in an Emergency: “Categories Are Leaky (Over-Generalizations are Dangerous)“
• G. Elliott Morris at Strength in Numbers: “A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities“
• Jeroen Bouterse at 3 Quarks Daily: “Should we move on from Hitler?“