Week of 2025-1221

Sunday 2025 December 21

• Azra Raza at 3 Quarks Daily: “Beyond Victims and Monsters: Review of “Slow Poison” by Mahmood Mamdani“
• Steve Szilagyi at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Great Lost Beatle Album“
• Laurence Peterson at 3 Quarks Daily: “Trump’s Lies: The Contempt Is The Point“
• Rebecca Solnit at Meditations in an Emergency: “Feminism Versus Trump and Epstein“
• Philip Bump at MS NOW: “Trump and Vance give the economy high marks — the numbers say otherwise“
• Jason Kuznicki at Liberal Currents: “They Were All Our Ancestors“
• Guillaume A. W. Attia at Liberal Currents: “China Between Ogre and Olympus“

Monday 2025 December 22

• Sherman J. Clark at 3 Quarks Daily: “Flattery Machines“
• Lei Wang at 3 Quarks Daily: “Confessions of a Bad Buddhist”
• Mike Konczal at Substack: “A Year In, the MAGA Labor Market Story Has Fallen Apart“
• Hunter Walker at Talking Points Memo: “How Rep. Dan Goldman’s Office Became a ‘Triage Center’ for ICE Detainees“

Tuesday 2025 December 23

• Tim Sommers at 3 Quarks Daily: “Should We Replace Elections with Lotteries?“
• Kate Riga at Talking Points Memo: “Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s National Guard Occupation of Chicago“

Wednesday 2025 December 24

• C.J. Ciaramella at Reason: “DHS Says Recording or Following Law Enforcement ‘Sure Sounds Like Obstruction of Justice’“
• Katalin Balog at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Midas Machine“
• Paul Braterman at 3 Quarks Daily: “Creationism in the classroom: does it matter? Kitzmiller 20 years on“

Thursday 2025 December 25

• Todd Beeton at The Big Picture: “Trump Hardened MAGA Hearts With His Cruelty—It’s Finally Backfiring“
• Joe Villasana at WSAW-TV: “Man yelling slurs accidentally set himself on fire while trying to burn house down, police say“
• Jon Brodkin at Ars Technica: “Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won“

Friday 2025 December 26

• Ashutosh Jogalekar at 3 Quarks Daily: “Earthrise Before Footprints: Review of Robert Kurson’s “Rocket Men”“
• Dwight Furrow at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Magic Ponies of AI Advocacy“
• Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “Columbia and the iron law of institutions“
• Michelle Goldberg at The New York Times: “Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger“
• Jamie Rumbelow at Works in Progress: “Steam networks“
• Peter Henne at The Duke of Minerva: “Do you want a religious war? Because this is how you get a religious war“
• Charles C. Mann at The New Atlantis: “We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It“

Saturday 2025 December 27

• Paul Krugman: “Repost With Transcript: Heather Cox Richardson“
• Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman at The War Zone: “Trump Class Battleship Construction Won’t Begin Until 2030s“
• Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway at The War Zone: “What We Know About The Trump Class “Battleship”“
• Doug Mouder at The Weekly Sift: “Blackouts“
• Doug Mouder at The Weekly Sift: “Three days in the life of a pathetic man“
• Greg B. Smith and Yoav Gonen at The City: “Eric Adams Reigned Over a Run of Scandal Not Seen Since Boss Tweed“
• Greg B. Smith at The City: “Eric Adams Takes His Place in History of Corruption-Scarred Mayors“
• Julian Mark at The Washington Post: “Trump suffers several defeats in effort to punish opposing lawyers“
• Dan Epps at Divided Argument: “Race, the Fourth Amendment, and Immigration in Trump v. Illinois“
• Wes O’Donnell: “Ukraine’s Survival is More Important Than You Think“
• Adam Mastroianni at Experimental History: “Why aren’t smart people happier?“
• Bo Malmberg & Hannes Malmberg at Works in Progress: “How mathematics built the modern world“
• Anton Howes at Works in Progress: “Why innovation prizes fail“