Week of 2025-0518

Sunday 2025 May 18

• Steven Gimbel at 3 Quarks Daily: “They Cheated Themselves…But Don’t Realize Why: Eternally In Search of the Thinker’s High“
• Todd S. Purdum at The New York Times: “What Desi Arnaz Could Teach Hollywood Today“
• Michael Posner at The New York Times: “Trump Is Destroying a Core American Value. The World Will Notice.“
• Rick Reilly at The Washington Post: “I have decided never to go outside again“
• Megan McArdle at The Washington Post: “Don’t be fooled. This is the calm before the AI storm.“

Monday 2025 May 19

• Paul Krugman: “Attack of the Sadistic Zombies“
• Michael Liss at 3 Quarks Daily: “John Adams Is Bald and Toothless: A Brief History Of The Alien And Sedition Acts“

Tuesday 2025 May 20

• David Kordahl at 3 Quarks Daily: “Tech Intellectuals and the “TESCREAL Bundle”“
• Thomas B. Edsall at The New York Times: “The President Will Destroy You Now“
• David Leonhardt and Michelle Goldberg at The New York Times: “Michelle Goldberg: ‘More Democrats Need to Be Doing This’“
• Paul Krugman: “How Trump Will Make the Tariff Shock Worse“
• John Nichols at The Nation: “Springsteen Gets America in Ways Trump Never Will“
• Josh Kovensky at Talking Points Memo: “DHS Sent Detainees To South Sudan On Tuesday In Blatant Defiance Of Judge, Attorneys Allege“

Thursday 2025 May 22

• Paul Krugman: “Gaming Out a Sudden Stop“
• Michael S. Schmidt and Michael C. Bender at The New York Times: “Trump Administration Says It Is Halting Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students“
• Kate Riga at Talking Points Memo: “Supreme Court Kills The Independent Agency. Trump Is King“

Friday 2025 May 23

• Eric Feigenbaum at 3 Quarks Daily: “Lessons From Singapore: If You Can’t Think Because You Can’t Chew, Try A Bannana“
• Charles Siegel at 3 Quarks Daily: “Don’t Deport Protesters, or Defund Universities, in My Name“
• Daniel Gauss at 3 Quarks Daily: “Talking to Machines, Learning to Be Human: AI as a Moral Feedback Loop“
• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “The Court’s ‘Make It Up As You Go’ Constitution“

Saturday 2025 May 24

• Marc Tracy at The New York Times: “Criticism of Trump Was Removed From Documentary on Public Television“
• Mitchell Berman at The Washington Post: “No, Trump can’t force his agenda on U.S. entities. They have rights.“
• David Ignatius at The Washington Post: “Trump’s road to failure in Ukraine“
• Philip Bump at The Washington Post: “When it comes to budget math, ‘D.C.-style’ actually means ‘honest’“
• Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “Leaving Vichy Biglaw“
• Paul Krugman: “A Liz Truss Moment for America?“
• Mike Masnick at TechDirt: “Homeland Security Defies Orders, Engages In More Human Trafficking“
• Cory Turner at NPR: “9 things to know about the big, private-school voucher plan in Republicans’ tax bill“
• Deepa Shivaram at NPR: “The White House rejects a watchdog finding that it’s breaking the law over halted funds“
• Doug Muder at The Weekly Sift: “The Big Beautiful Bill“
• Joe Patrice at Above the Law: “Trump’s Biglaw Bootlickers Say Quiet Part Out Loud In Letters To Congress“
• Kathryn Rubino at Above the Law: “Executive Order Against Jenner & Block Is ‘Null And Void’”
• Joe Patrice at Above the Law: “Paul Weiss Rainmakers Bolt To Start New Firm Free Of Trump Deal Restrictions“
• Jay Willis at Balls & Strikes: “The Supreme Court Really Expects You to Take This Craven Horseshit Seriously“