This Week’s Selections
Holding Onto the Joy of Disneyland (link)
The Paradox of India (link)
Let’s Not Do That Again (link) –– Christopher Caldwell on the trade war.
The Sadist Assault on the Coldplay Couple (link)
What Caused the Baby Boom? (link)
How Was the Wheel Invented? (link)
Other Items of Note
Notes on swordplay (link)
Spencer Ackerman: ICE is planning mass extraordinary renditions (link)
Ilya Somin: “There was a time when conservative Republicans would have condemned efforts to return victims of socialism to their oppressors. No longer. But it remains unjust.” (link)
On the fall of Hezbollah (link)
On avant garde perfumes (link)
Caitlin Flanagan on Pamela Anderson (link)
Will future civilizations bother to excavate our remains? (link)
The Miami Herald’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein (parts one, two, and three)
Ross Douthat interviews the investigative reporter whose work led to Jeffrey Epstein’s re-arrest (link)
The Wall Street Journal story on Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein (link)
Nick Catoggio on the Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey Epstein - Donald Trump story (link)
On Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal (link)
A surprising finding on lookism in venture capital
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