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Sunday, May 31, 2026

Conor Friedersdorf
May 31, 2026
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This Week’s Selections

Chris Jones: The Night My Marriage Fell Apart (link)

Mozart: Artist of sympathy and cruelty (link)

Sam Kriss Threatens Violence Against Writers Who Use A.I. (link)

A broken economy and an emboldened regime: Iranians abandoned to endure fallout from war (link)

How Lonely Planet stopped serving the people it was created for (link)

Other Items of Note

  • Aaron Renn: Mass Culture Got Cancelled (link)

  • “Even though the decade isn’t over yet, the 2020s already have their definitive piece of art. And we got it in 2021.”

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