Recommended Reading

Sunday, May 11, 2025

This Week’s Selections

At the Opera in Ukraine (link)

The Most Valuable Commodity in the World Is Friction (link)

The Vanishing of Youth (link)

Republicans for Inflation (link)

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love L.A. (link)

Other Items of Note

• Meet the New Pope (link)

• The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm (link)

• “Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump spent the past two weeks traveling the world and announcing new ventures involving billions of dollars.” (link)

• “Just How Much Bitcoin Do We Want the U.S. to Accumulate?” (link)

• Stephen Miller threatens to suspend habeas corpus (link)

• Why that is nuts (link)

• Ilya Somin with more (link)

• Matt Yglesias: The most disturbing aspect of Trump’s first 100 days (link)

• Josh Barro: Kamala Harris didn't lose because of sexism, and Democrats hurt themselves when they say she did (link)

• Seeing baseball like a fan and a statistician (link)

• A Conversations with Tyler episode: “Few understand both the promise and limitations of artificial general intelligence better than Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic.” (link)

• Kat Rosenfield on Harvey Weinstein and the Death Rattle of #MeToo (link)

• Scott Alexander’s decisive critique of Curtis Yarvin (link)

• How the U.S. built 5,000 ships in World War II (link)

• A review of Coleman Hughes’ book on colorblindness (link)

• “Some of the nation’s small liberal arts colleges are hiring Washington lobbyists for the first time.” (link)

• A new Lord of the Rings film is coming (link)

• How director Steven Soderbergh makes a simple scene sing (link)