This Week’s Selections
Out of the Landscape, Into the Portrait (link)
Trench Warfare in Ukraine (link)
A Dispatch from Lebanon: The Iranian Period Is Finished (link)
Why Are Airlines Quiet-Quitting China? (link)
A Big Empty River in Alaska (link)
Other Items of Note
Don’t piss off the crows (link)
The 4-day week in Iceland (link)
Silk Road history update (link)
Clothesline animal photos (link)
Scott Alexander November links (link)
Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature (link)
Earthquake map (link)
Expert forecasts of nuclear risk (link)
College volleyball’s Spartan meltdown (link)
Ross Douthat: who abandoned liberalism first? (link)
Terraform the West, young man (link)
On The Terminator (link)
The olive harvest in Sicily (link)
Benny Morris’ overview of the war in Israel (link)
Alan Jacobs declines to play along (link)
The most complicated word in the English language (link)
On Court and Spark (link)
The Sight of Undeath (link)
The future of Ozempic (link)
House of Strauss on the WaPo shakeup (link)
Do the National Book Award judges actually read the books that inform its awards? (link)
Patrick Swayze’s Halloween request: Make ghosting sexy again (link)
How FIRE stays consistent defending free speech (link)
Thank goodness the election is almost over and we can return to a comportment of general curiosity that fewer people are trying to game. But fine, this week you want election takes.
Here they are:
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