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Sunday, June 22, 2025

Conor Friedersdorf
Jun 22, 2025
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This Week’s Selections

The Trojan Horse Will Come for Us Too (link)

How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost (link)

Empire of Flight (link) –– “They have big brains, long childhoods and sociable, curious minds. So why haven’t birds developed complex culture?”

The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max (link)

They Asked AI Chatbots Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. (link)

Flashbacks

William Langewiesche (RIP) on…

  • The Border (link)

  • The Sahara (link)

  • Unbuilding the World Trade Center (link)

  • The Shipbreakers (link)

  • How to Get a Nuclear Bomb (link)

Other Items of Note

  • What we know about the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities (link)

  • Matt Yglesias: 21 thoughts on Trump’s war with Iran (link)

  • International travelers are growing skeptical of the U.S. (link)

  • Brian Wilson was an exemplary American

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