NYTimes.com: Dear President Ozymandias Dear President Ozymandias Look on his works and despair. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/opinion/trump-kennedy-center-arch-reflecting-pool.html?unlocked_article_code=1.n1A.ftPW.-K1zkepdILkI&smid=em-share
NYTimes: Two Comedians Walk Into a … Friendship Two Comedians Walk Into a … Friendship https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/opinion/hacks-friendship-comedians-relationships.html?smid=nytcore-android-share Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S25 FE, an AT&T 5G smartphone Get Outlook for Android
NYTimes: America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/opinion/project-2025-2029-democrats.html?smid=nytcore-android-share Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S25 FE, an AT&T 5G smartphone Get Outlook for Android
The War Trump Can’t End “In a zero-sum negotiation, Iran’s monomaniacal focus is a greater currency than American military power,” @ksadjadpour argues: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/05/iran-america-attention-goals/687374/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYYsu0Sao5bCqdAK0ObC0rKw&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
Use It or Lose It America’s core freedoms can be guaranteed only if citizens exercise them, @AdrienneLaF writes. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/07/free-press-first-amendment-rights/687317/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYWRve2EIZm9hIh0stH5Z9vQ&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written by AI. Look closely and you’ll see that every part of the text is not quite right. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/how-to-tell-ai-writing/687345/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYUXQ0zgocXs8McYx6hK_rLU
You don’t hate AI. You hate liberalism. You don’t hate AI. You hate liberalism. https://open.substack.com/pub/eliasrutten/p/you-dont-hate-ai-you-hate-liberalism?r=3azmy&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
****** Why Paul Krugman is Panicking https://open.substack.com/pub/eliasrutten/p/why-paul-krugman-is-panicking?r=3azmy&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
The Great Depopulation The birth rate is dropping in every country on Earth, @DKThomp writes. He spoke with the economist Jesús Fernández-Villaverde about why the birth rate is dropping, why it matters, and just how steep the decline is likely to get: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/global-birthrate-decline/687297/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYXPtzNk7yPv4DsIMga2tBqc&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social