Economics, but fun
Plus: a once in a lifetime experience. (#546)
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Reasons for Hope
You're here for a reason. Find the reason. And do your bit. (#545)
Why we need more death rays
Plus: It's my lucky week! (#544)
Free* Speech
Plus the electrotech revolution and the process of making good decisions by eliminating bad ones (#543)
Gotta love them facts
And why geopolitics now drives climate action. (#542)
8 billion victims
Why Murphy's Law actually helps you prevent bad things from happening. (#541)
Looking ahead to the year 20202025
Plus: Which matters more, a first or last impression? (#540)
Small change, big impact
Plus: the horse farm turned global vaccine supplier. (#539)
Where the end is real
Plus: How AI ruins decision making and why you should talk to former friends. (#538)
The Enshittification of American Power
Plus: Alien life and the last words of a dying glacier (#537)
The fire of human aspiration
Plus: Feminist exhaustion, the invention of the wheel and behind the scenes with an intimacy coördinator (#536)
See the dark world
+ Fun new laws to create chaos, and how we'll lose control of AI (#535)
4.5 Million Children
Plus: Why we need more taste and less cynicism (#534)
44 books curious minds wished they'd discovered sooner
Special books issue, curated by you.
The Fascist Playbook
Plus: 30 minutes with a stranger and how artificial intelligence will make us better humans (#533)
Yet weirdly, life goes on
Plus: Questions worth asking in uncertain times. (#532)
An ode to craft
Plus: The power of empathy and the tragedy of prevention (#531)
Special Books Edition
What's a book you wished you discovered sooner?
Welcome to the deeply bizarre now-now-soon
Plus: The value of moral ambition and why you're more likely to die on your birthday (#530)
Say the word
Plus: Being grateful for grief, Emojis in court and China's falling emissions (#529)
Facts and Egopinions
Plus: Understanding the Iberian blackout, India-Pakistan tensions, and 48 Things Women Hear In A Lifetime (#528)
The voices of 30 survivors
Plus: intensive parenting, global ambitions, and scaffolding for future thinking (#527)
Ready to go out into the big wide world
Also: You should open this newsletter right now, I'll explain why (#526)
What the comfort class doesn't get
State terror and how to find work you love (#525)