Losing the Plot
This is the text of the 2025 Stinging Fly lecture, which was delivered by Sarah Moss at Pearse Street Library in Dublin on September 25th 2025.| The Stinging Fly
Jewish leaders keep telling me to “love Israel.” What does that even mean? The post Justify Your Love first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Changing the clocks for daylight saving time runs counter to human nature — and nature itself.| Honolulu Civil Beat
We are now recruiting for the Long COVID Treatment Trial-Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T), which participants can complete entirely from bed. The post We need more at-home clinical trials for Long COVID. Here’s how we designed the largest one yet. first appeared on The Sick Times.| The Sick Times
President Trump's demolition of the White House's East Wing ignores that this "small building" has long been the symbolic heart of the nation.| The Persistent
A forgotten Chinese cemetery reveals how Missoula buries its past — and why the present is so familiar.| The Pulp
In den vergangenen vierzig Jahren integrierte Richard Herzinger den amerikanischen, britischen und französischen Liberalismus in einen deutschen Kontext. Sein Werk war ein Kapitel in der politischen und intellektuellen Geschichte der Verwestlichung Deutschlands. In seinen "Interventionen" reflektierte er die innige Verbindung zwischen den Totalitarismen - Nationalsozialismus, Kommunismus, Islamismus. Sie waren für ihn fähig zu jenem "absoluten Bösen", das von Demokratien oft nicht versta...| Perlentaucher
Men in these books are under siege by a series of emasculating forces, which I have loosely narrowed down to an unholy trinity: cancellation, the body, and the father. The post Into the Manosphere—in Manuscripts appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books.| Cleveland Review of Books
Writers, like lone gunmen, are compulsive worldbuilders. They write their own past, present, and future. DeLillo has described himself as a man in a small room. The post Twelve Bullets, Four Appendices, and Six Exhibits: On Don DeLillo’s “Libra” appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books.| Cleveland Review of Books
This is the text of the 2025 Stinging Fly lecture, which was delivered by Sarah Moss at Pearse Street Library in Dublin on September 25th 2025.| The Stinging Fly
Yahia Lababidi's spellbinding exploration of the lives, philosophies & literary styles of Oscar Wilde & Friedrich Nietzsche.| The Culturium
The Summer Hikaru Died / HikaNatsu‘s anime was conceptualized around Ryohei Takeshita’s adventurous direction, but without losing sight of the author’s core ideas. With a sequel on the horizon, it’s time to learn more about a fascinating production. There is a series of terms you may have encountered when listening to the insight of anime creators, especially if they’re speaking for specialized outlets with highly invested audiences. This is not because they’re the most technical ...| Sakuga Blog
My Dress-Up Darling / Kisekoi was always charming, but it has reached a new level with a sequel that’s more wildly creative, thematically tighter, and in that process, more diverse in the subcultures it explores. Let’s dig into the production changes that paid off so extraordinarily well! The first season of My Dress Up Darling / Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru, which we’ll be referring to as Kisekoi to save us that mouthful of a title, was a perfectly... Read More Read More| Sakuga Blog
There actually are lawless criminals fucking up the streets of Portland and destabilizing communities across the nation. They go by the name of DHS, ICE, Border Patrol, and the fascist jack boots employed as the National Guard. And this is abhorrent. The pigs in 2020 protected Proud Boys and other fascists assaulting Portlanders in these… Continue reading ICE in Portland| Malik Speaks!
I’ve broken down Oregon’s hole abuses before and documented their violations many times, as yet another year passes, another winter spent in segregation. Actually, spring, summer, fall, and now, winter again. Spent in the most freezing cells, no phone access, and mail obstructions with no mail violation notices. I’m bound to this freezing cell they… Continue reading Update from the hole| Malik Speaks!
One of the central tensions of American life thrums in the double meaning of “identity.” On the one hand, the word refers to a unique, irreplaceable, individual self, which we are summoned constantly to reveal and cherish. On the other, “identity” refers to the demographic categories by which we are linked to other examples of| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
What the vulnerable butterfly can teach us about ourselves, our world, and the magic that goes beyond it all.| Dark Properties
Market prices are weird—when news comes out that should move them one way, they sometimes move the other way instead. What's going on? I have a hypothesis and a simple model.| Market Unpack
In early February, DOGE sent every government employee an email asking them to list five things they've accomplished the previous week. This is obviously stupid, so why do it? In this post, I argue it's to bootstrap corruption into the system.| Market Unpack
Enterprise value is market cap plus debt minus cash. It's what a buyer would pay to buy a whole business. It's a clear metric and we see this number thrown around a lot. But under closer scrutiny, it becomes uncertain and ill-defined. Let's explore.| Market Unpack
In October, OpenAI secured a 4 billion dollar revolving credit facility from J.P. Morgan and several other banks. I was surprised when I heard this because OpenAI is a young company with no earnings. Shouldn't all their capital come from investors? Let's run some numbers. From first principles Let's| Market Unpack
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车长老回归| Lei Mao's Log Book
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萌萌的恶魔| Lei Mao's Log Book
中规中矩的万圣节套餐| Lei Mao's Log Book
ဟိမဝန္တာရဲ့တောင်စွယ်ဖြစ်ပြီးတိဘက်နဲ့နယ်ချင်းဆက်နေတဲ့ခါကာဘိုရာဇီကို ဗြိတိသျှတွေက ၁၉၂၅ ခုနှစ်မှာ အမြင့်ပေ ၁၉,၂၉၆ လို့ တိုင်းတာခဲ့ပါတယ်။ အခုထိနိုင်ငံတကာတောင်တက်သမားတွေ သိပ်မကြ...| The Tanintharyi Times
Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman (2021), “The Janus Face of the Liberal International Information Order: When Global Institutions are Self-Undermining,” International Organization Vol 75, No.2:333-58 (75th anniversary special issue). Scholars and policymakers long believed that norms of global information openness and private-sector governance helped to sustain and promote liberalism. These norms are being increasingly contested ...| Henry Farrell
Learning is about reconstructing cognition, not accumulating knowledge. Halting learning traps us in habitual thinking.| JustGoIdea
The gunslinging mojo of a fitness craze The post CrossFit and the Frontier Spirit first appeared on ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera.| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
22.1 contributor Zoe Ballering discusses life spans and storytelling. The post From Our Contributors: Zoe Ballering On Sand Spits and Life Spans appeared first on The Cincinnati Review.| The Cincinnati Review
In the summer of 2007, I traveled to Europe for a month and I brought with me, as entertainment for the flight, the recent James Bond hit Casino Royale. I spent my first few days in Europe in Venic…| Jamie Todd Rubin
Nearly a year on from the historic landmark verdict in the Pelicot drugging and rape trial, some things really have changed.| The Persistent
A couple of weeks ago an essay that Hallie Rubenhold had presented for the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2020 as part of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Lecture came to my attention, and I slid it into the TBR. The Problem with Great Men hits on so many of the things that are bothering me professionally these days and reminds me why I got […]| faintingviolet
There is nothing new being made here. Just the lingering dreams of 90s and 2000s free-wheeling optimism now rotting from the inside. As it stands, I have only managed to create one film list on my …| Mid Theory Collective
A post in our 2025 series featuring works published in 1935 (or by authors who died in 1935). Today we’re featuring a short extract from Firestarters, a podcast by Francie Finn. Francie writes, “Firestarters explores the vibrant newspaper writing of Australian women from the first 150 years of the colonial period. These women’s stories, novels, […]| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
by Whispering Gums A post in our 2025 series featuring works published in 1935 (or by authors who died in 1935). This post includes a story that was published in The Bulletin on 11 December 1935, a…| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
"We cannot defend trans youth without confronting the carceral, racialized, and reproductive logics that underpin this moment, nor can we treat gender-affirming care as separate from the broader struggle for bodily autonomy, housing, healthcare, and family dignity." Read more via Scalawag: Freak Generations: The Moral Panic Playbook from Crack Babies to Trans Kids.| Scalawag
Have you found yourself wanting to share some of the evidence and ideas about societal collapse with a friend or colleague? I have produced a summary of my book Breaking Together, which could help with that. I am sharing it ahead of next month's Metacrisis Meeting, where we will be discussing the future of collapse-aware communities and networks. In the post I also link to the video of a recent interview with me in Lisbon, at the launch of the Portuguese edition. They titled the video "the ho...| Prof Jem Bendell
After my essay on September 5th on the need for a pan-ecological understanding of climate change and how to respond to it, I received a range of feedback and questions. “Does it change your anticipation of collapse,” was one question. Ahead of next week’s Metacrisis Meeting on this topic, in this blog I am sharing… Continue reading Restoring Forest Cover and Ocean Health as the Frontline in the Climate Fight – an FAQ→| Prof Jem Bendell
If we are truly in a situation of ‘metacrisis’ then the foundations of our understanding of life and death are being challenged. It feels that way for many people who conclude that the …| Prof Jem Bendell
Oh yeah it’s one of these. My Exegesis. My recent delve (and submission) into Fight On! has once more turned my lidless eye to the OSR and its place within oldschool gaming so I figured a little essay might do help me convey my thoughts. As an added bonus, my little adventure design contest has … More On the OSR| Age of Dusk
The topic of game balance has been doing the rounds so I felt it would behoove me to have my say and explain, to the best of my ability, what everyone should think. In all examples, grey represents…| Age of Dusk
When people ask me about my Smart Home, they often expect something high-tech. Instead, they find an ordinary house that just happens to be observable, controllable, and a little more convenient. The trick? A hidden layer that I can build, break, and rebuild however I want. What’s the smart home I don’t really like the term “Smart Home”. I’m not sure the official definition even exists, but most of the ones I’ve found mention “remote control”, “internet connection”, and ...| Szymon Krajewski
This article concludes a series I have written on the language of “foreknowledge,” “election,” and “predestination” in the New Testament from the perspective of a Reformed Arminian and Free Will Baptist. Foreknowledge refers to God’s knowing things before they happen, such as the crucifixion of Jesus and the election of believers; God has perfect foreknowledge […]| Helwys Society Forum
Note: ‘Encounters with Autism’ is an essay that’s been sitting in my drawer for a couple of years. It’s formatted and styled slightly different to my normal practice here, b…| Death is a Whale
CITY: The Animation ended with yet another explosion of exuberant animation, design, and music to capture Keiichi Arawi’s sensibilities and its joyful themes. Let’s take one last look at this all-timer production… and what’s next for KyoAni as well, while we’re at it. Our first piece dedicated to CITY: The Animation was meant as an introduction to such a unique project, while the second one was a detailed chronicle of its production process, the involvement of original author Keiich...| Sakuga Blog
Working closely together, CITY‘s original author Keiichi Arawi and a Kyoto Animation team built around Taiichi Ishidate defied the norms of TV animation scheduling, stylistic trends, and regular workflows, all with a single goal: creating a unique show that’d spark the imagination. A fact about Kyoto Animation’s productions that is worth reiterating on a regular basis is that, contrary to popular belief, the studio doesn’t take much longer than the norm to make cartoons. Their staff ...| Sakuga Blog
The anime adaptation of Takopi’s Original Sin is the extraordinary result of a bold producer, an overlooked director, and an up-and-coming studio joining hands to make choices others don’t dare to. A tough path, but in the end, a stunning embodiment of the series’ plea for communication. If you are sensitive to depictions of physical abuse and suicidal behavior, I would advise approaching Takopi with care. Even if those topics aren’t outright triggering for you, this is a show best......| Sakuga Blog
CITY: The Animation is finally here, through an unusually close collaboration between author Keiichi Arawi and Kyoto Animation. To capture his original charm, the team led by Taiichi Ishidate found themselves experimenting with all sorts of inventive, fresh techniques. This is the story of the circumstances and creative choices that led to this adaptation, which you can already enjoy in its first episode. If you liked the Nichijou anime back in 2011, congratulations, you’re on the same page...| Sakuga Blog
Tetsuya Takeuchi is a beloved animator, and as it tends to happen, it’s his action work that receives the most attention. Though many do know he builds upon his characteristic articulation of acting, fewer realize how strongly he’s driven by broader interests—and how many of them happen to be concentrated in Tensei Ojisan, his well-meaning, cute debut as TV anime director. It’s not always that you can tell how directly a lead creative’s style and interests map to the characteristics...| Sakuga Blog
Sorairo Utility is Kengo Saito’s passion project through and through—not only as its original author and all-encompassing lead creative within the production team, but also in how it embodies his whole career, influences, hobbies, and the honest desire for people to chase their dreams without self-doubt. To talk about Sorairo Utility is to talk about Kengo Saito. His name brings the works of studio Trigger to mind for most people, and while that relationship is indispensable to understand...| Sakuga Blog
Uma Musume's Beginning of a New Era movie is the fiercest, most aggressively expressive sports film in a while. Beneath that bombastic animation horsepower,| Sakuga Blog
Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior situation of violence to establish their subjugation.| Malik Speaks!
BY JING-JING HU *Editor’s note: The following story was a runner-up in our first ever annual NüStories personal essay contest. This year’s theme was Chinese identity – read more here. As [ … ]|
The quiet whirr of my high-speed German train is a soothing reminder of Europe’s classy public transit I so miss in America. I’m headed south from Frankfurt towards a gentle landscape of vineyards, orchards and villages near the Rhine River and my Jewish father’s hometown. I’m much less comfortable with the muted conversations surrounding me. Like many children of Holocaust survivors, I grew up instinctively wary of the German language and all things German. I’m on a symbolic jou...| Trink Magazine
好镜头的代工细节问题| Lei Mao's Log Book
2025 年的徒步挑战纪念徽章和 All-20 Club 奖励| Lei Mao's Log Book
年轻时用过的一款 Sony MP3 播放器| Lei Mao's Log Book
Adam Valen Levinson yearned to learn Arabic. He did and wrote about it in The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East. His publisher, W.W. Norton, successfully placed an excerpt in Literary Hub, the website widely known as LitHub. The excerpt ran on Dec. 7, 2017. It begins with Levinson—who| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
When Washington announced a “framework deal” with China in June, it marked a silent shifting of gears in the global political economy. This was not the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s imagined epoch of “liberation” under unilateral American greatness or a return to the Biden administration’s dream of managed great-power rivalry. Instead, it was […]| Henry Farrell
Back in 2022, Cory Doctorow coined the term “enshittification” to describe a cycle that has played out again and again in the online economy. Entrepreneurs start off making high-minded promises to get new users to try their platforms. But once users, vendors, and advertisers have been locked in—by network effects, insurmountable collective action problems, high switching costs—the […]| Henry Farrell
With Dan Davies – for the New York Times This has been a good week for America’s crypto interests. The Genius Act, which legitimates a kind of cryptocurrency called stablecoins, advanced in the Senate, and on Thursday, President Trump held a gala dinner for the top 220 holders of his $Trump memecoin. That doesn’t mean […]| Henry Farrell
The best way to read Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book is to take the authors at their word. Abundance is what is usually called a “policy book,” but Klein and Thompson don’t quite offer a traditional policy agenda. Instead, the authors begin and end with a question that is also a concentrating lens. “Can we […]| Henry Farrell
What happens to politics when the voice of the people blurs together with the voices of self-appointed god-emperors like Elon Musk? We are about to find out. More at Democracy Journal.| Henry Farrell
How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality. By getting close to U.S. President Donald Trump, they risk losing access to one of their biggest markets: Europe. More at Foreign Affairs| Henry Farrell
[new at Inside Story] Just over a week ago, Vance gave a speech at the “American Dynamism Summit,” which made the contradiction clear. As with any politician’s speech, it is anyone’s guess how much is Vance himself, and how much his speechwriter. But the speech was very clearly all about the awkward relationship between Common Good Conservatism and Let […]| Henry Farrell
I have been reading Robert D. Richardson’s 1995 biography Emerson: The Mind On Fire. I find myself more fascinated by Emerson’s use of notebooks than by his actual writing or transcendentalism. Halfway through the biography, it seems to me that Emerson thought through his notebooks. By the end of his life, he’d filled hundreds of […]| Jamie Todd Rubin
The September / October issue of Smithsonian Magazine has a fantastic article by Richard Grant1 on Cormac McCarthy’s library. Over the years, I’ve read just three of McCarthy’s bo…| Jamie Todd Rubin
Arta Barzanji reports from this year's Locarno Film Festival on the experimentation of Alexandre Koberidze's Dry Leaf and Radu Jude's Dracula.| Ultra Dogme
By Jackson Diianni The critical discourse surrounding Robert Bresson has been some of the most contentious in film history, due, in large part, to a crucial impasse among scholars. Bresson criticism has traditionally been divided into two rival groups; the “transcendentalists” and the “materialists”, referring, in the broadest sense, to the spiritual and secular interpretations … Continue reading →| Filmic
The Global War on Terror didn't eliminate Al-Qaeda; the war just pushed Al-Qaeda into Africa. As a result, the group continues to grow.| Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
Hongkong seems very quiet, but outsiders do not know whether the Chinese who live here are comfortable or not.Men communicate their thoughts and feelings through writing, yet most Chinese nowadays are still unable to express themselves this way. This . . . Source| Brick
There was a huge anti-immigration march in Britain this past weekend. It has woken a lot of people up to the extent of support for hard right politics. I was aware of this, and so decided that my f…| Prof Jem Bendell
After forty years on the planet, you’d think I would be used to this. Public shame about my body. Opinions of strangers. The eyes. The laughs. The echo of car horns and abuse hurled from passing motors. That feeling of being overlooked or underestimated due to my size, or worse, being looked over and assessed and found wanting. Derision that seeks to and often succeeds in sending me into hiding. Into my mind. Into poetry. Into the safety of the lifelines I know best. | The Stinging Fly
by Matthew Steven Bracey and Phillip T. Morgan Charlie Kirk was assassinated precisely one week ago today. In this post, we reflect on this sad situation. Although articles on the Helwys Society Forum do not normally focus on current events, this one demands our attention because no current event in recent memory has so impacted—so […]| Helwys Society Forum
Words are like viruses. They appear in culture and may lie dormant then suddenly they are everywhere, swirling about, adapting to their hosts, mutating to survive. In the wine world, this process can happen fast. "Purity," it turns out, is anything but pure.| Trink Magazine
Only a small sliver of the students who attend the University of Austin (henceforth UATX) already care about writing. True in any school, perhaps, but in other schools, there are many students interested in writing-adjacent things: other arts, like dance, or critical disciplines engaged with art, such as art history. UATX disproportionately draws young people| ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Brad, a top footballer, sits in the bleachers watching the game. He cannot believe his eyes. He has come to watch his friend Edgar play, and Edgar is the worst football player he has ever seen. He stands around, chewing gum. When he runs at all, he runs like a| The Autodidacts
There are, from time to time, books I attempt to read that I am simply not ready for. They seem interesting, I start them, but I don’t make it very far. Years later I might come back to them, and find that I am ready, and I read the book with joy and delight that […]| Jamie Todd Rubin
At a recent back-to-school night, I was astonished to learn that science education takes a back seat to Virginia Studies in 4th grade. Part of the reason seems to be that 4th grade students take a …| Jamie Todd Rubin
Among my favorite types of books in my collection are ex-lib books—or as I like to think of them, retired library books. I received one in the mail recently, Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Paul…| Jamie Todd Rubin
I’m terrible when it comes to book ratings. I used to use them, but these days I’ve given up on them completely. I think of a 0-to-5 star rating as a bell curve where 3 stars fall right…| Jamie Todd Rubin
COVID-19 一直阴魂不散| Lei Mao's Log Book
All year, we wait for that perfect time again: summer. The season of tan lines, iced lattes, and late-night memories with our friends.| STRAND Magazine
On New Year’s Day, I was sixteen weeks pregnant but found myself waiting in limbo for my six-weeks-dead baby both to arrive and to depart in a medically managed miscarriage. With three healthy and uncomplicated pregnancies under my belt, I felt almost no anxiety when my midwife could not locate a heartbeat with her doppler […] The post A Death/Birth appeared first on Helwys Society Forum.| Helwys Society Forum
by Aidan Lytle Eschatology is hotly debated in many Christian groups. For generations, scholars have presented various interpretations of the book of Revelation and other books of the Bible related to the subject. Unfortunately, preachers and teachers sometimes get tangled in the passionate weeds of the debate surrounding premillennialism verses postmillennialism versus amillennialism and do […] The post Reflections on “Is He Worthy?” appeared first on Helwys Society Forum.| Helwys Society Forum
This summer we would like to share some good reads we discovered over the past few months. These selections represent a wide array of topics we think will interest you. Some selections will be great for personal reading, others for family time. Most of all, we think they will broaden your understanding of God’s creation […] The post Recommended Books (Summer 2025) appeared first on Helwys Society Forum.| Helwys Society Forum
Apologetics and theology should be the closest of disciplines. One might even argue, given that theology is the “queen of the sciences,” apologetics should rightly serve under that theological rule. For this reason, scholarship has given much attention to the relationship between these two disciplines. A plethora of books have been written on apologetic methodology, […] The post Is Inerrancy Important to Apologetics? appeared first on Helwys Society Forum.| Helwys Society Forum
My previous article examined the language of “election” in the New Testament in relation to the believer’s salvation, arguing that God has elected individual believers in Christ from eternity past by His foreknowing their faith unto the end of eternal life. This article treats the language of election more broadly. The first portion of this […]| Helwys Society Forum
JIM SHEPARD And Shep looked only a little chagrined, like someone had asked why he had never become an acrobat, and allowed as how he was sure it was very impressive, given how many distinguished people had praised it, but that it was not the kind of thing someone with his background could judge.| The Common
Virginity is on trial here, and virginity’s crime is…? Tolentino summarizes one writer’s terms for it: “that celibacy had lately doubled among people in their early twenties.” As if virginity is metastasizing like cancer or multiplying like rabbits. Then Tolentino quotes another writer who gives the offense an economic spin by calling it a “sex recession,” as if virginity were the fall-out from bad investments. The post How I Became a Fan of Jia Tolentino appeared first on Slant...| Slant Books
Bombardment, famine, and loss defined life after a ceasefire. Survivors find that bread, family, and memories are the only things left to cling to| Prism
Asking a question forced Vancouver poet, storyteller, and writer Holly Flauto to face her own uncertainties as a writer.| MONTECRISTO
But why does anyone film anything? To remember it and, in the case of home viewing, to watch it repeatedly, allowing the images to spread across time like a curse. The same week I began writing this piece, the entertainment company A24 Films texted me to advertise a unique contest, as if they sensed my […]| Mid Theory Collective
In this essay I offer what I think is my most comprehensive update since the Deep Adaptation paper on how I interpret the latest climate science and data. I start from the alarming acceleration of global temperatures since early 2023, surpassing predictions and challenging established climatology. I critique current climate science for its dogmatic, carbon-centric focus, which fails to fully integrate crucial ecological processes. This includes the role of forests and oceans in cooling the pl...| Prof Jem Bendell
This is an excerpt of an article that the UN staff magazine published from me earlier this year. In it I talk about a new context for future efforts at international cooperation. If interested, con…| Prof Jem Bendell
