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¶ ¶ Larry Chapp: Gaudium et Spes 22☼☼☼—https://gaudiumetspes22.com/blog/dr-david-deane-joins-larry-chapp-to-discuss-his-upcoming-book-on-christian-anarchism

In trains and economics →
¶ ¶ Persuasion - Yascha Mounk & al.☼☼☼—What Japan Taught me About American Trains «What Amtrak has given us is a train masquerading as an airplane. This would make sense if people loved air travel, but everybody hates it. The only reason we put up with all the hassle inherent in an airplane is that the darn things fly, which is the one thing the Acela certainly can’t do. / Really the Acela is a train with low self-esteem. Or maybe a personality crisis.»

Faith Seeking Understanding

¶ ¶ A Golden String - Mark Vernon☼☼☼—Human. The alternative evolutionary story of who we are. Part 1
Part 2
War. What is it good for?

¶ ¶ Rupert Sheldrake☼☼☼—The Wisdom of the Imagination [bit]

☼¶ Tony Golsby-Smith: Gospel Conversations¶ ☼☼—David Hart on his Revolutionary Translation of Romans 5:12

An essay for 1 October, the feast of the Protection of Our Lady, Queen of Ukraine — and the feast of Fr Martin’s parish:

☼¶ Public Orthodoxy - Orthodox Christian Studies at Fordham¶ ☼☼—Gazing at the Theotokos in Romanos's Kontakia and an Early Prayer Fragment

Cheers dears!

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+Pi Jaws &c.+

✨¶¶ Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Whitefriars’ Parish, Coorparoo)☼☼☼—Reflection: Lazarus and the Rich Man

☼✨¶ Outreach (lesbigayt Catholic resource from New York)¶ ☼☼—What happens when we don’t get what we pray for? Ex 17: 8-13; 2 Tim 3:14-4:2; Lk 18:1-8
The person you hate is someone to help, learn from and even find salvation from 2 Kgs 5:14-17; 2 Tim 2:8-13; Lk 17:11-19
Are we “unworthy servants”? Hab 1:2-3, 2:2-4; 2 Tim 1:6-8, 13-14; Lk 17:5-10
What is your response to the poor? Amos 6:1a, 4-7; 1 Tim 6:11-16; Lk 16:19-31
“Hear this, you who trample upon the needy!” Amos 8:4-7; 1 Tim 2:1-8; Lk 16:1-13

✨¶Apostolate of Prayer

Pope's October prayer intention: 'Collaboration among religions'

Pope Leo XIV releases his prayer intention for the month of October, inviting the faithful to pray for 'collaboration between different religious traditions.'

Plough: There Is No Separation

Hannah Whitall Smith

An unscriptural and unnatural divorce has been brought about between our so-called religious life and our so-called temporal life, as if our religion were something apart from ourselves, a sort of outside garment that was to be put on and off according to our circumstances and purposes. On Sundays, and in church, our purpose is to seek God, and worship and serve him, and therefore on Sundays we bring out our religious life and put it on in a suitably solemn manner, and live it with a strained gravity and decorum which deprives it of half its power. But on Mondays our purpose is to seek our own interests and serve them, and so we bring out our temporal life and put it on with a sense of relief, as from an unnatural bondage, and live it with ease and naturalness, and consequently with far more power.

+Laughter, the best Medicine+

+Afterthoughts+

Prompted by my friend Danny remembering a 1964 recording by The Animals rock band.

In the 1960s, the Coorparoo State School, which I attended, was big: there were some 1 200 pupils when I started forty in each of four classes across eight grades-- then about 1 100 when the "Scholarship year" was moved over to high school. It was so big that the department of education assigned one of the rare music specialists to be based at our school: first Miss Nesbit and then Miss Monica Guivarra.

This was thought to be a great blessing by our ordinary teachers, who thereby
1) didn't have to teach singing and
2) had an hour during the school-day when they could mark pupil's work, instead of doing it all after school.

Miss Guivarra was much impressed by the Kodaly method of musical education [Zoltán Kodály, 6 March 1967 (age 84 years), Budapest]. His was a progressive or incremental method. Instead of beginning with a simplified version of what the instructor considers to be the best, Kodály suggested that teachers start with the pupils' existing experience of music. Instead of beginning with, say, a simplified version of Bach's B minor Mass, one begins with the folk song and street cries (or, in our day, advertising jingles) of the people, and with the nursery songs and playground chants of children.

So the children of Coorparoo sang bush songs and ballads during music instruction. Some of the lyrics were greeted with raised eye-brows by the more-earnest denizens. The last stanza of 'Click Go the Shears' alludes without opprobrium to the shearers' habit of 'drinking their cheque' in the first tavern that they come to after finishing a bout of shearing -- was this suitable for the young people of Coorparoo?

On 18 May 1964, a Geordie rock band called The Animals recorded a blues rock version of the folk song 'There is a House called "Rising Sun"'and it 'hit the charts' in the English-speaking world. A few months later, Miss Guivarra had us singing a soulful lament about a house of 'drink and misery' in New Orleans in Louisiana.

I'm unsure whether we sang exactly the same "Rising Sun" lyrics as The Animals. I rather think not, because their lyrics allude only to the misery of gambling and drunkenness, whereas a conversation of the women of my household suggests that we sang older English lyrics.

As I recall it, my mother and sisters were considering the propriety of children singing about a house which was a brothel. What, I asked myself, was a 'brothel'? I had learnt in Sunday school that 'Bethel' was ‘God’s House'. Perhaps a brothel is a kind of soup kitchen?

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“O God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed, the courage to change what can be changed, and the wisdom to know the one from the other.” — Winnifred Crane Wygal (8 July 1972, aged 87), using work of her teacher Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (1 June 1971, aged 78)

✨ ¶ A Golden String - Mark Vernon☼☼☼—Post-Literacy and Playing With Words
🔴Addiction to Doom
🔴Rouze Up Souls of the New Age!
🔴 Human. The alternative evolutionary story of who we are. Part 1 } Part 2
War. What is it good for?

¶ ¶ A Phuulish Fellow - Daniel Stride☼☼☼—Musings on the Future of Universities: It Won’t Be AI That Kills Them

¶ ¶ Aaron Ross Powell☼☼☼—If Trump is So Unpopular, Why are Institutions Capitulating?
How to Be in a World on Fire
Spending Time with Spinal Tap (Again)

¶ ¶ Adam Tooze: Chartbook☼☼☼—AI’s trillion-dollar loss-makers. TSMC’s very real profits. Cockroaches v. termites. Coca =/= cocaine.
Vaccinating the world’s children and what else China is building in Tibet.
Trump’s tariffs are hurting. Porsche in trouble.
The future of the world economy - or, thinking with soup.
Economics in the Face of Genocide: Yusif A. Sayigh Development Lecture
Jean Pisani-Ferry’s cri de cœur.
Trump’s China hawks are coming for the IMF. Screw worms are scary & the “lost drone of stopped machines”.

✨¶ Addison Hodges Hart: The Pragmatic Mystic☼☼☼—The two essentials that define Christian love
Orthodox Christian iconography with Fr. Panayiotis Papageorgiou
On spiritual friendship
Released today...
Second of two excerpts from: “Four Gospels, Four Hearts, One Lord: Reading Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in Context” (gratis post)
First of two excerpts from: “Four Gospels, Four Hearts, One Lord”
”The Pride as the Primary Cause of Spiritual Filth: On Umberto Eco’s Novel Foucault’s Pendulum” Alexander Popov
Freedom: what it is and how we get it
Announcement of a new book
Reflections on the Kirk remembrance event

☼¶ Aeon Weekly¶ ☼☼—The puzzle of the idiot savant The convergence of singular talent and profound disability confounded scientists eager to place humans into neat categories - by Violeta Ruiz

¶ ¶ Alexander Khara: Alexander’s Substack☼☼☼—Tomahawks in exchange for Donbas and the “frozen line” idea will not fly
In the sky over the Baltic

¶ ¶ Alexander McKeever: This Week in Northern Syria☼☼☼—Appearance on Popular Front
Introducing the ‘Syria resource drive’
This Week in Northern Syria [40.2025] October 15
[39.2025] October 8
[38.2025] October 1
[37.2025] September 24 - 30:
[36.2025] September 17 - 23 |
Weekend notes 28 September Weekend notes

¶ ¶ Alexander of Albany: Tales☼☼☼—King Alfred: Battle of Edington Part 3 Symbolism
Beer: A Proof for the Existence of God
King Alfred: Battle of Edington

¶ ¶ Alexander Vindman - Why It Matters☼ 🇺🇦☼—Hegseth’s First Loyalty Test
Course Correction?
UN General Assembly, Ukraine War and Russian Escalation
Courage Is the Antidote

¶ ¶ American Purpose - Francis Fukuyama☼☼☼—Deregulation for Me, Regulation for Thee
Trump’s Attitude to the Federal Bureaucracy
Armageddon in the Civil Service
Iran’s Crackdown on Free Thought
The End of Macronisme
Moldova Chooses Europe Over Russia
Trump’s War on Universities
An Election That Could Redraw Europe’s Map
25 Years Ago, Russia Had Its Own Kimmel Moment

¶ ¶ Andrew Fox: Andrew Fox’s Substack☼☼☼—Aston Villa FC: Maccabi Tel Aviv fans banned
Gaza ceasefire declared
An open letter to the Jewish community
UK, Canada and Australia recognise Palestine

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿¶ ¶ Andrew Tanner: Rogue Systems Recon☼ ☼ ☼—Ukraine’s Victory Campaign: Creep, Then Counter
Earth Forces Bulletin 10-25: On Doctrine
Drones and the Ongoing Evolution of Operations in Ukraine
Ukraine’s Ultimate Triumph: Taking Putin’s Empire Apart
Aesthetics Against Reality: The Struggle To Understand The Ukraine War
Corps Against Combined Arms Armies

¶ ¶ Anton Howes☼☼☼—Age of Invention: Joel Mokyr’s Nobel

¶ ¶ Arthur Snell: Not all doom☼☼☼—Credit where due...
Has Russia lost Moldova?
Can Ukraine arm Europe?

☼¶ Bellingcat¶ ☼☼—Wildfires Ravage One of Africa’s Largest Nature Reserves
Student Researchers Vs The Misinformation Machine
Trump’s Takeover of DC

✨¶ Bradley Jersak☼☼☼—Q&R: “What’s the problem with systematic theology?”
“Also Known As” - James Retitles Our Bible Stories
🔴 “Depart from me”/”Return to Me” «PUNCHLINE: What if for EVERY depart from me, there is a forthcoming return to me?»
🔴 My Theological Method - Bradley Jersak

¶ ¶ Brain Pizza - Shane O’Mara☼☼☼—the tech industry’s flawed model of your brain

¶ ¶ Branko Milanovic: Global Inequality and More¶ ☼☼—A strange encounter
Russia: An ideology for domestic purposes and another for foreign
Defeated by the real world
Of fascination and addiction
Note on new technologies in China and on our human future
How to control increase of income inequality?

☼¶ Carnegie: politika, Russia Eurasia¶ ☼☼—Japan’s New Prime Minister Looks Set to Hold the Line on Russia
Why Is the Russian Elite So Keen to Cozy Up to Trump?
Has the EU Found a Way to Use Frozen Russian Assets to Help Ukraine?
Russia’s System Is Beginning to Eat Its Own Read more
What Role Will Veterans Play in Ukrainian Politics?
Germany’s Military Readiness Gap and the Pitfalls of a Return to Conscription
With Putin in Charge, Russia’s Vassalage to China Will Only Deepen
Have Ukrainian Drones Really Knocked Out 38% of Russia’s Oil Refining Capacity? Read more
Moscow’s Xenophobic Migration Policy Is Impacting Relations With Central Asia Read more
Putin’s Nostalgia Makes a Muddle of Russian Eurovision Analog Read more
Russia’s Current Demographic Crisis Is Its Most Dangerous Yet Read more
Moldova’s Election Is a Test for Russian Influence in Europe
Why Putin No Longer Needs Negotiator in Chief Dmitry Kozak Read more
Kremlin’s Regional Election Experiments Read more
Power of Siberia 2 Gas Pipeline? Read more

☼¶ CathNews¶ ☼☼—Young couple brew Australia’s first pro-life coffee company Early one morning, Hannah Farrugia conceived the idea of creating Australia’s first pro-life coffee company. Source: The Catholic Weekly.

✨¶ Catholic Justice and Peace Commission of Brisbane☼☼☼—Dilexi te - Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi te of the Holy Father Leo XIV on Love for the Poor [AR - DE - EN - ES - FR - IT - PL - PT]

¶ ¶ Cemil Kerimoglu: From Baltic to the Black Sea☼☼☼—Today’s Anti-Semitism Is An Offshoot of Anti-Whiteism «Another odious example is John Mearsheimer. He rails against Israel, calling its actions in Gaza “genocide”. Yet in the same breath he whitewashes Russia’s crimes, instead blaming the West for Russian invasion of Ukraine. Needless to say, he prefers to gloss over the more obvious and barbaric genocide that Russia is currently committing in Ukraine.»
Don’t Talk to Russians
The Janissaries of The Russian World
What a polymath! While writing essays about History and Politics, Kerimoglu finds time for Histone-Methyltransferase MLL2 (KMT2B) Is Required for Memory Formation in Mice

¶ ¶ Chris Arnade: Walks the World☼☼☼—Walking Hong Kong (Kowloon, really)
Walking Kunming (China)
Four Years of Walking the World
Small Acts of Good, US as Third World Country, and How Culture Changes

¶ ¶ Clare Ashcraft - The Mestiza☼☼☼—A Note on Political Violence
My Headless Doppelganger

¶ ¶ Colin Gorrie - Dead Language Society☼☼☼—“God” is a weird word
How iambic pentameter really works
How rhyme works (and why)
The hidden logic of nicknames The beginner’s guide to Early Modern English [bit]
What people get wrong about Elizabethan English

¶ ¶ Colin Long: Radical Civility☼☼☼—Albo - stop reading Abundance and start investing in the energy transition!

¶ ¶ Comment is Freed - Lawrence & Sam Freedman☼☼☼—Is PR coming to the UK?
Déjà Vu All over Again
On the edge My week in the NHS
Putin’s theory of victoryRussia and the rise of the radical right [bit]
‘As Long as it Takes’: What does it mean to commit to Ukraine’s security?
Russian provocations «We can discount any idea that this is all accidental, that the drones overshot or pilots lost their bearings. When a score of unarmed drones launched from four different points all find their way into Poland at the same time, or when aircraft edge into Estonian airspace for long enough to be noticed but not for so long or so far to appear as a major violation, you can assume that this is intentional.»
Last Rites
One Last Push?
Three seconds TikTok [bit]

¶ ¶ Craig Unger☼☼☼—#31. Georgia on his Mind(2011)
#30 Trump’s Russian Laundromat
Distorted Reality Fields
#29. Trump’s Baku Breakdown (2011)

¶ ¶ Daniel O’Neill☼☼☼—What happened to literary theory afterwards - audivis - Terry Eagleton - ‘Literary Theory: An Introduction’

¶ ¶ Daniel W. Drezner: Drezner’s World☼☼☼—The Dismal Application Record of the Trump Compact
The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Passport
A Day in the Life of a Dean
The Death of Davos Man?
The Strategic Costs of the Gaza War
Will the Democrats Become the Party of Free Trade?
The Blinding of American Grand Strategy
Pete Hegseth Is Out of His Depth
The Most Bizarre Test of U.S. National Security Is Happening This Week
The Silliest, Brattiest Adult in the Room
The Weakness and Incompetence of American Authoritarianism

¶ ¶ Dave Keating: Gulf Stream Blues☼☼☼—Europe’s US dependence is at boiling point
The G7 has lost the credibility to criticise China
Trump is unravelling the EU’s climate plans
NATO got PURLed yesterday
France’s political chaos could bring down Europe
Neither Russia nor renewables caused the Iberian blackout - bit
As Moldova chooses EU, Merz bashes Brussels
MAGA is waging a culture war on Europe
As Eurovision flails, Russia’s Intervision bids to take its place

✨¶ David Bentley Hart: Leaves in the Wind☼☼☼—A Conversation on Prisms, Veils
The Desire for More and the Desire for the All: Diverse Notes [bit]
Three Links including «here is a link to 🔴 some remarks [on change of heart] I delivered remotely to a conference at CUA several months back.»
The Genealogy of Genealogy Or: The Suspicion of Suspicion
These Fragments Have I Shored 3
A Link

¶ ¶ Default Friend @substack.com☼☼☼—What Is Taboo Now That Nothing Is Taboo?
Looksmaxxing and Human Potential

¶ ¶ Denis MacShane: Tomorrow’s Europe Today☼☼☼—Chinese Have Spies, Pay for Information Like Every Other Country
English History is … full of Cruelty, Racism, and Hate
A Far-Right PM in Downing Street
Americans not the Self-Regarding Press will Deliver a Verdict on Trump
Stop Putin Winning Moldova to His Camp
Old Man’s Syndrome Prevent Trump and Europe Helping Ukraine

¶ ¶ Dexter Roberts: Trade War (mostly PRC & USA)☼☼☼—Trade War Newsletter 278
Trade War Newsletter 277
Beijing plays hardball, puts new restrictions on rare earths
Trade War Newsletter 275
Trade War Newsletter 274 - Sept. 21, 2025

¶ ¶ Diane Francis: America and the World☼☼☼—War against Cartels October 23, 2025
Putin, Trump, and Next October 20

The Week. Tom Janssen. 2018

Trump’s Peace October 16
In Gold We Trust October 9
War in Europe October 6
The Frankenstein War
Veto Russia September 25, 2025

¶ ¶ Dr Caroline Orr Bueno: Weaponized¶ ☼☼—AI political campaigns are learning to run themselves

¶ ¶ Drew Hutton: From Drew Hutton☼☼☼—What does it mean to be human and how does your answer define your politics?
The Importance of a Political NarrativeTime to Challenge the Bullies of the Identitarian Left

¶ ¶ Drew Pavlou: Iceberg Journal☼☼☼—The World After October 7

¶ ¶ DW Phillips: Lights, Camera, Freedom☼☼☼—Why the Putin/Trump Summit was “Cancelled.”
When [Okhrana] is given a seat to Rebuke the President of Ukraine
“Putin: Never Have I Ever Met a Rudapest — That Hairy Hound en Route to Budapest”
Ukraine Has a Big Opportunity in the Information War
Candace Owens - Poirot She is Not

☼¶ ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations)¶ ☼☼—Majda Ruge notes that J.D. Vance is shaping a foreign policy to undermine Europe’s liberal order while pushing it to shoulder more defence.

¶ ¶ Eliot A Cohen☼☼☼—Brace yourselves I throw a bouquet at Donald Trump in The Atlantic
On Hegseth’s speech to the generals

¶ ¶ Eliot Wilson: The Ideas Lab☼☼☼—In defence of the Holy Roman Empire, and on the usage of “empire”
Sunday round-up 19 October 2025
Defence and security digest: stories you may have missed
Sunday round-up 12 October 2025
Cousin marriage: can we blame Henry VIII?
Sunday round-up 5 October 2025
What age should a Labour leader be?
What age should a Conservative Party leader be?
Sunday round-up 28 September 2025
Who was PM when the PM was born?
Undersea cables and UK national resilience
Mary Tudor—who could a queen regnant wed? Transcript available
Sunday round-up 21 September 2025
Assisted dying is a matter of life and death

☼¶ Engelsberg Ideas¶ ☼☼—Will Russia crack? Owen Matthews investigates.
William Gourlay on the roots of Kurdish discontent.
Gerald Warner on the Risorgimento myth.
Revolutionary tolerance In an age of ferocious religious bloodletting, Sebastian Castellio argued that everyone seems like a heretic to someone else by Michael W Bruening
From nothing, everything The idea of nothing pushes at the limits of thought, spawning paradoxes that have long nourished art, philosophy, and science by Victoria Wohl
Nicholas Morton explores the shared world of the Assassins and Knights Templar.
Eliot Wilson explains why politicians need to show, not tell.
The anatomy of the spy novel – D. J. Taylor
Daniel Peris explains how Russia’s declining power could transform the map of East Asia.
Marc Le Chevallier on Hannah Arendt’s free-speech manifesto.

¶ ¶ Eve Tushnet: The Rogation Dragon☼☼☼—Smiling, Speaking, Biting
Mystics and Statistics
The Eye of the Mistress on the Hand of the Maid
“Looking Is Free But Touching Will Cost You”

¶ ¶ Faika El-Nagashi: The Other Side of Politics☼☼☼—The burqa is not a piece of cloth

¶ ¶ Faridaily - Farida Rustamova☼☼☼—The Kremlin’s main foe is now Europe–not the US
Caution the watchword as Russia unveils budget
🔴 Fewer uncomfortable truths for Putin

☼¶ Foreign Affairs - [US] Council on Foreign Relations¶ ☼☼—The Only Security Guarantee Ukraine Can Trust By Andriy Zagorodnyuk
Nobody Lost Taiwan The Island Remains Secure and Stable—for Now

¶ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿¶ FPRI (Foreign Policy Research Institute): behindthefront☼☼☼—American Missiles and Russian Dachas
America Looks to Finland to Save Its Icebreaker Fleet
AUKUS Still Has a Virginia Problem
The Return of Subic Bay

¶ ✨¶ Fr Thomas Plant☼☼☼—The Body Sundered
Darwell Stone and Anglican Identity
Christian Dogma
Harvesting compassion
Decisions, decisions...
Three devotions on the Nicene Creed
Love your enemies?

¶ ¶ Francis Fukuyama: Frankly Fukuyama, Persuasion☼☼☼—Superintelligence Isn’t Enough
Against a Unitary Executive

¶ ¶ Freya India: Girls☼☼☼—Announcing Girls®: The Book!
We Are The Slop
The Insincerity Of Therapy-Speak [bit]

¶ ¶ Front Porch Republic☼☼☼—“Escaping the Brave New World.” Paul Kingsnorth … outlines six ways we might live as humans in a machine age.

¶ ¶ Gabrielius Landsbergis☼☼☼—Why is Lithuania betraying Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya?
NATO’s quick and decisive responses also need to deter View

¶ ¶ Gareth Gore☼☼☼—Opus Dei “on the cusp of ceasing to exist”

¶ ¶ Global Sisters Report☼☼☼—Katharine Drexel’s legacy endures as Black Catholic university she founded turns 100

¶ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿¶¶ GMan: Musings On History and Politics☼☼☼—From Moscow to Tehran: Soviet and Russian Intelligence Links
Revealed: US 21-point plan for ending Gaza war, creating pathway to Palestinian state
NATO: STANDING UP TO PUTIN
POWER & CORRUPTION IN THE RUSSIAN ARMY: THE FSB IS KING
Sir Keir Starmer’s Callous Governance: A Betrayal of Life and Law
KINETIC SANCTIONS & ECONOMIC STRIFE

¶ ¶ H.R. McMaster: History We Don’t Know☼☼☼—The Nobel Peace Prize for María Corina Machado and the Need to Isolate and Weaken Leftist Dictatorships in Latin America
Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Convocation
Consistency and Dissonance: UNGA 2025 and President Trump

¶ ¶ Ilan Goldenberg: Word on the Street☼☼☼—The End of “Managing the Conflict” Israel Faces a Choice – Super Sparta or the 23-State Solution
PEACE

☼¶ Institute for Theological Encounter with Science & Tech’ (ITEST)¶ ☼—The August 2025 FiRST Principles Journal of ITEST is now available HERE.

☼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿¶¶ ISW Publications: Institute for the Study of War¶ ☼☼—October 12, 2025 Estonian authorities temporarily closed a section of road passing through Russian territory near the Russia-Estonia border on October 10 after Estonian border guards observed a small group of Russian military personnel without insignia in the area. … This event is the first instance of ISW observing “little green men” (a euphemism the Kremlin uses for the Russian military forces in unmarked uniforms) operating near a NATO state in the context of the “Phase Zero” campaign.
Intel Brief: September 2025 Newsletter : ISW continues to assess that a Russian victory is not inevitable and that Ukraine and the West can leverage several key Russian weaknesses to force Putin to change his calculus and engage in good-faith negotiations.

☼¶ International Intrigue¶ ☼☼—October 21, 2025 | Read Online | « One of the reasons we left the foreign service and founded Intrigue was we feared our world’s attention was increasingly absorbed by (say) the leader of the free world dunking on an ambassador, rather than (say) two allies inking a historic minerals deal. / But this Trump-Rudd moment does highlight a couple of things worth tackling briefly. / First, it’s an example of how sometimes our legacy media friends can create the news (drawing Trump’s attention to Rudd’s comments) in hopes of firing up the rage cycle for another few clicks. It’s short-term profitable, but arguably long-term corrosive, not only to a legacy media already struggling with declining trust, but also a broader free world still struggling to meaningfully debate its own existential challenges. / Second, this whole visit was also an example of how sometimes partisan politics can complicate good policy. The opposition in Australia has long dunked on Albanese’s seeming inability to land a meeting with Trump until now, but the timing (intentional or not) struck us as kinda shrewd: rather than go early but empty and risk another Oval Office ambush, the two sides spent months hammering out several deals, with the result that everyone (except maybe a certain ambassador) just walked away happy. »

¶ ¶ Iulia Mendel: Weekly Update☼☼☼—Russia’s refineries burn, but its budget thrives on crude exports, including to Europe
Ukraine’s OnlyFans Paradox: Tax the Sin, Punish the Sinner
Armenia: winning through struggling

¶ ¶ Jay Nordlinger (thenextmove)☼☼☼—We Need Free-Speech Consistency

¶ ¶ Jean M. Twenge: Generation Tech☼☼☼—A survey let people explain what “other” gender they were.
Trans identification really is in free fall: New data
Is transgender identity declining among young adults?
I tried to protect from the internet. Here’s what happened.
It’s not just you: Americans are still not hanging out

¶ ¶ Jeffrey Paller: This Week in Africa☼☼☼—This Week in Africa October 17, 2025
Week October 10, 2025
Week October 3
Week September 26

¶ ¶ Jeremy Ben-Ami: Word on the Street☼☼☼—Is There Such A Thing as “Returning To Normal” After Gaza?
The Day After Has Arrived
Two Years After October 7: It is Time for Peace
No Kings, No Silence
Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? Tashlich symbolizes teshuvah (repentance), tefillah (prayer), and tzedakah (charity).

☼¶ Jewish Council of Australia ‘founded in a commitment to Tikkun Olam (repair of the world), Pikuach Nefesh (saving a life or the value of human life) and makhloket l’shem shamayim (hard conversations ‘for heaven’s sake’).’¶ ☼☼—x 03 View in browser
Media Release - Two years on
Who is the Jewish Council of Australia?—October 2025

¶ ¶ Joe Cirincione: Strategy & History☼☼☼—A House of Dynamite
🔴We Tried to Warn Israel
🔴The Enemy Within
🔴 Trump’s Assault on Civil Society Is a Crisis for the Rule of Law

¶ ¶ John Ganz: Unpopular Front☼☼☼—Cringe and Country; a Democratic Tea Party?
“What’s Happening Here”
After Gaza; Radical Universalism; The “Woke” Right
TIME TO REFUSE
Notes on the ‘Balance of Forces’
Drawing out Leviathan
Reflections on Free Speech

¶ ¶ Jon Haidt &al’: After Babel☼☼☼—Does Social Media Use Predict Teen Depression at a Later Time?
We Are The Slop
Free Play and Mental Health: What We Know, What We Don’t

¶ ¶ Joseph Heath: In Due Course☼☼☼—Populism fast and slow
Kōhei Saitō’s tsunami of confusion
Not quite leveling down

¶ ¶ Julie Bindel: writing and podcasts☼☼☼—Married to a serial killer

☼¶ Julie Szego - Szego Unplugged¶ ☼☼—The Homecoming
The Shrink Who Roared

¶ ¶ Julien Hoez: The French Dispatch☼☼☼—🇫🇷Lecornu 2 is go
Lecornu, rebelote
France Update - Macron vs Philippe, Lecornu’s failing negotiations
Lecornu Resigns as France Succumbs to Political Chaos
Sarkozy Jailed, Moldova Votes on Europe
Weekly European Update - Copenhagen Summit

¶ ¶ Kasparov’s Next Move☼☼☼—‘Don’t Forget Belarus’: A Political Prisoner’s Wife Speaks Out
Budapest Gambit: Europe’s Trump Card on Russia and Ukraine
In Defense of María Corina Machado—and Freedom Fighters Everywhere
October 7 Exposed an Authoritarian Axis
Trump’s March on Chicago
A Scholar of China and a Friend to Its Persecuted
Democratic Credibility Dies in the Chaos
Is Trump The Kind of Guy Who Eats Last?
Comey Indictment: It’s Mafia Politics and Trump Is the Don
Fortune Favors the Bold
Political Violence Is a National Security Problem

¶ ¶ Ken Opalo: Africanist Perspective☼☼☼—Raila Amolo Odinga
The geopolitics of international development (after foreign aid)

¶ ¶ Konstantin Kisin☼☼☼—Interview About My Life, Struggles and Success [audivis]
Why Communism Never Works and What Communists Did to My Family [audivis]
Interview with Chris Williamson [audivis]
Why They Will Never Be Honest About Islamist Violence

¶ ¶ Larry Chapp: Gaudium et Spes 22☼☼☼—https://gaudiumetspes22.com/blog/dr-david-deane-joins-larry-chapp-to-discuss-his-upcoming-book-on-christian-anarchism

https://gaudiumetspes22.com/blog/dr-paul-seaton-and-larry-chapp-part-three-of-our-podcast-on-the-book-by-pierre-manent-on-pascal
https://gaudiumetspes22.com/blog/the-spurious-attacks-on-bishop-barron-from-michael-sean-winters-a-response-my-latest-in-catholic-world-report
https://gaudiumetspes22.com/blog/dilexi-te-my-appearance-on-the-spes-salvi-podcast-with-robert-mixa
​https://gaudiumetspes22.com/blog/womens-ordination-yet-again-my-latest-in-the-national-catholic-register
https://gaudiumetspes22.com/blog/kale-zelden-and-larry-chapp-discuss-hypotheticals-and-the-historical-context-of-vatican-ii
https://gaudiumetspes22.com/blog/the-popes-new-apostolic-exhortation-dilexi-te-my-latest-in-catholic-world-report​
https://gaudiumetspes22.com/blog/the-personalism-of-dorothy-day-and-the-bonds-of-charity-my-latest-in-the-national-catholic-register​
​https://gaudiumetspes22.com/blog/dr-charles-camosy-joins-larry-chapp-to-discuss-his-new-book-living-and-dying-well-a-catholic-plan-for-resisting-physician-assisted-killing​
https://gaudiumetspes22.com/blog/gavin-ashenden-and-larry-chapp-discuss-pope-leos-interview-with-crux​
https://gaudiumetspes22.com/blog/the-communio-interviews-bishop-erik-varden-joins-larry-chapp-to-discuss-his-recent-interview-in-communio​

Henryk Siemiradzki, “The Last Supper,” ca. 1876 (photo: Public Domain)

¶ ¶ Latika Takes - Latika M Bourke☼☼☼—Kemi Badenoch resists populist path with tax-cutting promise
Why Andrew Hastie quit the frontbench
The brightest news out of Europe since Putin started the war SATURDAY LONG READ: A rare reason to celebrate
Australia’s Labor PM doesn’t want to see the rise of Reform
Trump gets a royal visit down nostalgia-lane

☼¶ Lowy Institute: The Interpreter¶ ☼☼— Southeast Asia Influence Index,

¶ ¶ Mark Vernon <mail@markvernon.com>☼☼☼—There is a moment in each day that Satan cannot find

¶ ¶ Mary Harrington: Reactionary Feminist☼☼☼—What’s In The Mother-Shaped Blind Spot?
Metaphysics of Care
Why Can’t We Play With Ethnicity?
The Viral Mandate of Heaven
Astral Swarming and Mimetic Violence
Heritage, Death, and the Gen Z Right

¶ ¶ Matt Osborne: Polemology Positions & Osborne Ink☼☼☼—No Jews, No News in Gaza
How Democrats Lost Their Right To Complain About Misinformation
Putin’s War Has Destroyed Russia
The Edge Of Drone War 3.0 In Ukraine

¶ ¶ Matt Turpin: China Articles☼☼☼—The Myth of the Easy Button
Beijing Declares Economic War on the United States
The UK and Japan
Sliding Towards Totalitarianism
The Long 90 Days: TikTok TACO or a Satisfactory Solution?

¶ ¶ Matthew J. Milliner: millinerd☼☼☼—The Art of Revival
Just Say No

¶ ¶ Michael McFaul: McFaul’s World☼☼☼—The Case for Renewed Liberal Internationalism
Five Lessons for a New Age of Great-Power Competition
Why I Wrote Autocrats vs Democrats «Complex explanations involving three factors — power, regimes, and individuals –– are not particularly fashionable in academic or policy circles. But I worried that an oversimplified explanation of our new era of great power competition would lead to bad U.S. foreign policy decisions.»
How I Teach at Stanford
Lessons from Russia, Warnings for America
Should Russia’s allies count on Moscow to support them?

¶ ¶ Michael Warren Davis: Spruce Island☼☼☼—Alaskan Orthodoxy
Love One Another
Saint Love the Martyr

✨¶ ¶ Mick (Michael) Ryan: Futura Doctrina☼ ☼ ☼—Ukraine Dispatch: Ground-Based Air Defence
Ukraine Dispatch 5: Ukraine’s New Directorate of Assault Units – Adaptation Under Fire
Dispatch 4: A Trumpian Disaster & A Win for Putin
Dispatch 3: An Interview with Nataliia Lutsenko
Dispatch 2: One Great Night in Kyiv
Ukraine Dispatch 1: Military Training in Ukraine
Adapting from Peace to War: From Ukraine to Future War

Deep Strikes are Hurting Putin & Russia: The Big Five 5 October

1. The Real China Model

2. Profiling Ukraine’s Army Chief

3. Russia’s War in Ukraine: The Next Chapter

4. More Than a Numbers Game

5. Coercive Deterrence and China

A Pacific Conceptzia: Why Surprise in the Pacific is Probably Inevitable. Tomahawks, NATO’s “War” and Gas Shortages - 28 September update

1. Why the West Failed to See Russia’s Invasion Coming

2. Foggy with a Chance of Surprise

3. Military Decision-Making with Unexplainable AI

4. The Pathology of Learning Lessons from War

5. Pursuing the AGI Delusion

?provided? or proven in what sense? Typhon mid-range capability system

One Hell of a Fight - A Change In Trump’s Narrative on Ukraine
Land Combat and Combined Arms Training

¶ ¶ Mikhail Zygar: The Last Pioneer☼☼☼—Faith, Nation, and Control
Russia Embraces Charlie Kirk
The Last Ukrainian in the Kremlin

¶ ¶ Minna Ålander from P’ P’ O’Brien’s Newsletter☼☼☼—To See the World From the Wars
Easier Said Than Done: Hybrid Deterrence By Punishment
The Resilience Dilemma
To Shoot or Not To Shoot Down Russian Jets

¶ ¶ Missile Matters - Fabian Hoffmann☼☼☼—How Badly Does Ukraine Need American Tomahawk Cruise Missiles?
What Happened to Ukraine’s Ballistic Missile Defense?
Small Thrust, Big Questions: Europe Behind in Missile Engine Technology

☼¶ New Liturgical Movement¶ ☼☼—Signs of Hope in Cuba: the Iconography of José Garcia Cortés
The Prayer Unde et memores

¶ ¶ Nick Cohen: Writing from London☼☼☼—Keir Starmer, Hilary Mantel and England’s endless lies
Edward Luce on silence and complicity in Trump’s Washington

Trump, Putin, Xi, Erdogan and all the other wannabee autocrats and actual dictators are teaching a hard lesson to anyone who believes in theories of economic determinism from neo-liberalism to Marxism: politics always beats economics. The holders of political power can always turn the superrich into supplicants by the simple method of threatening to take their riches from them.

Why isn’t it treasonable to take Musk’s money?
Remember Churchill’s warning: The respectable right” will do ANYTHING to grab power
It’s time to loot the Kremlin!
J.K. Rowling, ex-porn stars, the death of Jews and me
Anti-fascism ain’t for the faint hearted
A warning from Trump’s America
Why the radical left can’t fight anti-Jewish racism
Keir Starmer finds his voice and takes on Farage
Lie-Distract-Attack: The rules of modern propaganda
It looks like Moldova is defying Putin
Trump enables Farage to move to the extremes
Is it all over for Starmer?

¶ ¶ Noahpinion - Noah Smith☼☼☼—Should we worry about AI’s circular deals?
After Trump, the deluge
America could win this trade war if it wanted to
At least five interesting things: No, You’re Wrong edition (#70)
A Nobel for thinking about long-term growth
America’s future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints
Can anything knock China off its mountain?
Malaysia: Truly Asia
The U.S. political situation
The Third Magic
Why do people get paid to invest their money?
Network State, or a Network of States?
Book Review: “Doughnut Economics”
What if local control can actually help build housing?
Why every country needs to master the Electric Tech Stack
Indians and Koreans not welcome

¶ ¶ Olga Lautman & Julie Roginsky: Unmasking Russia☼☼☼—Russia’s Trump Tower Election Dangle
“Little Green Men” Spotted Near Estonia
The Kremlin Probes America’s Election Systems
Disinformation and How to Counter It Seminar Session 5
Stephen Miller, CNN, and the ‘Plenary Authority’ That Got Buried
Johnson’s Refusal to Seat [US MHR] Adelita Grijalva
Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the Kremlin
Russian Digest Week of 9 - 28/25
Disinformation and How to Counter It Seminar Session 4
The Kremlin’s Bears Strike DNC, DCCC
ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Phones, Without Warrants
Russian Digest Week of 9 - 21/25
This Week in American Autocracy September 22
The Kremlin, its cutout Wikileaks, and Trump
Disinformation and How to Counter It: Session 1 Recap

✨✨¶ ¶ Open Letters - Anne Applebaum☼☼☼—Will the Beacon Go Dark?
Manufactured Drama
Grim Reapers
Taking Matters into Their Own Hands

¶ ¶ Pancras Jordan OP <pancrasjordan at gmail.com>☼☼☼—Amid historic deal, Gaza pastor says little is left after ‘tsunami’ of destruction”
Gaza churches refuse to evacuate despite UN ‘genocide’ warning

¶ ¶ Patrick Lawrence: Ringfolk (JRR Tolkien)☼☼☼—Temptation and The One Ring
The Elves Arrive in Helm’s Deep - The Best Scene That Never Happened
The Gifts of Galadriel

¶ ¶ Paul Tyson: Philosophical Theology¶ ☼☼—A short post about doing nothing…
Whatever happened to non-violence on ‘the Left’?

¶ ¶ Pegasus Research Substack - Thomas Leckwold☼☼☼—Today in History: October 12, 1945

¶ ¶ People & Nature - Simon Pirani☼☼☼—Raging against Putin’s war machine
Dave Temple, mineworker and militant
Technological transition, the ideology of capital
The courtroom rebels standing up to warmonger Putin

¶ ¶ Persuasion - Yascha Mounk & al.☼☼☼—Self-Mastery Is Good, Actually
Transgender Identity Really Has Fallen Among Young People
The Paradox of No Kings Day
No Kings and the Echo of Venezuela
We Analyzed University Syllabi. There’s a Monoculture
No, America Is Not Experiencing Fascism. Yes, You Should Still Worry
What I Saw At New York’s Notorious Anti-Gay Church
Israel Must Not Turn Into Sparta
What Japan Taught me About American Trains «What Amtrak has given us is a train masquerading as an airplane. This would make sense if people loved air travel, but everybody hates it. The only reason we put up with all the hassle inherent in an airplane is that the darn things fly, which is the one thing the Acela certainly can’t do. / Really the Acela is a train with low self-esteem. Or maybe a personality crisis.»
On Authoritarian Theater
🇺🇦 🇺🇦 When the Russians Cut Off Mom’s Water Supply
Why Argentina’s Economy is Floundering
It’s the Internet, Stupid
Europe Learned Nothing From the Danish Cartoon Affair
Both the Far Left and the Far Right Make Excuses for Violence
107 Days, Zero Ideas
When Strongmen Own the Store
Why Authoritarians Fear Common Knowledge
Against Strong Gods
What We Lose When We Can’t Talk to Each Other

¶ ¶ Phillips P. O’Brien: Phillips’s Newsletter☼☼☼—The New US Sanctions Move Actually Protects Russia For Now
Weekend Update #155: No More, Please!
Trump Is Tormenting Ukraine Claire Berlinski writes that DJT “might really have been considering sending the missiles, until Putin got him on the phone and sweet-talked him. (It’s always the last person to speak to him, especially when it’s Putin.) I agree that the press, when reporting on matters like these, should take into account Trump’s obvious hostility to Zelensky and his obvious infatuation with Putin.”
Trump and Putin Are Buddies Again
Phillips O’Brien and Alex Finley [audivis]
One Cheer For Intelligence Sharing
Putin Flutters His Eyelashes and Trump Swoons (Melania Too)
Something Interesting Is Happening With GOP Public Opinion
Does Europe Really Want to Save Itself?
Attacking An Oil Production System
What The White House Seems To Be Hearing About Russian Power
✨Harping On Manpower Shows How Little Analysts Understand War🔴
Weekend Update #154: The Strategic Air War And The Approaching Winter
#153: The Land War Is Hardening; The Air War Is Broadening «Trump does not want to help Ukraine and he does not want to break with Putin. He desperately wants to work with Putin, he just also wants Putin’s love and respect (and Putin was careful to lather Trump with praise this week). That is where we are. / Hoping Trump will fundamentally change that policy is a massive risk and wastes time. Stop it.»
✨#152: Oil Production And Logistics «Trump changed little substantial towards Ukraine that I can see. My guess is that he will only change his fundamental stance if he feels Russia is close to collapse—in which case he will become the most pro-Ukrainian person on the planet.»🔴
Ukraine Can Win The War
An Update On The Ukrainian Campaign Against Russian Refineries
Most Revealing Military Development Of The Last Month

☼¶ Profiles in Catholicism - edited by Gordon Nary¶ ☼☼—The October issue of Profile in Catholicism has a special focus on Disability

☼¶ Public Orthodoxy - Orthodox Christian Studies at Fordham¶ ☼☼—Benedict Sheehan’s Ukrainian War Requiem: A Review
Death in War for Empire as a “Path to Christ” The “Official Church” in Russia Modernizes Traditional Iconography
Christianity According to Steinhardt’s Journal of Joy
On Not Understanding the Words - Letters to a Convert in an Ethnic Church (Letter #2)
Being vs. Becoming Christian - Letters to a Convert in an Ethnic Church (Letter #1)
Ordination and Second Marriage
Gazing at the Theotokos in Romanos’s Kontakia and an Early Prayer Fragment
The Living Gospel of Aghtamar: Review of Aghtamar: The Armenian Architectural Masterpiece by Khatcherian and Khachatryan Also available in: Українська
Archimandrite Vasileios (1936–2025): A Silent Revolutionary «Because he embodied the way of scripture and tradition, he understood that above and beyond the philosopher’s “I think, therefore I am” prevails the saint’s “I die, therefore I live”—a truth he absorbed from Abba Isaac the Syrian, whom he regarded as the most potent spiritual distillation, a mere sip of which will knock you unconscious.»

¶ ¶ Rant! Alex Finley☼☼☼—Russia and China Find Spying Synergy

✨¶ ¶ Regina Doman: The Culture Recovery Journals☼☼☼—Bringing in the Hay
It’s not the Liturgy, it’s the Pill
The Double Morris
The Church is a Large Rowdy Family

¶ ¶ Researching Ukraine - Benjamin Cook☼ 🇺🇦☼—The AI Bubble and Alan Greenspan
US Army Tries To Be Like Ukraine and 30 Days of Giving to UAO
Ukraine Returns to Space: How To Get From Policy to Orbit
Shotguns Vs Drones
There is Only One “Store” that can Fill Hegseth’s Shopping List
Don’t Pity Russians

☼¶ Riddle Russia¶ ☼☼—Nicholas Trickett with the economic summary of the week (October 13−19)
Alexey Uvarov on how to seize Russian assets without actually confiscating them
Andrey Pertsev sums up the political events of the week (September 22−26)Andrei Persev on why Dmitry Kozak’s resignation was long predetermined
Nicholas Trickett with the economic summary of the week (September 15 — 21)

✨¶¶ Rupert Sheldrake☼☼☼—🔴Waking Before Alarms
🔴Days of the Dead
🔴 Animal Warnings of Earthquakes
🔴 The Wisdom of the Imagination [bit]

✨¶¶ Sancti Stulti - Stephen Weller☼☼☼—Sundry Thoughts on the Most Holy Rosary
Cherubinischer Wandersmann
le petit Abbé of the foot-washing
Against Irrigating Swamps, i.e. Against Re-Enchantment

¶ ¶ Sarah Constantin: Rough Diamonds☼☼☼—SS26 Color Stats
Making Sense of Consciousness Part 6: Perceptions of Disembodiment
Making Sense of Consciousness Part 5: Consciousness and the Self

¶ ¶ Sarcastosaurus (Tom Cooper)☼☼☼—The Formula For Western Defeat by China and Russia
US Army Tries To Be Like Ukraine & 30 Days of Giving to UAO Update
‘Tomahawks’ and ‘Ukraine’
Ukraine’s Space Forces: How To Get From Policy to Orbit
al-Qaeda vs al-Qaeda
Vanity Fair (yes, again)
The State of the US Armed Forces
SecWar’s Speech
India’s Shortcomings & Pakistan’s PR
Don’s Weekly, 20 October 2025: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Don’s Weekly, 13 October 2025: Part 1 by Donald Hill (intro by Tom Cooper) Part 2 (from ‘Pokrovsk’ to ‘Russia’) | Part 3 (Ukraine, Diplomacy, Equipment)
Don’s Weekly, 6 October 2025: Part 1 by Donald Hill (intro by Tom Cooper)| Part 2 | (Ukraine, Tourniquets, Diplomacy) | Equipment & Drone Warfare in Pokrovsk Sector by Donald Hill (and bits and pieces by Tom Cooper)
Don’s Weekly, 29 September 2025: Part 1 by Donald Hill (intro by Tom Cooper) Part 2 | Part 3 (Russia, Ukraine, Diplomacy) | Part 4
Don’s Weekly, 22 September 2025: Part 1 by Donald Hill (Intro by Tom Cooper) Part 2 | Part 3 (Russia, Russian UAV-Centre Rubicon & Ukraine) | Part 4 (Diplomacy & Equipment)
30 Days of helping UAO starts Today by Benjamin Cook
Rickshaws for the ZSU: Update 28
The Russian Sloppiness

¶ ¶ Scriptorium Philosophia - Hilarius Bookbinder☼☼☼—Nostalgia’s not what it used to be
In praise of frivolous research
The egalitarianism of the commons
Political left and right are incoherent categories

✨¶¶ Seasons of Community Living - Bruderhof☼☼☼—depending on each other
celebrating harvest

¶ ¶ Simon Pirani: People & Nature☼☼☼—Raging against Vladimir Putin’s war machine. Trials of anti-war protesters “provide a snapshot of Russia’s wartime lurch towards a form of fascism”.
A review of More, More and More by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz.
Bosnia: Unite for mineworkers, for land and for water.
Opposing Labour’s climate vandalism is difficult – and vital.

¶ ¶ Sirotin Intelligence @ghost.io☼☼☼—Sirotin Intelligence Briefing: September 15-20, 2025

¶ ¶ SpyTalk News <spytalk@substack.com>☼☼☼—Lt. Gen. Michelle Bredenkamp, Military Intelligence Star
Return to Cold War-level Espionage Battles with Russia

¶ ¶ Tatarigami: Frontelligence Insight☼☼☼—Inside Russia’s 2026–2036 Tank Fleet Modernization and Buildup Plans
From Africa to the Donbas Meat Grinder: Russia’s Mercenary Surge
Silent Exodus: Rising Desertions in the Russian Army

☼¶ Templeton <communications@templeton.org>¶ ☼☼—In Memoriam: Jane Goodall, DBE

¶ ¶ Tenzer Strategics - Nicolas Tenzer☼☼☼—Rethinking the Foundations of International Theory [bit]
The Israeli Question Between Security and Legitimacy

✨¶¶ The Abbey of Misrule - Paul Kingsnorth☼☼☼—News, Events and Updates
The North American Thebaid
The Hare and the Lamb
Publication Day!

☼¶ The Beet - Meduza <beet@meduza.io>¶ ☼☼—How memory, tourism, and the diaspora sustain the last vestiges of Uzbekistan’s Jewish heritage

¶ ¶ The Bulwark☼☼☼—My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party

¶ ¶ The Chris Hedges Report☼☼☼—Trump’s War on America

¶ ¶ The Cosmopolitan Globalist - Claire Berlinski☼☼☼—How Badly Does Ukraine Need American Tomahawk Cruise Missiles?
The Week in Global Eyes
France’s Fifth Republic Has Reached Its Limit
What next in Gaza?
How to Win a War | How to Lose a War
The Week in GLOBAL EYES
The Nobel Committee Reminds Us: Venezuela Can Rise Again
China’s demographics will be fine through mid-century
Can anything knock China off its mountain?
US Power was Critical in Ending Gaza War – and Should Continue
The Shutdown We Need
A Cold and a Broken Hallelujah
Diplomats report “breaches” of South Sudan’s fragile peace
Waiting on Hamas
It’s the Internet, Stupid
France loses another prime minister.
Macron wants to move against the Russian shadow fleet.
The Sufferable Evil
The Wisdom of SecDef Douchenozzle
Circling the DrainMoldova Chooses Europe
Koltuğa Destek - Propping Up the Seat
Nukes: We’re All Turkeys on Thanksgiving Eve
Is Trump Taking Chinese Bribes?
Afghanistan’s Agony
As Our Generals and Admirals Fly Home, Our Adversaries Watch
The Generals’ Choice
It’s Not the President’s Military
The dawn of the post-literate society

¶ ¶ The First Person - Michael Judge☼☼☼—Rising Like the Drowned
Scott Samuelson: How Can I Help?
An ICE Raid in Iowa City and the Real ‘Enemy From Within’
Nearer

¶ ¶ The Free Press☼☼☼—Woody Allen Remembers Diane Keaton
Ancient Wisdom
Things Worth Remembering: How to Save People David Foster Wallace

☼¶ The Guardian¶ ☼☼—The Shane Warne effect: why some cricketers are loved by fans of their fiercest rivals

¶ ¶ The Long Memo - William A’ Finnegan☼☼☼—Lick boot, or else ...

¶ ¶ The Military Analyst☼☼☼—WHY UKRAINE WILL WIN & RUSSIA WILL LOSE
THE CRIMEA GAMBIT: UKRAINE’S STRATEGY FOR ITS RETURN
DANGER: PREPARING FOR THE WRONG WAR
RUSSIAN ECONOMY IN DEATH SPIRAL
SOMETHING IS CHANGING AND RUSSIA IS LOSING
NATO: STANDING UP TO PUTIN
POWER & CORRUPTION IN THE RUSSIAN ARMY: THE FSB IS KING

¶ ¶ The Musical Platypus Bob Hart☼☼☼—Two Covers
A SAD SONG
MOURNER’S KADDISH

☼¶ The National Interest¶ ☼☼—Why the Defense of Taiwan Matters by Scott Morrison — The defense of Taiwan matters morally, strategically, and historically. It embodies hope, freedom, and democracy in a region where all are under strain. Read it here.

¶ ¶ The Radicalist - David Josef Volodzko☼☼☼—Summer of my discontent
Why blue-collar culture matters
Antifa is not an organization, it’s worse
The progressive retreat from American life
How meditation helps you think
Love and garbage
The barbarians are inside the gates
Why the left has no Charlie Kirk
Why does Chinese alcohol taste so awful?
The execution gap in American diplomacy
On the meaning of faith
There’s No Such Thing as “Hate Speech”

¶ ¶ The Russia Report - Sarah Hurst☼☼☼—Report Issue 274
The Russia Report

¶ ¶ The UnPopulist - Shikha Dalmia &al’☼☼☼—There Never Was a Biden Censorship-Industrial Complex
Conversation with Noah Rosenblum
The UnPopulist Launches ‘The Reconstruction Agenda’
Trump Directive Could Classify Many Groups as Terrorist Outfits
MAGA’s Epstein Fixation Isn’t About Justice, It’s About Revenge
Trump’s Compact Wants Universities to Give Up Rights
Trump’s Quest for Unchecked Power: A Video Roundup
Is a Liberal Realignment Emerging from the Rubble?
Cycle of Mutually Assured Destruction for Israelis and Palestinians?
Trump Is Destroying the U.S. Constitution and Amassing Powers
Trump Hit Brazil With Punitive Tariffs for Prosecuting His Ally
Political Triumphalism Is Contrary to the Spirit of Yom Kippur
Hegseth’s Hatred of Americans Makes Him Unfit for Office but a Perfect Fit for Trump
A Demagogue Has Ignited the ‘Dark Passions’ of the People
The UnPopulist Turns Four!
Trump’s Censorship Binge

¶ ¶ Timothy Garton Ash☼☼☼—Europe immobilised on CBR assets
Prague is now the capital of a normal country – alas!
Geopolitical musings from D.C.
Ukraine - innovation and scale will determine the course of the war
Turkiye - inflation prints should be a wake up call
Frozen Russian assets - needs must
Russia - Western business knew the risks
Ukraine is the key to Europe’s defence
Trump & Erdogan both win from WH meeting
CBR assets - the euro cent has finally dropped
The US gringo returns to Latam
UNGA - Trying to understand Trump
Trump is just finding excuses for not sanctioning Russia
Ukraine and the IMF - a reality cheque
Turkiye facing geopolitical threats and opportunities

¶ ¶ Timothy Snyder: “Thinking about...” ☼☼☼—Signs of Freedom
The Truth about Panics
No Kings — Freedom (video)
Freedom is Action: A Campaign for Ukraine A fundraiser for life-saving drone-jamming cars and trucks
Gaza and Protest
Who was Who in Weimar Germany (video)
Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video)
Save American Higher Education (video)
Hegseth puts us all at risk
The virtues of Superman
Youth Protest in Serbia And some thoughts for America

☼✨¶Tony Golsby-Smith: Gospel Conversations¶ ☼☼—John Behr - Was Adam created ‘perfect’?
David Hart on his Revolutionary Translation of Romans 5:12

¶ ¶ Two Grumpy Old Men on 🇺🇦 ☼☼☼—Polina and the King: The Battle for Attention
RUSSIA = UN-CIVILIZED
Olga Krychynska - pianist and activist - “I want to live in a world where murderers are not given red carpets, handshakes, or flattery.”

☼¶ UnHerd¶ ☼☼—How Simone de Beauvoir got me cancelled

☼¶ UkraineAlert - Atlantic Council¶ ☼☼—Russia’s ‘human safari’ in southern Ukraine is a warning to the world
Putin seeks more foreign fighters amid mounting Russian losses
Dispatch from Ukraine: The path to a durable peace is emerging
Putin the geopolitical gangster is trying to intimidate Europe
Drone power Ukraine teaching NATO how to defend against Russia
Putin’s dream of demilitarizing Ukraine has turned into nightmare
Trump called Russia a ‘paper tiger’ because he believes Putin is losing

☼✨¶ Vatican News Newsletter¶☼☼—King Charles attends ecumenical prayer service in Sistine Chapel
Pope to Receive King Charles and Queen Camilla at the Vatican
Bishop Sarah Mullally next Archbishop of Canterbury King Charles assented to the nomination of the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, as Archbishop of Canterbury.

¶ ¶ Vladislav Davidzon: The Fantastical Daybook | 1987c-7☼☼☼—More On Odessa And The Ukrainian (Culture) War
Kyiv vs. Odessa! Feast on Nada Gordon’s Lush Poetry!
Estonian Composer Arvo Pärt Turns 90
A Poem
A (Very) Brief Introduction to László Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai Wins The Nobel Prize!
Ukrainian War Against Russian Oil Production/My Moldovan Diary
A Poem
A Brief History of Ukrainian-Chinese Tea in Brooklyn
On Cancel Culture, Slow Thinking and Penitance
Two Ukrainian Women Artists in Wartime
The Fanatical Politicization of Art and Poetry
A Poem.

¶ ¶ W.D. James: Philosopher’s Holler☼☼☼—Of Causes Lost and Lost Again
Musical Interlude: Mayberry
A Nation of Individuals
The Politics of Tolkien [audio]

¶ ¶ William L’ Brown: Native Cpeaker☼ 🇺🇦☼—Flip
Elections, Salami and Red-lines

¶ ¶ Winter Oak☼☼☼—Of Causes Lost and Lost Again
A Nation of Individuals

¶ ¶ Word on the Street - Jeremy Ben-Ami☼☼☼—We Have a Ceasefire. Now What?
UNGA 2025: Five Middle East Flashpoints to Track

¶ ¶ Yascha Mounk☼☼☼—Lulu Meservey on How Media Has Changed
Randall Kennedy on Racism in America
Quico Toro on Charlatans
Bret Stephens on Why the Democrats Are Despairing
Oren Harman on the Magic of Metamorphosis
David French on The Mess We’re In
The Power Theory of Free Speech
The Good Fight Club: Who’s a Hypocrite About Free Speech?
Quentin Skinner on Liberty
Justin Marozzi on Slavery in the Islamic World
David Bau on How Artificial Intelligence Works
Hounding Political Opponents, Misinformation, and Autism
Lawfare Makes Us All Less Free
Katie Herzog on Drinking Your Way Sober
The Dems Are Still Not Getting It
Randi Weingarten on the State of America’s Public Schools
Populism in the UK, Free Speech, and the Future of the Middle East