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Jun. 18, 2025 |

Anything you can do. How important is innovation to winning wars? Matthew A. Tattar, an associate professor at the U.

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Jun. 17, 2025 |

‘Yowzers.’ This majestic piano-and-vocals track is a blues for climate change from Ben LaMar Gay, the Chicago-based cornetist and composer:

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Jun. 16, 2025 |

One step forward, one back. As protesters and law enforcement clashed in Los Angeles throughout the week, one of the

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| Sir William Browder & John Jamesen Gould

Cold cash

What do you do if you’re the European Union, and you’re sitting on more than $200 billion belonging to the Kremlin? Sir William Browder on a potential turning point in the Ukraine war.
10 minute read
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Turning points

What’s been holding back those U.S.-Iran nuclear talks? What’s happening to democracy in Mexico? + New music from Ben LaMar Gay and Baxter Dury. What’s so important about Sly Stone and Brian Wilson? &c. … The member’s despatch, Week XXIV.
19 minute read
| Allison Braden & Brian Hart

Red sea

Why is China building so many ships? Brian Hart on its plan to turn overwhelming commercial advantage into military power.
9 minute read
| SGNL

Midnight sun

Is anyone actually winning in Ukraine? Why do so many ex-Soviet kleptocrats live in London? + Music from Yussef Dayes. What’s drill rap—and what happens when you mix it with American jazz? &c. … The member’s despatch, Week XXIII.
17 minute read
| Justin Callais & John Jamesen Gould

Connections

What does financial repression in autocracies have to do with financial freedom in democracies? Justin Callais on human flourishing in the modern world.
12 minute read
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