A ‘message to the West’
The weekend despatch: Someone’s one-hour hoax warning about bombs on European flights, in the name of a Russian group whose founder says it no longer exists. + Who’s Tyler Childers?
Eyes only
- On Friday, emails signed with an infamous surname claimed responsibility. Spain calls it “hybrid aggression,” but investigators can’t yet say whose aggression—or what the point of it would be.
In the air
- What’s left for mathematicians after AI cracks a 90-year-old problem? Standpoints from Alex Kontorovich, Ankur Moitra, and Anders Hansen.
From the files
- Democrats won the U.S. midterms, not least from Trump’s war on Iran and tariffs—now what? Andrew Preston on the powers Congress has ceded to the American presidency in the name of national security.
Features
- Why does everyone hate “the elites”? Hugo Drochon on how so many voters in the West came to feel shut out of power.
Books
- Is tech coming for your job? Paul Osterman, Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment.
Music
- Who’s Tyler Childers?
- & New tracks from Willi Carlisle, Everything but the Girl, Junior Boys, Michael Kiwanuka, & Bettie Serveert.
+ Weather report
- Drought eases from Texas to Utah—and worsens along the lower Mississippi …
