A personal blog-style newsletter where the author works through political commentary, book reviews, and essays on existential questions as they learn to become well informed. Readers get opinionated takes on US policy, a review of Zamyatin's dystopian novel We, and a multi-part series on theism and meaning.
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Astral Codex Ten publishes long-form essays on AI safety, rationality, politics, science and culture, alongside reader-written book reviews and weekly open threads. Readers get argumentative, carefully reasoned analysis plus community news such as meetups, surveys and grant-related projects.
A weekly newsletter by a Supreme Court scholar that explains the Court's rulings, procedures and history, with commentary on the docket and on related legal and institutional controversies. Issues combine news roundups with in-depth analysis of specific orders, litigation and Court reform proposals.
Elfriede Jelinek's newsletter publishes personal essays in German that connect current politics, such as the Hamas attack and rising far-right movements, with historical memory and Walter Benjamin. Issues also reflect on theatre, comedy and language, with some pieces offering English translations.
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