Inner Circle is a cultural analysis newsletter from the strategy studio Inner Chapter, examining trends like Chinese box-office hit Niu Lai, fast-fading Korean dessert crazes, and the meaning of taste in the age of AI. Each issue links these phenomena to broader questions of status, class, and technology, often with a reading or media syllabus.
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Noah Smith's blog covers economics, AI, politics, and culture, including essays on film, AI progress, and political critique. Readers get long-form analysis mixing policy commentary with personal reflections on current events.
Persuasion is a community newsletter covering politics, culture, and the defense of free societies, including first-person war reporting from Ukraine, conversations with public intellectuals, and investigative pieces. Readers get analysis of current events, perspectives on reading and AI's cultural effects, and firsthand accounts from frontline-adjacent civilians.
Essays by philosopher Slavoj Žižek applying Lacanian and Hegelian thought to current events, politics, culture and technology. Readers get long-form, provocative commentary that links news incidents and works of art to philosophical concepts.
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