A personal essay blog by Joachim Polzer revisiting films from the Globians world and culture documentary festival in Potsdam, held in 2005 and 2006, through a recurring "20-Jahre-Regel" lens. Each issue asks what substance of those documentaries remains twenty years later, covering themes like Soviet cinema, media and power, 9/11 conspiracy films and migration.
Website: https://www.polzer.org/
Economist Scott Sumner writes about monetary policy, economic ideas and culture, including monetarism, market monetarism and NGDP targeting, along with film and book reviews. Posts mix technical macroeconomics with commentary on intellectual history and quarterly culture roundups.
A weekly newsletter that makes one New Yorker story free to read, drawn from culture criticism, politics and long-form journalism. Issues also include occasional podcast conversations on current affairs such as the midterm elections.
Personal essays from a veteran filmmaker, covering film history such as Hearst's campaign against Citizen Kane, AI tools in everyday life, and reflections on ageing, Buddhism and the need for others' approval. Readers get sharp, self-aware prose that mixes cultural criticism with memoir.
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