Weekend Update #161: Not A Bad Week For Ukraine
Irregular: Ukraine – War or Peace?
First Sunday of Advent
Ukraine’s Conventional Long-Range Strike Forces at the end of 2025
Rachel Reeves vs The Snails
Peace Negotiations Stumble On, Putin Lays Down a Marker, and the Fall of Yermak: The Big Five, 30 November edition
Mick Ryan
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Mick Ryan
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23 min read
How Israel’s embassy lost China, Xi call pleases Trump, and China brainrot
SpyFaces in the Crowd: Maggie Goodlander
Jeff Stein
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SpyTalk
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6 min read
Paid Subscriber Benefit: Live Craft Lecture on Tuesday, 12/2!
Matt Bell
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Matt Bell
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2 min read
Water on Stone
The Metropolitan Review
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22 min read
Dirty-Feathered Hope
Various
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Wayfare
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7 min read
A Wayfare Gift Guide
Various
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Wayfare
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14 min read
A Version of Direct Realism
Michael Huemer
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Fake Nous
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10 min read
VERSIONS OF ABJECT: UGLY, CREEPY, DISGUSTING (PART ONE)
What If Trump Wants Goliath to Win?
John Hawks and Chris Stringer: Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans, oh my!
Top Links 936 Bitcoin as Trump trade. The scramble for copper. The devil's hair dryer. After surgery.
Adam Tooze
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Chartbook
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1 min read
Another Talk With Martin Wolf
States with Clean Energy Mandates Have Higher Rate Increases
Week signals: From pirates to PMSCs
Turnabout Is Fair Play
Doomberg
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Doomberg
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3 min read
Notes & Links
Nachman Oz
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14 min read
War & Peace, Reading & Writing, Why Babies Are Good, and Thanksgiving Memories
“We’ve Torn Up the Foundations of Our Civilisation”
The "$140,000 poverty line" is very silly
Noah Smith
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Noahpinion
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23 min read
Briefing: Takaichi Sanae and China–Japan Relations
Meanderings, 29 November 2025
The Republican Primary That Finally Dropped The Dog Whistle
The British Spiritual Twilight
Annie Levin
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12 min read
Terror, Violence and Poetic Defiance in Russia
Burning Archive
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20 min read