The Restless Advantage
of a shameful system Start with the shame, because you must understand the floor before you understand the basement. The United States spends more on medicine than any country that has ever existed. In 2024 it ran past fifteen thousand dollars a head, near eighteen percent of everything the country
The Market
1776 Retold
U-6 the Real Number
China has Stopped Worrying
MAGA Death
The Envelope
We are not free. We are comfortable. There is a difference, and most of us have spent our lives making sure we never notice it. J.B. Priestley had an idea I have carried around so long the words have come unstuck from the page. People, he thought, are perfectly
The Breeding
Note from Joe. Tuesdays and Fridays are still free. Sunday is a longer essay, heavily researched, for paid readers. Saturday is new. Saturday is for my advertisements. This is one. It begins with a fall. Ten climbers come off a half-mile cliff in the time it takes to draw
I Made a List
I kept a folder. Then a longer folder. Then a document that would not fit on my screen without scrolling. Every time Trump did something that benefited Vladimir Putin, in went a line. I told myself I was being thorough. The truth is I was looking for the bottom. I
The Ghost in the Gears
Losing Your Mind
