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"It is not too difficult to draw a line from the events of 2020 to the recent spate of political assassinations. I am not the only one who trained myself and others to revel in political violence," writes Nic Rowan thelampmagazine.com/blog/the-other…

Why I won't watch the video of Charlie Kirk's death thelampmagazine.com/blog/the-other…

From Nic Rowan, on not watching these things thelampmagazine.com/blog/the-other…

"I am not the only one who trained myself and others to revel in political violence. For nearly a decade, violence—first in speech, then in images, and now in action—has been the lingua franca of American public life." thelampmagazine.com/blog/the-other…

Brilliant. economist.com/culture/2025/0…

CROWDSOURCE: America the Violent 👉The numbers 👉Violence in the USA (Geoff Shullenberger, Katy Carl, Anna Gát 🧭, Nic Rowan, Julian Adorney & Ross Douthat) 👉Will History Repeat Itself? (Caitlin Flanagan, Peggy Noonan) Subscribe & read! wisdomofcrowds.live/p/america-the-…

The arrival of a new issue of The Lamp (Issue 30 / Assumption 2025) is "medicinal" in the best sense, beginning w/ the splendid cover-art.

FT’s HTSI has had an eerie run lately

Peter Howarth on how Richard Ellmann's service in the O.S.S. formed his research methods for his biography of Joyce. thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-3…

On Dan Brown in the age of AI: “His writing is so idiosyncratically awful that it could only have been produced by a human mind. And that is its charm.” washingtonexaminer.com/premium/381807…

I took my kids to an obesity conference. We all learned a lot about the weight loss industry (and my daughter lost her favorite stuffy).

Two different versions of "one weird trick" — a sharp critique from Hannah Rowan:

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Excellent report in The New Atlantis looking at what's different -- and similar -- about Big Pharma and crunchy influencers when it comes to obesity and Ozempic: thenewatlantis.com/publications/a…

Great reporting from Hannah Rowan on the medical consensus forming around GLP-1s and childhood obesity. It’s predictable, which somehow makes it more depressing. thenewatlantis.com/publications/a…

Great essay from Jude Russo on the Dumbarton Oaks conference and creation of the U.N. thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-3…

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Ye all which it