From the author of Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy.
Into the Abyss: Trump’s Bizarro New Deal
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/into-the-abyss-trumps-bizarro-new
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NYTimes: The Civil War That Never Ended
The Civil War That Never Ended www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/opinion/zaakir-tameez-charles-sumner-slavery.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bE8.Y-Q2.zEyzO_mmQcQq
NYTimes: The Crucial Issue of the 21st Century
The Crucial Issue of the 21st Century www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/opinion/democratic-republican-parties.html
The Birth of the Attention Economy The rise of the cheap, daily newspaper
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/07/the-birth-of-the-attention-economy/683727/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYbF3OjV6UG7_QbXeHt7KvPU
The Birth of the Attention Economy
The rise of the cheap, daily newspaper in the 19th century remade how Americans engaged with the world.
By Jake Lundberg
****** NYTimes: It Takes a ‘Very Stable Genius’ to Push the Genius Act
It Takes a ‘Very Stable Genius’ to Push the Genius Act www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/opinion/trump-crypto-genius-act-memcoin.html
A Nasty, Cynical, and Eerily Accurate Look at All-Too-Recent History
The new film “Eddington” is a nasty, cynical, and eerily accurate look at the pandemic’s early days—when there was “nowhere to turn to but the conspiratorial thinking, heated debates, and endless updates online,” writes @shirklesxp:
NYTimes: Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good
Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/opinion/smartphones-literacy-inequality-democracy.html
***** Trump Is Making Socialism Great Again Capitalism needs better advocates. By David Frum
NYTimes: The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani
The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/opinion/mamdani-race-college-admissions.html
******* Columbia University, the Trump administration and “ad hoc governance”: Iterations of the “Unstate” ADAM TOOZE David Pozen
Chartbook 399: Columbia University, the Trump administration and “ad hoc governance”: Iterations of the “Unstate”
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Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Ed
David Pozen
https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regulation-by-deal-comes-to-higher-ed.html