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By framing China as an existential threat, this conversation explores how policymakers recycle discredited Cold War myths, fueling militarization, inequality, xenophobia, and global instability. With @mbrenes1 on @AmPrestigePod.

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Online and IRL, we overpathologize sexuality. This essay argues that the internet’s culture of surveillance and judgment has corroded our sense of erotic and emotional privacy, entangling desire with fear of exposure. By Kate Wagner in @readlux.

Through "managed decay" and a master plan, this piece shows how Highgate Cemetery maintains its mystique, embodying the fragile interplay between history, nature, and our need to memorialize. By @OhHiRalphJones in @Longreads.

@AnnaCLenhart @BoellStiftung This video can be found in this week's edition of the Best of World:

While tech behemoths are empowered to build AI systems, this conversation examines how the Trump administration is aggressively clamping down on what it calls “woke AI” and seeking control over speech. Feat. @AnnaCLenhart at @BoellStiftung.

@KimberlyReports @LSE_US This episode is part of this week's edition of the Best of World:

By dissecting Project 2025, this conversation lays bare the political maneuvering that threatens decades of progress in racial representation and justice within U.S. bureaucracy, endangering an inclusive democracy. With @KimberlyReports on @LSE_US.

Rejecting a rigid demarcation between science and pseudoscience, our open-access article of the week explores how fringe theories reflect structural weaknesses in scientific authority, public discourse, and institutional power. By @at_tuboly .

@atavist This essay is part of this week's edition of the Best of World:

This piece details how America’s first Black private detective, Sheridan Bruseaux, achieved greatness while hiding behind elaborate fictions, ultimately leaving a legacy as complex as the times he lived in. By Matthew Wolfe in @atavist.

Proust's madeleine moment was not just a literary device but a radical epistemology. Our video of the week draws out a philosophical theory of memory and knowledge from 'In Search of Lost Time'. Feat. Tom Stern at @RIPhilo.

@globalextremism This document is featured in this week's edition of the Best of World:

Spain's far-right is on the rise, warns this report. From neo-Nazis and white nationalists to the influential Vox party and CitizenGO, Spain's far-right is exporting anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant tactics globally. By @globalextremism.

Aesthetic responses to the climate crisis are politically paralyzing and historically inaccurate. Our podcast of the week calls for a “climate counter-aesthetics” that foregrounds planning and collective action. With Anna Kornbluh on @FutureHpodcast.

As of 2013, Peru's Ley de Rompientes is the first ever piece of legislation to protect surfable waves. Yet as our German pick of the week details, the promises of environmental law are hollow in a state beholden to petrocapitalism. By @SabrinaMWeiss.

The camera obscura offered a dreamlike re-rendering of the external world, inviting artists to explore the politics of seeing. Our essay of the week traces the cultural and philosophical history of this "dark chamber.". By Julie Park in @PublicDomainRev.

Driven by crop failures and supply chain disruption, "climateflation" is poised to drive up food prices. Our hidden gem of the week advocates for universal food provision and a public food infrastructure. By Luiz Garcia et al. at @Autonomy_Inst.

Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement (MST) has grown into one of the world's largest social movements. Our book of the week shows how MST thrives through the tension between utopian ideals and counter-utopian pragmatism. By @AlexUngprateebF on @iupress.

@MarinaSWarner This episode can be found in this week's edition of the Best of Podcasts:

Reworking Dante for modern Britain, this conversation critiques power, neoliberal academia, and political failure. The guest's version of Dante's Christian eschatology reconfigures the soul's journey through a lens of desire. With @MarinaSWarner et al.