3quarksdaily.comadded August 2026
3 Quarks Dailyby Akim Reinhardt23h ago
by Akim Reinhardt There have always been assholes, and there will always be. It’s unavoidable. Putting up with assholes, and even being an asshole once in a while, are both part of the human...
3 Quarks Dailyby Robin Varghese1d ago
Vivek Chibber in Jacobin: With the passing of Anwar Shaikh, the left intellectual community has lost one of its most dynamic and brilliant members.
3 Quarks Dailyby Robin Varghese1d ago
Javier Moreno Zacarés in Sidecar: Fifteen years after the indignados occupied the Puerta del Sol, Madrid’s central plaza is once again the locus of a mass movement that has brought Spain to a...
3 Quarks Dailyby Robin Varghese1d ago
Dominik Leusder in Phenomenal World: “You’re losing.” This was the blunt message the head of the world’s largest bank delivered to European policy elites in July last year.
3 Quarks Dailyby Robin Varghese1d ago
Brad DeLong over at his Substack: In my prime, I would read perhaps 150 serious books a year. I would skim over parts that did not resonate, but would still absorb a good deal as I skimmed.
3 Quarks Dailyby Eric Feigenbaum1d ago
by Eric Feigenbaum “You might have Dengue,” the nice Thai doctor who spoke excellent English with a twang from his days at University of Tennessee told me, “Or you might have Weil’s Disease.
3 Quarks Dailyby Philip Graham2d ago
by Philip Graham While Mary Cappello’s Frost Will Come may seem, at first glance, to be about the stages of death (specifically, the death of her mother Rosemary Cappello, whose “soul was...
3 Quarks Dailyby Marie Snyder2d ago
by Marie Snyder How terrified should we be of Artificial Intelligence right now? I’m fascinated by the variety of perceptions on offer after a few Anthropic employees affirmed that “we really do...
3 Quarks Dailyby Daniel Gauss3d ago
by Daniel Gauss A young guy walks down a road and sees a dead mouse. In the Cūḷaseṭṭhi Jātaka, a tale of one of the Buddha’s previous lives, the dead mouse becomes the first piece of capital in a...
3 Quarks Dailyby Jonas Gardsby3d ago
by Jonas Gardsby Annie Dillard is now ineligible for the Nobel Prize. The Swedish Academy won’t award it posthumously.
3 Quarks Dailyby David Kordahl3d ago
by David Kordahl A few years ago, while writing about the Golem series by the sociologists Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch, I bought their first coauthored book, Frames of Meaning: The social...
3 Quarks Dailyby Eli Rarey3d ago
by Eli Rarey Lately I have been drawn to trees. I moved across the country from Detroit to Los Angeles, and while I’ve been looking for a new apartment I have been noticing the trees nearby.
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza4d ago
Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: Dear Steven: Earlier this month, frustrated by some of your social media posts, I challenged you to a public debate on AI.
3 Quarks Dailyby Charles Siegel4d ago
by Charles Siegel A couple of weeks ago, I was listening to the SiriusXM “Real Jazz” channel while driving.
3 Quarks Dailyby Leanne Ogasawara5d ago
by Leanne Ogasawara It all started, as these things so often do, with love at first sight. It was a humid evening in Bangkok in 1957, when a young British businessman, Douglas Latchford, found...
3 Quarks Dailyby Michael Liss6d ago
by Michael Liss I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
3 Quarks Dailyby David Winner and Angela Starita6d ago
by David Winner Half a lifetime ago when I first got to New York, I saw a piece of performance art in Williamsburg at a place called The Bog.
3 Quarks Dailyby Marianne Janack7d ago
by Marianne Janack The distinction between utopias and dystopias is often murky. In Ursula LeGuin’s story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, a utopian society is built on suffering; Lois...
3 Quarks Dailyby Christopher Hall7d ago
by Christopher Hall Certain essays hit you like a thunderbolt. As someone who has suffered from episodes of debilitating anxiety, I found Freud’s concept of the death-drive as outlined in Beyond...
3 Quarks Dailyby Lei Wang8d ago
by Lei Wang The money of the mind is attention, I read recently in the first line of a poem, which may as well be a poetry x LinkedIn post title collaboration.
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