City Journal on the Nigerian chief who made millions in Medicaid.
Wednesday, September 09, 2026
The Second Worst Chancellor in History
From First Things in February 2025: Christopher Caldwell reviews the memoirs of Angela Merkel.
Tuesday, September 08, 2026
Walk Around the Lift
There comes a point when you have to step back and get a larger gestalt. Have a cigarette and walk around the lift. Any mechanic will tell you that it is invaluable to have other mechanics around to test your reasoning against, especially if they have a different intellectual disposition.
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Even on the relatively primitive vintage bikes that were our specialty, some diagnostic situations contain so many variables, and symptoms can be so under-determining of causes, that explicit analytical reasoning comes up short. What is required then is the kind of judgment that arises only from experience; hunches rather than rules. I quickly realized that there was more thinking going on in the bike shop than in my previous job at the think tank.
- Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
Why the AfDs Wins in Germany
Christopher Caldwell explains in First Things.
You may have seen his book on the problems in Europe.
Monday, September 07, 2026
Small Project Week
The Rhone household is onto something both small and big, starting with a spice drawer.
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