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10/31/2025

“Dying empires are often difficult and dangerous places to be a cosmopolitan minority.“

Read Geoff Shullenberger’s latest newsletter

Is history repeating itself for the Mamdani family?

10/31/2025

“It’s a mistake to attribute US foreign policy—or even Christians’ views of that topic—to Darby’s so-called “dispensational” eschatology. The history of Christian Zionism in America is far longer and more various than that.”

Samuel Goldman in COMPACT:

Why do so many Americans support Israel? In his recent interview with “groyper” Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson was latest to ask a question that has vexed politicians, journalists, and scholars.

10/30/2025

“Has ‘trafficking’ really exploded across the United States by approximately 800 percent in the past 15 years?”

Read Michael Tracey’s piece in COMPACT:

On December 28, 2023, Raúl Torrez, the attorney general of New Mexico, made a landmark announcement: Deutsche Bank, the multinational financial services giant, would be partnering with the state to “fight human trafficking.”

10/29/2025

"We must allow for experiments that make us uncomfortable: experiments that attend to the commonsense values of working-class black Americans."

Read Vincent Lloyd's piece in COMPACT:

When we talk about politics, certain names and phrases serve as navigational buoys, allowing us to make our way through uncertain and often turbulent waters.

10/28/2025

Trump demolishes the East Wing of the White House and muses about pursuing a third term, and charges against Andrew Tate get dismissed. Ashley Frawley and Geoff Shullenberger join Matthew Schmitz.

Podcast Episode · Compact Podcast · 10/28/2025 · 58m

10/28/2025

“Up to a third of young men suffer from erectile dysfunction.”

Read Jo Bartosch’s piece in COMPACT:

There are some places you can stand and glimpse the future.

10/27/2025

“What is so liberal about liberalism, he asks, if our legal, traditional, and cultural practices are in large part derivative of a classical tradition?”

Read Heather Penatzer’s piece in COMPACT:

Following the Second World War, the United States and its allies built an international order based upon principles of economic openness, multilateral institutions, and liberal-democratic values.

10/24/2025

"Nazi-streaks" spread on the left and right, Trump suspends trade talks with Canada, and Trump pardons the crypto-billionaire behind Binance. Ashley Frawley and Geoff Shullenberger join Matthew Schmitz.

Podcast Episode · Compact Podcast · 10/24/2025 · 45m

10/24/2025

"Antihumanists have spent half a century deconstructing “Man,” but now face steep competition in that effort from tech companies with trillion-plus dollar valuations." Read Geoff Shullenberger's latest newsletter

On Leif Weatherby’s ‘Language Machines’

10/24/2025

"The user interface asks what dost thou want? Wouldst thou like thine term paper done? A bit of homework? Wouldst thou like to live LLMiciously?"

Read Gabriel Rossman's piece in COMPACT:

In the decade since the neural architecture version of Google Translate and the invention of transformer architecture for neural networks, we have experienced the most rapid technological breakthroughs since at least World War II, and possibly ever.

10/23/2025

“Doctorow keeps selling his keen mind short.”

Read Dan Hitchens's piece in COMPACT:

Cory Doctorow has written a courageous, devastating book which succeeds in every regard except its main goal. Doctorow wants to popularize the term “ensh*ttification” and its cognate terms “ensh*ttocene,” “ensh*tternet,” “The Great Ensh*ttening.”

10/22/2025

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