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From Polybius's cyclical theory of civilizational collapse and the enduring logic of Stoicism to the economic philosophy of Henry George and the satirical genius of Jonathan Swift, Trill News publishes essays and opinion pieces that take ideas seriously. We explore the philosophical frameworks, ideological currents, and macro thinking that explain why the world works the way it does.
1. The pending evolution of Chile’s school age population. 2. Markets in everything those new service sector jobs. 3. Survey on the economics of caste. 4. J.D. Vance on Milton Friedman. And Mamdani on Hayek. 5. ...
Read article →America is a uniquely sick, unhealthy country — just ask Americans. We’re addicted to ultraprocessed food and succumb to deaths of despair. The current US health secretary, who insists we’ve been raising the “sickest ...
Read article →The testimonies of Ukraine’s war widows reveal the mortal risk of love and the possibility of dying while alive: a black pain- by Julie ResheRead on Aeon
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Read article →In little more than a decade, the term “ultra-processed foods” (UPFs) has risen from an obscure academic coinage to one of the most potent ideas in the American food imagination. It has saturated media coverage of die...
Read article →An ethicist who studies disagreement and civility assumed she could handle a neighborly dispute – until the neighbor refused to even interact with her.
Read article →What changed was that the cost of preliminary exploration collapsed. I could sketch an argument, identify the first serious objections, test whether they were fatal, and reach a provisional verdict in an afternoon rat...
Read article →America’s 250th anniversary has arrived, and, at a national level, the narrative is set: Presdient Donald Trump has made the semi-quincentennial into his personal party. The White House has rolled out a series o...
Read article →Despite growing evidence of alcohol’s harms, it remains deeply embedded in social norms and cultural rituals, both in the US and abroad.
Read article →The secular decline in birth rates across the globe over the past seven decades has slowed population growth, raised average ages, and reshaped labor markets and the macroeconomy. Contrary to the widespread expectatio...
Read article →America’s 250th birthday celebration feels like a child’s birthday party ruined by fighting between two soon-to-be-divorced parents. What should be a benign celebration of shared, if slightly boring, values has become...
Read article →The Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission argues that religious freedom is under attack and blames the ‘wall of separation’ between church and state.
Read article →1. Rohit is solving for the AI equilibrium. 2. Robin Hanson explains his political evolution. 3. Restoring the Book of Kells. 4. More Scott Sumner movie reviews. 5. Peter Howitt YouTube talk on golf? (I have not heard...
Read article →The numbers are clear: President Donald Trump’s approval rating is cratering across the board, and he’s losing the most ground with groups that were key demographics to his win in 2024. In that election, men under 30 ...
Read article →The medical tools of the Revolutionary period help flesh out the picture of what physical well-being felt like for people living in the American colonies 250 years ago.
Read article →To mark what would have been Jim Mirrlees’ 90th birthday on 4 July, Nuffield College (Oxford University) is auctioning off some signed books from Jim’s personal collection and other special items of Jim’s g...
Read article →The legal profession is much like a priesthood; both lawyers and theologians interpret a central text, be it the Bible, the Quran, the Gita, or the Constitution. We bury ourselves in canonical commentaries on that tex...
Read article →A little-known law called ERISA bars millions of patients from suing for damages when health insurers wrongly deny claims.
Read article →Even though Mexico is the US’s top trade partner, the fate of the pact underpinning that relationship is uncertain.
Read article →It was not the postcard-worthy aesthetics that prompted Greek islanders to first drench their cliffside-carved homes, churches, and pathways in a thick layer of pearly white paint. Much like wearing a white tuni...
Read article →‘The Folk Box’ sought to trace the roots and branches of American music, and document the forging – and constant reinvention – of the national identity.
Read article →The tightly integrated North American beef market, under pressure from drought and the spread of the screwworm, could get further roiled by trade uncertainty.
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Read article →American courts have heard cases over the Bible’s role in classrooms for more than a century. Whether lessons are constitutional depends on their purpose.
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