2+ hour, 9+ min ago  (364+ words) Not long ago I read in the London Review of Books Leo Robson's virtuosic retelling of his initiation to the world of cinema. In search of more criticism in these pages, I asked Robson to take the measure of film…...

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2+ week, 6+ hour ago  (178+ words) China and the Future of AI April 30, 2026 | The Ideas Letter 63 A century later, Deng Xiaoping's prescriptions would turn out to be no different. But the regime's objective has never been total censorship'in part because that would have excessively constrained the…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago  (174+ words) IL 63s'curated section'leads'with the acclaimed historian Jeremy Adelman. Adelman, whose book on the history of capitalism will be published later this year, digs into Sven Beckerts recent doorstopper on capitalisms development and questions Beckerts insistence that liberalism and capitalism are…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago  (217+ words) April 30, 2026 | The Ideas Letter 63 At last year's climate summit COP30 in Bel'm, Brazil, a phrase I hadn't thought about for years suddenly reappeared on my radar: "soft power." "China does not have cultural industries like Hollywood, and its universities are far…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (1058+ words) April 16, 2026 | The Ideas Letter 62 AI doesn't really "think." Rather, it remembers how we thought together. And we're about to stop giving it anything worth remembering. The trajectory has a compelling internal logic. Routine cognitive work gets automated; junior roles thin…...