Podcast: To Hell And Back | Fear No Man. First episode in a new series about the life of Afrobeat pioneer and social revolutionary Fela Kuti (38m 5s)

Video: Frank | Vimeo | New Yorker | 15m 06s

Film following 99-year-old New Jersey lawyer Frank Lucianna through his final criminal case. When he died not long after this was filmed, there was a two-hour line to get into his wake, such was the crowd of people who wanted to pay their respects.

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The Legacy Of Nicaea

Ed Simon | Hedgehog Review | 10th December 2025

2025 was the 1700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea, "a milestone observed by churches, seminaries, and religious institutions but largely ignored by the secular press". It is worth knowing about, since this gathering in "an Anatolian backwater" resulted in the core doctrine of orthodox Christianity. "Not consistency but paradox, not reason but mystery, not an answer, but a question" (2,100 words)

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In Memoriam: Justice David H. Souter

Chief Justice Roberts et al | Harvard Law Review | 11th December 2025

Legal luminaries pay tribute to Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who died earlier this year at the age of 85. He was brilliant: "Not just in a yeah-yeah-of-course-he-was-smart kind of way. He possessed a sixth intellectual gear that very few do... I’m talking about raw intellectual firepower. His mind just worked at a speed, and with a capacity, that I hadn’t seen before — and, frankly, haven’t seen since" (6,600 words)

Things I Want To Say To My Boss

Anonymous | I Thought About That A Lot | 10th December 2025

Part of a project that publishes an anonymous reflection every day, 1st-24th December. This one will be recognisable to everyone who has been a neglected employee. "Good leadership isn’t complicated, but it is demanding. It asks more of you than your job title does. It asks for self-awareness, not slogans. It asks you to trade the armour of performance for the discomfort of being accountable" (800 words)

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Rebellion

Catherine Lacey | Untitled Thought Project| 9th December 2025

Perfectly formed, tiny essay about overcoming family trauma and breaking the generational cycle of bad behaviour. "To be treated badly by someone you love, to be treated badly and to be told that this mistreatment is a demonstration of their love... Such a relationship can be so overwhelming and so warping that even when you escape it (as you must escape it) you might miss all that old drama" (144 words)

Revised Definitions Of The Verb “To Google”

Jessica Camargo | McSweeney’s | 9th December 2025

The state of the search engine today, less satire and more lament. “You used to defend the search engine, blaming users when they said it couldn’t find what they were looking for. Your friends called you the “Google wizard”. Now you can’t even find a simple news article you read last week, and you can’t help but feel deeply sad, realising the internet that shaped you has been destroyed piece by piece” (400 words)

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Reading Lolita In The Barracks

Sheon Han | Asterisk | 8th December 2025

A conscript describes his efforts at literary erudition during mandatory military service in South Korea. Privates were allowed two hours of voluntary study every day. Every base had a 연등실 (延燈室) or “Room Where the Lights Stay On”, where seats were highly coveted. To steal more reading hours, the author covered other people’s night shifts, reading Solzhenitsyn, Nabokov, Baldwin and Didion in this time (6,400 words)

52 Things I Learned In 2025

Tom Whitwell | Medium | 1st December 2025

This list is an annual institution and always provides a smorgasbord of interesting facts from the year. Some highlights: Spotify still hasn't found a level of randomness for their "shuffle" that listeners like, almost 0.7% of US exports are of human blood or blood products, MIT researchers have created a stretchable and washable computer, and Americans have been shrinking since the 1980s (1,600 words)

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Last Night On Youtube

Finlay McLaren | Lion & Unicorn | 4th December 2025

Examination of nostalgia as represented by the clips that the BBC Archive packages for modern digital consumption. Videos of train commuters in the 1970s, pub pianists in the 1980s, and a man who cycles across the Cairngorms just to find that his friend isn't in evoke a bygone, analogue age. That's not a bad thing, though. "If you’ve never missed a moment you can never return to, you simply haven’t lived" (2,000 words)

Podcast: When Productivity Becomes Pathological | A Slight Change Of Plans. Interview with a psychiatrist about her research in the field of "high functioning depression" (36m 48s)

Video: The Thrill Is Gone | YouTube | Raye | 6m 47s

British singer-songwriter Raye performs live with The Heritage Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall.

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How To Actually Feed America

Caroline Sutton | Slow Boring | 28th November 2025

On the evolution of the US's largest charitable food network. Food banks used to wait in line and have to accept whatever surplus food was donated, even if it was geographically or nutritionally wrong for their needs. Then some Chicago business school professors instituted a market system with bids, shares and data. It works very well. Now, twenty years on, they can't decide whether to keep it (1,600 words)

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The Midnight Shift

Lucas Vaqueiro | Urban Omnibus | 3rd December 2025

Introduction to New York's Leak Detection team: eleven sound engineers employed by the city to listen for ruptures in the 6,800-mile-long network of water pipes. Every night, they use microphones to check six miles of pipes, listening through headphones for the tell-tale gush of a broken water main spilling its contents into the chaotic layer of "spaghetti" beneath the surface that is made up of cables and tubes (600 words)

Six Decades Behind The Counter

Lisa Jucca | Reuters | 20th November 2025

Interview with Anna Possi, Italy's longest-serving barista. She has recently turned 101 and still works behind the counter at the café she opened with her husband in the Piedmont hills in 1958. He died in 1974; she's been pulling the shots by herself ever since. Her secret for long life? Refusing to be idle and remaining independent. "Work is what distracts you and at the same time gives you something" (1,000 words)

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'Nothing to See Here'

Rusana Novikova | Anthropology News | 3rd December 2025

At Russia's "feral frontier" — such as on Sakhalin Island in the far north-west — the effort to recolonise rural territory must combat thirty years of post-Soviet neglect. "Abandoned fields overgrown with birch trees are by no means a reversal to some 'original nature'. Instead, they are a poignant reminder of what happens when the biggest social experiment of the twentieth century is no more" (1,800 words)

Our Picture Of Evolution

Prosanta Chakrabarty | MIT Press Reader | 1st December 2025

Brief examination of evolutionary diagrams. The most popular one, featuring a linear progression from monkey to man, was drawn from Rudolph Zallinger's 1965 mural “March of Progress”. But it is incorrect. Humans did not evolve from these other forms but with them from shared ancestors. A more accurate alternative, depicting evolution as a phylogenetic tree, is becoming popular in textbooks (1,500 words)

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Let’s Not Bring Back The Gatekeepers

Dan Williams | Conspicuous Cognition | 30th November 2025

Social media benefits populism because it provides a platform for ideas stigmatised by establishment elites. In response, establishment institutions are reluctant to engage with fringe views and conspiracy theorists, for fear that this would legitimise them and imply an equal footing. This is doomed to fail. “If policies against misinformation only work if people aren’t misinformed, they don’t work” (6,200 words)

Underrated Reasons To Be Thankful

Dynomight | 27th November 2025

Charmingly specific list. Cardamom tastes expensive and is cheap. When disposed of correctly, disposable plastic is carbon sequestration. About 1% of all humans that have ever lived enjoyed free elections, the rule of law, and civil liberties; that number is now closer to 10%. When things don’t go our way, we can always turn to the comfort of sleep, “a pause that’s somehow neither experienced nor skipped” (1,400 words)

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The Case For Ending Statistical Significance

Davidson Heath | Reason | 1st December 2025

The obsession with statistical significance has misled many sciences into false-positive findings and bias. An alternative might be “estimation culture”, courtesy of William Gosset, who devised a formula using small-sample estimates for quality control in Guinness beer. “Any series of experiments is only of value in so far as it enables us to form a judgement as to the statistical constants of the population” (3,000 words)