Rule Swords

The Number Go Up Rule

Matt Stoller | BIG | 18th July 2025, in which increasing the capitalisation of the stock market to protect the assets of the baby boom generation has become the political default. "Financial capitalism implies risk. But in our era, the government guarantees financial returns with subsidies, regulations and bailouts. It’s a form of statecraft." Turning away from this is society's principal moral challenge (3,000 words)

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I Never Cared Much For Swords

Sandrine Rastello | Walrus | 18th July 2025

Actor's training in historical fencing leads her into the world of historical fencing. Participants use steel replicas of longswords, smallswords and sabres to explore a martial art best described as "a game of chess with swords". It requires both archival research and muscles. Ultimately, a duel is about "looking another human in the eye and summoning survival instincts you didn’t know you had" (2,500 words)