Monday assorted links
1. New Yorker best films of 2025. The full panoply (not always available to actual viewers in advance) is in fact quite good, once the full list is out.
2. Individual home NIMBY in Fairfax.
3. Jerry Muller Substack and intellectual biography.
4. Mick West sides with a guy with 286 Twitter followers over classified intelligence, based on multiple sensor readings. Russian drone incursions are not seriously doubted…except by him (no doubt some are mistaken observations ofc).
6. Scott Alexander on the vibecession.
7. The New School will cut or pause 25 different programs.
8. On new, for-profit cities (FT).
9. Are global aesthetics flattening India’s fashion imagination?