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Newsletter · By Gawain Kripke · Official site

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Sep 21, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    The polycrisis is over (opens the original)

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    It was during the COVID pandemic that the idea of a “polycrisis” gained wide currency. I remember it as the brainchild of Adam Tooze, although he notes the idea has a longer intellectual history. At the time, it seemed like a helpful concept: to name the reality that the world was facing multiple crises simultaneously. And that this simultaneity was creating new challenges and strains. The crises interact so that the whole is more dangerous than the sum of the parts.At the time, I think the nomi

  2. Issue · Jul 14, 2026

    Infrastructure as Care (opens the original)

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    Last week, I rode my bike into Rock Creek Park for a groundbreaking ceremony. DC Water — the public water and sanitation utility — is going to build a big tunnel under the forest, about a half-mile long. It will cost $70 million and will take four years. There will be underground blasting and a huge mechanical tunnel borer. It might be noisy and unpleasant and nearby residents probably won’t like it. The largest apartment building in Washington DC is just above the tunnel.<div

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