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Sep 23, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 23, 2026

    China, the Lossy Republic (opens the original)

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1484" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5mwJ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8044eea-935e-4071-b17b-6f73db493414_120

  2. Issue · Sep 18, 2026

    A Republic Capable of Betrayal (opens the original)

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    Peter Santenello has become one of America’s great amateur ethnographers. He visits places metropolitan America no longer sees and lets people explain the worlds in which they live. His camera finds farmers, mechanics, sheriffs, migrants, addicts, preachers and families surviving at the edge. But it rarely finds the person who owns the town.Not the billionaire. Not the Wall Street financier or Silicon Valley founder. Not even the local doctor or lawyer. The missing person is the man who owns sev

  3. Issue · Sep 15, 2026

    KILL YOUR DARLINGS (opens the original)

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    Prologue: I was angry<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1440" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yVwE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb5

  4. Issue · Sep 10, 2026

    The Race After AGI (opens the original)

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    Teortaxes is sad that the AGI race is over.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1752" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nctl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages

  5. Issue · Sep 8, 2026

    What Became of the Asian Century? (opens the original)

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    Cp’s note: I began my working life a few weeks before the Asian financial crisis. For thirty years, I have been watching the story that followed, expecting the queue to re-form. It never did.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="640" src="https://s

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