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Daily Archives: August 25, 2026
Five American Universities
Interesting Read
via the American Affairs Journal:
How Financialization Can Complement Reindustrialization
by Skanda Amarnath and Arnab Datta
published in their Summer 2026 edition
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Quote, Unquote
I submit that Europeans ought to be more circumspect in their self-satisfaction. Chaos is only one election away. Right-populist parties are outpolling ruling incumbent parties pretty much everywhere, and it is as likely as not that Trumps with European characteristics will engulf the continent by the end of the decade.
~ Dan Wang via his 2025 letter
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Quote, Unquote
“If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them,” Dolly Parton once said. She was talking about makeup and plastic surgery, things she felt no shame in loving, but it’s hard to read that quote and not also think about what it means to be a visionary—to invent a whole world from nothing.
~ Amanda Petrusich via The New Yorker
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Midday Music Fix
Fukushima Dolphin – A Horse With No Name
This is the second busking video featuring Fukushima Dolphin – a duo based in Brighton Beach, England – that we have posted. Seamas Anstruther alerted us to the band, but unlike the previous video, he did not stick around long enought on the Brighton boardwalk to see the duo perfoms this sone back in March 2022.
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Campus Life at
Université du Québec à Rimouski
Quote, Unquote
Cameron has never been in love – at least, nobody’s ever been in love with him. If things don’t change for him, he’s gonna marry the first girl he lays, and she’s gonna treat him like shit, because she will have given him what he has built up in his mind as the end-all, be-all of human existence. She won’t respect him, ’cause you can’t respect somebody who kisses your ass. It just doesn’t work.
~ Ferris Bueller
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Campus Map
Heriot-Watt University
Campus Life at
the University of York
Midnight Trailer
The Gorge
The Gorge featuring Anya Taylor-Joy, Sigourney Weaver, and Miles Teller
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