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Weekend Reading | Saturday, September 19, 2026

The rise of electoral democracy

For Democracy (as for almost everything important), it’s two steps forward one step back. Gotta keep pushing for the next two steps forward.

The Cognitive Divergence: AI Context Windows, Human Attention Decline, and the Delegation Feedback Loop

AI may literally make us dumber.

Historic first: Older adults now outnumber the youngest children worldwide

Without a fundamental rethink… this does not bode well for the social contract.

A field guide to seeing through false expertise

With so much noise, how do you identify the signal? It’s probably not how you think.


Thematic ETFs Are Popular Again. Yikes.

Nowhere is the folly of market timing more evident than in thematic ETFs.

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Always reading, always learning, Jonathan hand-selects these articles for readers each week. To view Jonathan’s curated articles from previous weeks, CLICK HERE.

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