The Worst Air Disaster You’ve Never Heard Of 

Captain, that was a lilly dilly!

https://magazine.atavist.com/2025/american-hindenberg-zeppelin-disaster?src=longreads 

Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. 

'On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: "One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."'

I don't know how the recent-ish three short, but very different, including author's backgrounds, Ta-Nehisi Coates', Peter Beinart's and now (in my reading order) Omar El Akkad's books are/will be taken, but this one hit hardest for me. Part of that may be being a parent/view towards the future. All certainly worth a read.  

May hit Finkelstein's next. 

 

Finding Peter Putnam: The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind

https://nautil.us/finding-peter-putnam-1218035/ 

It’s easy to say why someone is wrong. The hard part is figuring out why they’re right. 

 

Guido Barbujani - The Invention of Races - Science Against Racism

Well I'm already anti-racist and I think "race" is a looooong outdated concept but still it feels good when science agrees with your point of view. Really good book, has no pseudo-scientific bullshit in it, not easy to understand, going to take a bit longer to finish than my regular reading materials. But still a good read.

In the Wake of the Edmund Fitzgerald

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/arts/edmund-fitzgerald-gordon-lightfoot.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk8.MyaM.8WtsXHa1Kr_6&smid=url-share (gift article) 

This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You 

by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas

Edited December 14, 2025Dec 14 by HiWire

The Federalist Papers.

https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text

and the slightly more readable format.

https://csac.history.wisc.edu/constitutional-debates/the-federalist-papers/

no particular reason.... 

 

This section starts to hit harder:

The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union