Hari Kunzru

I'm about to get ready to go out and celebrate the New Year, so I guess it's time for a list. I'm threading it into last year's, and I see I published much less than in 2024, mainly because I've been deep in a draft. New Year's resolution is to finish it in 2026.

I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy

It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

Bari Weiss is literally going to run CBS news while complaining about being silenced

I thought Lewandowski’s services came with the plane?

Nothing more soy than a middle aged opinion-haver doing muscular liberal face

There’s always more money for the war

Ah yes this has the real flavor of Orwell via brainyquote - also attributed to Churchill but actually from a Washington Times film critic in a column titled ‘The Perils of Passive Sex’

The moral of the story is that you can steal as much as you like, but don’t spend $200 million on an ad campaign that upstages the boss.

Thesis: fact Antithesis: feeling Synthesis: fact-based feeling

I am not enjoying being stuck between two groups of theocrats in the grip of hazy apocalyptic fantasies

2003 and I’m looking at yet another Middle Eastern country being bombed and Tom Friedman is in my feed. 2026 and I’m looking …

“Structural: SCIFs require vault-like doors, locks, and hinges… Visual: SCIF design must ensure individuals outside the facility cannot see into the space… Acoustic: SCIF perimeters must ensure any sounds are inaudible to the human ear outside of the facility”