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Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu slams AI productivity hype and invokes the Why Nations Fail framework to argue for serious AI governance centered on workers.
Fathom Entertainment and Warner Bros. are bringing Peter Jackson's extended-edition Lord of the Rings trilogy back to theatres in January 2026, marking the 25th anniversary of The Fellowship of the Ring. AMC and Fandango are already listing tickets for the event.
F.A. Hayek's 1944 critique of central planning is being directly invoked by political commentators in 2026, with writers drawing explicit parallels between his warnings and current government interventions.
Francis Fukuyama's forthcoming memoir *In the Realm of the Last Man* will arrive this fall, intertwining his personal history with fifty years of democratic crisis. The announcement revives interest in his landmark 2014 work *Political Order and Political Decay*.
Profile Books has announced The Concise Laws of Human Nature, a condensed version of Robert Greene's 2018 behavioural psychology title, designed to reduce the barrier posed by the original volume's length.
A March 2026 Naked Capitalism analysis applied Sun Tzu's 2,500-year-old strategic framework to the ongoing Iran conflict, drawing fresh attention to the ancient text's use in contemporary geopolitical assessments.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb told Nikkei Asia that President Trump's unpredictable second administration fits the definition of a black swan — a rare, high-impact event that conventional forecasting fails to anticipate.
New research warning that American democracy has "settled into a diminished state" is prompting political scientists to revisit Alexis de Tocqueville's 19th-century classic for its analysis of civic life and democratic fragility.
Vietnam War novelist Tim O'Brien has spoken publicly about the My Lai Massacre and its lasting moral weight in a new PBS interview, drawing on his own experience serving near the massacre site decades ago.
