I’ve got a roundup today of interesting articles that I’ve been wanting to share with you all—some of the more interesting and perceptive pieces I’ve come across recently from other writers. I originally sat down just to give them to you as a list, but as I got going, I realized most of them fell under a common theme, which I will give to you in several parts. They all represent the “late stage” of a given ideology, the point at which a set of ideas has been allowed to work itself out to their inevitable conclusion.

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Late-Stage Anti-Capitalism

The first article is from center-left “neoliberal” Jeremiah Johnson—I interviewed him here—writing about the dominant genre of left-wing social media: “Ugh, Capitalism,” which he calls “the laziest form of criticism on the internet.”

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This series letters written while in exile — on the sometimes-shocking English way of doing religion, politics, science, morals, and philosophy — were hugely influential upon a French audience still in the grip of l’ancien regime. Related: The full Philosophers, Explained series, including classics from Kant, Nietzsche, Rand, Camus, Aristotle, Plato, and other important thinkers.