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Most writing online is built to make you angry at strangers. We pick a different shelf. The Scroll surfaces writers, arguments, and ideas worth your attention: the kind of pieces you finish and think about for a week. No outrage farming. No tribal scorekeeping. Just the conversations that move how men live, work, and believe.
The Anti-Bullying Paradox
A mass movement has created a new class of victims while failing to keep kids safe.
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100 Skills Every Man Should Know
It’s been fodder for many a heated debate among men for centuries. What skills should every man know? A vast amount of ink and e-ink has been spilled on the subject. But why? Part of being a man is being competent and effective in the world. To do that, you’ve got to have skills. A man […] This article was originally published on The Art of Manliness.
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Penchants of the polymaths
The fathers of Islamic science hold lessons for students: breadth over specialisation, and never let constraints get in the way - by Mariam Sabri Read on Aeon
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Tobi Lütke: AI Agents, Better Decisions, and the Future of Work
Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke joins Shane Parrish to discuss AI agents, better decision-making, and the future of work. He explains how he uses an AI council to examine his hardest decisions and why taste, judgment, and responsibility become more valuable as AI becomes more capable. They go inside Shopify’s work with River, an … The post Tobi Lütke: AI Agents, Better Decisions, and the Future of Work appeared first on Farnam Street.
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Odds & Ends: September 12, 2026
YouTube Update Video. While I used to regularly make videos for YouTube, I stopped ten years ago because I don’t like making videos. But I thought I’d check in on that platform to announce the new website redesign and catch subscribers up on what else AoM has been doing this past decade. Plus, I know […] This article was originally published on The Art of Manliness.
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Missing the Mark on New York's Fiscal Crisis Recovery
A new book, engaging in its historical detail, castigates the city’s supposed neoliberal austerity—but offers no credible alternative path.
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The Chinese room
Can we test for AI consciousness when we don’t understand our own? Getting into John Searle’s ‘Chinese room’ experiment - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Steve Jobs in Exile
We all know the Steve Jobs who came back in the late 1990s and saved Apple from becoming a footnote. And we’ve all heard the story of how, in 1985, he was pushed out of the company he’d created. What we don’t know is what happened in between. Public Release: September 1. Members have access … The post Steve Jobs in Exile appeared first on Farnam Street.
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What Is Manliness, Anyway?
Launching the redesign of the Art of Manliness has gotten me thinking about our history, and how my understanding of manliness has evolved, deepened, and changed over that nearly two-decade-long span. The idea for the Art of Manliness came to me in a Borders (RIP) bookstore. As I browsed their selection of men’s magazines, I […] This article was originally published on The Art of Manliness.
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What Are We Teaching Children About 9/11?
Twenty-five years later, some instructional materials criticize America’s response to terrorism instead of informing students about the ideology and perpetrators of the attacks.
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You’re Joining a Union—Whether You Want to Or Not
If workers won’t choose unions, Big Labor increasingly wants government to choose for them.
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Sunniest of Mornings, Grimmest of Days
A lifelong New Yorker remembers September 11.
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A Dangerous Backlash Against Counterterrorism
Twenty-five years after 9/11, it’s undermining national security.
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Welcome to the Redesigned AoM
Every five years or so, Kate and I get the itch to redesign the Art of Manliness. I don’t fully know where it comes from. After eighteen years of running this site, our tastes change, our sense of what AoM is about changes, and at some point an old design stops fitting the idea we’ve […] This article was originally published on The Art of Manliness.
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September 11 and the Loss of Certainty
The years after the attacks proved challenging for conviction about America’s role in the world—and about my own motives.
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Distrust in Tech Is Undermining National Security
A backlash against modern counterterrorism tools poses a serious challenge to our ability to protect the nation.
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The Pollsters’ Counter-Elite Problem
An overeducated, downwardly mobile segment of the population is scrambling the polls.
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Medieval mental health
Saffron and ostrich liver were prescribed but so were exercise, gardens, animals, socialising, and music - by Katherine Harvey Read on Aeon
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Covid Masks, a “Gay Communism” Hat, and Hasan Piker: Inside the Socialism 2026 Conference
Radical leftists gathered in the Windy City to advance the abolition of police, prisons, capitalism, and the family.
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The Expansion of Executive Power
Another legacy of 9/11
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