Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading 18th/19th OCT 2025
“On the foggy Friday morning before Thanksgiving, Kushner drove up the promontory of Point Dume, in Malibu, where Rubin’s clifftop estate sits above high bluffs and rocky coves. Like Johnny Cash, Metallica, and the Geto Boys before him, Kushner made the pilgrimage not only in hopes of catching the stray sparks of Rubin’s tutelary magic, but to lay himself bare to the great beard in a moment of personal crisis. Dressed in his customary robes (shorts, t-shirt, bare feet, majestic mane), Rubin received Kushner with coffee in his backyard, where two chairs overlook the water…”
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist by Johana Bhuiyan, Dara Kerr and Nick Robins-Early
“ The Silicon Valley heavyweight drew on a wide swath of religious thinkers, including the French American theorist René Girard, whom Thiel knew at Stanford University, and the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, whose work he said helped create the core of his own beliefs. He credited the English Catholic theologian John Henry Newman as the inspiration for his four-part series, saying: “Newman did four, so I’m doing four. I’m happy about it.” …
What turning a blind eye to deviant behavior is doing to London by Adrian Wooldridge
“The food-delivery industry rests on an infrastructure of crime and illegal immigration. Visit any flea-pit hotel that houses undocumented migrants and you will encounter youths hanging around in the street and shady figures recruiting them for jobs delivering fast food or groceries for supposedly respectable companies. The going rate for delivery drivers is so low that they have no choice but to ride at terrifying speeds — hence the number of accidents and hence the fact that the cyclists wear face masks.” …
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