Notes and Links - 23rd November

A solid read on population/migration etc: https://archive.is/r8ZP5#selection-1595.0-1608.0

Ray Bradbury on putting stuff in your head: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQ8XAAsDVll

"No, you did not teach yourself to cook" / recipes for gumbo: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/dining/joan-didion-thanksgiving.html / https://archive.is/F8dd8

On the 40th anniversary of Sade's Promise

This makes sense to me. Why populism became popular:

"The Canadian philosopher Joseph Heath recently published an essay making an intriguing argument: maybe populism isn’t a set of beliefs, or even a set of tactics, but an appeal to a way of thinking. Specifically, populists stand for common sense and in opposition to the pretentious theories of the elites.

“People are not rebelling against economic elites,” writes Heath. Instead, this is “a rebellion against [cognitive] executive function”. In this view, populism is a movement that appeals to people who trust their gut, rather than those who rely on some too-clever-by-half argument."