Instapaper Weekly – Dec 7, 2025

The week's most popular stories Top Highlight Inner Excellence fs.blog David Foster Wallace on thinking: Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Save Most Popular Friday Dec 5, 2025 The Best Films of 2025 newyorker.com 2025 in Review Our critics rank their favorite movies of the year. December 5, 2025 Illustration by Joanne Joo Our film critics watch a lot of movies in a year. By December, their viewing slates... Save Thursday Dec 4, 2025 Bad Dye Job daringfireball.net In my post earlier today on the then-breaking news that Alan Dye has left Apple to join Meta as chief design officer (a new title at the company1), I wrote: It sounds like Dye chose... Save Tuesday Dec 2, 2025 The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector defector.com Given his age when he first came to the world's attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if... Save Monday Dec 1, 2025 The Bubble-Wrapped President theatlantic.com For a decade, Donald Trump’s rallies were intertwined with his political identity. His big crowds were how he first got the media and the Republican Party to take him seriously, and they provided real-time feedback.... Save Sunday Nov 30, 2025 All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches theguardian.com A crusading prosecutor in the Balkans comes under pressure to drop a big case. Vietnamese villagers learn they are to be evicted. A convicted crypto kingpin in the Gulf receives a pardon. All have one... Save Saturday Nov 29, 2025 Inside Trump’s Push to Make the White House Ballroom as Big as Possible nytimes.com President Trump walking on the White House roof with James McCrery, whose firm created the initial designs for the new ballroom, in August.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times President Trump’s ever-growing vision has caused tension with... Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2025 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 310663 · Brooklyn, NY 11231