Instapaper Weekly – Apr 19, 2026

The week's most popular stories Most Popular Friday Apr 17, 2026 Our Longing for Inconvenience newyorker.com Essay The modern world has made us ill-equipped for the nuisances of past technologies, even as it has fuelled nostalgia for things that might transport us back to calmer times. April 17, 2026 Illustration by... Save Thursday Apr 16, 2026 Orban Was Bad, Even Though We Don't Have A Perfect Word For His Badness astralcodexten.com I. Viktor Orban, __________ of Hungary for sixteen years, lost his re-election bid earlier this week. The simplest phrase to fill in the blank is “prime minister”. Some people have proposed more loaded terms like... Save Wednesday Apr 15, 2026 My Strange Dysphoria vulture.com Photo: Ashley Peña for New York Magazine This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. “Excuse me?” I was newly 18, four months into my move to New York... Save Tuesday Apr 14, 2026 The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Actually Was a Psyop wired.com Brooklyn indie rockers Geese shot to the heights of rock and roll fame at the end of 2025. Their fourth album, Getting Killed, was released in late September and dominated the year’s top 10 lists.... Save Monday Apr 13, 2026 Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable theatlantic.com In the end, the defeat of Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s autocratic prime minister, required not just an ordinary election campaign or new messaging but rather the construction of a broad, diverse, and patriotic grassroots social movement.... Save Sunday Apr 12, 2026 This Is Why There’s No Liberal Joe Rogan nytimes.com Ezra Klein April 12, 2026 Credit...Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Associated Press Listen · 12:55 min See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York... Save Saturday Apr 11, 2026 ‘Abhorrent’: the inside story of the Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war theguardian.com “Horekunden” was rapidly losing patience. His frustration was with the Institute for the Study of War, a US thinktank which produces a daily map of the frontline in Ukraine. For Horekunden, and other anonymous gamblers,... Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2026 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 310663 · Brooklyn, NY 11231