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THIS WAS SO WEIRD…
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The Majority Report Dec 18, 2025

THIS WAS SO WEIRD…

MR FUN | 12/17/25
The Majority Report Dec 17, 2025

MR FUN | 12/17/25

John Sanbonmatsu Thinks You’re Lying to Yourself About Food
Current Affairs Dec 16, 2025

John Sanbonmatsu Thinks You’re Lying to Yourself About Food

John sanbonmatsu is a professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the author of The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves. The book is a response to Michael Pollan’s 2006 bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and as the title suggests, Sanbonmatsu thinks writers like Pollan are dead wrong about the ethics of food. He maintains that killing and eating animals is entirely indefensible, no matter how “humane” the process supposedly is. He joined Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to explain why. 

The 24 Best Books We Read in 2025
Mother Jones Dec 16, 2025

The 24 Best Books We Read in 2025

Nonfiction What if we had international law—a rules-based order that bound every country, big or small, rich or poor, to shared standards? I was taught that those were American questions, sparked mainly by the world wars. They are indeed, the historian Greg Grandin argues in America, América—encompassing the entire North and South American continents. Within […]