The Adjacent Brief

This week: a journalist goes inside the Enhanced Games — Las Vegas’s steroid-sanctioned mini-Olympics — and finds something stranger than sport. Paul Krugman opens a series on the economics of American oligarchy, starting with the case for progressive taxation.

This week: the philosopher Google DeepMind hired to think about what it’s building, how Kodak’s engineers invented the future and then buried it, the visual history of Black astronauts finally getting its own publication, and more — including Nolan’s Odyssey, a mercury-powered neon light from 1675,