The Adjacent Brief

This week: a philosophical reckoning with Ernst Jünger’s path from the trenches through Nazism and into late-century respectability, an economist erased from history whose ideas were smuggled into bestselling fiction, and a portrait of Himalayan trekking guides whose livelihoods are shifting as the

This week: the daily grind of studying menswear collars and patch pockets, a physicist’s case for why Big Yard birdwatching and glow pigments matter, the messy economics of Dolly Parton’s literacy program, and a computer that famously does almost nothing.