The Theory Brief
Victor ShammasA newsletter about politics, culture, and social theory.
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Have Denmark’s Right-Leaning Social Democrats Finally Learned Their Lesson?
Progressives, especially in the U.S., are prone to bouts of romanticism about the Nordic countries. But things aren’t quite so rosy in reality—especially for immigrants and minorities. Denmark in particular has taken a hard turn to the righ...
The Trillion-Dollar Vassal
Jens Stoltenberg in a meeting with Donald Trump in 2017 (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
Earlier this year, Norway’s $2.1 trillion Oil Fund—the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund—was the subject of a heated public debat...
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Sargent Claude Johnson, Lenox Avenue (1938)
In More and More and More, historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz argues that “energy transitions” have been more like energy source additions: new energy sources tend to get layered on top of ol...
Dan Wang's "Breakneck": A Lesson in Disavowed Hawkishness
Dan Wang, Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future (New York: W. W. Norton, 2025).
Dan Wang’s Breakneck can be read as the center-right counterpart to Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s center-left Abundance. Where Klein and Thomps...
This Week in Links #1
Hans Haacke, Collateral (1991).
Readers of The Theory Brief will know that UK politician Nigel Farage’s far-right politics of division and polarization are the opposite of everything this newsletter stands for. As Farage’s Reform UK party...
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