WEEKEND READS: Dreams of freedom
Great writing and thinking for December 13, 2025
Happy Saturday, Ink readers!
We invite you, our supporting subscribers, to spend some time reading along with us, so — as we do each weekend — we’ve collected some of the most interesting writing and thinking we’ve come across as we’ve done our research this week. Below you’ll find Naomi Klein on how the Surrealists looked fascism in the eye, a look at the ugly business of beauty, an investigation of the conspiratorial backbone of the MAHA movement, an inquiry into how we started dreaming of flight, and more.
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Surrealism’s radical concept of freedom
How did we arrive at this contorted place? What were all those museums and lesson plans and documentaries about the Holocaust for, if not to prevent a moment such as this? And what about all those books with checklists on how to spot your country sliding into fascism? Why did so many of the people who read them – and even some of the people who wrote them – falter when a genocide was unfolding on their screens, a genocide that has blown a hole in the moral universe and decimated the shaky edifice of international humanitarian law, making any further depravity now feel entirely possible? [Equator]