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1/ This Yanis Varoufakis screed made me so angry the only way I can salvage my day is to go through it line by line as catharsis. You are welcome to come on the journey toward my aneurism with me. An angry h/t to @sianushka.bsky.social for bringing this into my life. unherd.com/2026/04/why-...

I briefly subscribed to unherd a few years back, figuring that reading a bit of longform would be informative. Yet about half the articles were just like this one. Wordy, contrarian sophistry, stupid beyond belief. So the subscription didn’t last long.

I think the original sin here is to brand your publication as having a contrarian edge. Sure, truth can sometimes be contrarian. But contrarianism, by itself, is just a soap box for tin foil hats speaking, however eloquently, to an audience of tin foil hats.