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Ted Kaczynski murdered three people and injured twenty-three more — that part isn't debatable, and it isn't a footnote. But his manifesto, "Industrial Society and Its Future," made predictions in 1995 that look uncomfortably accurate now. Andre separates the diagnosis from the disease: what Kaczynski got right, where he was wrong, and the irony nobody talks about — we walked into his nightmare voluntarily. Content Note: Created with AI assistance. All ideas and editorial direction are human-generated.

AJ runs through the stories everybody talked about this week — Democrats sweeping both chambers in the U.S. midterms, Ottawa tabling a $62.3-billion-deficit budget with a grocery top-up, Wall Street's worst day in over a year as AI stocks cratered, tankers burning near the Strait of Hormuz, and Russell Brand's conviction in London. Content Note: Created with AI assistance. All ideas and editorial direction are human-generated.

AJ has a new show. It's in French. It's called 2D, and it starts Saturday, November 7, 2026, with Apocalypse Now. If you speak French, or you know someone who does, this is for you. Every Saturday, a story from behind the scenes of a famous movie, or a mystery with a plausible explanation and no confirmed answer. In French.

Why does everything seem to go wrong exactly when you need it to go right? Murphy’s Law says that if something can go wrong, it will. But is that actually true—or are probability, complexity, and the way our brains remember bad experiences making it feel that way? This week on AJ Weekly, AJ explores the strange logic behind Murphy’s Law, why complicated systems are so vulnerable to failure, why we notice disasters more than everything that goes right, and what engineers understand about failure that we often forget in everyday life. Maybe Murphy’s Law isn’t about expecting the worst. Maybe it’s about understanding that things go wrong—and building a life that can handle it. Content Note: Created with AI assistance. All ideas and editorial direction are human-generated.

Nick Harkaway wrote: "Don't tell me the end justifies the means, because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means." AJ takes it apart — from politics to his own life — and asks the uncomfortable question: if the road is the only part you actually live, what kind of person are you becoming on it? Content Note: Created with AI assistance. All ideas and editorial direction are human-generated.

AJ runs through the stories everybody talked about this week — Canada and the EU launching an Alliance for the Future in Montreal, Alberta officially voting to remain, a record 47.9 million Americans voting early before the midterms, G20 ministers refusing to pose for a photo with Lavrov, and the Brewers ending a 57-year wait with a World Series win. Source, headline, sarcasm, and a closing monologue. Three minutes, split-voice trial: Sarah on source and headline, AJ on the rest. Content Note: Created with AI assistance. All ideas and editorial direction are human-generated.

What if Star Trek's transporter actually existed? You step onto the platform. Your body is disassembled molecule by molecule, and moments later you're reconstructed somewhere else—complete with your memories, personality, and everything that makes you who you are. But did you actually travel? Or did the original you disappear while someone indistinguishable from you woke up believing they were you? In this episode of AJ Weekly, AJ explores the strange problem of personal identity through Star Trek teleportation, molecular reconstruction, consciousness, the Ship of Theseus, and quantum teleportation. And eventually, there's only one question left: Would you step onto the platform? Content Note: Created with AI assistance. All ideas and editorial direction are human-generated.

a government with a built-in constituency, immigration at a scale the system can't absorb, the COVID-era military information operations that changed how he sees things, and why he doesn't buy the Trump-vs-Carney showdown. His thesis: the problem isn't one politician — it's a system where the powerful stay on top while the rest pick sides and fight each other. (8 min, monologue) Content Note: Created with AI assistance. All ideas and editorial direction are human-generated.

What if good and evil aren't as simple as we think? If there can be no good without evil, does one define the other? And if we're all capable of both, what does that say about the idea of being a “good person”? This week, AJ goes down a philosophical rabbit hole about morality, choice, human nature, and the uncomfortable possibility that being good isn't about being incapable of evil... Maybe it's about choosing differently when you could do either. Content Note: Created with AI assistance. All ideas and editorial direction are human-generated.

"There is no in here in here. There is no out there out there. Nothing is everything altogether." This week he tries to figure out what the hell he meant — and whether the boundaries we live inside are real, or just the interface our brains hand us Content Note: Created with AI assistance. All ideas and editorial direction are human-generated.

AJ runs through the stories everybody talked about this week — Alberta's separation vote on the eve of the ballot, a deadly incident at CFB Wainwright, the Bend, Oregon school shooting, Trump waiving his own Russia sanctions bill, and France's ninth day of burning protests. Source, headline, sarcasm, and a closing monologue. Three minutes, every Sunday. Content Note: Created with AI assistance. All ideas and editorial direction are human-generated.

Ayn Rand believed your life belongs to you. She rejected collectivism, challenged traditional ideas about self-sacrifice, defended rational self-interest and became one of the most controversial defenders of individual freedom. But Rand wasn't simply a champion of selfishness. Her philosophy raises a harder question: how do you live for yourself without losing your responsibility to others? Content Note: Created with AI assistance. All ideas and editorial direction are human-generated.

"Your boos mean nothing. I've seen what you people cheer for." — and builds it into something bigger: why the crowd doesn't deserve an equal vote in your life, what real individuality actually looks like, and the difference between standing alone and being lonely. Content Note: Created with AI assistance. All ideas and editorial direction are human-generated.

AJ runs through the stories everybody talked about this week — Canada's jobs bloodbath, the Weston family buying Boots, Alberta's flirtation with leaving, Trump vs. Tom Cotton's phone number, two infamous obituaries, and France's president doing his best Bond villain. Source, headline, sarcasm, and a closing monologue. Five minutes, once a week, every Sunday. Content Note: Created with AI assistance. All ideas and editorial direction are human-generated.

Why do we turn a missed text into a conspiracy, a coincidence into a pattern, and a simple problem into an elaborate theory? In this episode of AJ Weekly, AJ explores Occam’s Razor—and why its real value isn't simply choosing the “simplest” answer. It's learning to recognize how many assumptions we're making, when our brains are filling gaps with stories, and why sometimes the most intelligent answer is simply: I don't know yet. A conversation about critical thinking, coincidence, conspiracy theories, human psychology, and the uncomfortable art of questioning our own explanations. Content Note: Created with AI assistance. All ideas and editorial direction are human-generated.