The Atlas Brief
Knowledge · Regeneration · Culture · Clarity
Editor's Note - July 2026 Somewhere around June 12, a man on the other side of the world became the richest human being who has ever lived. It happened on a Friday. The market opened, some numbers moved, and by lunchtime, the wealthiest person in the history of
Editor's Note — June 2026. June. Pride Month. The one month of the year when the rainbow flags come out, the corporations update their logos, and a significant portion of the population remembers, briefly, that LGBTQIA+ people exist. We exist all year, for what it's worth. But
Editor's Note — May 2026. There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes not from working too hard, but from existing in a world that has outpaced meaning. The writers saw it coming. Huxley. Orwell. Marx. Clarke. Asimov. Le Guin. They did what their kind have always done,
Editor's Note — April 2026 Welcome back. If you've lost track of time lately, you're not alone. Somehow, the first three months of 2026 have felt like an entire year. The world has been moving fast, loudly, and not always in directions that inspire confidence.
Welcome to the Atlas Brief for March 2026. There is an old curse, disguised as a blessing: may you live in interesting times. We are, without question, living in them. The world in early 2026 feels like a hinge point, the kind of moment that historians will look back on