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The Wedel Letter

Cover of Issue No. 0: rows of newsprint headline bars on a navy field, one row in ochre.

Issue No. 0 — June 11, 2026 — sample

The Wallpaper of War

I am twenty-six years old. The front page has never once been at peace. A sample issue, written to test the format; Issue No. 1 follows on the first or third Thursday.

About this letter

The Wedel Letter is an essay, published on the first and third Thursday of each month, about whatever currently has my full attention. One issue might take on the Fed; the next, a book worth arguing about, the inside of the legal profession, the strange ways property changes hands, or whatever I have been researching at two in the morning.

There is no beat here. The only rule is that I have done the digging before I write.