Everyone - literally EVERYONE - needs an editor. Nabokov and Can Xue never let themselves be edited, and you can absolutely tell.

All Americans bear the burden for this.

“the Amnesty Law signed by Pinochet in 1978 precluded almost all prosecutions and trials for the crimes committed by the government he headed over seventeen years.” Can’t stress enough how common it is that oppressed people only get their country back by allowing the oppressors to die unpunished.

窃书不算偷！

As someone who was subjected to conversion therapy, it doesn’t work. It won’t work. It’s torture. I was hooked up to an IV and made to vomit watching gay porn for two hours per week. I was prayed over. Bibles and the Book of Mormon were shoved in my face.

I cannot tell you how lovely it is to see this, after watching him rise like a tide of plague during my time in Stillwater

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly 🧵

While we’re at it- bring back the extensive education in manners, music, poetry, dancing and dead languages too

My amazing wife, the painter Molly Kaderka, did a studio visit for I Like Your Work podcast! youtu.be/pVQ_hF45v70?...

Do you and your partner do stuff like the NYT word games together? I’m a words person and she’s an image person, but that’s never impeded us from having fun

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I have never seen a full episode of The Simpsons.

I don’t know about you, but I recognize evil when I see it

I’d take this further by suggesting that if you’re going to move to or be stationed in another country for any significant length of time, you should learn as much of the language as possible. I’m thinking of all those well-paid laowais who spent years in BJ and felt no compulsion to learn Chinese

That actually looks pretty comfy

I’m one of these recent diagnoses. I don’t think it has helped much, because somehow our capacity to treat has not evolved as quickly as our diagnostic capability.

Douglas, Georgia Rigo's Taqueria share.google/DLQycDqRXZIm...

I still haven’t found anywhere in Brooklyn that pulls better espresso than I do

Sigh. All this unhinged bullshit because young white boys want a system that will reward accountability

How I love it

More context for this case in Peter Parnell's column in the Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

诶，可不呢，用北京话来说，山这玩意儿不是侃的就是搬的。 您老别急着，找本儿行话词典翻翻就行

If the attribution is accurate, it will have been the closest Schopenhauer ever got to humor

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

Welp, no AAS for me. The worst part as panel organizer is the sense that I’ve let down the people who signed on to the idea. Surely it could have been better crafted somehow.

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

Same. I thought it was a Zen thing

How about, instead of beginning with the false choice, you begin instead by addressing the refusal of one powerful Dem to endorse another - a matter which would have been automatic, had Adams or Cuomo won? Oh, you’d prefer to whine?

Also how about “Ticks everywhere, power outages in early fall, no more skiing, and the coast goes underwater while your electricity bill triples.”

Klein wraps himself in the presentist “why did we lose? Are we too far left” anxiety now typical of the liberal elite, which abnegates all responsibility for their constituencies, while Coates holds to a historical perspective. One is surprised by where we are, the other is not.

If you see this, post a bridge.

Too seen

We are going to chide each other straight into the gulag.

“Rest is beautiful; impulsiveness is risky; profit is shameful; democracy is stronger than tyranny.” καλὸν ἡσυχία: ἐπισφαλὲς προπέτεια: κέρδος αἰσχρόν: δημοκρατία κρεῖττον τυραννίδος #Periander

Canvassing this afternoon for co-governance and a better future for Forsyth County public schools

What’s new and good in Flushing? Arriving for the weekend; planning to investigate reports of next-level 葱油饼 from a cart at 38th and Prince

Guys I found my spirit animal

I occasionally get the sense that there are people who do not realize that countries in the global south are full of actual human people with actual histories that are not wholly dictated or driven by European/American intervention

Can confirm from personal experience that the exhortation in the thumbnail is sage advice

Shut up I need it or something

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In the past month, I have submitted two article manuscripts, two translated book manuscripts, and four job applications. When I wake up, you can call me Crazy Ivan, cuz I’ve just cleared my baffles.

God, I hate filling in citations. Does this make me a bad academic?

Yes, and that is assuredly the point

It’s like the old-lion generation male Chinese novelists have one model, which they write over and over again, like “look at these kooky peasants pooping and screwing all over the countryside, ha ha. This, by the way, is the beating heart of Chinese culture throughout history.”

Am I getting this right - this new H1-B horror could decimate East Asian Studies in the US practically overnight?

Nobody reads on public transport anymore

@golden.house.gov should be ashamed of voting in favor of this. You want to explain to the people of Maine why you wish to honor a racist anti-Semite who preached violence against all those he didn’t like?

Amazing how Trumpism has made the entire Avengers series painfully unwatchable