Week 1 poll, Intro to IR, Spring 2026: "What is your first IR/world affairs memory?" The modal answer so far is..."Election of Donald Trump (2016)." The kids are alright, but they have no frame of reference of "normal politics" at home or abroad anymore. Also, yes, they're getting music lessons.

This is the logic of a domestic abuser

It's Bibliography Week y'all, who's going to be in NYC with all the fine folks at the @bibsocamer.bsky.social ?

名不正，則言不順；言不順，則事不成。

the Iranians should do the funniest thing ever and restore the Qajars, just to make the Pahlavi camp lose their minds

this was a cellphone. my mother had this exact model!

every NYT headline is like…They expected pee: poo greeted them instead

you rangggg....?

born in the wrong time (too late to receive a formal 子 style name from my elders by which I am referred to in polite society)

my pronouns are 殿/下, please take note

Can’t argue with that!

Youse is just a couple of

“You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.”

"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement

In Space, No One Can Listen to the Children of the Night or What Music They Make

Highly recommend this! I took several paleography and codicology courses through IES early in my PhD and they were excellent!

"yamatologues" feels like some kind of internet pejorative

Summa Toyotalogica

Gotta wonder what Barthes thought of ramen. “Here the pasta is removed from the meaning we traditionally ascribe to noodles, which is Italianness”

This is a crazy coincidence because just a few days ago I was at a shrine where they shot some of this film

Sorry, weebs

the APA bishop deposed because of the Calvin Robinson saga (now in charge of a "non-geographic traditional Anglican diocese") is now posting about the guns he owns and being a "pro-gun bishop." A far cry from the days of Archbishop George Abbot.

a trait I am very proud of having developed is an ability to start writing a comment on Reddit and then deleting it before I post.

A few thoughts from me about Christ's Kingdom.

天朝物產豐盈，無所不有，原不藉外夷貨物以通有無

🎶 One breaaaad, one bodddddyyy, one Lord of Allllll 🎶

ok but try telling the Eastern Orthodox that the Body Wash proceeds from the Shampoo AND from the Conditioner and see where that gets you

"They are saying there is a specter, folks. Do you know that word? It's a very old fashioned word. It's a ghost. Anyway, this specter is haunting America. And it turns out the specter is called communism. Can you believe that? It's communism."

I'm an Anglo-Catholic Episcopalian and not Orthodox but my anecdotal addition is there is interest in organized religion in general - my own priest has said he's talked to Gen Z folks who have said "I want a religion that asks something of me." There is a hunger for structure and meaning!

time well spent

I love this! I have been praying for a truly pocket-sized prayer book resource and this looks like it fits the bill!

every line in this article is hilariously crazy! the last NINE popes were "globalist traitors?" Pius XI and XII??? It is so funny to watch lay Catholics become functional protestants when the Pope does something they don't like

chances are if you have ever seen a classic Japanese film, Tatsuya Nakadai was in it - Ran, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo! A legendary actor on the level of Toshiruo Mifune for decades.

I've come back to a bit of substack writing with two recent pieces - I've written here about George Hendric Houghton, founder of New York's Church of the Transfiguration, and a leading Anglo-Catholic of the 19th century with a deep devotion to service. ⚓

I genuinely think that the right-wing's media ecosystem and their relationship to knowledge has resulted in a delusion about their actual power over narrative. They think they can just blame the Democrats and everyone will just... not be angry about not being able to buy food!

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

Pretty much, yeah.

Gotta love T. Noyes Lewis

O Lord, thou wilt hear the desire of the meek; thou wilt strengthen their heart, thou wilt incline thy ear to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

lol what an incredible misreading of what I actually posted

I'm a big old Anglo-Catholic and am broadly in favor of enculturation in the Episcopal Church but I would not like to see Dia de los Muertos altars in the sanctuaries of our churches. absolutely does not belong. Put it in the parish hall or the gym or the common room or wherever else.

NEW from me: An Episcopal priest — a Kenyan national who works with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice — has been detained by ICE, says diocese. The area bishop, reached via email, told me church officials still “do not know yet why he was targeted.” religionnews.com/2025/11/02/e...

Went to a book sale at the seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church (for $1 a book, hard to pass up) and left with a variety of oddities including a translation of the Armenian liturgy, a two-volume work of the life of Cardinal Manning, and a few unusual 20th century service books.

I would go so far as to say that using AI for any pastoral work is akin to the sin of the Golden Calf, or the misuse of the brass serpent the necessitated its destruction.

a consequence of the aesthetic victory of the Anglo-Catholic movement in TEC is that broad church parishes that have adopted soft catholic practices often totally ignore the tradition and theology behind them or go off-piste into the realm of folk religion

so what I'm hearing is that John Calvin would have hated Jeffrey Zucker's 1990 film "Ghost"

I feel like the kind of guy who would take, like, two-three shots at the exam, never pass, and then end up a slightly embittered owner of a private provincial training school who gets a lot of students just on the fact I tried.

"so uh yeah buddy, there's like three or four Dyckman streets so you gotta be specific about which one 'cus it's a pain in the ass to transfer."