Very astute essay by @jenniferreich.bsky.social explaining vaccine hesitancy as part of a broader individualistic approach to health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Wisconsin’s governor fights back against the federal antivax crackpots content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WIG...

After the invention of the printing press, some Protestants made the technology into an idol, even conflating the printed text of the Bible with the creative Word of God. Maybe not surprising that something analogous could happen with AI. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...

hey hey rfk how many kids did you kill today

I always learn something from reading an obituary: Eddie Palmieri, the Latin music titan, "for years . . . refused to pay taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, embracing the view of Henry George." !!! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/a...

Sharp @linamkhan.bsky.social op-ed on the importance of small business and the dangers of monopoly capitalism — an opportunity for Democrats here! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o...

Good news for free culture www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-...

In 1930, the American Federation of Musicians launched an ad campaign denouncing recorded music in movies. The ads contain incredible images of the soulless music robots that would replace live performers. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musi...

Good Friday is the story of a man unjustly arrested and rushed to judgment. Diana Butler Bass tells it for our time, using only pictures from the last two weeks, and it hits so heavy open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

The little-known story of the 370,000 German POWs held in the United States during WWII, by @jonathandarman.bsky.social Critics charged that the prison camps were too cushy — a "Fritz Ritz" airmail.news/issues/2025-...

"Simply put, Trump would like the actual practice of history — a complex process of research, interpretation and ongoing revision — to resemble the much more limited, and often distorted, sense of history offered by statues, monuments and memorials."

For sports fans of a certain age, this article explains how the analytics revolution has made pro baseball and basketball in particular less fun to watch today. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks. https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu

Incisive @sbagen.bsky.social essay on why the courts will not save us (though they might help a little). “Litigation is not an end in itself. We need to see it as a focal point for a broader political mobilization against the Administration.” buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...

Anyone who cares about the core principles our of government will need to protect civil servants who defend the law. But a defensive crouch is the wrong response. If you’re mad about what Musk is doing to government, it’s time to go on the offense to reform it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

Ezra Klein's take on the first weeks of the Trump administration. “The real threat is if he convinces the rest of us to believe he has power he does not have.” Don't believe him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QL...

Good morning. I wrote about the RFK Jr., Christian homeschoolng, and the political maturity of the "crunchy cons." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/u...

For "One First," I wrote about Monday's OMB memo purporting to (temporarily) freeze billions of dollars of appropriated federal spending—and why it constitutes both unconstitutional and unlawful "impoundment" that's unlikely to be upheld by even *this* #SCOTUS: www.stevevladeck.com/p/120-the-im...

Essential reading for today by @pahlkadot.bsky.social Why didn't voters care more about "the rule of law?" Because the law is no longer "a blindfolded Lady Justice demonstrating impartiality and reasonableness, it’s a game of gotcha."

An exhibit of lost and imaginary books www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/a...

Lately I've been thinking about this haunting 1914 poem by Vachel Lindsay, "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47372/...