if I saw Socrates in the agora asking questions I’d hit him with the “wouldn’t you like to know weather boy”

saw someone describe another philosopher as “Temu Zizek.” Not sure how you recover from that

as a maxim, you should never talk to a social media sidewalk interviewer for any reason

shit slaps

BAAAAAAABE BABE BABE BABE WAKE UP THEY’RE RECREATING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES

“stop being fat, starting using AI, consider gambling in your free time.” the peak of capitalist innovation might be this bleak

the state is murdering its citizens in cold blood

1/4 of Republicans are pure fascists. Almost 60% are just about there

On Not Giving The Foul Ball You Caught To A Kid: An Augustinian Approach

Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

MSM reporting that Macron has a medical condition because they’re frightened of a Frenchman with drip smdh

I am NOT a Toniebox parent; you going to fall asleep to

getting into trouble this weekend

Trump *just* justified his own masked thugs using lethal force a protestor

cmon

you know this slaps hard for the “can’t-read-a-book” crowd

vague, un-falsifiable, and asymmetric motion. But the real issue is the lack of Hegelian representation to argue that the state is the march of God in history.

finding promotion announcements on LinkedIn and commenting “omg congrats! You told me you hated it there?”

oh you’re a lobbyist? Tell me how this building receives occupants, mediates between exterior and interior, controls circulation, and displays the building’s public identity.

seeing too many alt-ac humanities PhDs starting fancy Instagram accounts. You shouldn’t even know how to use one of those fancy small mics

this is what Rawls had in mind when he talked about an “overlapping consensus”

friend asked for critical theory for Christmas. Sent him the starter pack

made a deep dish pizza at home on my lunch break. there are no rules and you can do whatever you want

cheat code: go through life asking if something is maxim-universalizable-coded

nation’s uncles emboldened before Thanksgiving as President posts on social media just like them

finished a good book on US secularism. Near the end tho he brought up the (correct) point that postliberals left and right liked Taylor’s Secular Age for different reasons. But he made Taylor sound more reactionary than I remember. I thought it was more Taylor reception than the actual text

not to be insufferable Dave Ramsey type, but the “blue collar anthem” guy is spending too much income at the gas station

trump today

Duns Scotus causing secularization

John Milbank writing about AI as if he’s not the one author who should sacrifice all originality and run all of his writing through AI for clarity, tone, and audience

the GOAT still dropping new tracks in 2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/a...

when Rousseau talked about being “forced to be free” he meant deleting the accounts of HR specialists at midsize companies

when I say a responsible government *should* heavily monitor social media, I’m of course referring to LinkedIn. Heavy censorship might be required to reduce flood of apocalyptic corporate cringe posting

Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

prices are up and Trump’s to blame, but brother that sign is for a 16-pack of name brand marker pens. Expecting it to be 2.99?

tangential but you can see in Hochman just how vapid and thoughtless the right’s use of “liberalism” is

“I assure you the libcath agenda will always be respected in my administration, Holy Father”

many catechumens like that Orthodoxy “hasn’t changed” in 2,000 years. But many will eventually realize that only modern to really grasp the patristic essence was Schleiermacher

“Orthodox Church Pews Are Overflowing With Converts”, exaggeration from beginning to end www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

READ THEORY

why did I read “the case for overthrowing mamdani”

I’m surprised the Thomists haven’t hit us with a summa .io yet

why is this so funny

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

Target’s new 10-4 policy

Godspeed to the journalists plugging a 20,000-document PDF into ChatGPT with the prompt “where’s the fucked up stuff”

nice that Wayne’s World got a shout out!