Don’t Douthat

somewhere, a guy you went to high school with is arguing that good prompt engineering takes just as much talent as learning to paint, animate, etc

in Platonist circles they all attribute the quote to Plato, which im inclined to believe

the most obvious error of Ross Douthat and Helen Andrew talking about whether feminism has ruined work is they don’t have real jobs that would allow them to know

“You should throw your hat in the ring more. Network with management.” My brother in Christ, I’m contemplating the German materialist controversy while filling in KPIs

I’ve worked my corporate job for five years and people from other departments still regularly ask me if I just started. Don’t let the secular Calvinist corporate try hards lie to you: this is how to win

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

chat is sewer socialism so back?

I love that this will happen every election now until the end of the republic

hi AD I’m Martin Heidegger, welcome to my hut

my god this game lol

It’s Friday and in a few hours I’ll be watching the World Series and eating my kids’ Halloween candy. Terrific plans

substantial portion of the center-left and center-right pundit class make a living playing Monday morning quarterback and having no values

Clearing up those "had a stroke" rumors with some impeccable StrokePosting™. Masterful gambit sir!

found a 1977 Led Zeppelin belt buckle in the crawl space. hell yeah

if the comp lit department looks like this you know the theory about to be 🔥

I estimate he’s a size 38ss

the lion doesn’t concern himself with authorial intention

I’m sure his wife was thrilled that a young woman’s leggings so thoroughly scrambled his brain that he was thinking and writing about her hours later

Just read / Now Reading

after years of studying aesthetics in the classical German, I have to conclude Happy Gilmore 2 was a disappointment

two aspects to the Louvre story: 1) stealing is wrong and hope they find them 2) a smooth jewel heist without violence is the most romantic of crimes

Saw a Vance/Fetterman 2028 sign the other day lol

I know the drinking age is lower in Canada but sheesh

“A good Bronze Age Pervert tweet..”-Ross Douthat, NYT’s resident intellectual conservative

lotta good stuff in this

we are the the theorists of natural theology your Barthians couldn’t “nein!”

2,500+ at the no kings in my red county. Great to see and experience

Ohtani launched that ball into space.

Mike Johnson’s slandering of No Kings is more offensive to ordinary Americans than Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” comment by miles. Unrelated: the deplorables comment was the coolest and truest thing Hillary ever said

lockin up the 18-34 male sports fan demographic. Brilliant

regardless of what he said, he was 35! Just a boy…

Side quest for the historical Jesus

demythologization run amok. I prefer the rat of faith to the squirrel of history

“hey pal, heard you’re using the ordo amoris to justify xenophobia”

“I Think I’m Not, Maybe, Heaven-Bound: The Early Luther’s Struggle With the Ontological Conditions of Justification and the Melancholy of the Fallen Subject”

horrible news coming out about people eating radioactive shrimp and turning into Benthamites

*through tears*: I didn’t even want the Cubs to win because now I’ll have more time to write

does thinking itself have qualitative, phenomenal character? lemme know 👇

Phillies core is busted. Just send Schwarber and Suárez to the Cubs for 2026

oh you’re a deliberative democrat? name every consideration

strange to remember that you could go whole days without thinking about the president

when I’m president federal troops will be sent to Moscow Idaho to enforce gender neutral bathrooms

Give yourself a little gift this morning, and skip the Douthat/Wilson collab. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

unfortunately I’ve dabbled in bro culture and a white monster/zyn combo after lunch is laser focus bliss

The Secret Lives of Waldensian Wives