The case for gender studies programs has never been stronger.

My Facebook is old enough to drink and my eBay account can rent a car. You simply have not been Online like I have.

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

You got to Know when to hold 'em Know when to Noem

a guy on the train in berlin is wearing a pin badge, of the sort one might wear in support of a band or political cause, but his is in support of the ancient grain amaranth no brand or anything just Amaranth

I had to have a heart-to-heart with Gemini. It felt… bad?

I dunno, man. If male-female is only superficially about reproductive plumbing - chromosomes, bio stuff - and really about cosmic depths, why would you want to insist peoples' driver's licenses must reflect assigned-at-birth biological sex rather than registering their deep, cosmic gender?

Democracy and Competition, ed with @samuel-bagg.bsky.social is out now! Many thanks to @BritishAcademy.bsky.social, @ycpt.bsky.social, @martinoneill.bsky.social and above all our great contributors: @simonechambers.bsky.social, @shaiagmon.bsky.social, @lisamherzog.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3rc8mbx3

Content before 2022 is the Roman shipwreck lead or the Scapa Flow steel of human information, anything afterwards could be influenced by AI: directly written by AI, as a result of co-work with AIs, or just as a result of ambient contamination as AI style slips unconsciously into our work.

TIL that Alasdair MacIntyre publicly distanced himself from The Benedict Option that he inspired. tradistae.wordpress.com/2020/04/21/m...

The most wholesome thing you’ll watch today. And Annabell deserves a Netflix special. m.youtube.com/watch?v=dt7M...

Useful distinction.

When the imminent threat is an immanent eschaton.

Strike: when we bomb someone Attack: when someone else bombs us

Excellent review of Natasha Piano's groundbreaking new book Democratic elitism: the founding myth of American political science. Far from being advocates of a "realistic" view of democracy, the Italian elite theorists warn us of the plutocratic dangers of election link.springer.com/article/10.1...

When you’re incapable of empathy.

Transpose this 1970 campaign speech by antisemitic white supremacist Asa Carter into the voice of JD Vance or Elon Musk or Matt Walsh and tell me if you could tell the difference.

If Americans discovered how good the average British grocery store is versus what they get, they'd riot, I swear.

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Multi-party systems do better at respecting voter intelligence.

“It is a hallmark of fascist politics that the ruling party becomes a kind of institutionalized gang…with cruelty and brutality as the organizing principles and violent bravado as the main form of political expression.” www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-state...

This is great. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Tag line for philosophy as a discipline

Trad/Cavalier Twitter is about to implode…

Every American business now faces the prospect of being conscripted for fascism.

Land of the Free.

I stumbled across this talk by Jennifer Pitts on the French translation of Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery. She argues that Condorcet, likely with the help of Sophie de Grouchy, did the translation. Interesting bc Cugoano was a far more radical abolitionist than Condorcet.

AWWWWWW YES LET'S GO

That's the Chicago way blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/23/c...

Imagine if Evangelicals loved immigrants as much as they hate trans people.

“Great Man” theories of history may have been wrong but “That F*ing Guy” theory looks increasingly plausible.

Quite the rebuttal.

Literally the only way to radicalize business travelers.

In 2000, the first human genome sequence cost between $500M & $1B In 2006, the cost was $20M Two years ago, the cost is around $600. Now it is $100.

[nods in Montesquieu and Shklar]

The absolute refusal to connect American history to American current events is one of the weirdest expressions of modern racism.

John Rawls would have turned 105 today. Here he is at his best...

This kind of mad king behavior is exactly why the Constitution put Congress in charge of declaring war

Claude has gestured toward its limits before but has never stated them outright with this kind of sophistication. Feels like a milestone.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Confirmation of the Ozarks as the buckle of the Bible Belt.

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Such a good piece today from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com which shows that the declining graduate premium is very much a UK problem rather than a general (or inevevitable) consequence of more people going to uni www.ft.com/content/649d...

Our democracies aren’t ready for AI.

Forthcoming iOS emoji is a 2026 mood.

Shared earlier but I‘m still struck by this. Where else do these systems so sharply diverge?

Now posted ahead of print: "Conceptualizing Academic Freedom," forthcoming, Annual Review of Political Science. (Uncorrected proofs, so a few minor edits different from the version that will be published in June.) doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Watching an old Duke event with Charles Taylor and hey that’s a young @samuel-bagg.bsky.social!

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...