Now we’re talking

Well, if this random tripadvisor reviewer was impressed...

So excited about this new project with my friend Aaron, now in your favorite podcast app.

Ignorance is bris

Didn’t SCROTUS already grapple with this in a seminal case?

OMG the DOJ lawyer just said presidential power has never been "circumcised." He was trying to say "circumscribed."

Inject this into my veins (and as much of the discipline as will consent to injections).

Seems bad.

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caturday off to a fine start

Other countries have solved this! We can just fix things!

Charmingly, the maintenance folks from Jesus College arrive on bike.

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PSA: the Kindle edition of Ed Hall's Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory is down to $2.99. www.amazon.com/Value-Confli...

Pluribus is just so good.

The metaphors are, yet again, getting a little heavy-handed.

STAR WARS as a series has exactly one good (and not very original) bit: it's the future, but all the spaceships and droids are rickety pieces of junk that require constant maintainence like they're old beat-up cars. Pretty much every iteration rises and falls based on how much they include that bit

Living in England has radicalized me on this: pigeons are incredible animals. This sort of thing is the least we can do. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Flawless victory.

I love this intro to a philosophy paper, though I can't actually remember which paper it's from.

SHAFT

I keep saying this but the 90s were also the era in kid culture in which we watched diverse groups of kids from around the world could come together, learn things, and save the world from climate destruction, corporate greed, and intergalactic colonizer aliens.

Slightly diminish a book Earl of the Rings

Watch to the end. www.youtube.com/shorts/whG6X...

mood

Much deserved recognition for some exceptional political theory.

London/NYC: see this when you can.

London hits differently from the water.

Tell the kids we use to go days, weeks even, without thinking about the president.

I have bad news for anyone expecting either dogs or canaries

Of course, a common narrative was that the Civil War was a product of polarization (rather than a section of the country committing treason to preserve their ownership of people), and that things would be better when northern and southern whites could shake hands again

Quite literally the story of my life.

Step 1: Read @mattzwolinski.bsky.social’s new Liberalism.org essay. Step 2: Read @nescio13.bsky.social’s response. digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/against-th...

Corrupted the youth last week with a talk on Adam Smith.

Newcastle upon Tyne, 1950s, photo by Edwin Smith, 1912-71.

I’m starving, but not like that.

This will be fun.

Damning, damnable stuff. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

The full version of the Frederick Douglass "I would unite with anybody to do right" line is even better than I knew.

New argument for sortition just dropped.

CHICAGO POPE BRINGS ITALIAN BEEF

The older I get, the more that "What Jesus blatantly fails to appreciate is that it's the meek who are the problem" seems like the best, most quotable line in 'The Life of Brian'.

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

Well the author is a self-declared effective altruist, so he’s probably mostly bummed that there’s no “basically pleasant murder bureaucrat” option

Wild to me that some people are still working with the analytic/Continental distinction - do they not know it has long been superseded by the basically pleasant bureaucrat/sexy murder poet distinction?

"My precious child, When you saw only one set of footprints, That wasn't me, the bonespurs were terrible, you were just alone like the LOSER you are."

Imagine making it to your third Trump vote and thinking "at least blasphemy is still off the table."