One of my bedrock sports takes is that the NFL is a "week to week" league. But man, the Packers have inspired zero confidence for a team that has only lost two games. 💚💛💚💛

Also, apparently, "inline" (as in "inline skates"). Some of the choices are baffling. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

The sixth story in my new collection, The Last Amateur, is about a cult-name, old-school commentator who keeps 'forgetting' to mention his station's fast food sponsor while on air. Available from @halcyonpublish1.bsky.social or @wsc.co.uk or @stanchionbooks.bsky.social

I've never been more irritated over two road wins. Objectively, good results!!

I still don't really know how good the Packers are. But Go Pack Go! 💚💛💚💛

Working for the weekend . . .

Hell is Real in the playoffs. 🖤💛🖤💛

So, my football teams went 1-1 and my futbol teams 1-1 this weekend. How do people survive rooting for only one team? 😂😂

I don't think I've ever been more irritated after a Packer win. 😂😂💚💛💚💛

I am verklempt. #Brewers

Beating the Cubs is its own reward. 💙💛💙💛

Brewers salvage the night. 💙💛💙💛

If Wisconsin was going to cancel their football program, I think they should have announced it ahead of time.

The US should honestly think of this as the first session of 2027 Ryder Cup.

Seems worth reiterating at this point.

My review of Paddy McQueen's excellent "Regret" is out in Ethics www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

If the Euros are going to putt like this, it really doesn't matter what the US pairings are.

No one asked me but I'm putting Thomas/Young and Cantlay/Schauffele out as my first two groups today. Bryson and Scottie sit. (I know foursomes are a different beast but winning teams stay together and struggling players sit.) I'll be happy to be proven wrong!

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G.E. Moore: "But are they bad?"

Zed Adams is not on here but I want to publicly apologize for misnaming him in this post. I was trying to do too much stuff this afternoon!

Also want to publicly thank @eschwitz.bsky.social, @skyecleary.bsky.social, and Ned Adams for their very generous back-cover blurbs!

I also wrote about the book coming out in our current moment. www.politybooks.com/blog-detail/...

It is UK publication day for "The Magic Kingdom and the Meaning of Life" (from @politybooks.bsky.social). I guess it's a strange time for a book about Disney to arrive in the world, but this project means a lot to me, and I'm really proud of it. www.wiley.com/en-ie/The+Ma...

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

The futbol results were good today. The football? Not so much. 🖤💛💙🤍❤️🤍

The Packers *might* be good this year. 💚💛💚💛

I might not know what you are talking about but I know exactly what you mean. 👍🏼👍🏼

New open access paper with @alfredarcher.bsky.social is now online! "We’re a Tourist Club Now: The Ethics of Sports Fan Tourism" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

lots of things can be said right now, but from my spot in the ivory tower, I'll emphasize that college campuses should be sacred spaces in deliberative democracies where students & the public are free & safe to engage in open, productive, &, yes, even extreme discussion, without fear of violence

Big "I have a girlfriend in Canada" energy here.

The Packers *might* be good this year. 💚💛💚💛

This is making the rounds because it is legitimately amazing.

Yup. Traffic deaths are like . . . everything! (Remember COVID?) And no one seems to question why we just accept that so many people die in cars.

I wasn't expecting this to be quite so personal. But ‪@skyecleary.bsky.social‬'s memoiristic framing is all to the good: always relevant and often moving. A compelling vision of what it means to grapple with de Beauvoir and her distinctive version of existentialism. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

(And I say this as I get ready to engage in some shameless promotion of my yet to be released "The Magic Kingdom and the Meaning of Life.")

Finally getting ready to break ground on a new book project. Thinking of it as "political/moral philosophy for people who like dad history."

Our current moment is so profoundly disorienting.

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

This makes me think about the turkey legs you can get in Frontierland. I've never had one but they sound really good right now. 😂😂

much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.

i have said before that the fracas at UVA is a product, in large part, of a set of alumni who believe that the university was at its greatest when it was a segregated finishing school for white men. i was not exaggerating, as you can see here in this letter from Scott Douglas Gerber

A frustrating feature of the AI discourse is that there is rarely an acknowledgement that we are losing something by just giving up on out of class writing.

Good heavens, Richarlison.

Until you convince me otherwise, I will believe that people should be in jail for this mess. Instead, the people responsible are "spending time with their families." And they are going to sacrifice the most vulnerable kids to try to fix it. myfox8.com/news/north-c...

Same!!

THE WHINIEST BITCH

Baseball teams really aren't supposed to be more than the sum of their parts. And yet . . . 💙💛💙💛

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Happy to be part of this project (which has been a long time in the works). Glad to see that it's finally going to be out in the world. Thanks to Chad Carlson and Shawn Klein for their editorial perseverance! www.bloomsbury.com/us/college-s...