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...

This helps nudge weariness towards hope . . . youtu.be/L_veE_yBZ6M?...

Running to the Edge by Matthew Futterman (who I don't believe is #onhere) went immediately into the top tier of sports books I have ever read. Ideal combination of biographical narrative and history of training methods in competitive running. I devoured it. www.mattfutterman.com/running-to-t...

Is anyone else "weary"? I think it's the term that best describes my internal life in this era . . .

Thought-provoking piece. When do we simply need the truth and when do we have to consider what people will do with that truth?

Mel Gibson?

I agree with pretty much every word of this piece. (I am thankful that the lead actor was able to fashion a believable enough golf swing.)

Matt Walsh's imaginary professor: "good morning student-comrades. today we learn how to bayonet a white Christian capitalist while taking trans hormones" actual average professor: "folks, I am begging you, please do the reading for tomorrow this time. it is five pages"

If you say “cybrarian” you should go to jail.

Seems worth repeating after that (really entertaining!) Gold Cup final.

Really hope Tolkin accounts for the curvature of the earth here.

I don't know anything about much, but I think the USMNT would really benefit from the grind of WC qualifying. Alas . . .

New paper of mine out (open access) in @journalphp.bsky.social together with @jakewojtowicz.bsky.social and Kyle Fruh exploring sports fandom, fanaticism, exploitation and sportswashing #philsky

This isn’t even true as an empirical matter but the position of the people running the country and their fellow travelers are that if you are not white you shouldn’t be here bsky.app/profile/esqu...

Man City out here dressed like the Peruvian national team. SMDH.

Welp.

First up is A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko (who, I believe, in not #onhere). Couldn't put it down. Had me laughing, crying, and thinking all the way through his remarkable narrative of hiking the Grand Canyon. Loved it and learned a lot! www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Walk...

Going to try to post more about books I've liked/loved/enjoyed/admired. (Will mostly keep quiet about books I've disliked/hated/abandoned.)

Agree. Seems like a rare branding win for the left/center.

This. So much. My favorite emails in life are out of the blue messages from former students just updating me on how things are going.