“Under federal pressure, Harvard and other universities around the country now police academic inquiry according to murkier standards of fairness,” writes Alex Bronzini-Vender. “The result is a new orthodoxy even more stifling than the last.”

As is customary for those eyeing the Oval Office, Gavin Newsom has delivered unto the public a memoir, “Young Man in a Hurry.” @alexbronzini.bsky.social writes on this vacuous self-promotion effort—and Newsom’s curious lack of ideas.

Gavin Newsom is revving up for a presidential run—and bent on repeating the losing strategies of the center-leaning Democrats who came before him.

Earlier this month, @thebaffler.com sent me to WelcomeFest, America’s “largest gathering of centrist Democrats” thebaffler.com/latest/come-...

Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot “looked to the other for an alternative to their own instincts. What she seems to have picked up from him was an interest in human actors. What he picked up from her was the power of lightening up.” —Susan Tallman

My mother is very religious but she’s also become a cheerleader for my homosexuality. This is why she’ll now “like” all my posts on social media where I talk explicitly about the joys of gay sex and queer politics, even if she doesn’t fully “get” it. This is what unconditional acceptance looks like.

“Heaney translated his experience of the world into the transcendent, and revealed the transcendental through language.” —Nick Laird

La baisse de la popularité de Vladimir Poutine en Russie inquiète le Kremlin, à cinq mois des élections législatives

This is the largest oil supply shock in history in mb/d The enemy gets a vote. Iran is now delivering pain to Trump via multiple paths (1) Gulf Kings (2) Financial meltdown (3) AI tech oligarchs (4) Fuel, fertilizer, food disruptions Read our Polycrisis Dispatch: buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor in D.C., posted video to social media that she said shows the alleged assailant at the White House correspondents’ dinner, Cole Tomas Allen, shoot a Secret Service officer moments before his arrest.

We can only hope that they will destroy each other. There are no winners here. #FelonMusk #OpenAI #xAI

Breaking News: Pentagon officials said they were pulling 5,000 troops from Germany, bringing the number of U.S. forces in Europe to pre-Ukraine war levels.

Constitutional monarch meets conspiring to be a monarch.

In this clip, Professor Peter Hacker discusses the ongoing nature of philosophical investigations as part of his lecture on Wittgenstein’s impact on philosophical practice. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/fcNEqdGGnvc

Little known #rockfacts: London, like Minneapolis, also issued a special exemption so Prince could play past the usual hour (for the shows where he played “Train in Vain”) bsky.app/profile/chri...

Truly, the heart goes out to idiots like Zoltan Kovacs, who will be left to face the music while their kleptocrat leader cuts and runs

In my talk on Social Trust and the Role of Governments I suggest we should not only consider whether citizens trust their governments but also pay more attention to the question of whether governments trust their citizens. Here’s a handy slide.

It's wonderful to see this plan to open a new radical bookshop in Newcastle - Books from Below. A worthy successor to (among others) the 1930s People's Bookshop on Westgate Road (home of the northeast committee for British supporters of the International Brigade). Four days left to support!

That's $10 billion of missiles. For absolutely no benefit whatsoever.

In the late 90s there was a minor conspiracy theory that the real reason NATO acted against Serbia was to use up surplus missiles that were about to be obsoleted by the Millennium Bug. Obviously this idea got wiped out by the "it was all a hoax" predator theory.

‘1964: When commencing his mass bombing campaign in North Vietnam, General Curtis LeMay, then chief of staff of the US Air Force, said he planned on bombing the Vietnamese “back into the Stone Ages.”’ Ocean Vuong *On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous*

Apparentemente ora anche Reza Pahlavi fa parte della brigata ebraica.

A spokesman for ex-Deputy PM Angela Rayner described as "pure mischief-making + entirely untrue" a report that she'd "want Shabana out" to return to Cabinet in May. Rayner has described the govt's contentious + stalled settlement reforms as unfair + "un-British" www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Why do the vampires not simply use the potential connection inherent to Ireland's colonial history and musical tradition with its parallels to the African American experience to forge a more just world rather than murdering a bunch of people? Are they stupid? Huge plot hole right there, "Coogler".

Oggi su @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social

Worth reading: Habermas's Bastards open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...

Quindi, se diventasse presidente del consiglio, imparerebbe a giocare a golf. L'orizzonte della politica italiana è la prossima buca.

In un mondo che urla, noi abbiamo scelto di ascoltare le dissonanze. Nasce una nuova rivista online per chi crede che l’eguaglianza sia un’impresa da ricostruire ora. Dissonanze è online. Leggi l'editoriale di Filippo Barbera e Carmine Donzelli. rivistadissonanze.it/ricchi/disso...

PA report on Reform asylum plans exemplifies media skew to report rises "602 people crossed the Channel on small boats on Saturday, making it this year’s second busiest day for crossings and bringing the total number of arrivals in 2026 to more than 6,000" (Omits context: 8604 by 13.4.2025)

Al Salone del libro di Torino per presentare @rivista-dissonanze.bsky.social la nuova rivista Donzelli www.salonelibro.it/programma-ev...

These fucking people wake up in the morning and ask "how can we do some worse dictator shit than yesterday"

Hitler had to get an Enabling Act passed to be able to rule by decree. Trump seems not to have had to go to so much trouble.

Did they find all the mines, or was it a lie that they didn't know where they all were?

Followo subito-subito!

Da domani, una novità nel panorama editoriale italiano: nasce @rivista-dissonanze.bsky.social

I'm a *very* lapsed Catholic and at odds with lots of church doctrine, but I'm feeling very Catholic next to Vance and the pro-Trump pope haters.

Oggi su @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social

It's a year today since the Supreme Court decision on the meaning of "sex" under the Equality Act 2010. Jolyon Maugham and I have written a reflective piece with our thoughts on the judgment, everything that has happened since, and why it's so important that we are still fighting - together 👇

We used to have a clear idea of where modernity was heading—toward greater autonomy and equality, secularism, and liberal democracy, David Brooks writes. Turns out that was yesterday’s vision of the future.

I am one of the co-authors on this new paper—"Challenging the Prescientific Frameworks of Criminal Justice: Neurobiology and Criminolytic Interventions in theLegalome Era" in Frontiers in Psychology w/colleagues from the Nova Institute for Health www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

This is really excellent by @soumayakeynes.ft.com What’s really shocking about the second China shock? One is that China import volumes have not increased, and another is Chinese cut-throat competition leading to 'involution' -- see fig as.ft.com/r/fdefbc40-f...

Workshop: New Directions in Theories of Interpretation

Canadian living in Florida detained by ICE, sent to infamous ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Isaiah Berlin during his conversation with Göran Rosenberg in 1997.

People have been fired by text, by email. How soon before they are told they are being sacked by a chatbot CEO? One striking line in this @andrewtghill.ft.com column on the plans for an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg www.ft.com/content/782b...

JD Vance says JRR Tolkien should have been more careful in constructing the mythology of Middle Earth. JD Vance chides Vermeer for careless use of light and colour. JD Vance finds the polyphony in Bach sloppy.

Unsurprisingly Vance is ignorant about the history of thinking in early Christianity about violence while lecturing the Pope about theology. https:://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/us/politics/vance-pope-trump-georgia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

"Describing Peter Magyar as a liberal is a problem - he never aligned himself with liberal ideas." #ViktorOrbán and the aftermath of his election defeat with @gsamaras.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7uZJ...