that talkshow hosts have been the primary leaders of the american left over the last decade or so: is this a really good idea? ps they're all white guys, your woke leadership. this is how the guardian covers politics:

that talkshow hosts have been the primary leaders of the american left over the last decade or so: is this a really good idea? ps they're all white guys, your woke leadership. this is how the guardian covers politics:

Heather Cox Richardson, in "Letters from an American" on Sep 12, gathered every rumor and innuendo she could find to make Tyler Robinson a right-winger. Has she reflected?

I was essentially bullied into reading and watching the original Harry Potters. So I’m very much looking forward to bullying all the people who watch the new ones. Oh how the tables have turned.

A first? Foreign journalists barred from Pennsylvania event featuring members of Congress via @pennlive.com by @iveythewriter.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2ftztmfa

A longtime local York newspaper columnist - US born - couldn’t cover the event either because he has neither a Real ID or passport.

20th and final episode of Peace Now! Great American Pacifists podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

the holocaust is one of the causes of slaughter in gaza www.splicetoday.com/politics-and...

what judith butler gets right about gender. youtu.be/_TKGGJqLnZM?...

if (for example) vanderbilt university, the maryland institute college of art, or dickinson college wanted their names associated with projects like this, they should have pulled back just a bit on the extreme humiliation and pointed extrusion. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

what is beauty? youtu.be/lD4W-LGAV80?...

let me draw a contrast between two songs, one supposedly a profound piece of poetry, the other a modest lyric about heartbreak: dylan's 'blowin' in the wind' vs the oak ridge boys' 'gonna take a lot of river.' 🧵

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

These people were wrong about more or less everything (wrong in both senses: their assertions were false and their positions ethically indefensible). I refer to enthusiasts for oppression such as Plato, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau, Žižek...⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

video version with cool natural reflected-sky effect youtu.be/gTlMh1LmHss?...

I know you've been concerned, but there's a new episode of Peace Now! Great American Pacifists. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

moments of beauty continue at the nytimes! (my concept, if i do say so, originating in 'sic names of beauty') www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm the most writerish mofo you ever saw. www.splicetoday.com/writing/plac...

hoping to connect with others who vividl experience placegrief. www.splicetoday.com/writing/plac...

i know this is gonna rock the sky on flag day www.splicetoday.com/writing/why-...

“…sometimes an insurrection is justified, and as the forms of domestic repression of dissent mutate and intensify, the forms of resistance dedicated to preserving people’s lives and well-being have to do the same.”

Philosophy- heads! Pacifism is incompatible with utilitarianism and teleological ethics. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

We feed you. They hunt us.

Protecting our neighbors is how we build community TRUST. Nobody trusts the state, and with good reason. All we have is one another.

This moves closer and closer to dead civilians on the streets.

"Staff writer at The Atlantic."

Trappist monk and political radical: latest episode of Peace Now! is about Thomas Merton. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

A solid, elaborate presentation of the work of one of the most important living philosophers, I believe! youtu.be/h-rXFGQwCmY?...

The first factor I’d mention is misogyny, and the basic justification of clerical celibacy, as it developed over the centuries, is not that sex is sinful or distracting or whatever it may be, but that women are polluted. www.splicetoday.com/writing/prie...

At any rate, the story that ran from Alasdair MacIntyre’s birth to his death has run its course and now he is, by his own account, whatever we may justifiably take him to be. Let that be a lesson to us all! www.splicetoday.com/writing/the-...

we are the songs we sing; we are the pots we throw; we are the remodelers; we are the clothing we sew: all these are as or more plausible than 'we are the stories we tell,' and better possible bases for ethics. youtu.be/f-zCzqUyWRQ?...

I often take someone's death as an opportunity to redouble my critiques. youtu.be/f-zCzqUyWRQ?...

I have some niceish things to say about MacIntyre, but the basic philosophy does not amount to plausible. youtu.be/f-zCzqUyWRQ?...

My mother was born May 20, 1925, and is still rolling along!

new episode podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

can't get no views. youtu.be/h1RAM3Ryz_o?...

These people were really wrong ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The monster boys of Western philosophy, including Plato, Hegel, Sartre, Zizek. In my opinion, these people are beloved not in spite of their totalitarianism, but because of it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

scathing is my hobby www.splicetoday.com/politics-and...

This is the ultimate culmination of the logic of borders. Our collective faith in borders alone transmogrifies mutual beneficence into mutual harm and the endless expansion of borders for its own sake becomes our collective telos.

me on the kennedy center. i remember when it was a hole in the ground. www.splicetoday.com/politics-and...