THE MEME IS REAL

Emory just gave me a ticket to the Atlanta/Washington game this Sunday!!!

Meanwhile, the US

My long-awaited article, "What Has New Haven to Do with Hungary? On Theological and Political Postliberalism" is finally out in the new issue of the Journal of Religion. If you'd like a copy of the article, please DM or email me. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

“religion was made up by elites to control you” is a view that has its historical origins in, guess what, religion it was said by conquistadors about the maya, by protestants about catholicism, by “enlightenment” dudes about everything none of it was based on research or concerned with accuracy

Amazing lol. My kind of losing-it thread. An inside baseball problem that breaks out onto social media like a grease fire.

At a dissertation defense the audience should be allowed to cheer. When a reader starts pressing the candidate their fans should be able to make noise like a it’s rival’s third down. “Passed with minor corrections Stadium Pulse level 5.”

Alan Moore is the equally prescient antifascist side of the coin.

I have been dreading the German exam since getting accepted to my program. Today I found out I passed!!!

what a coup for Richard Dawkins to make this list, and all he had to do was simply be an atheist.

One thing I forgot to announce in the craziness of the semester beginning. I’ve accepted a position as managing editor at the Journal of Law and Religion!

Rip Leslie Nielsen. You would have played a hilarious RFK JR.

This is my major research focus for the foreseeable future

First day of law school (kinda)

Hehehe

My bus goes by the CDC campus next to Emory. These are from yesterday afternoon.

Me: puts phone in another room to get work done Computer: the passcode to use the program you use every single day has been sent to your phone

I can sleep again. Just in time for the semester

Stepping into year 2

As someone working on a paper that uses Schmitt, this guy should not be using Schmitt.

This is an absolute must read!

No no no… what we need to ask is “is America still Protestant?”

This movie didn't do well in theaters because the ideal way to see it is in a freshmen doorm. Absolute peak cinematic experience.

KYE discussing Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity without having me on the pod…

I’ve been tearing through this run. Incredible stuff here about AI and its ethical implications.

Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall. If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is (h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)

I’m out of state today… watching the news was surreal. Please pray for the Emory community.

Please sign Terry, Washington! I can’t eat. I can’t sleep.

Last books of the summer. I am once again asking if anyone wants to do a reading group with any of these!

Listen if DC movies are going to be consistently stronger than Marvel… all Marvel has left is the X-Men

Absolutely wild that Charles Taylor gets used in re-enchantment projects. His work is a great argument for why that’s not possible.

Being right wing is so hard bc you’re not allowed to acknowledge any actual phenomena that shape the world, so when you try to describe something you just end up sounding like if a person speaking in tongues worshipped the internet instead of god

I can believe I’m only now reading Kingdom Come. Alex Ross’s art alone makes it peak. The fact that it has something to say about the way popular art’s obsession with realism and “grittiness” enables the rise of fascism… wow.

ACNA dudes online be posting like “Had a blessed feast of Saint Munchausinous with by daughter Perpetua.”

One thing the AI function on Google is good for is general cooking instructions, but that is only because cookign instructions online have been optimized for search engines to the point of being unreadable. So the tech just creates an comedically inefficient workaround for a problem it also created

JD Vance reminds me of Polka Dot Man from the Suicide Squad. He harms others by pretending they’re his mom.

A week out from seeing Superman and I gotta be honest, it might be my favorite superhero movie in a long time… though I grew up with two compendiums of silver-age Superman comics on my bedside table so I am biased

I really need the media to stop saying “financier” and “socialite” like they are real jobs.

Douthat can’t wait to have him on to discuss his new book.

The portrayal of Lex Luthor in the new Superman movie was not nearly cartoony enough to parody these people.

Ok good… tell the SEC what to do. They might let you run their curriculum, but they will pull some Goodfellas stuff to keep you out of their stadiums.

One of the coolest things I ever did as a teenager was sing at the Kennedy Center. I hate that this dude wants to make my hometown a monument to his demonic ego.

Uh oh. It’s the part of summer where Austin reads a bunch of comics!

This one lives up to the hype

You mean to tell me the common good just emerges out of random disconnected economic events… without a designer?… unlikely

The Cosmological Argument also works against unfettered capitalism.

Wait… let him cook

We got to see Beyonce last night in ATL. Jay-Z came out during“Crazy in Love” and my wife got the most embarrassing video of me when my jaw dropped.