“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

I’m accepting of the New York Times not reporting some particular story it wasn’t able to corroborate as fully as they would like. That is fine and maybe even good on net. What I do wonder about is how the fish this fits into their journalistic standards:

Moral clarity and moral purity are different things. Do I get a check from The Atlantic now?

We even got the Chomskys celebrating the election of Donald J Trump with Jeffrey Epstein in 2016

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Their fondness for classical Greek memes hides in plain sight their belief that there are vast swaths of the population they believe exist only for their use.

Chomsky's one actual scientific contribution has been so watered-down as to be almost trivial—and not a little faith-based.

Next we’ll hear ‘she wasn’t that underaged and probably consented’ so remember

Man, dunno, but I'm fairly certain that 15 isn't "barely legal". That's full-on illegal. Of course, they're just preparing the ground for Trump's defense when more comes out proving what he was up to.

Lots of other people have said it, but none of these academic and cultural stars were hanging out with Jeff because of his scintillating wit or intellect. I can barely imagine how horrifyingly banal a five-minute conversation with him would have been and I'm just some Midwestern mid-wit.

I didn't go to Harvard, nor have I ever taught there, but I'm not so stupid or disingenuous as to pretend that that's what Lolita is about.

No matter how savvy and skeptical I think of myself, I still get spooked by some email spoofs and scams. There's some lesson in that.

Zoom in on the eagle’s talons.

About Jed Rubenfeld!

Ross should save this energy for his wife.

I think pretty regularly about how normalized it was that there were pedophiles and rapists in my hometown when I was growing up. It was all sort of shrugged aside with a "Stay away from him, because he does bad things."

I'm sure Petey Thiel was just doing some theological research. But, what can be in the stuff they're trying to keep hidden?

Not the point, but the concept of Chuck Schumer going to Studio 54

not the biggest flaw here but it was never explained why an economist would be the go-to on biology in the first place

OVERT ACT 125 In additional furtherance of the conspiracy, DEFENDANTS met on November 12, 2025 to discuss ways to wield official government power to prevent further news of the child sex trafficking ring from becoming public.

Going through the official 1957 NATO Cookbook (?) and there’s a section where they asked the various heads of state to contribute recipes. You can tell which branch of the Nassaus converted to Catholicism and which one stayed Protestant.

Wait, you’re telling me the guy whose first wife accused him of violent rape in her divorce deposition knew about—and took advantage of—the trafficking of underage girls by his best friend?

Stumble looks like Glee.

This particular passage from Paradise Lost is one of those things that has stuck with me and affects how I see the world constantly. It really feels like it rewired my brain, to use the cliché.

With all due respect to The Holy Father, Life Is Beautiful is not a good movie.

Just smoke meth. You’ll get ideas just as good and it’s less harmful.

Bourbon with the boys!

Whatever you think of her politics, you have to admit that Gal Gadot absolutely cannot act.

DoorDash says sushi prices are down, per White House

Thinking, for some reason—it could be fever—of the idea that some things can't be said or taught but only shown and the esoteric and Strauss and Wittgenstein and Plato and MacIntyre, in the classroom, giving us Tractatus 7 "improved into Irish". It has to be the fever.

this is not "everyone is twelve" theory. this is the slightly rarer but typically much more consequential "no one knows what lawyers do" theory

Olivia Nuzzi and Noah Smith in the posts? Too much.

an underrated part of this turducken of garbage is Elon posting an image of the Odyssey while discussing the Iliad, but it's all so terribly, terribly pathetic

I think the next couple weeks would be an ideal time for Democratic senators to stfu. Really can’t imagine anyone who wants to hear their mealy-mouthed justifications or calls to fight*. *fundraise

As I check my temperature in a spinning room, I think: Thinking reeds, Pascal? Thinking reeds!

I half suspect that what happens in his addled brain is Trump barely remembering that taking out insurance is always (economically) irrational. Otherwise it couldn't work as a business. Then, since he has no concept of communality or other-interest, getting rid of insurance makes sense.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

So my son eats a bowl of Barilla Penne pasta for dinner every night. He eats it plain - no butter, no oil, a little salt in the water. It's what he likes. Like blueberries, which I covered in May, we're concerned with what it means that access to some of the things he relies on may be difficult.

its especially humiliating for the Cave Caucus that he's not even trying to pretend that he might do this.

A thing I learned doing my undergrad thesis three decades ago: the best philosophy* avoids fads and works on perennial questions. *neither my thesis nor any of my thought has ever been among the best philosophy, but critique is a different beast

A promise of a vote on healthcare

It’s no good being innocent as doves if you aren’t going to be wise as serpents.

If they give up on those ACA subsidies, they aren't ever going to get them back

not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not

Once again, even the dumbest of the dumb can see it. But, I fear, leadership will not be able to resist snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

"What if an LLM (or some other system) becomes conscious*?" is such an odd question for me. There are lots and lots of animals that we have no doubt are conscious and we hardly accord them rights comparable to humans. Perhaps we should, but the same people never seem to worry about that.

I never once heard my grandparents, who grew up on near-subsistence farms, long for those old days.

For what very little this is worth, Christie hardly portrays Poirot as a style icon. He's supposed to be anachronistic, yes, but also a preening buffoon, whose dye and wigs are recognizable by anyone. Of course, she'd hardly appreciate a dandy.

Even the dumbest of the dumb are saying it.

The poor must suffer for him and his courtiers to feel alive. (Gift article)