I’m sadly more certain of this than almost anything right now.

“Full force” on American citizens.

Watching a Kolchak with William Daniels. I can’t believe KITT is still alive.

If you truly believe a core aspect of a professor’s job is to “admire” anyone, you need to go back to school.

To be clear, he was urging US soldiers not to commit war crimes if ordered to by Trump.

Apart from the legal question, five "committed Catholics" and one former co-signed the deaths of thousands, if not millions, of innocents. No number of little trips to the Vatican or Notre Dame Law measure against that.

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

More of that “legal enterprise.”

She seems fun: Countess Phyllis della Faille de Leverghem (just pronouncing her name is refreshing enough), photographed in 1950 by Jack Birns, is shown in the bedroom of her villa in Morocco, reclining amidst her numerous chihuahuas, an afghan dog, and her parrots.⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ 📸: Jack Birns for LIFE.

It’s because you can see his face

Novel Orwellian technique aside, what an asshole.

American evangelicals merging firces with techbro singularity weirdos, while both are being fleeced by amoral sociopath billionaires is the logical endpoint of everything about all three of those groups.

The thing about Hegseth’s “Battle of Wounded Knee” is that you have to go out of your way to do something like that. That is language from before a century’s worth of Native-led efforts to force a reckoning with mass slaughter. That movement is part of the history they want to wipe out.

I'm getting earnest worries from normies about the AI becoming the terminator because a bunch of silicon valley folks are fighting about a thought experiment for 15-years olds called "roko's basilisk" and neither the public nor the press should pay any attention to these folks.

G’night.

I mean. I was 11 in '89 but when I saw Back to the Future 2, I got the reference. *Everybody* got the reference

So was Schmitt. The question is what kind of legal enterprise.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

No money for the starving or those dying of disease. None for domestic healthcare. Billions for an Argentine libertarian clown.

i'm sorry, but if you think voters should avoid the consequences of what they voted for, you don't actually believe in democratic accountability: Trump ran on tariffs. They are getting tariffs. Voters will learn that tariffs are bad.

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

Part of teaching, I think, is playing the fool with the hope of imparting—or impelling—wisdom. That might be the real inheritance of Socrates.

The Benny Gantz op-ed deeply reminded me how many people literally cannot even seen Palestinian life. He barely acknowledges it, and I don’t think it’s just propaganda. I think so many in both these positions as well as the wider public literally just don’t think about Palestinian life. Invisible.

The thing that people forget to remember about the Baberaham Lincoln statue is its sculptor.

You ever think about the fact that there’s a Renaissance who got the nickname “il Sodoma” and just, reportedly, went with it?

A drug that provides near-perfect protection against HIV with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope for ending the HIV epidemic. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h...

Return to the ancient ways.

Colleague pulled me aside to see his new framed artwork: a picture of JH Newman and a still from the classic Brideshead Revisited miniseries. Both of them made me quite happy.

I’ve never loved Sunstein but he’s really leaning into the stereotype that liberalism is empty of all commitments. What must it be to be such an intellectual and moral void, i.e., a professor at Harvard Law?

They can talk about but do not fear God.

Long term, Trump really might be the greatest gift to international progress. He’ll go down as the sick mad king who dislodged the most powerful nation on Earth. Normally historical revisionism and ideology would assuage this but it is so catastrophic and embarrassing that it’s unfit for propaganda.

That than which none more pathetic can be conceived.

I avoid acetaminophen, too, but that’s just the Gilbert Syndrome.

I read Lear on both Aristotle and Freud as an undergrad. He made a difference in this mediocre thinker.

doomers: there’s not going to be elections in America ever again me: if they can’t even cancel an entertainer due to popular pushback what the fuck makes you think they can cancel elections

In Memoriam: Jonathan Lear (1948-2025) leiterreports.com/2025/09/22/i...

I think it’s important to note that “The Rapture” isn’t really a thing for most historical Christian churches. It’s mostly another crazy “we’ve just discovered the true Bible* in the 19th/20th century” American thing. *not in the Bible

obscure philosophy memes

Make them ride circuit. Cancel a Supreme Court term. No more clerks. And strip jurisdiction.

On the one hand, I have family in Argentina. On the other, Milei is a libertarian* clown who just wants to enrich oligarchs. *he worships the last junta

i had entirely forgotten that they are both still married to other people

Bishop Barron found this spiritually uplifting.

I don't really understand the supposed value of a Nate Silver column on a shutdown—or, anything.

“One of the Socratic fallacies that still permeates our culture is the idea that those who defend unjust ideas must be stupid or ignorant.“ - @mattpolprof.bsky.social www.commonwealmagazine.org/sam-francis-...

If you haven’t seen this (I hadn’t), you need to:

When was the last time a Catholic in Barron’s diocese has seen him?

I’m always telling people that Baruch Spinoza “canceled his cancelers where it really mattered: in his own mind”

Ironic that today was a cloudy day.

Tucker Carlson to the cultic mob whose leader pretends his bonfire of the universities is about protecting Jews: "I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamp-lit room with a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus, thinking about, ‘What do we do about this guy telling the truth about us?’"