For Thiel and Sacks it was encountering Black students at Stanford (who among other things didn't have to go back to a different sector of the Bay Area at night) and for Thiel the divestment movement on campus. "The subhumans are coming for me" has been his guiding light ever since.

I'm going to have to reread three Murakami novels to restore working vision to my eyes.

There are so many Summers stories beyond Epstein, Harvard community is just too dysfunctional and too afraid of its own involvement to have them come out. Could almost be a yearly Best American Larry Summers Stories edited volume.

"Joyful rigor" captures so much of what tech's approach to language, writing, interaction, and, nauseatingly, imminent "erotica" flees: intimacy, patience, care, how joy and suffering are each other's consorts not enemies.

Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.