In America it always matters who is dying more than it matters that someone is dead—characterizing the resistance in Minneapolis in military terms is the deliberate construction of a narrative which permits and legitimizes the use of deadly force against moms and nurses.

I would assume the people betting yes are also the people who expect to be raptured but then I don’t understand the point of the bet…

no maybe you can’t “read everything in your field” but you can die trying which is basically what a PhD is

A good forum discussion on what is obscured in prevailing debates about migration and the class politics which are actually at stake.

Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory) Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)

It wasn’t exactly subtle at the time, but it’s painfully clear now that white evangelical reformed appropriation of Scottish common-sense realism and the Wittgenstein concept of language games were both reactionary attempts to contest the emerging social consensus around sexuality and gender norms.

Can’t have a robust sense of what it means to love without some orientation towards what is true and good—together this entails not leaving people to remain as they are, but also respecting their inherent dignity. As always the problem of politics is the question of what it means to be a society.

I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!

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Continental philosophy enjoyers be like:

Liverpool crashing harder than bitcoin

Forty years ago today, Calvin & Hobbes was first published. It's all fabulous but, as time went on, Bill Watterson decided he was going to make his Sunday pages the most gorgeous, creative, and varied of all. This is one of my favourites, partly for the use of the looooong final panel.

Jesus to the multitudes;

Mega-church styled American Pentecostalism is almost entirely an attempt to occupy the corner of the market which offers a religious and individualistic psychological therapeutic, complete with technologies of optimization designed for appropriating conservative and reactionary ideologies.

These circumlocutions are absolutely disgusting. Gaetz, a sitting member of Congress, exploited and raped a homeless teenager. THAT’S THE HEADLINE.

capitalism is getting so unpopular they’re canceling money…

It is such a dumb and violent time to do a PhD.

It’s really exceptional. There are like four or five different languages throughout the album?

Anyway if you're a very sharp analyst within a particular discipline/policy domain, then becoming successful and subsequently succumbing to the temptation of all-purpose punditry is one of the most dangerous roads to damnation.

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Nobody wants to work anymore

Feminism is when you let women be all girly and the more girly they are the more feminist the workplace is.

Yes. The response to “We are so divided!” is “Yes, yes we are. And given the choices of some of our coreligionists, we better be.”

Just shouting “Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!” to every word of this @schlesingene.bsky.social piece: eugenerschlesinger.substack.com/p/the-only-a... ⚓️

hope these good folks don’t let us down now.

“Both” seems a good answer to this kind of question.

“We are so divided!” Yes, yes, we are. And so we should be.

Haven’t watched a minute of baseball all season now I’m on the edge of my seat…

Stupid baseball game lol

haha. yeah, no.

I’m not sure anyone is doing public philosophy quite as effectively as Botton’s the School of Life—quibbles about oversimplification and certain ideological commitments aside, which are always going to be trade-offs when doing practical philosophy for non-expert public consumption.

The reprehensible aspect of wanting his wife to convert is not the desire to share one’s religious convictions with a partner; it’s the insistence on an exclusivist understanding of God’s love which easily damns anyone who believes otherwise, and which makes aggressive proselytizing seem benevolent.

Already in 2022, David argued that, in fixing norms in ecclesial rule and communal “plausibility structures,” postliberalism forecloses prereflective openness and downgrades unrestricted historical criticism, thereby collapsing the kerygma-history dialectic into confessionalism.

Best way to guess right is not to read the personal views at all lol

Academic theology always feels like you should know something about everything which is a sure way to not knowing anything about anything.

I say this as someone who has found reading Heidegger profitable. We, in fact, probably do not need any more major conferences on Heidegger any time soon.

Xian centrism, often citing the tired and doubtful Pauline passage, “our struggle is not against flesh and blood” is just one more form of tacit approval for the status quo by people who are still too comfortable to reckon with the political realities their tradition has helped produce.

Buddy called their elderly mother, whose husband is disabled, to check in about groceries because SNAP expires on Nov 1. She said she was glad Trump is kicking immigrants off welfare. Depressingly true that “Many Americans want bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.”

Nazi tat affair useful because anyone doing bizarre prevarications atm re how its totally normal to have a Nazi tattoo, good actually, not a big deal that'd matter in an election, if anything its cringe you care, etc etc, has revealed you never need to take their politics opinions seriously again.

This has been pretty good so far…

*sees news about Harvard* I have complained about getting a PhD in the UK. But I will stop now.

I don’t see much value to any principled objection to property damage, even public property. Burn the palace to the ground and topple the statues. But it matters who’s doing the burning and toppling. If the “king” is tearing down the people’s house to build a palace with the people’s money, well..

Once the Epstein files are released…

Man, the grift is real. Former “apolitical” and “libertarian” academic friend has reinvented themselves on X as a vocal and bigoted supporter of the administration, and to top it off, has started hawking t-shirts with random kitschy theobro philosophy/theology quotes.

ISTM emphasizing Jesus’ identification with the poor and marginalized shows an attunement to the moment in ways that an emphasis on Christ’s eschatological status still misses—whatever warrant it may have, a slogan like “No king but Jesus” just fails to meet the current political reality…

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Getting a Nobel peace prize and being involved in genocide is actually a thing…