"Hegseth Strikes Female..." is quite the headline. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

He did the bit

A charming essay by James Redfield who, apparently, has just died thepointmag.com/examined-lif...

.@bobdylan

It's worth noting that while James Redfield was one of a kind, he was also probably the final living avatar of the Hutchins vision of the University of Chicago. With him, a whole world passes.

Robert Redfield, Margaret Park Redfield, and their son James M. Redfield, en route to Beijing, China in the late 1940s. RIP, James Redfield.

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Farewell, James Redfield. A singular voice in 20th century classical studies, an inimitable teacher, and a very funny guy. Chair of the Committee on Social Thought at the age of 34. Still teaching well into his 80s. He has died at 91.

Vietnam War veterans who dedicated much of their lives to U.S. government service are suing the Trump admin to halt the construction of Trump's proposed arch. Its planned height — twice of the Lincoln Memorial — would obstruct the view between the two hallowed memorials in a "disrespectful" manner.

Join me on Saturday, 6 June in NYC for freeform conversation with a panel of theater artists about Hannah Arendt, human rights, and the arts, hosted by the @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social @bardcollege.bsky.social humanrightsartmovement.org/ihraf-hannah... @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social

Join me on Saturday, 6 June in NYC for freeform conversation with a panel of theater artists about Hannah Arendt, human rights, and the arts, hosted by the @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social @bardcollege.bsky.social humanrightsartmovement.org/ihraf-hannah... @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social

"Rather than solving the problem of suffering and revealing eternal truths, Nietzsche foresaw science uncovering the limits of human knowledge..." thepointmag.com/examined-lif...

He is a man of principle. And his principles are: self-aggrandizement, retribution, and everything in excess.

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

BREAKING 35 former federal judges move to reopen Trump v. IRS in an effort to kill the $1.776B slush fund. Doc buff.ly/1065CA7

More compelling words on why James Talerico should become Texas' newest Senator could not be said.

"Surely no one...voluntarily wishes to lie about the most sovereign things to what is most sovereign in himself. Rather, he fears holding a lie there more than anything." —Socrates, in Plato's Republic

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” apnews.com/article/just...

BREAKING: Senate advances resolution to limit Trump's Iran war powers for first time, after four Republicans defect.

Important: Dems will seek to force Republicans to vote on a bill blocking Trump's illegal $1.8 billion slush fund, Rep Jamie Raskin tells me. Dems will use discharge petition. Hakeem Jeffries is supportive of Raskin's efforts, I'm told. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2106...

Breathtakingly corrupt and indefensible theft of taxpayer money. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"It's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand." A real thing that was said, without shame, at a Christian prayer rally.

If only Matt Damon were Matt Daimonion. #odyssey

strictly ballroom

It's like they've taken Homer hostage.

Reminder of something Trump doesn't know but other people should: -Treason carries death penalty -Thus Trump effectively saying NYT people should be executed -Press gaggle response='oh that wacky Trump' -Couldn't *someone* follow up w "Sir, since treason is a capital offense, are you saying..." ?

You know, a President accusing a NYT reporter of committing treason just for asking a question is actually quite a big deal, and this bunch just standing there listening to it and doing nothing is not encouraging the public to think of journalism as a serious business or of words meaning anything.

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Bob Dylan: "If I was President, first thing I’d do, I’d have all my friends in the White House, right away. I’d completely revise the whole White House so everybody that works there would just look a whole other way... everybody would just have to wear high-collared shirts." #whitehouse

On Thursday, 12 May, a mass will be offered for the repose of the soul of John A. Bartscherer, my brother, at the Church of Our Saviour in New York City. In pace requiescas, frater carissime.

Bob Dylan: "If I was President, first thing I’d do, I’d have all my friends in the White House, right away. I’d completely revise the whole White House so everybody that works there would just look a whole other way... everybody would just have to wear high-collared shirts." #whitehouse

Just happened upon this curious title.

Breaking: South Carolina Senate rebuffs Trump, declines to take up redistricting before midterms, preserving Jim Clyburn's majority-Black district South Carolina State Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey: "We are the most gerrymandered Republican state in the country already"

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

Lawfare once again delivering the goods.

New revelations prove Trump and Hegseth are covering up the truth about what a disaster the Iran War has been. It is Pentagon Papers 2.0. Should be a massive scandal. www.thedailybeast.com/the-scandal-...

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the times we live in

Trump and Rubio are decimating the ranks of career, non-partisan professional diplomats to bring in loads of newly-hired MAGA partisans. It is hard to describe how seriously this is damaging US security and our ability to anticipate and react to world events.

What did Saint Anthony do if he lost something?

BREAKING: We filed another emergency lawsuit — this time in federal court — against Louisiana officials for suspending the state's primary election after voting has already begun. Louisiana is disenfranchising voters who have already cast ballots, all in the service of stifling Black voting power.

My essay in this latest issue of Theory&Event offers a new reading of Eichmann in Jerusalem — and the surrounding furor over Arendt’s read of the event — as symptomatic of the til now unnoted context of the McCarthyite moment to which Arendt was subtly responding in her book /1

Late in the day to wonder about this, but why doesn't Jason Bourne ever don a disguise? He hardly ever even wears a hat.

i see a horse has won the kentucky derby again. this is beginning to feel rigged

Why are both buttons buttoned on the jacket? @dieworkwear.bsky.social

Very glad to be part of this excellent @bardcollege.bsky.social program. Today in seminar we were discussing Paul Tillich’s assertion that “the ethical question of the nature of courage leads inescapably to the ontological question of the nature of being.”