"Career Guard" is what I typically get when I dictate to my phone the name Kierkegaard. I'm sure he'd appreciate the irony.

Bankers' boxes seek perfection...

“The earth belongs always to the living generation… Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years.” Thomas Jefferson, BOTD.

And they said western liberalism was dead. www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/c...

"Further studies may shed light on the roots of warfare in our own species, although the Trump administration’s proposed budget, released on Friday, has cast doubt on whether the research will continue." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/s...

I guess COVID didn't break New York after all.

Somebody should write this song www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y2F...

Imagine being in a spaceship orbiting the moon and having to take a call from Donald Trump.

Dylan to the mother of muses: you know what I'm talking about.

Dem Sen. Ed Markey wants Trump removed ASAP: “With each passing day, it becomes increasingly apparent that Donald Trump is unstable and a clear and present danger, not just to the American people but to the world. He must be removed from office before he causes incalculable and unfathomable harm."

“Academic freedom protects scholars’ right to challenge the orthodoxy; it doesn’t insulate them from charges of bad faith in doing so. But the problem here is one of both supply and demand.” An excellent piece by @stevevladeck.bsky.social. www.stevevladeck.com/p/219-drunks...

George Steiner, on the Sabbath that is Holy Saturday.

The Hegseth knows one thing.

Reading the news today, I was reminded of my friend, the Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah...one of the smartest people I know. www.ebsco.com/research-sta...

When Bondi took over, the DOJ declined to prosecute a staggering 23,000 criminal cases, including those stemming from yearslong investigations into charges of terrorism, white collar crime and drugs. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Pretty brilliant, that, coming from him.

Pretty brilliant, that, coming from him.

Pretty brilliant, that, coming from him.

The jazz drummer who Richard Grenell threatened to sue for $1 million for pulling out of his Christmas Eve Kennedy Center show filed an anti-SLAPP motion today. Filing says he never signed a contract and a settlement the center proposed required him to do the show again and not bring up Trump.

Amazing. Peter Brown tells the story of Momigliano's key ring! I had heard that story still being told in Chicago many years after his death, and doubted its veracity. And yet here it is, recounted by a scholar of supreme authority.

Good for them. New York City Ballet Pulls Out of Kennedy Center Performances www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/a...

This is absolutely outrageous and also absolutely wild. ICE had basically completely mislead their own attorneys at DOJ who are now totally throwing them under the bus. Courts can't trust DOJ anymore. As @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org famously coined: Malevolence tempered by incompetence

3/ From the Founding through the present day, the power of the purse has been understood as one of Congress's most potent tools against the executive: the executive can't do anything without money, and he can't spend money without Congress.

Can any doubt remain that Trump aspires to full dictatorship? He has, as he promised, acted as effective dictator since day one & his & admin’s every action aims only at consolidating dictatorial powers & practices by sidestepping or toppling any & all remaining checks or balances of law or custom.

Amazing. Peter Brown tells the story of Momigliano's key ring! I had heard that story still being told in Chicago many years after his death, and doubted its veracity. And yet here it is, recounted by a scholar of supreme authority.

The military wants the ballroom more than anyone? Like, to use as a drill hall?

Alexander Kluge ist tot. Zwischen seinem ersten und letzten "Merkur"-Text lagen 53 Jahre. Man muss gewiss nicht zum "Merkur" greifen, um Texte des unfassbar produktiven (u.a.) Autors zu finden, aber man kann: Es gibt insgesamt elf (einige frei lesbar). www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/autoren/alex...

Uncle Sam wants you, Millennial Pothead!

Please read this Open Letter to Georgetown Students on "Generative AI" by my friend Emily Tucker. executive director of the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social medium.com/center-on-pr...

Please read this Open Letter to Georgetown Students on "Generative AI" by my friend Emily Tucker. executive director of the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social medium.com/center-on-pr...

"No philosophy, no analysis, no aphorism, be it ever so profound, can compare in intensity and richness of meaning with a properly narrated story." --Hannah Arendt

Are they going to wear masks? If not, let’s all go to the airports and take pictures.

I'm just going to keep posting this

The NYT takes a lot of flack. But let this be a reminder we’re lucky it’s still on the job. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/b... via @NYTimes

“They killed Kenny,” wrote the President, in reference to the South Pars attack.

Wired’s top editor, Katie Drummond, has transformed the publication into a bright spot for Condé Nast with aggressive political reporting. Here's how.

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Sinéad O'Connor singing "Danny Boy" a cappella on live TV in 1993. Happy St. Patrick's Day. See you around. youtu.be/PweUGhCZNiM?...

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

One of the worst instances of “now they tell us” in a long time.

Telephone rings It would not stop It’s Jürgen Habermas Calling me up.

"We're sending in the Marine Excursionary Force," said the President. "Tough guys. They do excursions, like, I'm telling you. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. The 31st Marine Excursionary Force. They say that's the best one, the 31st. Just a little excursion. And then watch out!"

Take the gun, leave the cannolis.

RIP Habermas, whose death follows that of his beloved Public Sphere

🏆 🥇 * WIST wist.info/arendt-hanna... * Article 2024 Hannah Arendt's lessons for our times: the banality of evil, totalitarianism and statelessness. by Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/hannah-...

Light reading for Heideggerians

But the price of ever keeps going up too

NEW: Right-wing activists are circulating a draft executive order that purports to give Trump sweeping power over federal elections. @mollyroberts.bsky.social and I got new details on the activists, lawyers, and conspiracy theorists behind the proposed order: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/in-c...

The death of Jürgen Habermas www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...