Derek Miller
@visualizingbroadway.com
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Theater historian. Little League coach. Cruciverbalist. American citizen opposed to tyranny.
Fun storyteller; atrocious writer. So, this tracks.
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Tim Carvell
about 22 hours ago
Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball
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Awful Announcing
1 day ago
"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS
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A lot of people live in NYC. And a lot of those people want to fight for our democracy.
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A new post on liberalism and the good life.
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On Liberalism's Aesthetics
Is Five Guys the best that liberalism has to offer?
https://open.substack.com/pub/derekmillerinnyc/p/on-liberalisms-aesthetics?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=46r09g
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A new post on liberalism and the good life.
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On Liberalism's Aesthetics
Is Five Guys the best that liberalism has to offer?
https://open.substack.com/pub/derekmillerinnyc/p/on-liberalisms-aesthetics?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=46r09g
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HBD, Frank O'Hara! At the risk of being basic, this is an absolute banger and you should memorize it.
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J P
5 days ago
Every I.C.E. victim in these clips is a U.S. citizen. These are the Kavanaugh Stops™️ that that human frat paddle assured us would last only momentarily and cause only minor, if any, inconvenience. All lies. Rule of Law is dead and buried. There is no coming back from this. Sorry, folks.
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I find protesting incredibly exposing and embarrassing. Do it anyway. No kings!
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Daniel Larison
5 days ago
The president's murder spree still hasn't stopped.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...
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U.S. Military Kills 4 People in Boat Strike in Caribbean
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/us/politics/boat-strikes-caribbean.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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6 days ago
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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120 Harvard Jewish Affiliates Condemn Justice Department Antisemitism Lawsuit | News | The Harvard Crimson
120 Jewish affiliates at Harvard have signed an open letter denouncing the U.S. Department of Justice’s latest lawsuit against Harvard, accusing the Trump administration of weaponizing antisemitism co...
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/3/26/jewish-affiliates-blast-doj-lawsuit/
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Greg Sargent
6 days ago
News --> More than 100 Jewish faculty and staff members at Harvard write an open letter saying Trump's attacks on the university, done in the name of fighting "antisemitism," are actually contrary to the interests of Jewish people:
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This is inclusive politics.
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6 days ago
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I recently published a chapter in a collection on *Performing Law*. My contribution considers the complex relationship among law, text, and performance, and what we might learn if we think about legal texts as dramatic texts.
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Law — Text — Performance
My recent academic publication arguing that law would be well-served by attending to the relationship between text and performance with greater sophistication.
https://derekmillerinnyc.substack.com/p/law-text-performance
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I recently published a chapter in a collection on *Performing Law*. My contribution considers the complex relationship among law, text, and performance, and what we might learn if we think about legal texts as dramatic texts.
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Law — Text — Performance
My recent academic publication arguing that law would be well-served by attending to the relationship between text and performance with greater sophistication.
https://derekmillerinnyc.substack.com/p/law-text-performance
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In which I close read a famous exchange in language philosophy.
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When Do Two Positives Make a Negative?
More thoughts on speech, writing, and literacy.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derekmillerinnyc/p/when-do-two-positives-make-a-negative?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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In which I close read a famous exchange in language philosophy.
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When Do Two Positives Make a Negative?
More thoughts on speech, writing, and literacy.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derekmillerinnyc/p/when-do-two-positives-make-a-negative?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
9 days ago
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Happy Birthday, Henrik! I bet you were loadsof fun on your birthday! 🥳
10 days ago
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What is the point of the Democratic Party?
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I'll take my mom's dog for a walk in Lafayette Square. He'll set up a Trump-shaped monument for free.
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11 days ago
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Now THAT'S funny.
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11 days ago
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Thank you,
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We must rewrite the rulebook for fighting antisemitism — or conspiracists like Joe Kent will win the narrative wars
Kent's viral resignation letter is dangerous. So is refusing to understand why it was effective
https://forward.com/opinion/814099/joe-kent-resignation-letter-antisemitism/
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Emily Tamkin
11 days ago
I think some on this website and in general are confused. Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. I have written I do not know how many pieces saying this. Also, if you are using anti-Zionism as an opportunity to say hateful things about Jews qua Jews, you are, I am sorry to say, being antisemitic.
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Liberal democracy cannot be neutral about its political values.
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Fighting Liberalism
Debates in political theory help explain why liberal democracy cannot be value-neutral.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derekmillerinnyc/p/fighting-liberalism?r=46r09g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Liberal democracy cannot be neutral about its political values.
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Fighting Liberalism
Debates in political theory help explain why liberal democracy cannot be value-neutral.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derekmillerinnyc/p/fighting-liberalism?r=46r09g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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I've been thinking through literacy and democracy. Here's my most recent essay.
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Brian
14 days ago
If you’re interested in understanding why American culture is blowing in the wind, you need to be reading Derek on Substack. 🎯🔥
#culture
#culturaltheory
#democracy
#liberalism
#nokings
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I've been thinking through literacy and democracy. Here's my most recent essay.
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"The less we understand a communication, or the farther we are from the context of communication, the more impenetrable a locution seems. The more impenetrable a locution, the more likely the receiver will seek illocutionary meanings 'beneath' the surface." More from me on literacy and democracy.
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On Reading
More thoughts on literacy and democracy, by way of different methods of reading.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derekmillerinnyc/p/on-reading?r=46r09g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
14 days ago
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
14 days ago
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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"The less we understand a communication, or the farther we are from the context of communication, the more impenetrable a locution seems. The more impenetrable a locution, the more likely the receiver will seek illocutionary meanings 'beneath' the surface." More from me on literacy and democracy.
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On Reading
More thoughts on literacy and democracy, by way of different methods of reading.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derekmillerinnyc/p/on-reading?r=46r09g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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What's a cat's favorite kind of necklace? Purrls!
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Colvin Run Mill!
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15 days ago
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Micah
16 days ago
friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?
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Good. (Also: no shit!)
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17 days ago
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Philip Bump
17 days ago
Instead of blowing up things in Iran, the federal government could have spent $11 billion in a week paying the entire household incomes for everyone in these counties.
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The word "fee" is, frankly, insulting to fees. Hotel amenities fees, ticket platform fees—THOSE are fees (i.e., hidden price increases). The word they're looking for is "bribe."
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TikTok Investors Set to Pay $10 Billion Fee to Trump Administration
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/business/tiktok-investors-set-to-pay-10-billion-fee-to-trump-administration.html
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No excuse for "No comment." More from me in
@theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
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Harvard, Please Comment!
Harvard's brilliant community deserves better than a passive, anemic approach to public relations.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derekmillerinnyc/p/harvard-please-comment?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=46r09g
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No excuse for "No comment." More from me in
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Harvard, Please Comment!
Harvard's brilliant community deserves better than a passive, anemic approach to public relations.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derekmillerinnyc/p/harvard-please-comment?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=46r09g
18 days ago
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John Bull
about 2 years ago
If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
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This is good. The press coverage just does not tell the big picture story. They're incapable of it. The adequate narrative would be "too political."
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Borderline Personality Trump and the Uses of Press Myopia
Every president wants favorable press coverage. Most feel a surprising level of...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/borderline-personality-trump-and-the-uses-of-press-myopia
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Calling Trump anti-literate? Considering epistocracy? What to do about the elitist strains in my thinking these days?
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A Question of Trust
It's a question of not letting what we've built up crumble to dust.
https://derekmillerinnyc.substack.com/p/a-question-of-trust
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Worth considering!
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Why don't they just print a fucking Karoline Leavitt press conference?
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Ex-Trump envoy makes case for Iran attack — Harvard Gazette
President acted in response to “culmination of threats,” says Morgan Ortagus.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/03/ex-trump-envoy-makes-case-for-iran-attack/
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Distrust in expertise and lack of knowledge are serious problems for our democracy. Can we talk about that honestly without being elitist?
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A Question of Trust
It's a question of not letting what we've built up crumble to dust.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derekmillerinnyc/p/a-question-of-trust?r=46r09g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Distrust in expertise and lack of knowledge are serious problems for our democracy. Can we talk about that honestly without being elitist?
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A Question of Trust
It's a question of not letting what we've built up crumble to dust.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derekmillerinnyc/p/a-question-of-trust?r=46r09g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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In which the tyrant ponders impressment.
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This is, as usual, great from Roth. The capitalization of Psychology at the start is excellent, and it gets better from there.
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When I write about "bad faith" arguments, Wurman's treatment of sources is the kind of thing I mean. (Read the primary source, which Bernick helpfully provides.)
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Bill Grueskin
21 days ago
“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.” -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the unfortunate director of the local paper factory
mannerofspeaking.org/2010/05/12/s...
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