Finally listened to this, which was very good. The title of the episode is very poorly-crafted, however. It's not NYT-level headline diversion bad, but I really can't understand why it wasn't simply called "MAGA is the Home of Anti-Semitism Now" or some such clearer title.

Big deal, even if it’s the same lawmakers that have made even voting for Republicans a mockery of common sense.

How did so many high profile people get lured into the Epstein world? Status. He was the mysterious rich guy with hideaways that only extremely high-status people were invited to. Nectar to the status-chasing mind. He seemed to hold the keys to a really-existing Eyes Wide Shut world.

So I believe this is actually post about Biden...

As an erstwhile Canadian Young Liberal and friend of two current Liberal paliamentarians, I'm pretty biased - but the Democratic Party really needs Mark Carney-like messenger in the lead up to next two big national election cycles.

We can now project that Donald Trump will have an epic meltdown in due course.

We beat Ohtani but lost to Yamamoto. Simple as that.

Oh well

This whole series has turned on defense. Unbelievable.

We immigrated to Canada and landed in Toronto one year after the Blue Jays’ last World Series win. I became a Canadian partly by learning to love baseball through the Jays. This is the closest I’ve come to feel what my schoolmates back then told me it felt to be on top of the world. Go Jays!

LET’S GO BLUE JAYS!

Right-wingers with their petulant anti-anti-racism nourished the viper of antisemitism in their bosom.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/a-viper-in...

Don’t be surprised if you read the exact same line a year from about the US midterms: “Analysts said the results were due, in part, to a fragmented opposition, which included many of the same leaders repudiated by voters two years ago when they elected Mr. Milei” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/w...

Angus: This is a guy who showed an AI video of himself dumping diarrhea on his own citizens. So the fact that he’s freaking out because we showed a video that just had Ronald Reagan speaking shows he’s not trustworthy.

This is a great conversation that’s about much more than just strongmen. Kudos to @aysezarakol.bsky.social and @ppfideas.bsky.social for rounding the topic so capaciously podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

This Westie is already over the cooler temps in the Midwest.

Among all the things wrong with this, maybe it is not in the U.S. national interest for the president to make dramatic foreign policy changes in response to a TV ad?

IR scholars need to pay more attention to this stuff than they currently do.

The ol’ “If-it-weren’t-for-me” brand of free-market capitalism. 🤡

At the inaugural American book launch of @abuaardvark.bsky.social’s important (critical) book, which I highly recommend. Great Q&A with @marieharf.bsky.social @perryworldhouse.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...

🍁Canadians Skeptical Any Leader Can Reason With Trump 📊New polling from Abacus Data finds two-thirds say Mark Carney handled his meeting with Trump well, but... The latest from @canadianpolling.bsky.social for 338 ↓ www.338canada.ca/p/canadians-...

Terrific and important conversation, but especially so in the last 20 minutes or so in reference to the distinctions between right-wing rhetoric and left-liberal analysis. Highly recommend.

Read this smart article by my brilliant colleague @sarahbauerled.bsky.social

This will get much much worse before your average nonchalant voter wakes up. Also, No Kings marchers ≠ average voter.

"The Media School is more focused on censorship than real solutions for student media. Is this really the best use of the university’s resources?" @ewabu.bsky.social @iusociology.bsky.social @crres.bsky.social @profnoather.bsky.social @santof.bsky.social @juanmora.bsky.social @hbanai.bsky.social

At the halfway point in the semester, I’m rather pleased by how well students have responded to the analogue format of my courses. Blue books have been embraced; only 2 out of 120 students have asked for laptop accommodations; and the quality of writing has only improved!

Exam before mine looks a lot harder 😬

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Re-upping: Excellent assessment of John "Roger Taney" Roberts. In @harvardmagazine.bsky.social , by Lincoln Caplan. As careful, legally informed, judicious-minded writer as you're going to find. With an unsparing judgment. www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

Misses the point that plenty of people of low character manage contradictions just fine, but worthy if contemplation. on.ft.com/4n0OeD4

László Krasznahorkai has said of his work: ‘You will never go wrong anticipating doom in my books, any more than you’ll go wrong in anticipating doom in ordinary life.’ In 2012, he was in conversation with Colm Tóibín for our Bookshop podcast: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...

Senior correspondent @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social breaks down the Gaza ceasefire deal, what it could mean for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and what comes next.

🧵 As an academic whose formative college and graduate experiences took place during the 'modernists' vs. 'neo-primordialist' debates about nationalism, I find the causal ideological & methodological nationalism of even left-wing social media shocking.

The theatre of "inevitability" alluded to by @himself.bsky.social in the NYT yesterday: "The greatest weapon that the forces of regime change possess is the fear of inevitability. If everyone believes that Mr. Trump will succeed in reshaping America, he will." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

"The greatest weapon that the forces of regime change possess is the fear of inevitability. If everyone believes that Mr. Trump will succeed in reshaping America, he will." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Had an illuminating discussion the other day with students in my democracy seminar. They were reflecting on how difficult it is to learn about canonical arguments/works despite ever easier access in the digital age. One of them said “We’re drowning in a sewage of curated information.” /1

Once again, this is all for an audience of one.

this feels like forty years ago but it was 2023 www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi...

Delighted to announce a hybrid event to launchThe Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory: ed Richard Bellamy and Jeff King UCL 13 Oct 2025, 18:05 – 19:30, followed by a wine reception. Event details and how to book an on line or in person place – are here www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

The biggest drop in international student travel to US is from Iran, which isn't surprising given the travel ban www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

@fishkin.bsky.social on the “compact” with American universities. Important insights here.

Another familiar part of this story is how they’re all mostly graduates of business schools who hardly ever took a course outside of business curriculum and barely socialized with any students who weren’t part of the status anxious networks of would-be financiers.

Maintaining professionalism and being principled are two different things; and yet so much of the political discourse around norms either conflates or confuses them. Mamdani's campaign is great testament to possessing both those things, but also signaling them clearly to the average voter.

Exactly this, and I’ll add that the issue this speaks to is the very low supply of cultural critics and anthropologists who can speak to the deeper patterns and layered connections at work here; so we keep getting speculative hot takes instead of insight

Just yesterday, a lot of newspapers - including the paper of record - wrote headlines about how Trump's patience with Netanyahu was running out and how he'd be strong-arming him today to end the war and pledge to never annex any part of the Palestinian territories. Oh well...

It hasn't been a good few weeks for Klein. He's put up a set of really weak arguments in defense of liberal values that I think do more to confuse and distance liberalism's critics than the opposite. In fact, he's confirmed many of the biases against him by engaging in half-baked persuasion /1

'“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'