Errol Morris
@errolmorris.bsky.social
Filmmaker, writer, misanthrope
HOW LONG WILL WE HAVE TO SUFFER? FOREVER? More bad headlines in the NYT. “Some Supporters Fear That Trump Won't
Keep Vows.” Really?! Someone needs to be given an over-credulous award. “For a president who returned to office promising to make life more affordable…it has been a significant departure…"
Keep Vows.” Really?! Someone needs to be given an over-credulous award. “For a president who returned to office promising to make life more affordable…it has been a significant departure…"
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
HOW LONG WILL WE HAVE TO SUFFER? FOREVER? More bad headlines in the NYT. “Some Supporters Fear That Trump Won't
Keep Vows.” Really?! Someone needs to be given an over-credulous award. “For a president who returned to office promising to make life more affordable…it has been a significant departure…"
Keep Vows.” Really?! Someone needs to be given an over-credulous award. “For a president who returned to office promising to make life more affordable…it has been a significant departure…"
A NEW STRATEGY. Create a crisis and then seem to “solve” it. Abrogate Obama’s Iran deal (the JCPOA),
implement settlements in the West Bank, move the American embassy to Jerusalem. Then wait and see what happens...
implement settlements in the West Bank, move the American embassy to Jerusalem. Then wait and see what happens...
November 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
A NEW STRATEGY. Create a crisis and then seem to “solve” it. Abrogate Obama’s Iran deal (the JCPOA),
implement settlements in the West Bank, move the American embassy to Jerusalem. Then wait and see what happens...
implement settlements in the West Bank, move the American embassy to Jerusalem. Then wait and see what happens...
A brief respite in the newspapers today. Should I let my guard down? I don’t think so.
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
A brief respite in the newspapers today. Should I let my guard down? I don’t think so.
POE v. MELVILLE, The spirit of perverseness v. natural depravity/ Why not both? (The Black Cat v. Billy Budd)
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
POE v. MELVILLE, The spirit of perverseness v. natural depravity/ Why not both? (The Black Cat v. Billy Budd)
WHEN IN DOUBT READ MELVILLE. Though the man’s even temper…would seem to intimate a mind peculiarly subject to the law of reason...he would seem to riot in complete exemption from that law, having little to do with reason...than to employ it as an ambidexter implement for effecting the irrational.
November 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
WHEN IN DOUBT READ MELVILLE. Though the man’s even temper…would seem to intimate a mind peculiarly subject to the law of reason...he would seem to riot in complete exemption from that law, having little to do with reason...than to employ it as an ambidexter implement for effecting the irrational.
It’s a toss up. I can’t believe what’s happening, and I don’t want to believe what’s happening. Ah, that admixture of denial and incredulity.
October 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
It’s a toss up. I can’t believe what’s happening, and I don’t want to believe what’s happening. Ah, that admixture of denial and incredulity.
I like alliteration but can this really be her name? Heather Honey, an election denier, has been put in charge of “election integrity.” When “we” elected Trump, what did we think was going to happen? Well… The denial of truth, the suspension of law, among other things…
October 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I like alliteration but can this really be her name? Heather Honey, an election denier, has been put in charge of “election integrity.” When “we” elected Trump, what did we think was going to happen? Well… The denial of truth, the suspension of law, among other things…
No one doubts that American health care is deeply inadequate and overly expensive. Why did we decide to put health care in the hands of insurance companies. Are we out of our minds? (Yes.)
October 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
No one doubts that American health care is deeply inadequate and overly expensive. Why did we decide to put health care in the hands of insurance companies. Are we out of our minds? (Yes.)
READING AGAIN THE NYT. Should I stop? An article about Sam Terblanche. Dead. Despite the usual equivocal prose, one point is clear. Medicine has become hopelessly bureaucratized. Has insurance and insurance claims turned doctors into box-checkers with stethoscopes? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/w...
It’s Just a Virus, the E.R. Told Him. Days Later, He Was Dead.
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October 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
READING AGAIN THE NYT. Should I stop? An article about Sam Terblanche. Dead. Despite the usual equivocal prose, one point is clear. Medicine has become hopelessly bureaucratized. Has insurance and insurance claims turned doctors into box-checkers with stethoscopes? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/w...
Charlie Silver wrote an extraordinary Ph.D. thesis on Kripke’s theory of proper names. To me, it opened a whole new world about modalities and reference. It is part of my criticism of the work of Thomas Kuhn. How stable is reference? Is it on shifting sands or an impregnable fortress? Neither?
October 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Charlie Silver wrote an extraordinary Ph.D. thesis on Kripke’s theory of proper names. To me, it opened a whole new world about modalities and reference. It is part of my criticism of the work of Thomas Kuhn. How stable is reference? Is it on shifting sands or an impregnable fortress? Neither?
My close friend Charles L Silver died yesterday, He was my closest friend, and it is an incredible loss.
October 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
My close friend Charles L Silver died yesterday, He was my closest friend, and it is an incredible loss.
Is the American idea of how to deal with fascism: to embrace it?
October 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Is the American idea of how to deal with fascism: to embrace it?
We are in the grip of not just fascism… OK, that isn’t OK, but also in the grip of extraordinary cupidity and stupidity. People who know nothing control everything.
October 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
We are in the grip of not just fascism… OK, that isn’t OK, but also in the grip of extraordinary cupidity and stupidity. People who know nothing control everything.
The Ukrainian Night is my kind of book. History through deeply personal accounts. It deepened my understanding of the Maidan. Thank you, Marci.
October 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The Ukrainian Night is my kind of book. History through deeply personal accounts. It deepened my understanding of the Maidan. Thank you, Marci.
THE NEW BRO MILITARY. He who can do the most pushups wins. Maybe Hegseth should challenge Putin to a pushup contest.
October 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
THE NEW BRO MILITARY. He who can do the most pushups wins. Maybe Hegseth should challenge Putin to a pushup contest.
Once truth is devalued, what is left? Untruth. Falsehood. Gobble-de-gook.
October 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Once truth is devalued, what is left? Untruth. Falsehood. Gobble-de-gook.
I am indebted to both Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore. Essential reading. The Ukrainian Night. Shouldn’t we have an answer? What role did the US play in undermining the Yanukovych government?
September 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I am indebted to both Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore. Essential reading. The Ukrainian Night. Shouldn’t we have an answer? What role did the US play in undermining the Yanukovych government?
WHAT A NIGHTMARE. NYT Sunday Opinion, Maureen Dowd weighs in on AI and the end of the world; Nicholas Kristof tells us that withdrawal of US aid has put African women at risk; the Editorial Board opines on the politicization of justice… Nothing good here. (And a lot of bad.)
September 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
WHAT A NIGHTMARE. NYT Sunday Opinion, Maureen Dowd weighs in on AI and the end of the world; Nicholas Kristof tells us that withdrawal of US aid has put African women at risk; the Editorial Board opines on the politicization of justice… Nothing good here. (And a lot of bad.)
From mathematical logic we learn that from a contradiction you can prove anything. Of course, the same holds true for politics.
September 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
From mathematical logic we learn that from a contradiction you can prove anything. Of course, the same holds true for politics.
INTENTIONALLY OBTUSE OR JUST CLUELESS. The NYT weighs in on the knotty problem of why late night comedians have become politicized. They ask, how did these establishment figures become so political? Huh? How about the implacable reality of our country plunging headlong into fascism?
September 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
INTENTIONALLY OBTUSE OR JUST CLUELESS. The NYT weighs in on the knotty problem of why late night comedians have become politicized. They ask, how did these establishment figures become so political? Huh? How about the implacable reality of our country plunging headlong into fascism?
THE WORD SALAD PRESIDENT. Incoherence would be a blessing. Nonsense is what we got.
September 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
THE WORD SALAD PRESIDENT. Incoherence would be a blessing. Nonsense is what we got.
DO THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT IDEA? Clearly, Pam Bondi and I have differing ideas of what we mean by an independent Justice Department. But it seems we also have differing ideas about the meaning of the word “independent.” Do words have any meaning anymore?
September 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
DO THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT IDEA? Clearly, Pam Bondi and I have differing ideas of what we mean by an independent Justice Department. But it seems we also have differing ideas about the meaning of the word “independent.” Do words have any meaning anymore?
IS STATING THE OBVIOUS A CRIME? SHOULD STATING THE OBVIOUS BE PUNISHED? Ask Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel. The Bill of Rights prohibits the government from curbing free speech. But it does not prohibit corporations. OK. What if the government tells corporations to curb free speech? What then?
September 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
IS STATING THE OBVIOUS A CRIME? SHOULD STATING THE OBVIOUS BE PUNISHED? Ask Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel. The Bill of Rights prohibits the government from curbing free speech. But it does not prohibit corporations. OK. What if the government tells corporations to curb free speech? What then?
HEAR, HEAR. Justic Sotomayor: "We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish and appears to work a low wage job." Why not arreat people who look like Supreme Court Justices who take bribes?
September 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
HEAR, HEAR. Justic Sotomayor: "We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish and appears to work a low wage job." Why not arreat people who look like Supreme Court Justices who take bribes?
INCURABLE DISEASE? Recent studies have shown that listening to RFK Jr. causes autism.
September 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
INCURABLE DISEASE? Recent studies have shown that listening to RFK Jr. causes autism.