The Slavic-Latin and Catholic-Orthodox divisions are a conspiracy to stop you seeing the continuity of individualist-and/or-atomized Romanian-Ukrainian-Polish western steppe terminus society
February 7, 2026 at 4:11 PM
The Slavic-Latin and Catholic-Orthodox divisions are a conspiracy to stop you seeing the continuity of individualist-and/or-atomized Romanian-Ukrainian-Polish western steppe terminus society
What if the Dutch republic wasn't particularly Exhausted after the War of the Spanish Succession but if anything not exhausted enough because then Dutch banking took off and ate the rest of the economy
February 4, 2026 at 11:24 PM
What if the Dutch republic wasn't particularly Exhausted after the War of the Spanish Succession but if anything not exhausted enough because then Dutch banking took off and ate the rest of the economy
L'esprit de l'escalier, going to a No Kings protest with a sign that says "GOD is America's king!" - Laura Ingalls Wilder
February 4, 2026 at 9:43 PM
L'esprit de l'escalier, going to a No Kings protest with a sign that says "GOD is America's king!" - Laura Ingalls Wilder
"The nation is prepared for every sacrifice so long as it has leadership, as long as the Government show clearly what they are aiming at and so long as the nation is confident that those who are leading it are doing their best" - for future, less worthless Jason Furmans to ponder
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A weaker dollar will raise import prices, and so will anger consumers (and voters) in the short term, but to the extent that it accommodates more manufacturing and, with it, faster productivity growth, over the longer term it will actually increase consumption.
A weaker dollar will raise import prices, and so will anger consumers (and voters) in the short term, but to the extent that it accommodates more manufacturing and, with it, faster productivity growth, over the longer term it will actually increase consumption.
February 4, 2026 at 5:40 PM
"The nation is prepared for every sacrifice so long as it has leadership, as long as the Government show clearly what they are aiming at and so long as the nation is confident that those who are leading it are doing their best" - for future, less worthless Jason Furmans to ponder
My wokest and unwokest opinion is Athena and Menelaus and Helen and Alcibiades looked like Maria Callas but the Renaissance Italian elite really were disproportionately Nazi poster boy Lombards like the paintings suggest
February 4, 2026 at 2:04 PM
My wokest and unwokest opinion is Athena and Menelaus and Helen and Alcibiades looked like Maria Callas but the Renaissance Italian elite really were disproportionately Nazi poster boy Lombards like the paintings suggest
Talking about Early Beetles, Beach Boys, Prince is nice, but have you tried saying Out Of Our Heads is better than Sticky Fingers because Warhol's out of touch house band had to study the former to learn how to rock, while the social climbing latter wants Andy's approval
February 4, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Talking about Early Beetles, Beach Boys, Prince is nice, but have you tried saying Out Of Our Heads is better than Sticky Fingers because Warhol's out of touch house band had to study the former to learn how to rock, while the social climbing latter wants Andy's approval
It's all just shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic until you admit that "creative destruction" is Satan talk (you can't even stop saying "disrupt!")
One-Sentence Summary:
David Brooks announces his departure from The New York Times after 22 years, using his farewell column to argue that America's deepest crisis is a cultural and moral loss of faith, and that renewal must come through a revived humanistic culture rather than politics alone.
David Brooks announces his departure from The New York Times after 22 years, using his farewell column to argue that America's deepest crisis is a cultural and moral loss of faith, and that renewal must come through a revived humanistic culture rather than politics alone.
February 1, 2026 at 7:13 PM
It's all just shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic until you admit that "creative destruction" is Satan talk (you can't even stop saying "disrupt!")
Harold said The Crucible was Saint Joan without the wit - is Clive Staples Gilbert Keith without the sense of humor?
February 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Harold said The Crucible was Saint Joan without the wit - is Clive Staples Gilbert Keith without the sense of humor?
Re: someone else's observation, it turns out common practice classical music was smart to lag the rest of America coming out of the closet, because Moira Donegan doesn't really care about male victims
January 30, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Re: someone else's observation, it turns out common practice classical music was smart to lag the rest of America coming out of the closet, because Moira Donegan doesn't really care about male victims
Maybe what's made The Crucible last so long is that people vaguely feel it's about sex positivity - repression as cause of witch hunts/McCarthy - without necessarily realizing that it defines this as the expectation that you don't cheat on your wife - pure '60s male free love
January 30, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Maybe what's made The Crucible last so long is that people vaguely feel it's about sex positivity - repression as cause of witch hunts/McCarthy - without necessarily realizing that it defines this as the expectation that you don't cheat on your wife - pure '60s male free love
Abundance is progressive!
January 30, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Abundance is progressive!
Oh speaking of Beyoncé as product for people who didn't follow popular music but felt as good liberals that there should be another Gloria, that reminds me - add to this a moratorium on Puccini programs saying anything about Joseph Kerman (he wasn't fatuous, to be clear, you are)
January 30, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Oh speaking of Beyoncé as product for people who didn't follow popular music but felt as good liberals that there should be another Gloria, that reminds me - add to this a moratorium on Puccini programs saying anything about Joseph Kerman (he wasn't fatuous, to be clear, you are)
Everyone knows about neocons becoming Never Trump Democrats - comparatively but maybe not entirely unimportant: true believer "there wouldn't be big business if it wasn't for big government" libertarians becoming leftists who now nominally accept the welfare state but not really
January 30, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Everyone knows about neocons becoming Never Trump Democrats - comparatively but maybe not entirely unimportant: true believer "there wouldn't be big business if it wasn't for big government" libertarians becoming leftists who now nominally accept the welfare state but not really
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I'm assuming Clinton expanded on her deeply held opposition to right-wing theocratic authoritarianism during her recent speaking gig at a Saudi real estate conference, wherein she described the kingdom as a "very strong model for other parts of the world" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/w...
January 29, 2026 at 11:26 PM
I'm assuming Clinton expanded on her deeply held opposition to right-wing theocratic authoritarianism during her recent speaking gig at a Saudi real estate conference, wherein she described the kingdom as a "very strong model for other parts of the world" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/w...
Well, I'd like to see ol Donny Trump make the Germans forget GREENLAND and cheerlead his next war ah well neverthe
Repression cannot go unanswered.
EU Foreign Ministers just took the decisive step of designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation.
Any regime that kills thousands of its own people is working toward its own demise.
EU Foreign Ministers just took the decisive step of designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation.
Any regime that kills thousands of its own people is working toward its own demise.
January 29, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Well, I'd like to see ol Donny Trump make the Germans forget GREENLAND and cheerlead his next war ah well neverthe
Speaking of the horrible past I'm not saying the characters' journey from 2007 to 2014 here says it all but I'm not not saying it www.octopuspie.com/comic/639-fl...
January 29, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Speaking of the horrible past I'm not saying the characters' journey from 2007 to 2014 here says it all but I'm not not saying it www.octopuspie.com/comic/639-fl...
Excellent like always, and makes me think again that in this supposedly awful year for pop music I still find the good songs more pleasant and the bad songs less insufferable than in the supposedly better Hipster Irony Cashes In age of Ms. Germanotta, Will I Am, Dr. Rapist
January 29, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Excellent like always, and makes me think again that in this supposedly awful year for pop music I still find the good songs more pleasant and the bad songs less insufferable than in the supposedly better Hipster Irony Cashes In age of Ms. Germanotta, Will I Am, Dr. Rapist
Speaking of Bruce, the store was playing Thunder Road the other day, and I don't know if it was because it's been a while or just the benefit of half hearing and walking in in the middle, but he was so utterly Van - makes you think or something
January 29, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Speaking of Bruce, the store was playing Thunder Road the other day, and I don't know if it was because it's been a while or just the benefit of half hearing and walking in in the middle, but he was so utterly Van - makes you think or something
If Kamala had been elected Gaza would not have been turned into a war zone where
If Kamala had been elected Minneapolis would not have been turned into a war zone where people are gunned down in the streets.
January 29, 2026 at 12:33 AM
If Kamala had been elected Gaza would not have been turned into a war zone where
This is as nihilist and antithetical to state building - well Adam Serwer wrote it! - as anything on the right - neither side seems to have learned anything in ten years
"Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy…"
Also simply empiricist. The people who live near me are my neighbors.
Also simply empiricist. The people who live near me are my neighbors.
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 28, 2026 at 4:38 PM
This is as nihilist and antithetical to state building - well Adam Serwer wrote it! - as anything on the right - neither side seems to have learned anything in ten years
Always weird to hear liberals talk about aristocratic privilege as if being born to rich parents was any different
January 28, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Always weird to hear liberals talk about aristocratic privilege as if being born to rich parents was any different
Say it with me: Five minutes ago never happened!
January 27, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Say it with me: Five minutes ago never happened!
Come on Leavers, don't you want a bigger trade deficit
January 27, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Come on Leavers, don't you want a bigger trade deficit
Anyone want to bet which way the EU-India trade balance goes now
Europe and India are making history today.
We have concluded the mother of all deals.
We have created a free trade zone of two billion people, with both sides set to benefit.
This is only the beginning.
We will grow our strategic relationship to be even stronger.
We have concluded the mother of all deals.
We have created a free trade zone of two billion people, with both sides set to benefit.
This is only the beginning.
We will grow our strategic relationship to be even stronger.
January 27, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Anyone want to bet which way the EU-India trade balance goes now
Though I guess there's some evidence that the lesson about "immigration enforcement once every four years" getting Trump reelected has been learned - as opposed to the lesson about Fed independence getting Trump reelected, where afaict the Democratic party is still at zero
January 26, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Though I guess there's some evidence that the lesson about "immigration enforcement once every four years" getting Trump reelected has been learned - as opposed to the lesson about Fed independence getting Trump reelected, where afaict the Democratic party is still at zero