If Russia in central Ukraine 2022 resembled Germany in Belgium 1914, useful to compare how global ambivalence has since then gradually swung toward subsequently restrained Russia, against the psychotic West - the opposite of the gradual swing toward the Entente a century ago
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
If Russia in central Ukraine 2022 resembled Germany in Belgium 1914, useful to compare how global ambivalence has since then gradually swung toward subsequently restrained Russia, against the psychotic West - the opposite of the gradual swing toward the Entente a century ago
More interesting than the Bad Word is the breaking of the conspiracy of silence about Muscovite Supporters, which until now has been very effective at averting the original American progressive "Well so what" response to Crimea and Donbas from 2014 until 2022
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
More interesting than the Bad Word is the breaking of the conspiracy of silence about Muscovite Supporters, which until now has been very effective at averting the original American progressive "Well so what" response to Crimea and Donbas from 2014 until 2022
Today remember that everyone who tells you that World War I was Britain losing its empire, as opposed to proof that Britain had already lost its empire to America and Germany by financialization, doesn't want you to know what's happening to America now
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Today remember that everyone who tells you that World War I was Britain losing its empire, as opposed to proof that Britain had already lost its empire to America and Germany by financialization, doesn't want you to know what's happening to America now
The left and/or Democratic party is someone talking about how he got screwed because his solar company disappeared and took the warranty with them, then immediately saying tariffs are bad and ruined the economy - I'm sorry, but when even YOU don't want to fix your first problem
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The left and/or Democratic party is someone talking about how he got screwed because his solar company disappeared and took the warranty with them, then immediately saying tariffs are bad and ruined the economy - I'm sorry, but when even YOU don't want to fix your first problem
Maybe a Lesson here for people - let's say progressive senators and/or the people who Push them - who want to Do Something to Fight Fascism, about how doing something stupid, because that's the only thing Chuck Schumer will agree to, can be worse than not doing anything
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Maybe a Lesson here for people - let's say progressive senators and/or the people who Push them - who want to Do Something to Fight Fascism, about how doing something stupid, because that's the only thing Chuck Schumer will agree to, can be worse than not doing anything
The uncomfortable feeling that Bob got the kings of Tyrus from Ben-Hur so those lines about Delilah and Samson and DeMille on the previous album weren't just a joke
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The uncomfortable feeling that Bob got the kings of Tyrus from Ben-Hur so those lines about Delilah and Samson and DeMille on the previous album weren't just a joke
Thinking again how leftists need the made up story about the British creating Israel because they felt bad about the Holocaust because the real story is much too dangerously about immigration
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Thinking again how leftists need the made up story about the British creating Israel because they felt bad about the Holocaust because the real story is much too dangerously about immigration
Inshallah
Instead of suggesting that he and Senate Republicans were talking with Senate Democrats to find a way out of this mess, John Thune gave Chuck Schumer the middle finger. Maybe that is a negotiating tactic. More likely, Thune, under Trump pressure, is laying the stage to blow up the filibuster. 1
November 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Inshallah
Clearly the analogy of atonality and/or twelve tone to abstract art doesn't work - there's nothing immediately unpleasant about having a '20s Kandinsky or Mondrian print in the room - and conversely expressionism including abstract expressionism a la Pollock works perfectly
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Clearly the analogy of atonality and/or twelve tone to abstract art doesn't work - there's nothing immediately unpleasant about having a '20s Kandinsky or Mondrian print in the room - and conversely expressionism including abstract expressionism a la Pollock works perfectly
Blake was correct of course, but might get through better to certain critics if he'd said that Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of God because he was a true angel and therefore, on certain topics, of the poetasters' party without knowing it
November 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Blake was correct of course, but might get through better to certain critics if he'd said that Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of God because he was a true angel and therefore, on certain topics, of the poetasters' party without knowing it
What if medieval iconoclasm wasn't so much zeal for the new God as a lingering grudge against the old ones, Renaissance classicism the product of mature Christianity, Jacobinism the last upholders of the same, nominally religious Romanticism the beginning of the new iconoclasm
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
What if medieval iconoclasm wasn't so much zeal for the new God as a lingering grudge against the old ones, Renaissance classicism the product of mature Christianity, Jacobinism the last upholders of the same, nominally religious Romanticism the beginning of the new iconoclasm
People talk about how the peasants ditch the left as soon as they're a bit less poor, but the same goes for the considerable population of soft leftists who say Cop like it's Hitler - translation: We'll turn on you the second you get the power we say we want to help you get
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
People talk about how the peasants ditch the left as soon as they're a bit less poor, but the same goes for the considerable population of soft leftists who say Cop like it's Hitler - translation: We'll turn on you the second you get the power we say we want to help you get
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I guess one reason why the Abundance hacks are a bit at sea is because the something-for-everyone Biden administration cuts both ways, and they don't know any normal people, for whom the idea that Joe was "left" is absurd, the lesson if anything the opposite - moderate failed
this man is so full of shit. challenge him on any of these claims and i guarantee you he’ll backtrack and sputter that he’s not actually saying what he’s obviously implying here
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I guess one reason why the Abundance hacks are a bit at sea is because the something-for-everyone Biden administration cuts both ways, and they don't know any normal people, for whom the idea that Joe was "left" is absurd, the lesson if anything the opposite - moderate failed
"Disrupt"
BDS calls on supporters worldwide to join a global day of action on 22 November, targeting @Chevron for its role in Israel’s genocide and apartheid, in addition to its role in climate destruction globally.
Disrupt business as usual, throw sand in the gears of Israel's genocide.
loom.ly/QYV9BUs
Disrupt business as usual, throw sand in the gears of Israel's genocide.
loom.ly/QYV9BUs
Boycott Chevron Day of Action 22 November
Disrupt business as usual, throw sand in the gears of Israel's genocide.
loom.ly
November 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"Disrupt"
Reposted by Graham Clark
This is what Ezra Klein declared last year. Why would literally any Democrat in America now take his advice about what the Democratic Party should do to fix itself?
November 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is what Ezra Klein declared last year. Why would literally any Democrat in America now take his advice about what the Democratic Party should do to fix itself?
Funny thing is I was just reading an old Terry Teachout column for reasons about how, unlike Ibsen, Tom Stoppard doesn't have any political agenda, he's just against Totalitarians
The WSJ journalists build a house of deep reporting and accountability. Then the op-ed page editors spend all day burning it down with toxic, fact-free arson.
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Funny thing is I was just reading an old Terry Teachout column for reasons about how, unlike Ibsen, Tom Stoppard doesn't have any political agenda, he's just against Totalitarians
Arnold I love you but you have the best musician's job in Germany, SHUT UP
November 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Arnold I love you but you have the best musician's job in Germany, SHUT UP
The American neighborhood kids in Father's Little Dividend (1951) are playing soccer and I have questions
November 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The American neighborhood kids in Father's Little Dividend (1951) are playing soccer and I have questions
Reposted by Graham Clark
Why I'm done with Hamilton and Jefferson, and with engaging with mainstream scholarship on them, and am instead writing a romp about Burr: open.substack.com/pub/williamh...
Some Problems Won't Be Solved
The Hamilton-Jefferson Binary, Organized Labor in the 18th Century, and the Emptiness at the Heart of Our Historical Discourse
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Why I'm done with Hamilton and Jefferson, and with engaging with mainstream scholarship on them, and am instead writing a romp about Burr: open.substack.com/pub/williamh...
The only important question: What are you, Democrat, going to do differently so that, when the rich-only-consumption/AI bubble bursts and brings down the Republicans, the Democratic party doesn't piss away the crisis like they did under Obama after the one that brought down Bush
November 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The only important question: What are you, Democrat, going to do differently so that, when the rich-only-consumption/AI bubble bursts and brings down the Republicans, the Democratic party doesn't piss away the crisis like they did under Obama after the one that brought down Bush
You have the courage to say the white album is better than Sgt. Pepper but do you have the courage to say Tempest is better than Modern Times
November 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
You have the courage to say the white album is better than Sgt. Pepper but do you have the courage to say Tempest is better than Modern Times
Maybe Satie didn't come out of nowhere
Honfleur 🚌Le Havre 🚝 Paris 🚝 London
Loved this sign on a random house in Le Havre: ‘Here on 17 April 1891, absolutely nothing happened’
Loved this sign on a random house in Le Havre: ‘Here on 17 April 1891, absolutely nothing happened’
November 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Maybe Satie didn't come out of nowhere
"Why did Catalonia lose"
November 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
"Why did Catalonia lose"
Occasion to think about how, in spite of his correspondence with Arnold, Wassily is so Scriabin
The #Kandinsky and music exhibition at the Philharmonie de Paris is a must-see. I even liked the audio guide which played extracts of music that inspired Kandinsky
October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Occasion to think about how, in spite of his correspondence with Arnold, Wassily is so Scriabin