Hugo Schwyzer
@hugoschwyzer.bsky.social
Formerly microinfamous, but now mostly just a soccer dad. https://hugoschwyzer.substack.com
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Hugo Schwyzer
@hugoschwyzer.bsky.social
· Mar 13
"Ah, But I Was So Much Older Then:" Monica Lewinsky, Molly Ringwald, and the Right to Reassess the Past.
Monica Lewinsky has a new podcast series.
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Monica Lewinsky, Molly Ringwald, and the Right to Reassess
I defer to the Thomists, but it seems to me that Olivia Nuzzi is chiefly guilty of unrestrained and compulsive concupiscence. Ryan Lizza, dribbling out the stories of her shortcomings for cash, is practicing malice. The former sin is lamentable - the latter is far, far worse.
November 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I defer to the Thomists, but it seems to me that Olivia Nuzzi is chiefly guilty of unrestrained and compulsive concupiscence. Ryan Lizza, dribbling out the stories of her shortcomings for cash, is practicing malice. The former sin is lamentable - the latter is far, far worse.
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Here we have a rare example of a bidirectional Very Disappointed. Is it disappointing that Tablet hired Lorin Stein or that Stein accepted work at Tablet? Per the article, it's a why-not-both. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
What Is Lorin Stein Doing At “Tablet”?
The former Paris Review editor was ostracized over sexual harassment allegations. Now he’s editing a divisive, right-wing Jewish magazine. What’s going on?
www.thenation.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Here we have a rare example of a bidirectional Very Disappointed. Is it disappointing that Tablet hired Lorin Stein or that Stein accepted work at Tablet? Per the article, it's a why-not-both. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Some thoughts on "feminization," femininity, and that non-exposé about Lorin Stein working at Tablet. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-femini...
The feminized mistake
More centrist feminism
phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Some thoughts on "feminization," femininity, and that non-exposé about Lorin Stein working at Tablet. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-femini...
“To send money to the likes of Shiloh Hendrix, no matter how unsympathetic she may be, is to put a boulder in the road to slow the march of a pitchfork-wielding mob.” open.substack.com/pub/hugoschw...
We Are all "Superhuman With Accusation:" On Shiloh Hendrix and Cancel Culture
Nothing a mob does is clean.
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May 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“To send money to the likes of Shiloh Hendrix, no matter how unsympathetic she may be, is to put a boulder in the road to slow the march of a pitchfork-wielding mob.” open.substack.com/pub/hugoschw...
Monica Lewinsky, Molly Ringwald, and the Right to Reassess
"Ah, But I Was So Much Older Then:" Monica Lewinsky, Molly Ringwald, and the Right to Reassess the Past.
Monica Lewinsky has a new podcast series.
open.substack.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Monica Lewinsky, Molly Ringwald, and the Right to Reassess
Blake Bailey is publishing his memoir about being cancelled next month. He’s also making a living as a ghostwriter. I wish I had the chutzpah he has.
www.skyhorsepublishing.com/978151078331...
www.skyhorsepublishing.com/978151078331...
Canceled Lives
A canceled bestselling author's highly personal account of his public scandal—a scandal that was reported on the front page of the New York Times and throu...
www.skyhorsepublishing.com
March 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Blake Bailey is publishing his memoir about being cancelled next month. He’s also making a living as a ghostwriter. I wish I had the chutzpah he has.
www.skyhorsepublishing.com/978151078331...
www.skyhorsepublishing.com/978151078331...
My top 10 films of the year in order:
Anora
Dogman
Nickel Boys
Juror #2
The Brutalist
The Substance
Nosferatu
Paddington in Peru
Conclave
Babygirl
Anora
Dogman
Nickel Boys
Juror #2
The Brutalist
The Substance
Nosferatu
Paddington in Peru
Conclave
Babygirl
March 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
My top 10 films of the year in order:
Anora
Dogman
Nickel Boys
Juror #2
The Brutalist
The Substance
Nosferatu
Paddington in Peru
Conclave
Babygirl
Anora
Dogman
Nickel Boys
Juror #2
The Brutalist
The Substance
Nosferatu
Paddington in Peru
Conclave
Babygirl
open.substack.com/pub/hugoschw... a response to @katecohen.bsky.social
When Truth and Love Differ
I do not charge for subscriptions but I welcome the occasional tip.
open.substack.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
open.substack.com/pub/hugoschw... a response to @katecohen.bsky.social
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It's okay to let James Bond die. Just because someone told a good story once doesn't mean we have to iterate it into a neverending franchise.
February 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It's okay to let James Bond die. Just because someone told a good story once doesn't mean we have to iterate it into a neverending franchise.
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when i feel my most frozen, i like to envision myself telling my future 18-year-old, “that was really touch and go for a minute, but… looks like we’re still free, so… enjoy adulthood. i’ve always got your back.”
it’s a nice little astral projection.
it’s a nice little astral projection.
February 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
when i feel my most frozen, i like to envision myself telling my future 18-year-old, “that was really touch and go for a minute, but… looks like we’re still free, so… enjoy adulthood. i’ve always got your back.”
it’s a nice little astral projection.
it’s a nice little astral projection.
On Going Back to Church open.substack.com/pub/hugoschw...
Leaving my Brain at the Door: an Evangelical Homecoming
Back in the early aughts, when I led a youth group and served on the Vestry at All Saints Pasadena, we repeated a line often mistakenly attributed to Robin Williams: “Being Episcopalian means we don’t...
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February 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
On Going Back to Church open.substack.com/pub/hugoschw...
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Last words of Richard Tabler, executed tonight in Texas:
February 14, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Last words of Richard Tabler, executed tonight in Texas:
Perhaps the takeaway from the “English Teacher” renewal is that viewers are tired of having art they like withdrawn or cancelled because the artist turns out to be a jerk. If people can once again separate the creation from the creator, that’s a very, very good thing: www.salon.com/2025/02/12/f...
FX’s renewal of "English Teacher" sends a dangerous message
FX's decision to look past allegations against Brian Jordan Alvarez signals a troubling disregard for survivors.
www.salon.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Perhaps the takeaway from the “English Teacher” renewal is that viewers are tired of having art they like withdrawn or cancelled because the artist turns out to be a jerk. If people can once again separate the creation from the creator, that’s a very, very good thing: www.salon.com/2025/02/12/f...
open.substack.com/pub/hugoschw... on @chatterton.bsky.social cancel culture, and Yeats
Drop the Whip: Cancel Culture and its Reactions
William Butler Yeats, arguably the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth-century’s first half, saw his share of revolutions.
open.substack.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
open.substack.com/pub/hugoschw... on @chatterton.bsky.social cancel culture, and Yeats
When someone says, “I want to fight for something, will you join me?” the first and MOST IMPORTANT question to ask is how they will treat the vanquished if and when they win.
February 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
When someone says, “I want to fight for something, will you join me?” the first and MOST IMPORTANT question to ask is how they will treat the vanquished if and when they win.
I love pardons because I love the idea that someone, somewhere, actually gets a “get out of jail free” card.
It’s my great fantasy, to be restored. Don’t ask me not to cheer when a fellow scoundrel gets another chance.
It’s my great fantasy, to be restored. Don’t ask me not to cheer when a fellow scoundrel gets another chance.
January 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I love pardons because I love the idea that someone, somewhere, actually gets a “get out of jail free” card.
It’s my great fantasy, to be restored. Don’t ask me not to cheer when a fellow scoundrel gets another chance.
It’s my great fantasy, to be restored. Don’t ask me not to cheer when a fellow scoundrel gets another chance.
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Goodreads is giving away 20 copies of my new memoir, Free (out March 25). If you don't want to wait, enter now!
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
January 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Goodreads is giving away 20 copies of my new memoir, Free (out March 25). If you don't want to wait, enter now!
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
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If it had to end - as all things do - then Matthew Stafford was going to make it such an end that nobody would doubt what he and this Rams team were made of.
A last game column of an impossible season, from Philly: www.nytimes.com/athletic/607...
A last game column of an impossible season, from Philly: www.nytimes.com/athletic/607...
If Rams’ beautifully improbable season had to end, Matthew Stafford got a last word
"I love this group. I love this coaching staff. I love these players," Sean McVay said after the Rams were eliminated Sunday.
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:12 AM
If it had to end - as all things do - then Matthew Stafford was going to make it such an end that nobody would doubt what he and this Rams team were made of.
A last game column of an impossible season, from Philly: www.nytimes.com/athletic/607...
A last game column of an impossible season, from Philly: www.nytimes.com/athletic/607...
"They count as quite forgot;
They are as men who have existed not;
Theirs is a loss past loss of fitful breath;
It is the second death.”
- Hardy
They are as men who have existed not;
Theirs is a loss past loss of fitful breath;
It is the second death.”
- Hardy
January 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"They count as quite forgot;
They are as men who have existed not;
Theirs is a loss past loss of fitful breath;
It is the second death.”
- Hardy
They are as men who have existed not;
Theirs is a loss past loss of fitful breath;
It is the second death.”
- Hardy
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Regularly updated list of @gofundme.com fundraisers for displaced L.A. residents that have reached under 30% of their goals. Please click, scroll, donate. open.substack.com/pub/personal...
Where to donate to people who've lost their homes in the LA fires
Across LA County, nearly 2,000 structures have been destroyed
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January 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Regularly updated list of @gofundme.com fundraisers for displaced L.A. residents that have reached under 30% of their goals. Please click, scroll, donate. open.substack.com/pub/personal...
Free minds, free markets, free speech, free love, free movement of human beings and capital across borders.
Breaking Bluesky silence to cheer for the best book I read (have almost finished) in 2024
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Case for Open Borders a book by John Washington.
A beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration crisis: open the gates.
Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die. Closed borders ...
uk.bookshop.org
January 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Free minds, free markets, free speech, free love, free movement of human beings and capital across borders.
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Breaking Bluesky silence to cheer for the best book I read (have almost finished) in 2024
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Case for Open Borders a book by John Washington.
A beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration crisis: open the gates.
Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die. Closed borders ...
uk.bookshop.org
December 29, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Breaking Bluesky silence to cheer for the best book I read (have almost finished) in 2024
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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Thinking about this again because of the latest Gaiman article. Reading Dederer helped me think through: being a fan of a *work* needn’t mean being a fan of a *author.* It’s possible to be a fan of The Sandman but not of Neil Gaiman. And our desire to merge those two is a modern notion of fandom.
From Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by @clairedederer.bsky.social. Helpful in thinking (inter alia) about whether to cancel a WaPo subscription or how and whether to re-read/watch The Sandman.
January 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Thinking about this again because of the latest Gaiman article. Reading Dederer helped me think through: being a fan of a *work* needn’t mean being a fan of a *author.* It’s possible to be a fan of The Sandman but not of Neil Gaiman. And our desire to merge those two is a modern notion of fandom.