Kip Kosek
@kipkosek.bsky.social
Sometime scholar of American history, religion, and culture. Author Acts of Conscience. From Wisconsin to the East Coast and back again. Posts about cultural, intellectual, and political life.
The Apostle was one of the most powerful films ever made about American religion
RIP Robert Duvall
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RIP Robert Duvall
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_r6...
The Apostle (5/10) Movie CLIP - Radio Waves (1997) HD
YouTube video by Movieclips
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February 16, 2026 at 8:39 PM
The Apostle was one of the most powerful films ever made about American religion
RIP Robert Duvall
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_r6...
RIP Robert Duvall
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_r6...
I’m old enough to remember when states’ rights were a bad thing
January 31, 2026 at 1:56 PM
I’m old enough to remember when states’ rights were a bad thing
So you can trick AI with a magic spell — amazing
AI’s safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds
Poems containing prompts for harmful content prove effective at duping large language models
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
So you can trick AI with a magic spell — amazing
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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did you know the Mountain Goats have a new album out today and you can buy it or stream it and dance to it in your living room or while driving or on the subway and it's a whole vibe? well now you know that 30tgrs.ffm.to/ttfafpb
The Mountain Goats - Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan
Choose your preferred music service
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November 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
did you know the Mountain Goats have a new album out today and you can buy it or stream it and dance to it in your living room or while driving or on the subway and it's a whole vibe? well now you know that 30tgrs.ffm.to/ttfafpb
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Seizing the opportunity to reimagine the presidency, after Americans of all stripes built its authority over a century, is critical — which means a plan and promise to make Congress great again,” Samuel Moyn writes.
“Seizing the opportunity to reimagine the presidency, after Americans of all stripes built its authority over a century, is critical — which means a plan and promise to make Congress great again,” Samuel Moyn writes.
Opinion | Resistance to Trump Isn’t Enough
Why liberals need a plan and promise to make Congress great again.
nyti.ms
October 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Seizing the opportunity to reimagine the presidency, after Americans of all stripes built its authority over a century, is critical — which means a plan and promise to make Congress great again,” Samuel Moyn writes.
“Seizing the opportunity to reimagine the presidency, after Americans of all stripes built its authority over a century, is critical — which means a plan and promise to make Congress great again,” Samuel Moyn writes.
Incredible look into the monumental dreams of our tech titans
(via @internethippo.bsky.social)
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
(via @internethippo.bsky.social)
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America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues
With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.
www.bloomberg.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Incredible look into the monumental dreams of our tech titans
(via @internethippo.bsky.social)
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
(via @internethippo.bsky.social)
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
A shift to sustainable farming in Wisconsin could benefit both farmers and the environment — important piece by Emma Waldinger in @madisonmagazine.bsky.social
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www.channel3000.com/madison-maga...
An alternative approach to farming offers hope for Wisconsin's land and water
A growing cohort of farmers, scientists and policy advocates are championing perennial grassland agriculture to safeguard the state's natural resources and preserve family farms.
www.channel3000.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A shift to sustainable farming in Wisconsin could benefit both farmers and the environment — important piece by Emma Waldinger in @madisonmagazine.bsky.social
www.channel3000.com/madison-maga...
www.channel3000.com/madison-maga...
How technical debates over legality can obscure deeper questions of right and wrong
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Moral Stupefaction of the American Public - Boston Review
Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure.
www.bostonreview.net
October 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
How technical debates over legality can obscure deeper questions of right and wrong
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
Very astute essay by @jenniferreich.bsky.social explaining vaccine hesitancy as part of a broader individualistic approach to health
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
Opinion | What Really Drives Vaccine Hesitancy
www.nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Very astute essay by @jenniferreich.bsky.social explaining vaccine hesitancy as part of a broader individualistic approach to health
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
Wisconsin’s governor fights back against the federal antivax crackpots
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Press Release: Gov. Evers Signs Executive Order to Ensure Access to Vaccines in Wisconsin
content.govdelivery.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Wisconsin’s governor fights back against the federal antivax crackpots
content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WIG...
content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WIG...
After the invention of the printing press, some Protestants made the technology into an idol, even conflating the printed text of the Bible with the creative Word of God. Maybe not surprising that something analogous could happen with AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
Finding God in the App Store
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
After the invention of the printing press, some Protestants made the technology into an idol, even conflating the printed text of the Bible with the creative Word of God. Maybe not surprising that something analogous could happen with AI.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
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hey hey rfk
how many kids did you kill today
how many kids did you kill today
August 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
hey hey rfk
how many kids did you kill today
how many kids did you kill today
I always learn something from reading an obituary: Eddie Palmieri, the Latin music titan, "for years . . . refused to pay taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, embracing the view of Henry George." !!!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/a...
Eddie Palmieri, Latin Music’s Dynamic Innovator, Dies at 88
www.nytimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I always learn something from reading an obituary: Eddie Palmieri, the Latin music titan, "for years . . . refused to pay taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, embracing the view of Henry George." !!!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/a...
Sharp @linamkhan.bsky.social op-ed on the importance of small business and the dangers of monopoly capitalism — an opportunity for Democrats here!
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o...
Opinion | Lina Khan: A Secret to Zohran Mamdani’s Success
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Sharp @linamkhan.bsky.social op-ed on the importance of small business and the dangers of monopoly capitalism — an opportunity for Democrats here!
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o...
Good news for free culture
www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-...
www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...
www.openculture.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Good news for free culture
www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-...
www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-...
In 1930, the American Federation of Musicians launched an ad campaign denouncing recorded music in movies. The ads contain incredible images of the soulless music robots that would replace live performers. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musi...
Musicians Wage War Against Evil Robots
www.smithsonianmag.com
July 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
In 1930, the American Federation of Musicians launched an ad campaign denouncing recorded music in movies. The ads contain incredible images of the soulless music robots that would replace live performers. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musi...
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Good Friday is the story of a man unjustly arrested and rushed to judgment. Diana Butler Bass tells it for our time, using only pictures from the last two weeks, and it hits so heavy
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Good Friday Now
The cross of imperial violence
open.substack.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Good Friday is the story of a man unjustly arrested and rushed to judgment. Diana Butler Bass tells it for our time, using only pictures from the last two weeks, and it hits so heavy
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
The little-known story of the 370,000 German POWs held in the United States during WWII, by @jonathandarman.bsky.social
Critics charged that the prison camps were too cushy — a "Fritz Ritz"
airmail.news/issues/2025-...
Critics charged that the prison camps were too cushy — a "Fritz Ritz"
airmail.news/issues/2025-...
Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America
During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German combatants set foot on American soil—as prisoners of the United States.
airmail.news
April 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The little-known story of the 370,000 German POWs held in the United States during WWII, by @jonathandarman.bsky.social
Critics charged that the prison camps were too cushy — a "Fritz Ritz"
airmail.news/issues/2025-...
Critics charged that the prison camps were too cushy — a "Fritz Ritz"
airmail.news/issues/2025-...
"Simply put, Trump would like the actual practice of history — a complex process of research, interpretation and ongoing revision — to resemble the much more limited, and often distorted, sense of history offered by statues, monuments and memorials."
Column | The Smithsonian could be the beginning of Trump’s plan to edit history. Or the end.
The president may not like how the museum and research institution tells the American story — but Americans do.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
"Simply put, Trump would like the actual practice of history — a complex process of research, interpretation and ongoing revision — to resemble the much more limited, and often distorted, sense of history offered by statues, monuments and memorials."
For sports fans of a certain age, this article explains how the analytics revolution has made pro baseball and basketball in particular less fun to watch today.
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
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Analytics transformed sports. Has it also made them less entertaining?
The “Moneyball” era changed how teams play, coach and are built. But the quest for efficiency is increasingly being blamed for robbing sports of their beauty.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
For sports fans of a certain age, this article explains how the analytics revolution has made pro baseball and basketball in particular less fun to watch today.
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
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US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu
https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
go.nature.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu
https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu
Incisive @sbagen.bsky.social essay on why the courts will not save us (though they might help a little).
“Litigation is not an end in itself. We need to see it as a focal point for a broader political mobilization against the Administration.”
buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...
“Litigation is not an end in itself. We need to see it as a focal point for a broader political mobilization against the Administration.”
buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...
Ordinary Judging in Extraordinary Times
Yesterday, Judge Casey Cooper of the District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order denying an injunction that would have stopped the Trump...
buttondown.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Incisive @sbagen.bsky.social essay on why the courts will not save us (though they might help a little).
“Litigation is not an end in itself. We need to see it as a focal point for a broader political mobilization against the Administration.”
buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...
“Litigation is not an end in itself. We need to see it as a focal point for a broader political mobilization against the Administration.”
buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...
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Anyone who cares about the core principles our of government will need to protect civil servants who defend the law. But a defensive crouch is the wrong response. If you’re mad about what Musk is doing to government, it’s time to go on the offense to reform it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
Opinion | This Is How Democrats Can Counter Elon Musk
Recklessness will not get us to a revitalized government, but neither will excessive caution and addiction to procedure.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Anyone who cares about the core principles our of government will need to protect civil servants who defend the law. But a defensive crouch is the wrong response. If you’re mad about what Musk is doing to government, it’s time to go on the offense to reform it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
Ezra Klein's take on the first weeks of the Trump administration.
“The real threat is if he convinces the rest of us to believe he has power he does not have.”
Don't believe him.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QL...
“The real threat is if he convinces the rest of us to believe he has power he does not have.”
Don't believe him.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QL...
Don't Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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February 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Ezra Klein's take on the first weeks of the Trump administration.
“The real threat is if he convinces the rest of us to believe he has power he does not have.”
Don't believe him.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QL...
“The real threat is if he convinces the rest of us to believe he has power he does not have.”
Don't believe him.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8QL...