who would the New York Times and Wall Street want in charge of New York's fire department: an upstart young firefighter or a serial arsonist? The answer may surprise you

For those asking, Yale recorded a lot of their popular lecture courses and put them online for free.

Just faculty doing our thing in a classroom.
In front of students.

You can find them here:
oyc.yale.edu/courses

Political Violence Is Here, and It’s Working www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/o...

Went to downtown DC to watch them remove the Black Lives Matter mural and wrote about how the removal of such symbols reflects government policy priorities. How the removal of the BLM mural reflects the administration’s desire to remove Black people and history from large segments of American life.

It feels as though he’s poured an acid solvent over the country and it’s eating through everything

In 2019 I gave an Inaugural Lecture for the Oxford Chair I’ve recently stepped down from: The Alfred Landecker Chair of Values and Public Policy. “Political Ideology of the 1930s: Lessons for the 2020s.” Was hoping by now it would be obsolete. Sadly not.

www.youtube.com/live/06hCYej...

President Biden just announced the newest recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Names include:

Hillary Clinton
José Andrés
Jane Goodall
George Soros
Earvin "Magic" Johnson
Bono
Fannie Lou Hammer
Bill Nye
George Romney
Denzel Washington
Anna Wintour

Rolling Stone gets it. #DepartmentOfGreedAndExcess
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job.”

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

I shouldn’t even have to do this.

The only silver lining here is that it gives Americans an opportunity to learn an enormous amount about our criminal justice system for free—from an expert, not a demagogue.

Click below to learn what Bill Ackman could’ve learned just by asking one of his lawyers.

The tech bro fascination with eugenics is so on brand. The idea that you could make accurate, actionable predictions from individual genotypes (with all their complex, non-linear interactions) from averaged, linearly modeled population-level genomic statistics is just another big data fantasy

Democracy dies in whatever the hell this framing is.

LIST OF SHAME: media outlets/personalities that/who have already capitulated to Trump, obeying in advance:

*Washington Post
* Los Angeles Times
* Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski
* Time Magazine
* ABC News

LA TIMES: Greetings, President Trump! Our billionaire owner is personally approving every headline in order to ensure we never treat you unkindly.

WASHINGTON POST: Here is one million dollars for your inauguration, sir.

ABC NEWS: We got you a Christmas present. It's fifteen million bucks.

ABC (Disney), Washington Post (Bezos), Meta (Zuckerberg), LA Times (Soon-Shiong)... all bending the knee to Trump, all obeying in advance, all sucking up to the Dictator-in-Waiting.

This is (part of) how democracies die. This is the Orban, Putin, Netanyahu and Modi playbooks.

This by @jayrosen.bsky.social is pure gold. It’s not happening any time soon though, especially as long as @nytimes.com are doing the opposite.

Do you have any idea how badly you have to fuck up a website to get a band that relies on social media to sell tickets to our little shows and stuff to nuke an account where we had 160k followers