Not explicitly a political violence book per se but Gary Wills’ “Nixon Agonistes” covers the riots immediately preceding his election in 68 in a very interesting way.

Tuchman’s ‘The Guns of August’ is so good on that weird period, much like The Guys of June will be when it is finally written about this beautiful era.

Double tagging @mayorgreenberg.bsky.social so he gets another chance at seeing this. Please don't allow this horrible precedent of beloved public green space and nature preservation to be sold off for private interests in an already horribly congested area.

If you use the incantation “check please!” while at a table in a dining establishment, a tavern for instance, and you use the proper inflection, timing, and gesture, it’s possible to escape danger and even do so comedically.

A good way to make sure that law does not matter at all is to talk and act as if law does not matter at all. It is also very bad politics.

I’ve been writing something about this (I don’t really know for who) for a while now. I wrote an undergrad thesis titled “The Twin Swords” re: Dante’s take on this question and have been expanding on that in my recent writing in light of, we’ll just call it “recent events.”

Is this question for @catholickungfu.bsky.social or me? (I have, but I don’t want to jump in front of your question like I’m intercepting a pass).

The Portal of the Mystery of Hope is 🔥

Would you help me get my new podcast, “Walking With Bobby” off the ground where we slow walk through the mind of one of the worst people currently in the public eye? Disclaimer: It will be one episode because he has a small mind.

Referencing Vita Nuova is a very good point here, but this makes his reading of the Commedia sound extremely superficial too. Just as one of countless examples, in Purgatorio the human soul is allegorized as a free-spirited little girl.