Thomas Chatterton Williams
@chatterton.bsky.social
Writer (The Atlantic). Current 📕: SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT (Knopf). Non-resident fellow (AEI). Senior fellow, visiting prof. of humanities (Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College). Representation (APB; Wylie). Student & Teacher. Instagram: @chattertonwilliams.
Really an extraordinary pair of lectures and public conversation on the subject of joy in dark times between Roger Berkowitz and Teju Cole at the @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social at Bard this morning.
October 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Really an extraordinary pair of lectures and public conversation on the subject of joy in dark times between Roger Berkowitz and Teju Cole at the @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social at Bard this morning.
Spoke for three hours with Anna and Dasha🎙️🍷 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
October 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Spoke for three hours with Anna and Dasha🎙️🍷 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Switch search to “latest” and you’ll see it’s all the same thing. It hasn’t stopped. There is a meltdown on Bluesky about Klein.
September 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Switch search to “latest” and you’ll see it’s all the same thing. It hasn’t stopped. There is a meltdown on Bluesky about Klein.
Search his name for yourself. Just endless examples without a single dissenting statement between them. You can scroll and see dozens and dozens of responses that all come to the same conclusion. As toxic as Twitter really is, I’ve never seen a dozen posts in a row with zero disagreement.
September 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Search his name for yourself. Just endless examples without a single dissenting statement between them. You can scroll and see dozens and dozens of responses that all come to the same conclusion. As toxic as Twitter really is, I’ve never seen a dozen posts in a row with zero disagreement.
(dark) blue sky
September 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
(dark) blue sky
In a nutshell
September 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
In a nutshell
I’ve spent half of my adult life living in one foreign country or another and I don’t think I’ve ever felt so estranged from the surrounding culture as I am from the aesthetics and sensibilities of this movement. Not even a criticism, I just feel more at home in Greece than in these images.
September 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I’ve spent half of my adult life living in one foreign country or another and I don’t think I’ve ever felt so estranged from the surrounding culture as I am from the aesthetics and sensibilities of this movement. Not even a criticism, I just feel more at home in Greece than in these images.
The effort to turn Kirk into a saint is genuinely bizarre. And it should go without saying that the impulse to resist this propaganda in no way excuses or condones the horrific violence.
September 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The effort to turn Kirk into a saint is genuinely bizarre. And it should go without saying that the impulse to resist this propaganda in no way excuses or condones the horrific violence.
Quick escalation to Soviet-style informing on neighbors now
September 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Quick escalation to Soviet-style informing on neighbors now
This is how they describe themselves in the presidential invitation. It is actually astonishing that their president-elect shows up to debate like this, and shows such unbelievable callousness following the assassination of a former guest.
September 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This is how they describe themselves in the presidential invitation. It is actually astonishing that their president-elect shows up to debate like this, and shows such unbelievable callousness following the assassination of a former guest.
I was invited twice to speak at the Oxford Union. The president sends an impressively polite, formal letter of invitation. What is this? Outside of this president-elect’s abhorrent speech, I wouldn’t participate in a debate with anyone who shows such lack of respect as to arrive so slovenly dressed.
September 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I was invited twice to speak at the Oxford Union. The president sends an impressively polite, formal letter of invitation. What is this? Outside of this president-elect’s abhorrent speech, I wouldn’t participate in a debate with anyone who shows such lack of respect as to arrive so slovenly dressed.
The hypocrisy here is glaring. Unlike Roxane Gay on the left (or Chris Rufo on the right), I oppose cancel culture full stop, regardless of the target. I don’t want to see people lose their livelihoods for even deeply offensive online speech.
September 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The hypocrisy here is glaring. Unlike Roxane Gay on the left (or Chris Rufo on the right), I oppose cancel culture full stop, regardless of the target. I don’t want to see people lose their livelihoods for even deeply offensive online speech.
September 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
People on Bluesky still tell me we don’t need to think about what happened in 2020 to understand what’s happening now
September 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
People on Bluesky still tell me we don’t need to think about what happened in 2020 to understand what’s happening now
My kind of blue sky
August 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My kind of blue sky
Morning coffee spot
August 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Morning coffee spot
I’ve got a lot of love for Bill Maher and @realtimers.bsky.social. There are not a lot of shows where you can speak about books and ideas like this and it’s also just a hell of a good time. Thank you for having me back 🙌🏽
August 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I’ve got a lot of love for Bill Maher and @realtimers.bsky.social. There are not a lot of shows where you can speak about books and ideas like this and it’s also just a hell of a good time. Thank you for having me back 🙌🏽
I want to thank from the bottom of my heart everyone who has gone out and bought a copy of Summer of Our Discontent or spread the word about it. It’s reaching readers on Amazon and beyond, and I am profoundly grateful 🙏🏽
August 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I want to thank from the bottom of my heart everyone who has gone out and bought a copy of Summer of Our Discontent or spread the word about it. It’s reaching readers on Amazon and beyond, and I am profoundly grateful 🙏🏽
