David Lee
@dleephilo.bsky.social
Philosophy and politics [in that order]
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The fascist spectacle is the point.
at his rally in Michigan, Trump plays a propaganda video of prisoners having their heads shaved at the Gulag in El Salvador to big cheers from the crowd and "U-S-A!" chants
May 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The fascist spectacle is the point.
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“And so yeah, he just has the chef burn his steak and…mon dieu…just starts hurling ketchup on it.”
March 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“And so yeah, he just has the chef burn his steak and…mon dieu…just starts hurling ketchup on it.”
On restorative justice. An act of violence [against my flat mate/friend during a break-in at our home] also ended the lives of his parents. But something good can come out of horror. Fantastic piece of journalism. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/m...
My son’s killer and me: grief, pain and the power of forgiveness after a one-punch death
When Jacob Dunne hit James Hodgkinson, he had no idea the punch would kill him. He recounts how his victim’s mother, Joan, helped him, while she reveals why she confronted him
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March 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
On restorative justice. An act of violence [against my flat mate/friend during a break-in at our home] also ended the lives of his parents. But something good can come out of horror. Fantastic piece of journalism. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/m...
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our Mother she hungers
March 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
our Mother she hungers
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I have to say I'm disappointed the Criterion Channel didn't take the opportunity to highlight women directors in March for women's history month. They could even have used the films they already had.
So here's my Women's History Month Criterion Channel Collection. 31 films, for each day of March.
So here's my Women's History Month Criterion Channel Collection. 31 films, for each day of March.
March 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I have to say I'm disappointed the Criterion Channel didn't take the opportunity to highlight women directors in March for women's history month. They could even have used the films they already had.
So here's my Women's History Month Criterion Channel Collection. 31 films, for each day of March.
So here's my Women's History Month Criterion Channel Collection. 31 films, for each day of March.
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I always struggle a little to explain my students why Marxists are right about freedom in the capitalist state. Jeff Bezos does it so much better.
New: Jeff Bezos emailed staff at the Washington Post this morning announcing that the Post opinion pages going forward were largely going to focus on defending personal liberties and free markets. Current opinion section editor David Shipley is out.
February 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I always struggle a little to explain my students why Marxists are right about freedom in the capitalist state. Jeff Bezos does it so much better.
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When it’s illegal to cause distress to believers, call it for what it is: a secular version of blasphemy | Kenan Malik
When it’s illegal to cause distress to believers, call it for what it is: a secular version of blasphemy | Kenan Malik
Language can ‘open eyes’, Salman Rushdie wrote, yet still ideas of profanity are being used to silence dissenting voices
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February 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
When it’s illegal to cause distress to believers, call it for what it is: a secular version of blasphemy | Kenan Malik
Is Space Karen just Liz Truss with boosters?
February 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Is Space Karen just Liz Truss with boosters?
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Melania Trump Holds Paint Swatches Up Against Bellowing Void
February 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Melania Trump Holds Paint Swatches Up Against Bellowing Void
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Here is Caroline Kennedy absolutely coming for RFK Jr, a "predator" whose behavior, she says, would leave both her father and his "disgusted." www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLLx...
Caroline Kennedy reads her letter to Senators denouncing her “predator” cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
YouTube video by The Golden Circle
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January 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Here is Caroline Kennedy absolutely coming for RFK Jr, a "predator" whose behavior, she says, would leave both her father and his "disgusted." www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLLx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwGv... Good practical discussion of the theoretical distinction between positive and negative freedom.
Author Series | Timothy Snyder | On Freedom
YouTube video by Hudson Library & Historical Society
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January 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwGv... Good practical discussion of the theoretical distinction between positive and negative freedom.
So sad. So disgusting. So infuriating. The EU will disintegrate in the face of this if a decent, humane and publicly argued for solution is not found. The inhumane and indecent Right will certainly not allow everyone to keep looking the other way. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Bulgarian police ‘blocked rescue’ of teenage migrants who froze to death
Report by rights groups alleges border police refused to rescue boys and blocked activists’ efforts to save them
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January 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
So sad. So disgusting. So infuriating. The EU will disintegrate in the face of this if a decent, humane and publicly argued for solution is not found. The inhumane and indecent Right will certainly not allow everyone to keep looking the other way. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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“The end-point of which is the depraved, low-tech murderous assault in which violence is not so much a means as an end in itself… and in which the border between the “political” and the “mentally disturbed” becomes almost impossible to discern.” My Observer column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Until we tackle the nihilistic rage behind terrorism, it will stay the menace of our age | Kenan Malik
We need to rethink our understanding of violent attacks such as in Southport, in order to confront the deeper reasons why furious young men kill
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January 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
“The end-point of which is the depraved, low-tech murderous assault in which violence is not so much a means as an end in itself… and in which the border between the “political” and the “mentally disturbed” becomes almost impossible to discern.” My Observer column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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And for the New Year, a somewhat uncurated list some of the books I’m looking forward to in the next couple of months:
January 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
And for the New Year, a somewhat uncurated list some of the books I’m looking forward to in the next couple of months:
Argues that Neo-Liberals have never sought to abolish/limit the state. Instead, global institutions aimed at restricting anything like national democratic interference in market [pre]conditions have been constructed. Next question: how to challenge it without collapsing into populist nationalism?
January 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Argues that Neo-Liberals have never sought to abolish/limit the state. Instead, global institutions aimed at restricting anything like national democratic interference in market [pre]conditions have been constructed. Next question: how to challenge it without collapsing into populist nationalism?
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And Selaocoe recording Ibuyile l’Africa, another track on the album, with Yo-Yo Ma
Abel Selaocoe & Yo-Yo Ma record Ibuyile I'Africa / Africa is Back
Cellist, singer, and composer Abel Selaocoe joins with the legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma and a musical ensemble in his original arrangement of the South African...
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January 2, 2024 at 12:10 AM
And Selaocoe recording Ibuyile l’Africa, another track on the album, with Yo-Yo Ma
Hello. Thinking about leaving Facebook...
January 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Hello. Thinking about leaving Facebook...