Dave, flying letter
@flyingletter.bsky.social
Lecturer in philosophy. I blog about crime, disorder, and low status men @ flyingletter.substack.com
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On Public Disorder
Much to the dismay of liberals, many urban counties moved substantially to the right in the 2024 presidential election.
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Lots of liberals have been grumbling about the increase in public disorder in their cities and claiming that it is why trump won, in this new blog post I look at the evidence for the disorder thesis and find it to be pretty weak
flyingletter.substack.com/p/on-public-...
flyingletter.substack.com/p/on-public-...
The improvement rate of student cheating is decelerating, I hope your portfolios are diversified beyond large cap stocks
November 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The improvement rate of student cheating is decelerating, I hope your portfolios are diversified beyond large cap stocks
It's becoming clear that the liberal technocratic model of law enforcement - minimalist NGO run treatment interventions coupled with mass surveillance discipline - is working, and there is no realistic competitor in the pipeline
October 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
It's becoming clear that the liberal technocratic model of law enforcement - minimalist NGO run treatment interventions coupled with mass surveillance discipline - is working, and there is no realistic competitor in the pipeline
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My Retrospective on Wokeness in detail! Blogs are for just saying stuff, after all. So here is my attempt to say what was distinctive (if anything) about a recent era of socio-cultural life, what (if anything) changed, and what (if anything) was to the good
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...
Wokeness: a Retrospective
In recent times my online sphere has had a fair few people make the claim that, in some sense, the culture has moved on from Woke. The d...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
My Retrospective on Wokeness in detail! Blogs are for just saying stuff, after all. So here is my attempt to say what was distinctive (if anything) about a recent era of socio-cultural life, what (if anything) changed, and what (if anything) was to the good
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...
One thing that has become clear with trump 2 is that the growing right wing movement is neither for the people nor nationalist in any noticeable sense but a form of reactionary internationalism, liberal parties have been slow to calibrate to this
April 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
One thing that has become clear with trump 2 is that the growing right wing movement is neither for the people nor nationalist in any noticeable sense but a form of reactionary internationalism, liberal parties have been slow to calibrate to this
He wasn't even subtle and quality control still missed it, we are losing knowledge of the old ways
March 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
He wasn't even subtle and quality control still missed it, we are losing knowledge of the old ways
A lot of what we are seeing in us and world politics is the product of the internet increasingly making loneliness and frustrated sexuality the center of our self understanding
March 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A lot of what we are seeing in us and world politics is the product of the internet increasingly making loneliness and frustrated sexuality the center of our self understanding
Inter left disputes between research professors are very surreal to me, like you guys got ignored by the Democrats, crushed by your own administrators, and the smear campaign against you has worked and you are now generally unpopular, the nuances of your ideas are not the problem right now
February 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Inter left disputes between research professors are very surreal to me, like you guys got ignored by the Democrats, crushed by your own administrators, and the smear campaign against you has worked and you are now generally unpopular, the nuances of your ideas are not the problem right now
I'm sorry but 'abundance agenda while being able to say slurs' is not what people want from the Democrats
February 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I'm sorry but 'abundance agenda while being able to say slurs' is not what people want from the Democrats
Mr. Beast: (yelling) I'm standing in front of the treasury building with scott bessent and we are seeing how many obligations we can renege on before moody's downgrades our bonds to junk
February 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Mr. Beast: (yelling) I'm standing in front of the treasury building with scott bessent and we are seeing how many obligations we can renege on before moody's downgrades our bonds to junk
Murder rate plummeting in Krasner's philly, looks like wokeness works
December 2, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Murder rate plummeting in Krasner's philly, looks like wokeness works
Time to start trimming my teaching portfolio down, only another 70 pages to go
November 30, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Time to start trimming my teaching portfolio down, only another 70 pages to go
Having finally processed the election results I have been thinking about how we move forward from here, first of all we need to be way harder on fancy boys who desire treats
November 23, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Having finally processed the election results I have been thinking about how we move forward from here, first of all we need to be way harder on fancy boys who desire treats
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This isn’t a popular Johnny Cash opinion but I think after Highwayman he should’ve done a lot more songs where he flies a spaceship
November 22, 2024 at 10:22 PM
This isn’t a popular Johnny Cash opinion but I think after Highwayman he should’ve done a lot more songs where he flies a spaceship
The Manhattan Institute continues to push the narrative that our cities are descending into disorder, but as I've argued in a recent blog piece, there's just no real evidence for that flyingletter.substack.com/p/on-public-...
On Public Disorder
Much to the dismay of liberals, many urban counties moved substantially to the right in the 2024 presidential election.
flyingletter.substack.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:58 PM
The Manhattan Institute continues to push the narrative that our cities are descending into disorder, but as I've argued in a recent blog piece, there's just no real evidence for that flyingletter.substack.com/p/on-public-...
I like the vibe on here and let's be real twitter is a cesspool, but sometimes I find myself thinking, I wonder what happened on the last episode of the new norm show
November 22, 2024 at 12:21 PM
I like the vibe on here and let's be real twitter is a cesspool, but sometimes I find myself thinking, I wonder what happened on the last episode of the new norm show
First class if they ever let me teach a graduate seminar: Hi! I'm so excited to take you through recent developments in philosophy!
Second class: that's correct, four bags of his own poo
Second class: that's correct, four bags of his own poo
November 22, 2024 at 11:42 AM
First class if they ever let me teach a graduate seminar: Hi! I'm so excited to take you through recent developments in philosophy!
Second class: that's correct, four bags of his own poo
Second class: that's correct, four bags of his own poo
Reposted by Dave, flying letter
Lots of liberals have been grumbling about the increase in public disorder in their cities and claiming that it is why trump won, in this new blog post I look at the evidence for the disorder thesis and find it to be pretty weak
flyingletter.substack.com/p/on-public-...
flyingletter.substack.com/p/on-public-...
On Public Disorder
Much to the dismay of liberals, many urban counties moved substantially to the right in the 2024 presidential election.
flyingletter.substack.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Lots of liberals have been grumbling about the increase in public disorder in their cities and claiming that it is why trump won, in this new blog post I look at the evidence for the disorder thesis and find it to be pretty weak
flyingletter.substack.com/p/on-public-...
flyingletter.substack.com/p/on-public-...
There's little chance the present court is going to rule against the police but this would be enormous if the 5th circuit court's momentary force doctrine were overruled
November 21, 2024 at 6:52 PM
There's little chance the present court is going to rule against the police but this would be enormous if the 5th circuit court's momentary force doctrine were overruled
I don't know how you can worship guys like Descartes and Aristotle and then engage in servile bootlicking in your discipline, those guys were nothing if not the biggest haters who ever lived
November 21, 2024 at 5:13 PM
I don't know how you can worship guys like Descartes and Aristotle and then engage in servile bootlicking in your discipline, those guys were nothing if not the biggest haters who ever lived
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Tech assholes going on about how GenAI is going to revolutionize education with personalized tutors like in that Neil Stephenson book.
In just one year it completely killed the predominant mode of out-of-class learning used for over a century in higher ed: the research essay.
Preventably.
In just one year it completely killed the predominant mode of out-of-class learning used for over a century in higher ed: the research essay.
Preventably.
November 18, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Tech assholes going on about how GenAI is going to revolutionize education with personalized tutors like in that Neil Stephenson book.
In just one year it completely killed the predominant mode of out-of-class learning used for over a century in higher ed: the research essay.
Preventably.
In just one year it completely killed the predominant mode of out-of-class learning used for over a century in higher ed: the research essay.
Preventably.
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This is going to be one of the central challenges of this administration.
Also as I've written elsewhere, it's interesting to think that real estate developers hate this macro environment and real estate developers are literally Trump's people
Also as I've written elsewhere, it's interesting to think that real estate developers hate this macro environment and real estate developers are literally Trump's people
NEW: President-elect Trump has about everything going for him lately, except this: Mortgage rates are back at ~7%
Trump vowed to lower mortgage rates and housing costs.
That's going to be tough if the bond markets keeps thinking his agenda is inflationary...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Trump vowed to lower mortgage rates and housing costs.
That's going to be tough if the bond markets keeps thinking his agenda is inflationary...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
November 20, 2024 at 10:01 PM
This is going to be one of the central challenges of this administration.
Also as I've written elsewhere, it's interesting to think that real estate developers hate this macro environment and real estate developers are literally Trump's people
Also as I've written elsewhere, it's interesting to think that real estate developers hate this macro environment and real estate developers are literally Trump's people
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ideally what you want is to remove any compulsion to join the workforce with a baseline standard of living, and instead force employers to coax people into jobs with good pay and benefits by running the economy hot so labor is in demand
November 20, 2024 at 10:07 PM
ideally what you want is to remove any compulsion to join the workforce with a baseline standard of living, and instead force employers to coax people into jobs with good pay and benefits by running the economy hot so labor is in demand
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Flying Letter Sociology is BACK baybee
November 20, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Flying Letter Sociology is BACK baybee
Lots of liberals have been grumbling about the increase in public disorder in their cities and claiming that it is why trump won, in this new blog post I look at the evidence for the disorder thesis and find it to be pretty weak
flyingletter.substack.com/p/on-public-...
flyingletter.substack.com/p/on-public-...
On Public Disorder
Much to the dismay of liberals, many urban counties moved substantially to the right in the 2024 presidential election.
flyingletter.substack.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Lots of liberals have been grumbling about the increase in public disorder in their cities and claiming that it is why trump won, in this new blog post I look at the evidence for the disorder thesis and find it to be pretty weak
flyingletter.substack.com/p/on-public-...
flyingletter.substack.com/p/on-public-...