More interesting than the Bad Word is the breaking of the conspiracy of silence about Muscovite Supporters, which until now has been very effective at averting the original American progressive "Well so what" response to Crimea and Donbas from 2014 until 2022
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
More interesting than the Bad Word is the breaking of the conspiracy of silence about Muscovite Supporters, which until now has been very effective at averting the original American progressive "Well so what" response to Crimea and Donbas from 2014 until 2022
Maybe a Lesson here for people - let's say progressive senators and/or the people who Push them - who want to Do Something to Fight Fascism, about how doing something stupid, because that's the only thing Chuck Schumer will agree to, can be worse than not doing anything
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Maybe a Lesson here for people - let's say progressive senators and/or the people who Push them - who want to Do Something to Fight Fascism, about how doing something stupid, because that's the only thing Chuck Schumer will agree to, can be worse than not doing anything
Arnold I love you but you have the best musician's job in Germany, SHUT UP
November 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Arnold I love you but you have the best musician's job in Germany, SHUT UP
Oddly generous to imply Jill Lepore isn't just a conformist who believes whatever politically suicidal hippie fad Serious Democrats are supposed to believe in a given year because Chuck Schumer and Ezra Klein are supporting it and Crazy Bernie isn't
October 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Oddly generous to imply Jill Lepore isn't just a conformist who believes whatever politically suicidal hippie fad Serious Democrats are supposed to believe in a given year because Chuck Schumer and Ezra Klein are supporting it and Crazy Bernie isn't
"The handling of words that existed & is now lost was due to being brought up on Cicero [...] they could bring it out ex tempore in a way that we can't now. But whether it was worthwhile to have Ciceronian syntax & not understand the modern world is another question" www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DH7...
October 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"The handling of words that existed & is now lost was due to being brought up on Cicero [...] they could bring it out ex tempore in a way that we can't now. But whether it was worthwhile to have Ciceronian syntax & not understand the modern world is another question" www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DH7...
It's interesting reading an unalloyed individualist today - from notable beneficiary of the shock doctrine Russia no less - I'd say there's a grandeur in such Don Juan-like non-repentance, except of course that they were down in the '30s too and we know how long that lasted
October 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
It's interesting reading an unalloyed individualist today - from notable beneficiary of the shock doctrine Russia no less - I'd say there's a grandeur in such Don Juan-like non-repentance, except of course that they were down in the '30s too and we know how long that lasted
Maybe more to the point that this is how land acknowledgement becomes an excuse for privatization, like every idea the new left has ever had
October 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Maybe more to the point that this is how land acknowledgement becomes an excuse for privatization, like every idea the new left has ever had
The danger when appreciating work that artists happened to make under appalling conditions is that you'll give ammunition to the "See, making them starve is GOOD for them" neoliberals like Tichard Raruskin - antidote: remember Mozart, consider that he was right and what we missed
October 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The danger when appreciating work that artists happened to make under appalling conditions is that you'll give ammunition to the "See, making them starve is GOOD for them" neoliberals like Tichard Raruskin - antidote: remember Mozart, consider that he was right and what we missed
Thinking again how Britain Muddling Through the disintegration of her empire 1917-1947 without a total disaster (for Britain) is by default the best model and cause for hope that we (America) have
October 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Thinking again how Britain Muddling Through the disintegration of her empire 1917-1947 without a total disaster (for Britain) is by default the best model and cause for hope that we (America) have
Unfortunately this tweet is an example of why the Democrats will also keep all the cuts to government programs, because even the dissident leftists/progressives/whatever don't think that's the priority
October 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Unfortunately this tweet is an example of why the Democrats will also keep all the cuts to government programs, because even the dissident leftists/progressives/whatever don't think that's the priority
I was just thinking it's nice that the 50 trad losers and 50,000 poptimist winners who still whine about serialism also whine about Bartók and Stravinsky, proving that their objection was never to serialism per se, and then someone posted Joshua Barone's New York Times clickbait
October 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I was just thinking it's nice that the 50 trad losers and 50,000 poptimist winners who still whine about serialism also whine about Bartók and Stravinsky, proving that their objection was never to serialism per se, and then someone posted Joshua Barone's New York Times clickbait
That's nice but maybe you should try making sure that no one on your side who says that "economics" is good and reshoring is bad ever publishes or makes any kind of public statement again, anywhere, ever
October 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
That's nice but maybe you should try making sure that no one on your side who says that "economics" is good and reshoring is bad ever publishes or makes any kind of public statement again, anywhere, ever
Thinking again that maybe the American center left just needs a steady diet of Thaddeus Stevens quotes until they start to relearn HOW to talk the language of protection (the far left will of course follow them like it always does) books.google.com/books?id=OVc...
October 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Thinking again that maybe the American center left just needs a steady diet of Thaddeus Stevens quotes until they start to relearn HOW to talk the language of protection (the far left will of course follow them like it always does) books.google.com/books?id=OVc...
Of course 50 years on entropy seems, if not necessarily less of an African concern, maybe more of a northern European one than previously
October 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Of course 50 years on entropy seems, if not necessarily less of an African concern, maybe more of a northern European one than previously
Naipaul on '70s Zaire is interesting because he's describing roughly the same thing as Braudel on the Hanseatic League, except his spin is entropy and Fernand's is Ghibli wholesome - perhaps partly a question of temperament, partly whether you know it's Going Somewhere archive.org/details/retu...
October 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Naipaul on '70s Zaire is interesting because he's describing roughly the same thing as Braudel on the Hanseatic League, except his spin is entropy and Fernand's is Ghibli wholesome - perhaps partly a question of temperament, partly whether you know it's Going Somewhere archive.org/details/retu...
The virgin Alex and the chad Helmut www.scribd.com/document/403...
October 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The virgin Alex and the chad Helmut www.scribd.com/document/403...
It's interesting that Schumann is of a type that's supposed to be typically American and incapable of appearing in Germany - the well read, self taught, can't be Classical to save his life Maverick
October 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It's interesting that Schumann is of a type that's supposed to be typically American and incapable of appearing in Germany - the well read, self taught, can't be Classical to save his life Maverick
Was the best of the blues better than the best of today's homemade music, maybe, but here's what everyone's favorite Canadian fascist said about it in 1945
October 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Was the best of the blues better than the best of today's homemade music, maybe, but here's what everyone's favorite Canadian fascist said about it in 1945
A decent measure of how much the left or right actually wants to govern is their respective willingness to (a) admit to themselves that yes, this is how your side tends to go if you don't check it*, and (b) convince people who'd otherwise be on your side that you are checking it
October 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A decent measure of how much the left or right actually wants to govern is their respective willingness to (a) admit to themselves that yes, this is how your side tends to go if you don't check it*, and (b) convince people who'd otherwise be on your side that you are checking it
Unfortunately an example of the worthlessness of the left - obviously ditch French, but (a) how can you not realize at this point that America and English are going down, and (b) how is your priority not keeping a filter between you and Lawrence Summers' awesome ideas?
October 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Unfortunately an example of the worthlessness of the left - obviously ditch French, but (a) how can you not realize at this point that America and English are going down, and (b) how is your priority not keeping a filter between you and Lawrence Summers' awesome ideas?
A good example of the reverence that I think often afflicts performances of Figaro - Edward Dent's fault? - do Figaro as the clown from The Barber of Seville but with a mostly-hidden inner bulldog, he's fascinating - confuse his cavatina with Do You Hear the People Sing, less so
October 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A good example of the reverence that I think often afflicts performances of Figaro - Edward Dent's fault? - do Figaro as the clown from The Barber of Seville but with a mostly-hidden inner bulldog, he's fascinating - confuse his cavatina with Do You Hear the People Sing, less so
What's interesting is like many Nazi opinions this was previously a Feminist Anti-Colonialist opinion and of course in both cases a transparent excuse not to do homework
October 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
What's interesting is like many Nazi opinions this was previously a Feminist Anti-Colonialist opinion and of course in both cases a transparent excuse not to do homework