That was a choice, voters are good with him as long as his cruelty, his lies, his cynicism, his police dont really touch them in any material way. They can ride. The only place it stings, they look themselves in the mirror - maybe I'm not the great liberal person I thought I was

Notre Dame Law aside, I've never met a conservative law student at any law school, regardless of political reputation, who wasn't completely coddled and insulated from considering other viewpoints. there's a whole conservative legal education infrastructure set up to make sure it's like this!

Kinda. I think you’re right on the money about fearing death (a natural reaction to the late afternoon or twilight of a life spent devoid of meaning or the search for it), but I think that’s different than fearing the future. I think they can’t conceive of the world after they die.

Actually, in this case, he’s probably just wrong about which side he’s on.

It occurs to me that Musk’s favorite idiot line about how there isn’t “left and right,” there is only “pro and anti humanity” is true. He just lies about which side he’s on.

Say what you want about the old money, they were all about family. Which means being all about the future. Not today!

Also this month:

Was going to start with Shirer and a history prof friend of mine sent me Evans’ criticism of Rise and Fall and was like “why not read the guy who wrote this”

My favorite novel!

Anyway, Mary Karr is much more well known now, and her essays on him are at this point as well known as his sweet, stumbling interview with Charlie Rose.

But yes. That side of him is also real, and so hilariously discordant with the work itself, it almost feels on purpose.

I don’t think that’s really his public image anymore. Perhaps among the kids who first discover him, like I did, in college, and deify him, like I did, and then only much later learned about his affairs and his treatment of women and the way he was seen by his friends, at some points.

Some have suggested Zohran's success is rooted *only* in cost of living. But he also ran hard against Trump's authoritarianism/ICE raids. He ran the most explicitly pro-immigrant, pro-cosmopolitan campaign in memory.

Let's say it: He ran an anti-fascist campaign. 5/

newrepublic.com/article/2027...