election improved the mood on here

Jets are good for cringe-watching though

My opinion of it has definitely improved since having kids. But New England fundamentally should be on a different time zone.

The EU quarter of Brussels on the other hand is indistinguishable from the K Street area

The imputed value of the housing in this case though is substantial

All these people are workaholics so these are the only people they meet

"moral contagion" is a great term

When history departments pitch undergrads by saying the major teaches you to "think historically" I think we usually mean learning to deploy the analytical tools of an academic historian but quite often it means "being aware of history as a thing"

I'm a simple PhD: I see a job, I assume it starts next September

I agree but many people do not seem interested in making this distinction which diminishes the efficacy of their criticism overall

the editorial page's coverage of Mamdani was very bad—quite a bit more alarming than whatever Douthat puts out, which is what it is

that might seem true relative to your place on the political spectrum, but I assure you right-wing corners of the web hate-share what probably seem to you like totally anodyne progressive NYTimes content every day

the vitriol directed at Ezra Klein's columns suggests that this is not the dynamic at play

before he was a columnist he was a fine restaurant critic. before that he was a famously obsequious campaign reporter for Bush '00.