Julian Sanchez
@normative.bsky.social
He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
The rule seems to be that if a word derived from a proper noun is still capitalized, it’s excluded. So no Pavlovian or Kafkaesque, but platonic, china, & ottomans are OK.
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The rule seems to be that if a word derived from a proper noun is still capitalized, it’s excluded. So no Pavlovian or Kafkaesque, but platonic, china, & ottomans are OK.
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Of the historians, lawyers, and scholars I spoke to while writing this, many said the same thing: What's happening now is worth than McCarthyism. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Of the historians, lawyers, and scholars I spoke to while writing this, many said the same thing: What's happening now is worth than McCarthyism. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The former is a reference to the Ionesco play
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The former is a reference to the Ionesco play
Amount is not share. Inflation and growth have increased the total number of millionaires.
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Amount is not share. Inflation and growth have increased the total number of millionaires.
Pervasive low-grade bigotry has been a feature of basically every society in human history. Most of them don't end up yielding mass extermination campaigns.
November 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Pervasive low-grade bigotry has been a feature of basically every society in human history. Most of them don't end up yielding mass extermination campaigns.