Just to reiterate: Duncan, no

From @jjvincent.bsky.social in this month’s Harper’s

Earnest 90s hip hop basically

Weirdly I learned this the other week. It’s DJ Premier type stuff

Pretend it’s 10 years ago and everyone will think you’re a total Archbishop of Banterbury for booking a Cheeky Nando’s

Oh wait. Didn’t spot that was a tote bag!

You should start a T-shirt side hustle

Stoppard with Havel ❤️

No one could write like Stoppard. No one had a sense of theatre like Stoppard. He was a man of tremendous principle who treasured both England and a particularly English form of personal liberty while remaining engaged by the fate of dissidents east of the Iron Curtain.

I saw a clip of Wynton Marsalis recently in which he was asked if modern jazz had got too elitist and should lose some of the complexity in order to appeal to more people. He flashed a disdainful look and snapped “adults don’t talk to children”. It’s probably the wrong attitude but still…

The New Testament literally starts with a census. Who does she think was carrying it out? Who was Levi/Matthew collecting taxes for?

Game’s gone

What do they think “op-ed” means?