Outsider: I have investigated this academic field and found that it is mostly fake. Insider: This essay adds nothing to the discourse. All of these so-called "problems" are discussed in Hamilton and Schwartz’s "Our Entire Field Is Mostly Fake" (2009). You absolute buffoon.

HLA Hart wrote The Concept of Law as a series of lectures for undergraduates; Joseph Raz produced his greatest work while carrying a full teaching load largely in areas outside his research focus. We kid ourselves in supposing we can engineer the writing of great philosophical

“The claim by the Very Rev. David Monteith, the cathedral’s dean, that the piece creates a ‘meaningful encounter’ is vitiated by the doubt whether one is encountering anything greater than an internal monologue.”

"Here was our sin: we were so focused on the evil outside of ourselves, that we couldn’t see the sin within us."

Pleasantly surprised to find this in my hotel room. All is not lost for Western civilization.

Every ideal - from justice to kindness - in the hands of the angry, ambitious, envious or resentful risks being distorted into a big spiky club with which to beat one’s enemies. That’s why it’s always important to look beyond the words people utter to the practical significance

Jesus said "where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them"—not where ninety-nine or one hundred are gathered. He knew a thing or two about crowds.

Peak Autumnal American Anglicanism at Nashothah House.

Sound. The Frances Donaldson Library, Nashotah House.

I have been writing for years about the fact that we are not ready for the destruction of costly signalling mechanisms. Writing used to be a way of measuring effort, ability and diligence. We still have no easy substitute. oneusefulthing.org/p/setting-time…

The fall of "When prophecies fail": Another social psychology classic turns out to be based on fabrications and lies. In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. In “When Prophecy Fails “ (1956), the

November 5, 1935, Maryland Court of Appeals ordered the University of Maryland to admit Donald Murray. He would later become the first black student to enter the University of Maryland School of Law since 1980 winning civil rights case, Murray v Pearson.

Everyone: Wouldn’t it be great if we weren’t so divided? Vince Gilligan: Well…

Springsteen watching Badlands on television: “The greatest & most disturbing movies ever made were slotted in daily between shoddy game shows & ridiculous soap operas and rotten cartoons, & they were generally cut to ribbons by thousands of commercials.” jacobin.com/2025/11/spings…

Opinion | Bruce Springsteen’s Father Complicates a Powerful American Narrative - The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/11/08/opi…

Is there a term for the opposite of a Chesterton’s fence? Something people tore down for a reason but which the youth try to reinvent because they forget that it sucked, actually?

For a small fee, I will unfairly attack your PhD online, increasing your readership in the resulting backlash

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"In a just society, people should not fear that they will be killed for their speech. And they should not fear that they will spend five minutes in jail — let alone five weeks — for sharing a nonthreatening meme." nytimes.com/2025/11/26/opi…