True, the Athenian did say “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” Then, Thucydides teaches us, Athens sailed towards ruin, driven by hubris and demagoguery. The line gives insight into the blindness of the vain, not the natural order of things.

I hope our nation of extremely fat and extremely stupid people who believe in and stand for nothing will defeat a people with thousands of years of culture and history!

Yeah, that’s what’s happening, Lindsey Graham is pulling Trump into a war he’d otherwise never have done.

Taking centuries old traditions and turning them into memes and a branding strategy is exactly why American Catholicism can’t have nice things.

He was right about this up until October 7, 2023

rip charlie, he would’ve loved 100% reversing his position on this issue after trump gave him a phone call.

Pontifex Maximus, il leader del mondo libero

I’m not letting AI take the em dash away from me when it was given by years of reading Chesterton and Joyce.

In my mind this is what it was like to witness a live performance of Homer, Hesiod or Archilochus

Francis Fukuyama’s seminal work: “I Guarantee There Will Be No News Ever Again In 30 Years”

Obviously this isn’t true, but I’ll tell you what is: restaurant reservation apps are absolutely killing dining culture in NYC and something needs to be done about it. You used to be able to get a walk-in anywhere, now getting in is such a chore that i’d rather stay home

It was a radical and sudden transformation Whitemore himself said: "Santa Sophia was a mosque the day that I talked to him. The next morning, when I went to the mosque, there was a sign on the door written in Ataturk's own hand. It said: 'The museum is closed for repairs'"

Cf. Cavafy, Waiting for the Barbarians

It’s so funny to me that the Trump GOP is a perfectly calibrated machine for producing new waves of bespoke ex-Republicans every 2-4 years

The idea you can only or even mainly assess politicians based on their platforms and rhetoric is disqualifyingly infantile

If your answer isn’t Moby Dick you belong in the circus

Here’s the thing—nobody involved here knows what “intelligence” is

jack🌹🇪🇺 Ah yes intelligence, the thing like electricity!