The Osjessluis near Kalverstraat in Amsterdam, 19?? #europeana #museumarchive hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.C…

“Real reform does not begin with a law, it ends with a law. The attempt to dragoon the body when the need is to convince the soul will end only in revolt.” - #CalvinCoolidge. 2/2 #POTUS #Law

"For the better part of a decade now, Trump has been teaching his party that “the rule of law” is for saps, suckers, and chumps—and its voters have learned their lessons well."

Deus misereátur nostri, et benedícat nobis: illúminet vultum suum super nos, et misereátur nostri. Ut cognoscámus in terra viam tuam, in ómnibus géntibus salutáre tuum. Confiteántur tibi pópuli, Deus: confiteántur tibi pópuli omnes.

The violent, on-stage attack on author Salman Rushdie is a horrible reminder that when people stop settling their disagreements with words, they too often try to do so with weapons. 1/

"To see history as an earnest evolution from the peat bogs to John Stuart Mill, or to the 1964 Democratic platform, is a simplicity that will not much commend itself to anyone any longer" - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Great thread for serious historians. Lots of ideas for eager grad students. And a genuine challenge to those who call themselves Republican in 2022: What happened? Why did you sacrifice an amazing heritage to jump in bed with a cheesy conman?

At 9.30am 80 years ago today, the heavily damaged American tanker Ohio limped into Valletta harbour, carrying the vital fuel on which Malta’s survival depended. Her keel broken, her decks awash, she was propped up by HM destroyers Ledbury, Penn and Bramham lashed to her sides…

Carl Jung's library, Zurich, Switzerland

Belief in something greater than the material world and the ego — call it a higher power, call it whatever you want — is a grave threat to those who seek to turn human beings into lab rats and cattle.

“The artist has merely to be more keenly aware than others of the harmony of the world, of the beauty and ugliness of the human contribution to it, and to communicate this acutely to his fellow-men.” #Solzhenitsyn

Seven years ago, the archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad was beheaded by ISIS at the age of 83. He had been head of Antiquities at Palmyra for 40 years. His “crime” was to have hidden the artifacts in Palmyra’s museum. Tortured, he refused to disclose where he hid them. A modern hero.

Amazing thread….the kind of serendipitous Saturday morning discovery that helps make the Twitter Swamp worth enduring. #Byzantium

Tocqueville provides the best defense of liberalism in modern history. Not because he loved liberalism uncritically but because he understood its faults better than most and tried to compensate for them.

Does anyone have the heart to tell him that Roe was decided by 9 unelected white men?

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. —Robert Frost

A short genealogy of theosophical Lullism See Florian Cramer's Words Made Flesh (p. 39)

"What we are missing is a sense of mutual obligation. We have got to recover our sense of what we owe one another -- what our personal responsibilities are; what our community responsibilities are." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Wow, Jamaica funk. This bottle passed through a lot of hands to get to me. #rum