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The division of much of intellectual life into journalism and academia is sort of a tragedy because the defects of each one are potentially very nicely remedied by the other

An important story about AI and art — but even more important because we learn that someone holds the title “chief Godzilla officer” at a major Japanese studio. ft.com/content/d16c2a…

italian catholics after the pope introduces them to deep dish

The following majors are showing significantly worse employment prospects than Philosophy, according to the New York Fed: 1. Computer Science 2. Business Management 3. Chemistry 4. Computer Engineering 5. Information Systems 6. Public Policy and Law 7. Physics 8. Economics

The Statue of Liberty cost the French people roughly $5 million in today's dollars. Japan's many gifts of cherry trees total to at least $1 million. Both created national landmarks. The Saudi gift of a 747-8 is $367-400 million — and it will only be enjoyed by Trump & Co.

Happy Mother's Day

Not a bad view from the reading room UM Bentley Library! Glad to be here this week as a Bordin/Gillette fellow.

An instant classic of the "this story is totally nuts, you have to read it" genre: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Eye-catching figures in this piece on the new space race: Starlink has launched 39% of all satellites since Sputnik and currently manufacturers 8+ satellites per day. on.ft.com/4ds5vBQ

Nice flourish in today’s WSJ piece on the death of the penny.

Read a book, Bryan

Great weekend discussing liberalism. I contributed with a presentation on public reason liberalism and open-mindedness. Many thanks to organizers Ilia Murtazashvili Alicia Plemmons Paula Daniela Ganga Theo Christov Carson Everhart Young James Bailey Abigail Devereaux Jacob Bruggeman Nayeli Riano

Professor learns to speak Gen Alpha for his class. This is fantastic. 🤣

Many people read excerpts of these books (or at least are assigned excerpts). Very very few read the whole thing. That’s why Robert Nisbet called Great Books “Great Snippets”.

On this day in 1968... The OSU Faculty Council gave the green light to establish the Department of Computer and Information Science. At the time, more than 150 students had declared majors in the undergraduate program and more than 100 in the graduate program. #OnThisDay

Vivek Ramaswamy enjoying a glorious Ohio sunset, taking in the fresh air and open skies as talk of the twitter feud rages on.

I had a great time at the Policy History Conference over the past few days. Thanks especially to Jacob Bruggeman for putting our fantastic panel together and @lkatfield.bsky.social for graciously chairing it.

The Ocean Vuong takedown is its own art form, and this piece by Tom Crewe in London Review of Books is effervescent with contempt: "[Vuong's] language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm." lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…