I’m not about to jump straight into another mega-novel so soon after Miss MacIntosh, but I have been eyeing this, which I bought years ago, for later in the year. Has anyone read it? I don’t know Nádas at all

saw a young man in the cafe today with the words "wage slave" tattooed on his hand. he was reading State and Revolution... the left has no future and yet the world will never completely run out of young people like that.

.Jenin Younes was one of the few principled civil libertarians who stood against the authoritarian overreach of the Covid era. As she explains today, the precedents set then are already coming back to haunt the left amid Trump's campus crackdown: compactmag.com/article/how-bi…

great piece by Jenin Younes, one of the very few consistent advocates of free speech in America today. shame on everyone else for being a hypocrite compactmag.com/article/how-bi…

lectured on Kant and Darwin at the University of Guelph last week. Students were smart and engaged + duly skeptical of some of my more outrageous claims. On campus here with my main man Fish, Ph.D

The reason I have zero doubt that the Trump admin is going to come after US citizens for criticizing Israel is that they are going after non-citizens for pure speech. If this was about national security, they wouldn’t be deporting people for writing op-eds and posting on social

tfw your friend grows tired of your excuses for not reading Hegel and simply mails you a copy of the Science of Logic with friends like this, one need not fear enemies h/t @CromwellGovt

1/ In this exchange with Glenn Greenwald, Megyn Kelly ends up taking the position that Columbia students' demands that the university divest from Israel = support for terrorism, and noncitizens who engage in such advocacy should be deported. This exposes the fact that all along this

Ricoeur believed the crisis of atheism wasn’t the death of faith, but its rebirth. Even the most radical critiques of Christianity revived its very foundations: David M for COMPACT compactmag.com/article/paul-r…

This is a thought-provoking essay from David M on the pervasiveness of myths even for iconoclasts, as new myths will be raised and venerated in their stead.

I was just ordering another Nádas for the store because David M mentioned him and Musil is already on the shelves - if not on the sofa - at Verdurin.

Started listening to Candace Owens' Macron series and it made me despair for America but love France. This country is nothing but a bunch of shrieking busybody hysterics. Very cool that France honors ballers.

Announcing: INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual Out 12 November. Pre-order now: verdur.in/inversion/ With Blake Smith, Roger Lancaster, David Moulton David M, Stephen G. Adubato, AmirNaaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d’Alancaisez, Travis Jeppesen, Oliver Davis, Yotam