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Schorske and his ilk of old world inflected master scholars wrote paragraph after paragraph in his mature phase of magisterial, encompassing judgements, without citations—and it’s just astonishing to read. It’s like he’s the embodiment of Benjamin’s “document of civilization.”

This is Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell embodying with earned authority how to read/re-present/interpret/critique a text by an antagonistic thinker. The only value intellectuals have is to split or lump: make usable distinctions or clarify commonalities. Value is added here.

The secretary of defense offering public thoughts on immigration enforcement or local law enforcement matters is an ominous development

We are once again reminded that spectator sports is the greatest athletic contest of them all. It is what makes us fully human….

Yeah, they are quite deliberately heightening the contradictions and they expect to crush the non white working class and gravely damage any institutions of civil society—media/unions/universities/lawyers/courts—who seek to defend them.

To answer the question posed at the end of this article, the next step by brutalized workers at the point of (knowledge) production is to withhold their labor and walk off the job. Yeah, easy for me to say, but it would be strike to defend civilization: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Schumer’s attack on Trump’s diplomacy is the latest example of a party leadership that can’t break free from hawkish habits when it comes to the Mideast, despite the consistent failure of those habits to produce better security for the US or the region. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/09/tru…

This is a country in which Trump’s base is poor and working class people desperately dependent on public health care and suffering from chronic illnesses. And his regime is destroying that public health care, from vaccines to biomedical research to health insurance.

Surely one of our wisest and most courageous Solon-physicians.

Great reform. Democrats have the power to keep big money out of their primaries. Not doing it is a choice...

Against chaos + status quo bias somewhat > full nativist fascism (for now).

The Hyatt Regency complaining that union-busting isn't good for business. Here's a pro tip -- stop it. Douglas Development Corp. Governor JB Pritzker

Every paragraph of this WSJ story is more shocking than the last: "Agents didn’t need to develop target lists of immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, a longstanding practice, Miller said. Instead, he directed them to target Home Depot, where day laborers

BREAKING: Terry Moran is out at ABC News. "We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on his recent post – which was a clear violation of ABC News policies – we have made the decision to not renew," an ABC spokesperson says.

So upset about the Mexican flag that we are renaming bases after literal traitors to the country. 🇺🇸

Somebody skilled needs to write a good, modern biography of Kefauver, which would have a lot of interesting things to say about the Democratic Party, the South, and 20th century liberalism. And what a character!

It’s a lousy job—you can’t vote on the floor! But somebody good just has to run and beat her. These declining oldsters deserve love and respect, but they also need the people who love them to, first, give them a very hard shove out the door—and then a hug.