David Shevin

🇵🇸 The Monastery of Mar Saba, Bethlehem, Palestine

taking some bitter comfort in the fact that JD Vance's era of epic clapback replies and QTs appears to be mostly over

Israel has now become the first state to codify a death sentence that applies in practice to one ethnic group, while another is effectively shielded from it.

Is there a term for this

Asking Americans to read a 4 page letter ... sigh

I highly recommend reading Newman today: newmanreader.org/works/discours…

It doesn't matter how many different ways and different people JD Vance uses to try to signal that he's not in favor of this war. This will be a permanent part of his legacy and will make it a joke if he tries to occupy some sort of anti-war, anti-interventionist populist lane.

youtube.com/watch?v=GqXI74…

There is still time to get out of all this

Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain

City in the South, horrified they have any kind of beautiful civic architecture, solicit proposals to demolish it to rectify that error

Éric Rohmer filmed cautionary tales against yielding to sexual temptation because: 1. With men, if it isn't mutual, it's violent, and he recognized and abhorred men's proclivity for sexual violence; 2. With everybody, he believed in true love and saw the pursuit of a false one...

Bro literally used to talk like this about Michael Brendan Dougherty

Perceval is magical filmmaking: the deconstructed Arthurian epic cast against a painted room

melodically, i don't think sondheim ever surpassed this phrase from Sweeney Todd: looptube.io/?videoId=HW-bS…

yea it’s over

A personal announcement. "Adam Brody and Laura Carmichael to Star in ‘A Night at Claridge’s’ as Whit Stillman Sets Big Screen Return" (EXCLUSIVE) variety.com/2026/film/glob… via @variety