“The miraculous singularity of things is possible only because everything is in relation.” Obsessing about physics leads you to consciousness leads you to god, & vice versa, or in whatever order you happen to proceed - and this great essay gets at it all harpers.org/archive/2025/1…

When my children wail at me indignantly as I force them to go on a frigid “holiday walk”, I am flooded with the memory of furiously protesting holiday walks myself as a child. This makes me feel part of something eternal. Sunrise, sunset

It wouldn’t surprise me if some of these purported deaths were, in fact, caused by the covid vaccine—we know the shots can cause death extremely rarely. But let’s not forget how Vinay talked about childrens’ deaths due to Covid. Denominators do matter.

God Ben Furnas is so cool nypost.com/2025/11/29/us-…

"He may think he’s doing good. I bet you if he went to his grandma, she wouldn’t be too happy." An honor to be Ben Furnas 's friend when he gets this fulsome a hit piece in the NY Post: nypost.com/2025/11/29/us-…

“That is perhaps the hardest thing that we do: We can’t react with anger or abandon patients who do things we believe to be wrong.” Lovely piece about tolerating when patients make decisions you disagree with, even fatal ones. nytimes.com/2025/11/30/opi…

In print today! I like this headline 💫 🗞️

Guys I don’t understand the meme with that cartoon duck smoking and shaking its head. I don’t know what you’re telling me. Is the duck having a good time or it’s feeling wry and detached or what

Cc Cassie Pritchard

... Right now it isn't raining, snowing, sleeting, slushing, yet it is doing something. As a matter of fact it is raining snow. Snow from cold clouds that melts as it strikes. - James Schuyler, "Empathy and New Year"

Not a shred of wit in either Nuzzi or Lizza’s writing. A real horror for a person like me

Something I like to read is: Becca Rothfeld being mean and mad washingtonpost.com/books/2025/12/…

If you read only one stylized account of how RFK Jr. is fucking people today, let it be this one nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Hmmm, we DO be shopping….

‘Spotify Wrapped’ is the lowest form of conversation, and yet I am compelled to share that I’ve listened to this album most days of my life since I was 19. As your physician, I recommend you start doing the same

This might be the craziest hard launch in the history of the free world