Hey my fellow Democrats, “Abolish ICE” is not “Defund the Police.” Defund the police was stupid politically and horrible policy. But ICE isn’t the police. ICE is the antithesis of law enforcement. And most Americans know that. So come on my fellow Dems…have the courage to say

Cool. We have this on my culture too; it’s called “tbr”

In just the last few days, Trump has told at least four obvious and major lies about the war: that it was Iran that bombed the girls’ school; that Iran was two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon; that Iran was just about to attack the U.S. before we struck; and that Iran was

and who says historical materialism has nothing to offer literary analysis.

I think it's good that Ezra Klein called her out on this lie. But he should never have had her on. Her entire appearance was an exercise in sanewashing, with a lot of at least implicit lies in the bargain. Since he can't call them all out it would be best to just not have her on.

An insightful thread about the continuities between Bush & Trump. Those are much, much stronger than is generally recognized; it's all just 21st century conservatism. In hindsight it will be seen as all one thing.

Yes. Everyone with sense did.

We need to relentlessly mock the habit of starting every single chapter in contemporary “ideas” books with a “One summer day in 1962, a dentist from Farnham received an unusual visitor”-style anecdotes, until publishers stop telling authors to do it.

He took the greatest military force in world history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, and demanded that the media lie about this and everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone can mistake this man’s almost

The more I think about this the funnier it gets

All men are mortal; Donald Trump is a man; so, some day, Donald Trump will die. When he does, this post might be worth revisiting.

Socrates: So then you agree, Meno, that dialogue is more appropriate to philosophy than lecturing? Meno: Yes, Socrates. Socrates: And that is because, in a lecture, a single speaker expounds his own ideas unilaterally? Meno: Yes, that seems right. Socrates: Whereas in

What we think of as modern civilization is essentially coextensive with mass literacy. People greeting the end of mass literacy with a yawn are assuming that we can keep this machine work going in the absence of the foundations it was built on. Huge civilizational-scale gamble.