And I was a math-loving high school student hearing my usually feminist dad speculate that maybe Summers had a point because he was the president of Harvard...
Still got an econ phd, though. Better late than never, NBER.
Calculus really the only good kind of math
Rare experience of reading coverage of something I know a little bit about and being impressed by its quality
I see Garry Wills mentioned on here once in a while - and BD McClay wrote positively about Nixon Agonistes on substack once - and usually in DC that corresponds to some real-world presence. But Wills books are weirdly hard to find!
Unfathomably based
Donate, vote, spread the word. The primary in June is basically the whole election
I know Aparna from Stomp Out Slumlords and cannot say enough good things about her work there. Just the real deal, organizing for tenants' rights in difficult places, making things better for everyone else. Would be incredible to see her on DC City Council linktr.ee/aparnafordc
Some people want to learn, some people don't, and it's not great that a) the credential most correlated to a comfortable living is predicated on an appetite for learning and b) after that credential, an appetite for learning is not sufficient for a decent living
Kind of crazy that the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research appears to have a workable business model offering "Critical Ancient Greek: learn to read the classics not in translation" to working adults while the average university student won't take any classes that aren't absolutely required
Everyone who rhapsodizes about agricultural labor should be forced to spend a year as the lowest tier of farm worker. And not on a ‘organic’ , ‘sustainable’, ‘regenerative’ etc farm. One of the big commercial, mass-market operations that actually supply most of the world’s food.
FIRST AS TRAGEDY THEN AS FARCE
Still can't believe it was a cartoon account that coined "Honor can't be bought, only sold"
Guys the shoe thing is as close to seeing someone get professionally humiliated in public as you are likely to see
Let me tell you something. Y’all are asking too many damn questions at every point of sale. I have to leave a comment, make a suggestion, donate to a charity, choose a method of payment three times and then multiple choice of ways to get a receipt.
Take the damn money and leave me alone.
I'm just gonna say it: Booker's proposal to end income taxes below $75k is idiotic. We've just crippled our state capacity and your response is a tax cut? Come on man
Over the past decade, The City of Austin, Texas has permitted more housing in a typical year than the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 2022 alone, Austin approved 24,227 units, about 1.5× the number permitted across Massachusetts that year.
You average normie Democrat in 2026 loves AOC, wants to abolish ICE, and thinks Israel shouldn’t get another penny from us.
It’s laughable how out of touch centrist consultants and politicians are.
Is there a single Big Ten school that doesn't have a massive sex scandal over the last decade?
This guy, Sherrone Moore, Larry Nassar, Jerry Sandusky, Abby Honold's rapist...
Katie Jones is a role model for us all.
The election of Trump—both of them—will reduce the scope of every American’s future, as well as reducing the scope of who can be and will want to be an American
I think of how much I saw Russians risk to publicly oppose the Ukraine war, look around the US, and....you can see how the whole country, not just leadership, is less trustworthy and respectable now
that is their future. And they’re right to do so.
45-60 is a terrifying age bracket when it comes to money. You’ve accumulated a boatload of financial responsibility so that a job loss becomes crushing. And our society is so ageist that getting a new, reasonably paying job is incredibly hard.
from her job in sales at IBM. 20+ years experience and the only job she could get after a year of trying was cashier at BN. Mortgage debt, kids’ college bills, savings wiped out. Her retirement plans were gone with no hope. And that was about 25 years ago…pre LLMs. A lot of people are terrified…
This whole thread is great, but this point in particular is key. I’ll also highlight how age plays into this. In my younger years, I worked part-time at Barnes & Noble (book discounts…hooray!). One of my co-workers was a woman in her early 50s. A year and a half earlier, she had gotten laid off…
This may be what finally gets me to re-read the Cecil Rhodes part of Origins of Totalitarianism
Not ideal that ”free candy and hope it explodes on the next guy’s watch” appears to be the optimal electoral strategy in American politics!
"that wouldn't work" yes but have you considered that this is the Content Presidency, not the Working Presidency
They are murdering civilians on the high seas.
They are murdering civilians in 🇮🇷.
They are murdering civilians in concentration camps.
They are murdering civilians on the streets of 🇺🇸 cities.
These are not problems that can be fixed with new laws or more court orders.
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I just saw Aguirre for the first time a few months ago and have been reminded like, constantly, since then of the scene where the guy losing clout asks the priest for help and gets told "You know as well as I do, for the good and glory of the Lord, the church must always align with the strong"
