“We must be willing to say that the hedge fund managers have no clothes and their parading about is an unpleasant sight for us all,” Oren Cass writes. “Your daughter has taken a job at Blackstone? My condolences.”
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
“the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination, or by confederacy with others, that are in the same danger with himself” globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
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If you trust a big tech company to do right by citizens in this political climate then I have two Brooklyn bridges to sell you for the price of one.
It’s book release day! I’m back on social media! I feel slightly awkward about it because part of the book is about how social media transforms your motivations for communication!
But honestly writing a book is lonely, weird basement-work, and now I want to talk to people about this weird jank.
Before AI takes your job, it's going to bankrupt you to fuel its speculation. www.wsj.com/business/ene...
"There is sometimes in a Common-wealth, a Disease, which resembleth the Pleurisie; and that is, when the Treasure of the Common-wealth, flowing out of its due course, is gathered together in too much abundance, in one, or a few private men, by Monopolies..."
Oh yay! I'm glad that show is still making it to some ears!
"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week."
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
Congrats Maria!
Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes: https://theatln.tc/8Yv660RN
Hi anglo friends!
Living with men came out in the UK this weekend! I went to talk about it on BBC Woman’s Hour (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...) and on ABC Late night if you want to listen, otherwise you can read this wonderful interview ⬇️
I hope it’ll make you want to read the book!
The corrupt anti-democratic self-dealing of this group of anti-bike "activists" is disgusting. As a member of the SHCA and a biker I'm enraged. www.inquirer.com/transportati...
Thank you @floresophize.bsky.social !
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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😂I would be overjoyed if I had finished my manuscript!
Sometimes finishing a book is the saddest feeling in the world.
"The problem with liberal education in today’s academy does not lie with our students. The real threat to liberal learning is from an administrative class that is content to offer students far less than their own humanity calls for — and deserves." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Inspired by @jennifermmorton.bsky.social piece in the @nytimes.com, I wrote about Viewpoint Diversity and the one time I interviewed the psychiatrist who the Catholic Church hires to investigate reporting of demon possessions.
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“I want to talk about the part of philosophy writing that comes after the argument… the very specific work involved in infusing your writing with energy and life” — C. Thi Nguyen (@add-hawk.bsky.social) at Daily Nous on the creative craft of writing philosophy.
In this op-ed, I argue that hiring for viewpoint diversity undermines the openness to intellectual transformation we ought to cultivate in the University. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...
"The Justice Department is aggressively prioritizing efforts to strip some Americans of their U.S. citizenship...At least one person has already been denaturalized...June 13, a judge ordered the revocation of the citizenship of Elliott Duke, who uses they/them pronouns."
www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...
Good grief. It's so perfect and 🤮
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
Fantastic interview with one of my favorite people. Thank you for sharing Shelley!
