If this is going to be stuck in my head for days on end, you all deserve the same fate.
“Kash Patel promised, under oath, that there would be no political firings on his watch, and it’s time for him to learn what all agents and analysts already know: Oaths matter.”
Even if this awful “content” does limit itself to western civilization, I’m quite sure Kenneth Clark has nothing to fear.
Regardless, history needs more readers, researchers, and archivists. The discipline doesn’t need influencers, and it certainly does not need AI augmentation.
In light of recent reports about Bari Weiss’s execrable attempts to paint Renee Good as a threat, I’m re-upping this piece I wrote on the last minutes of her life.
There still has been no accountability for her death, and we can’t allow people to slant or rewrite the history of what happened.
Maybe Hegseth inadvertently leading Mike Lee to the arguments of Voltaire’s “Treatise on Toleration” is a good thing; perhaps Brendan Carr might edge him towards Milton’s “Areopagitica.”
These are the people who claim to be in favor of a canon-based education, after all.
George Smiley's age revealed in new Le Carré:
The Wrens were pretty much the closest thing that indie rock had to a Veblen good.
On Lawfare Daily, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social sat down with @weissmann.substack.com to discuss his new book, “Liar's Kingdom: How to Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America,” falsehoods in political discourse, and how to possibly disincentivize lies on the campaign trail. youtu.be/_Eqgz8xroHc
This is a great interview with @shikhadalmia.bsky.social, particularly for those of us with libertarian tendencies who have struggled to understand why the @reason.com circles were so unalarmed as Trump edged towards authoritarianism.