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Re: Good Dads, a thing i think about occasionally is most of the rulers who were overthrown in all our various revolutions had plenty of redeeming qualities—personally and professionally. By

This is a national emergency. I’m not kidding.https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1294353994215821313 1. Call your representives in Congress. Stick firecrackers under their chairs etc2. Commit to voting as early as possible if you vote

Every single look back on the disasterous election of November 2020 will start with the same line: “In retrospect, it was obvious...”https://twitter.com/fordm/status/1294093725598195713 In person voting damaged by a strategy of

I was writing a book about the slow motion collapse of the Roman Republic during the 2016 election. Now, while writing a book about the French Revolution, I get the

We seriously need to abolish prisonhttps://twitter.com/sbagen/status/1282986453492998145 In all the joking about my self-radicalization, this may be the thing I’ve gone furtherst on. Prison just isn’t compatible with my beliefs. If

A thing that keeps striking me is that, if anything, the moment we’re living through is characterized by the scope of discourse expanding beyond its previous bounds. That the intellectual

They probably will! And for irresponsibly choking the planet with industrial convenience, walking past homeless people, watching the Bachelor, and assorted other obviously immoral things we all do every day,

I think this gets it entirely backward. The treason/traitor angle is far less important than WHY the Confederacy went into rebellion and WHY the monuments were later erected. The values

As a change of pace from the usual onslaught of horror, I thought it might be fun to take a brief look at how I go about structuring my work.

The logic of an emergency shutdown was to temporarily hold the line while governments scrambled to create policies/procedures to make a return to daily life as safe and secure as

My favorite thing about the Brain Geniuses is how confident they are that it'll just kill a couple hundred thousand people and then go away. No possibility of it changing,

tfw when the bubble is impenetrable One obvious solution is to direct at least a few of the folks in the food bank line to Pelosi's house.