Prof, Regent U. American Political Thought. Views my own. ✝️ PCA
Norfolk, VA
Joined June 2013
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Coming February 2026. A readable introduction to important thinkers, a good option for class use, or a helpful volume to inform your own teaching.
Cover image is up @ amazon.com/Political-Thinker…
Gnarly find in my backyard: Wheel Bug. Notice wheel-like ridge on back and rust-colored proboscis tucked in under head. As a member of the assassin bug family, iit uses the proboscis to spear its prey and poison it. Dry erase marker in 2nd image for scale.
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Bill Reddinger retweeted
Dysfunction is the best word to describe American politics today. Last week won't change any of that, because of the way we choose our candidates. It's time for us to reconsider our embrace of the direct primary.
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Overheard at home: "My favorite part of math is solving for x, because I get the biggest dopamine rush when I get the answer."
Time to log off...
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This is kind of nuts.
JOE ROGAN: The computing power on your phone today. can you beat your phone at the highest level?
MAGNUS CARLSEN: No. No chance.
JOE ROGAN: That’s crazy. Wasn’t Deep Blue basically a whole stack of computers? And your phone is probably more powerful than that today.
MAGNUS CARLSEN: It’s shocking. I have no chance against my phone.
JOE ROGAN: So how do you even play against computers?
MAGNUS CARLSEN: I rarely play against engines because they just make me feel stupid and useless. I think of them more as a tool.
JOE ROGAN: But have computers actually changed how you understand chess?
MAGNUS CARLSEN: Absolutely. Neural networks have improved our understanding of the game immensely.
JOE ROGAN: What did you learn from them that humans weren’t already doing?
MAGNUS CARLSEN: One big thing was long-term king safety. Humans used to push pawns mainly as an attacking tool. But the engines showed that you could push a pawn and create a weakness 20 or 30 moves later that would make the opponent’s king less safe.
JOE ROGAN: So the computer basically showed you ideas that humans weren’t seeing.
MAGNUS CARLSEN: Exactly. There was a period where you could clearly see which players were using these new neural-network ideas and which weren’t.
JOE ROGAN: And you were one of the guys who figured it out early?
MAGNUS CARLSEN: Yeah. My coach got into it very quickly, and we gained an advantage over almost everybody.
JOE ROGAN: That’s insane. The machines aren’t just better at calculating, they’re actually teaching the best players how to think differently.
MAGNUS CARLSEN: That’s probably the biggest impact they’ve had on chess.
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Bill Reddinger retweeted
The Islamic regime’s war on Iranian people continues!
Iran executed Hassan Divband, Hamid Kazemi, and Reza Zanganeh, three detainees from the January 2026 protests in Karaj, after the Supreme Court upheld their death sentences.
Read more in HRANA’s report:
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Bill Reddinger retweeted
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I have a dim memory of going to the mall with my sister so she could get the cassette tape.
🎶On November 7, 1987, ‘I Think We’re Alone Now’ by Tiffany reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100
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"If Strauss's students have sometimes displayed an unseemly self-assurance, the source is not so much pride of truth as relief that they have not allowed political science to make them more stupid than they need to be."
-Herb Storing, Toward a More Perfect Union
Reactionary politicians, like reactionary educators, tend to conceive of their jobs in negative terms: not doing what the libs are doing. But too little concern for what is good and true. It's a sickness on the new right. And in classical and homeschool education.
I'm a conservative. So I'm not much for politicizing truth to serve a left wing political agenda. Or a right wing one.
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No ruler who owns the libs ever makes errors. It is when his knowledge fails him that he makes an error, accidentally helping the libs. But a ruler, at the moment he is owning the libs, is a ruler in the precise sense.
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Bill Reddinger retweeted
It’s interesting how many people in low-stakes internet disagreements will go straight for the jugular and talk about how bad of a teacher I must be, how they feel bad for my students etc. They certainly know which buttons to press, but it’s weird. A kind of cowardice.
Bill Reddinger retweeted
Senator Cruz and Governor DeSantis would be more credible as voices of an alternative path forward had they more often found those voices at any point in the last ten years.
Revisiting some of the Reedy Creek debates. This is one of the more thoughtful analyses of the largest issues involved. By @ben_2_long
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Bill Reddinger retweeted
This is the home my grandmother lived in (Lee County., NC) until she went to college in **1948**. Anyone selling you an early or mid 20th century golden age is full of it.
