Politics and culture, sometimes at ArcDigital, formerly of The Electric Agora. Not here the darkness, in this twittering world.
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— “You're not married, you haven't got a girlfriend and you've never watched Star Trek?"
— “No."
— “Good Lord."
EXTRAS (2005)
RIP PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Oh, also his brief appearance in Tinker Tailor/Smiley’s People is one of the greatest wordless performances of all time.
My hot take is Stewart was the best Macbeth of the age. Better than McKellen. He captures the evil of the man and no one was better at showing a character in mid-thought. His “if it were done”particularly captures that. And yes I love Picard. RIP
ON! A sport it is to see an enginer hoist ON his own petard! A petard is an explosive used in siege warfare. It has nothing to do with rope.
"Trump’s BBC lawsuit has now become about the central questions that would have determined his fate had Jack Smith’s January 6 prosecution gone to trial." My latest: bit.ly/4yzJ1Yz
Hamlet
Lear
Othello
Macbeth
Twelfth Night
Much Ado
Merchant
Richard ii
Julius
Antony & Cleopatra
Man that was harder than I thought.
David Ottlinger retweeted
Douthat has spent 11 years publicly talking himself into a permission structure to vote for Trump, even though he knows better & despite J6. It’s depressing
He clearly hasn’t spent much time in the democratic backsliding political science. He blithely dismisses 20 years of theory & data - including Trump & Orban cases - with one counter-datapoint (the recent Hungarian election) to protect what really matters: his cherished ideological prior that it’s morally acceptable to vote for Trump
David Ottlinger retweeted
If you cannot loudly and firmly resist "humanoids" called Plato teaching our youth, you have no place in any movement that calls itself "classical."
It's time to draw some lines in the sand. I know which side I am on. Do you?
David Ottlinger retweeted
How THE THING might have went if it starred Pingu instead of Kurt Russell. By Lee Hardcastle.
David Ottlinger retweeted
I was invited to review an @OxUniPress book on gender identity for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. You’ll never guess what happened next. 👇
David Ottlinger retweeted
Anthropic's Claude helped select hundreds of targets for the opening wave of Iran strikes. There's a good chance that one of them was the elementary school where more than 100 girls died. My latest @NonzeroNews piece. nonzero.org/p/iran-and-the-i…
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Hey @UChicagoPress, any chance you want to reissue Philip Rieff's The Triumph of the Therapeutic?
Everyone from the left and right - Frederic Jameson, Christopher Lasch, @roddreher - loves this book. The $256 used price tag is killing me.
David Ottlinger retweeted
“[Our public discourse] is very impoverished […]. We don’t expect [politicians] have contact with literature, with history, with the richness of descriptive language that the humanities have always stood for. I think that's a great loss.”
—Martha Nussbaum on Political Discourse
This is a remarkably good essay.
Becca Rothfeld on the (non-)aesthetics of liberalism.
Listless Liberalism thepointmag.com/criticism/li…
This really is great. So much to break down. Like even in his fantasy of literacy he imagines himself reading about a pirate on a boat, like even in fantasy the most he could read would be Robert Luis Stevenson. It’s your fantasy dude, imagine reading Joyce!
