Politics and culture, sometimes at ArcDigital, formerly of The Electric Agora. Not here the darkness, in this twittering world.
Joined July 2014
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David Ottlinger retweeted
— “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)
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.
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“[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
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SO WEIRD that calling for negotiations in 2022 was “selling out Ukraine,” but calling for negotiations in 2024 — when Ukraine is in much worse shape & has suffered far greater casualties & damage to its infrastructure & society — is just good progressive foreign policy!
You'd like to come up with a better headline for this than "Bob Sells Out Ukraine," but in fact it's pretty much Bob calling for the selling out of Ukraine. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
David Ottlinger retweeted
How Scientific American's Departing Editor Helped Degrade Science
When magazines like @SciAm are run by ideologues producing biased dreck, it only makes it more difficult to defend the institution of science itself, writes @jessesingal for @reason.
David Ottlinger retweeted
no, he did not.
this is extraordinary irresponsibility,
made worse only by the fact that it’s increasingly common across the political spectrum in the united states.
David Ottlinger retweeted
The spookiest stat this Halloween is the average American’s opinions about free speech👻
Recent polling by FIRE reveals that 4 out of 5 Americans think ‘words can be violence’ & only a third think citizens should have the right to use profanity when speaking to politicians
David Ottlinger retweeted
What was so bad about Trump's tenure in the White House, you ask? I take a look at just one issue, with far-reaching implications. New at @BulwarkOnline
thebulwark.com/p/the-next-cr…
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From the @NYTimes profile of Pevear & Volokhonsky, on translating poetry (left) made me think of T.S. Eliot's Nobel speech (right)
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I was pleased to review J. P. Messina's excellent book on the frequently-discussed but undertheorized issue of private censorship for the Washington Examiner. washingtonexaminer.com/magaz…
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I know I have been keeping people interested in Sidney waiting in suspense - I promise your patience will be rewarded, much to come!
