Chris Schaefer

His reasons:

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/u...

Another reason why the US lost in Afghanistan

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/w...

Really not sure why my dentist put January in scare quotes

Top transfer QB John Mateer commits to Oklahoma after 3 years at Washington State

On the other hand, maybe it will save Sullivan

ABC to Pay $15 Million to Settle a Defamation Suit Brought by Trump The outcome of the lawsuit marks an unusual victory for President-elect Donald J. Trump in his ongoing legal campaign against national news organizations.

Whoa…

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/u...

Next to finding your own book in the wild, there’s nothing quite like walking into a bookstore, picking up a book, and finding yourself in the acknowledgements.

A Miracle: Notre-Dame’s Astonishing Rebirth From the Ashes Five years after a fire nearly felled the cathedral that has dazzled visitors for almost 900 years, the heart of Paris beats anew.

A Miracle: Notre-Dame’s Astonishing Rebirth From the Ashes

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Notre Dame in Paris re-opens this wkd.
I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo.
THREAD.

1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.

Opinion | The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms It echoes another era of extreme inequality and extreme violence.

“I’ve been studying social media for a long time, and I can’t think of any other incident when a murder in this country has been so openly celebrated.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...

Also wild that a center-right party would work with a far-left one. Don’t think the compromesso storico could happen anywhere in the developed world today

Glad to hear

I just submitted my first peer review reader report.

Really agonized over it, probably more than I should…

Misfire - Lehigh Valley Live

This series from Lehigh Valley Live is an excellent deep dive into the fractious debate over the change in deer season opening date.

Fwiw, I’m with the traditionalists. Move it back to Monday.

projects.lehighvalleylive.com/misfire/

Was a fun game until this happened

ALABAMA TD’S (2024)

W vs. WKU: 9
W vs. USF: 6
W vs. Wisconsin: 6
W vs. 2 Georgia: 5
L vs. Vanderbilt: 5
W vs. South Carolina: 4
L vs. 11 Tennessee: 3
W vs. 21 Missouri: 4
W vs. 15 LSU: 6
W vs Mercer: 7
L vs. Oklahoma: 0 <——— !!!

And now one TD against Auburn already in 1Q.

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

This escalated quickly for an unknown number conversation

If you just focus on skills, credentials, and jobs, you miss out on what an undergrad degree or a Master’s actually does. And why it matters to many people.

As usual, The Economist is reductionist here.

Higher education has at least five purposes: 1) the acquisition of skills, 2) credentialization for jobs, 3) networking, 4) socialization into a certain socio-economic milieu, and 5) personal cultivation and broadening www.economist.com/leaders/2024...

“Well… what are you thankful for?” – RDI Even in the happiest times, a lot of people recoil at the Thanksgiving icebreaker that is as awkward as it is ubiquitous: “What are you thankful for?” This year, it might feel especially hard to name ...

It's *that* holiday icebreaker: "What are you thankful for?" Awkward in the best of times, downright miserable when things are bad.

But in a moment of deep uncertainty, gratitude is all the more important.

Read our CEO @urielepshtein.bsky.social's Thanksgiving message in the #DemocracyBrief:

'Honestly, go f**k yourself' — Ukrainians react to Joe Rogan’s rant on Ukraine Joe Rogan, one of the world's most popular podcasters, has sparked outrage in Ukraine, after claiming that Kyiv and its Western allies, rather than Russia, "are about to start World War III." In an e...

'Honestly, go f**k yourself' — Ukrainians react to Joe Rogan’s rant on Ukraine
kyivindependent.com/honestly-go-...

Love that @benjaminwittes.bsky.social invited on @samuelmoyn.bsky.social on here.

What do you do with all the books when you retire? (opinion) We get lots of advice when we retire, writes Robert Franciosi, but no one ever addresses the elephant in the room for some aging professors: What to do with all the books?

Having seen this up close and personal twice in the past decade, I can only say that this makes me genuinely sorrowful.

This is a goodbye twice over (if not more). Adieu not au revoir. Sayonara. End of the line.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

A County in Idaho Wants to Publish Every Ballot to Build Election Trust After enduring a host of election conspiracy claims in recent years, Ada County believes it has found a way to restore confidence in the vote-counting system.

In our high-info era, I think this is a really great way to combat claims of electoral fraud

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/u...

Amish jokes

The tour guide at the Amish Village told us that a History of Martyrs (Martyrer Spiegel) was the Bible.

I gently corrected her afterwards.

Is it too much to ask that Amish tour guides read German in the Gothic script?

Something that doesn’t sit quite right about Amish microwave popcorn…

Q: How did cable news disappear into irrelevance, grandpa?
A: Gradually…then suddenly.

Phillies non-tender Austin Hays; how they’ll remake the outfield remains an unknown