@andysabl.bsky.social
Political theorist (Univ. of Toronto). Toronto/NYC. Realism, liberalism, toleration, privilege and opportunity, Hume, political ethics—and politics, humo(u)r, puns. Also husband, dad, stepdad.
It’s complicated, but Nietzsche hated both Judaism (as a religion that gave us Christianity) and antisemitism (as a lazy form of racism different from his own kind). He had a lot of praise for Jews as a people qua tough and smart, and for the Old Testament as far more interesting than the New.
Taking another break from here (but not from the news).
Auf wiedersehen.…
Not including this person's handle because I don't want to start a big pile-on but there is such a deep media literacy problem on the left. "The New York Times" is not "supporting" any of the things linked; individual writers on their *opinion* pages are making the case for these positions.
Choosing to believe that this joke made its way into a production of The Mikado thanks to the influence of the #WITAOD movement
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
This is “lost in the clouds”? The simplest explanation of a 2 x 2 classification?
Sometimes journalists’ contempt for abstruse writing really does seem more like a determination to avoid all serious thinking.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/b...
Moldbug (to use his true name) has always been like this. He’s a gutter racist and kept propagandist, the antonym of a real intellectual.
I Kant improve on this reasoning.
Wisdom from @adapalmer.bsky.social : “Only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities…. We are the rocks that have sheltered the knowledge, hope, and truth through tumults which have toppled kingdoms while classrooms endured.”
Indeed: not a standard spy film at all.
Periodic reminder: it’s not that “Democrats” are failing to oppose Trump.
It’s that the minority leaders in the Senate and House have (mostly) forgotten how to act like Democrats.
doubling down on the 'attack your own voters" strategy
Schumer’s dictionary is missing a simple word that a would-be opposition leader should use quite a bit:
“No.”
The strikes on Iran are blatantly illegal. I explained in June why the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were unlawful under US and international law. Everything I wrote then is true today, but this is a far larger assault with far graver consequences.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
Be it thy course to busy giddy minds
With foreign quarrels, that action, hence borne out,
May waste the memory of the former days.
Quick reactions after learning that no, nobody could stop him. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m... 1/
Well, yes, but so be it (?). If not for identity-based attachment to a “traditional” working class that’s shrinking (and far from reliably pro-Labour), electoral alliances—and yes, possibly a merger—between Labour and other progressive parties would seem obvious in a first-past-the-post system.
Just signed this. I encourage others to do likewise.
alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/re...
[more later if I decide to name names, as I probably shouldn’t.]
Labourites chasing Reform voters remind me of Democrats who couldn’t “imagine the Democratic Party without West Virginia”—historically a miners’ union state—even decades after it had gone hard Right based on race, culture wars, and anti-environmentalism. [more]
I’ve long wondered whether many Labour bigwigs are moved by identity more than strategy. They regard Labour as “fundamentally”/“existentially” working class—and white, like their grandparents—and would rather lose appealing to that identity than win with a middle-class, socially liberal coalition.
In teaching my students (essentially remedial) English grammar, I cite vestiges:
“Speaking of X, I think…” (participial phrase)
“I wouldn’t do that if I were you” (subjunctive: still not, usually, “was”).
But yes: most learn complex English grammar from foreign language study, not vice-versa.
Unfortunately the reality is that cops have a history of killing people by dropping them off in inhospitable places. In Canada it’s called a “starlight tour” when cops detain an Indigenous person and then drop them off miles from home in the wilderness, sometimes causing them to freeze to death
Important to note that last month the Trump admin tried a similar thing for childcare funding and got smacked down almost immediately once sued.
Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about.
Their stories should be known:
I know, reich?
So say we all.
Ok, I’m done. If Trump is going to Castro this for three hours, he can do it without me.
Oh, anti-trans paranoia. Check. #SOTU
Got it.
