Dave, flying letter

The improvement rate of student cheating is decelerating, I hope your portfolios are diversified beyond large cap stocks

It's becoming clear that the liberal technocratic model of law enforcement - minimalist NGO run treatment interventions coupled with mass surveillance discipline - is working, and there is no realistic competitor in the pipeline

Wokeness: a Retrospective In recent times my online sphere has had a fair few people make the claim that, in some sense, the culture has moved on from Woke. The d...

My Retrospective on Wokeness in detail! Blogs are for just saying stuff, after all. So here is my attempt to say what was distinctive (if anything) about a recent era of socio-cultural life, what (if anything) changed, and what (if anything) was to the good

sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...

Harvard is teaching educational attainment internalism.. maybe they deserve to be defunded

The only purpose I can see for describing autism as a chronic disease or epidemic is so that rfk might declare an emergency and do things that would typically be unconstitutional

When you understand Trump's actions as primarily focused on transferring wealth from peoples 401ks to his friends trading accounts they make a lot more sense

One thing that has become clear with trump 2 is that the growing right wing movement is neither for the people nor nationalist in any noticeable sense but a form of reactionary internationalism, liberal parties have been slow to calibrate to this

Just so everyone knows trump is also not the reason I decided not to work at yale

He wasn't even subtle and quality control still missed it, we are losing knowledge of the old ways

A lot of what we are seeing in us and world politics is the product of the internet increasingly making loneliness and frustrated sexuality the center of our self understanding

Inter left disputes between research professors are very surreal to me, like you guys got ignored by the Democrats, crushed by your own administrators, and the smear campaign against you has worked and you are now generally unpopular, the nuances of your ideas are not the problem right now

Unironically think "no American taxpayer dollars for war in the middle east" would have played well

I'm sorry but 'abundance agenda while being able to say slurs' is not what people want from the Democrats

"at least they will raise the SALT cap and then in four years president newsom can make home schooling illegal"

Good list, but where is rawls saving liberalism?

Mr. Beast: (yelling) I'm standing in front of the treasury building with scott bessent and we are seeing how many obligations we can renege on before moody's downgrades our bonds to junk

Instead of looking at scouting reports and stats teams should really be asking themselves whether they can pick up a kicker on the wheel when they know Kansas City is drafting Italians tribal

The dark ages ended when the people of Italy elected charlamagne the president of the roman empire of facts and logic

The new album is weird but very good

Foxx and Bragg also looking good

Murder rate plummeting in Krasner's philly, looks like wokeness works

Time to start trimming my teaching portfolio down, only another 70 pages to go

If Aristotle had been a door dash driver, I feel like he would have been the type to leave your burrito at the entrance instead of walking it up to your apartment

Having finally processed the election results I have been thinking about how we move forward from here, first of all we need to be way harder on fancy boys who desire treats

This isn’t a popular Johnny Cash opinion but I think after Highwayman he should’ve done a lot more songs where he flies a spaceship

Do not let your liberal friends fall for this stuff

On Public Disorder Much to the dismay of liberals, many urban counties moved substantially to the right in the 2024 presidential election.

The Manhattan Institute continues to push the narrative that our cities are descending into disorder, but as I've argued in a recent blog piece, there's just no real evidence for that flyingletter.substack.com/p/on-public-...

I like the vibe on here and let's be real twitter is a cesspool, but sometimes I find myself thinking, I wonder what happened on the last episode of the new norm show

First class if they ever let me teach a graduate seminar: Hi! I'm so excited to take you through recent developments in philosophy!

Second class: that's correct, four bags of his own poo