Long Island.

Most on the Island are owned by Greeks—still the easiest meet-up spot to catchup either friends when I’m in NY.

I also nominate “…and Its Discontents” for humanities papers.

Tariffs? Inflation? War? For all the turmoil in recent years, nothing has stopped U.S. corporations from earning record profits. There's little reason to think the latest energy shock will be any different.
Smart story from @talsmith.bsky.social:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/b...

For sure—they published political tracts etc., but Derrida published there right after it started, and if one's going to find a more literary, playful text (though obv there are philosophical stakes all over PP), it's a text meant for that journal, not an intro to philosophy textbook.

I mean PP was first published in a journal for experiment literary criticism (Tel Quel) so...

I'll grant the difficulty of Husserl, but its conceptual difficulties, not mystification from someone who wrote again and again about making phenomenology a science.

Ha!

It is interesting to consider how starting on Derrida in, say, the 1970s versus the 1990s versus via his seminars could mean thinking of him in considerably different ways. Similar with Foucault and his seminars.

Plus, it really says something that Husserl was on that list, let alone Foucault (it's history—read more!). I'll grant Derrida requires knowing the texts he's reading to get the full impact but, yeah, quoting an undergrad not understanding something as proof of anything is strange.

I did the silly thing of clicking through to the rage bait and it worked. So the problem with Spivak is that you did understand her and found it wasn't a big deal? (Big deal at the time! But I'll grant you—40 years after an essay was published, you might think it's main point is less than new.)

I mean it's one thing when people said this in the 1990s but many years of his lectures have been published—it's not hard to follow the claims made and repeated, if one can't follow his texts for some reason.

Genuinely thought this was a joke headline.

or that it needed to be said. (In another era, announcements that "you followed the applicable laws" is usually right before the indictments come in.)

$16.00! Crazy markup from local prices; I don’t remember it being that much previously.

In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Trump Was Watching a U.F.C. Fight in Miami While Iran Talks Collapsed

Really well-observed, cutting account of Trump watching a UFC bout while talks collapse in Iran: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

man morale at the AP is real bad huh

Profits peak, people feel bleak. #econsky

Sure, and Napoleon's arch inspired a lot of things—that doesn't make Speer's Germania designs the same aesthetic. (I was pointing more to how an article on some previous rendition of this said something about the Arc de Triomphe, but your more on the nose.)

Yeah. Someone might say it's like the Arc de Triomphe, but not even close.

Strauss saw this in Spinoza and then applied it all over.

i wonder if JD Vance would be surprised to know many husbands don't have to make their wives promise not to jump out of airplanes

Has Satoshi Nakamoto Finally Been Unmasked? Believe It or Not, Bitcoin is Rising A tentative truce reached between the U.S. and Iran drove the price of the world's largest cryptocurrency higher.

Iran charging ships a toll through the Strait of Hormuz would be a catastrophe for the Trump admin. OTOH, since the Financial Times reports it's to be paid in BTC, it could be Trump's biggest gift yet to crypto. www.investopedia.com/has-satoshi-...

Has Satoshi Nakamoto Finally Been Unmasked? Believe It or Not, Bitcoin is Rising A tentative truce reached between the U.S. and Iran drove the price of the world's largest cryptocurrency higher.

www.investopedia.com/has-satoshi-...

Well, no doubt “Jacques Paris” is French.

Capitalist (sur)realism.

3 is absolutely sending me

I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

Omg. I laughed way too hard at this.