What ism is missing from the list? It's on the tip of my tongue, just can't quite get it.

Althusser's determination by the economy in the "last instance" 😁

Such fools, on the brink of dismissal for incompetence that exceeds even what the leader can tolerate, will try to save themselves by even more abject demonstrations of loyalty.

Arendt's adage that authoritarians fill their administrations with "crackpots and fools" whose lack of intelligence guarantees their loyalty here gets an added twist...

They're more of a suggestion, really.

Poster of British crime drama Criminal Record

Great show on Apple+. Highly recommend if gritty crime dramas are your thing.

He's John Edwards without the rizz. Not gonna happen.

Is this statement truer if you substitute the American Left for the Democratic party? In other words, can one say that there was broad support for progressive era/ new deal policies across the American left which is no longer the case since Clinton? Not an historian so I could be way out here.

The not-IT boy.

Loved Lockwood's supersensual review of works on Willa Cather. I'm putting Cather on my summer reading list.

Andrew Yang vibes

It was the best of straits; it was the worst of straits.

My dept does a screening once a semester. Last week was Casablanca. Students mostly enjoyed it but some had difficulty telling the actors apart - something about black and white movies.

I don't know who this person is but I still enjoyed the joke.

The College Affordability Crisis is Real, but the Media is Looking at the Wrong Schools Sturges Hall (Photo by Keith Walters ’11) Opinion By Costas Solomou, Vice President, Enrollment Management Published by the Office of Enrollment Management When Yale University released its Committee ...

"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend

their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives."

www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...

"With the entire city-state being run by immigrants, it’s no wonder the Vatican is a sanctuary city home to St. Peter’s Basilica—one of the largest sanctuaries on Earth."

For a couple of years I seriously wanted to be a Franciscan monk. I don't recall if that was pre- or post-bar mitzvah.

Jeez, can Newsom, Padilla, Schiff and Pelosi just get into a smoke filled room and pick someone already? Becerra is fine. Just do the endorsement already.

Kid you not, I'm teaching Gelasius's Doctrine of the Two Swords to undergrads tomorrow. I guess a quick overview with no time for discussion is no longer going to cut it.

For years, but especially in the last few months, I have been trying hard to imagine what it will feel like seeing Orban decisively defeated. I just couldn't. And yet here we are: it is truly and well over. I have more reservations about Peter Magyar than I could say in 300 characters or a thread...

Wilderness by Samantha Harvey

No one suspends campaigns over *false* allegations. So you obnoxious people making excuses for Swalwell and blaming the victims need to take seat and shut up.

Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag - fabulous version - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967 YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel

Ragging on the Vatican

youtu.be/pvhYqeGp_Do?...

A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place.

This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism.

Here's why.

Hope!

Simpsons cartoon of old man yells at cloud.

Reading a Month in the Country is the perfect antidote to, well, everything.

Why I wish Kamala had decided to run for Governor of California:
1. She would be governor of California
2. She would be a fine governor of California
3. She would not be running for president.

Once and never again. The dictum *hell is other people* is true when there is literally no way to get away from them.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...