In a Year of Violent Tumult, the Sports World Was Silent When the country needed them to speak out, most athletes kept mum—and a few openly embraced embraced Trumpism.

I’ve been writing an annual column for 20 years on the year in sports and politics. Here’s this year’s edition. Short version: 2025 was the fucking worst. But maybe 2026 sees a turnaround that’s already being glimpsed in unlikely places www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Yeah!!

Some good news for me personally: I received my promotion & tenure letter from our university president last week and I'm going on sabbatical in the fall!!

Some dumbass Trumpers are going to start dumping coffee into the Boston Harbor, aren’t they? 😂

Best news ever

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Donald Trump and the unmooring of patriotism and democracy Among the reckonings necessary in the wake of Trump’s reelection is jettisoning the notion that patriotism and democracy are synergistic.

Great new piece by my friend Maxwell Burkey re: how Trump has “unmoored” patriotism from democracy:

thehill.com/opinion/camp...

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I saw you’re going off Twitter. Will you posting a lot here? I need my Kreis material!!

Donald Trump and the unmooring of patriotism and democracy Among the reckonings necessary in the wake of Trump’s reelection is jettisoning the notion that patriotism and democracy are synergistic.

Great new piece by my friend Maxwell Burkey re: how Trump has “unmoored” patriotism from democracy:

thehill.com/opinion/camp...

"One may well ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?" The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws...

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Why Liberals Struggle to Cope With Epochal Change The error of their mythology about 1989 matters because we face another such moment of historical rupture today.

“Contrary to what seemed the correct response in 2016, the task of Trump opponents today is not to resist the political change that he has unleashed but to embrace it—and use this moment to fashion a new coalition for a better society.” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Ugh, man.

Does anyone still teach Louis Hartz nowadays, and if so, how do you do it?

Does anyone still teach Louis Hartz nowadays, and if so, how do you do it?

Does anyone still teach Louis Hartz nowadays, and if so, how do you do it?

Pals in #NYC and friends at the Eastern APA conference:

I'm at P&T Knitwear on Thursday, January 9 at 6:30pm talking with Kristi Kendall about CIVIC SOLITUDE. Support an independent bookstore! (Also, Jan 9 is my birthday...)

ptknitwear.com/events/20250109

Just finished WTCB too. Amazing!

Stealing a LOTTA stuff from @laywilliams.bsky.social for my Modern Political Thought lectures this spring. Dang this book is gooooood!

Alright, we’re back in business!

You can box that w/ the Bahamas thing @ 114-1.

Harrison Butker for Ambassador to the Vatican at 1000-1

Trump Transition Live Updates: Ex-N.F.L. Star Is Among Latest Ambassador Picks (Gift Article)

Who had this one @300-1?
@justdoeat.bsky.social @adammc123.bsky.social @williamadler78.bsky.social @salilb.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

My cab driver from LaGuardia was a Bush/McCain/Romney/Trump/Trump/Trump voter. He said that now that Biden has pardoned his son, he’s going to vote Republican in 2028.

I know, lol, I’m here 5 mins, and already being pulled aside re: what drink I’m ordering, what kinds of jokes/topics are acceptable, etc..

Ha, only if @adammc123.bsky.social allows it. He already chastised me for “being too Twitter.”

Like 2/3 of The Federalist Papers are on “how the Constitution is awesome because it blocks guys like Trump”, and, well