Ah, induced demand. The sad truth is that a private automobile is a very inefficient people-mover!

If we’re doing nuclear airport takes: if you’re going there for less than six months, you’re not going to be doing anything requiring specialized equipment, and you’re not going to an extremely austere or remote place, which is >90% of most people’s travel, checking baggage is a skill issue.

A picture of the antagonist Frieza from Dragon Ball Z holding up five fingers, with text overlaid reading "Five More Minutes and the Strait Will Reopen".

Following the news these days

I also attended the 25th Annual Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society this weekend here in New York City, where I was playing the role of critic on a colleague's excellent new book, which came out around the same time as mine. But I had the chance to share my book at the conference book table.

In the past few weeks I've had remarkable amount of engagement with my book Aristotle's Practical Epistemology. There was a panel at the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, sadly held on Zoom, but with two excellent commentators. Two new reviews are also out in NDPR and Mind!

personally I agree that we should indeed reject the hollow pluralism of pretending that we shouldn't judge Klan, Nazi, and sparkling eugenicist subcultures according to what they have historically produced, and would enthusiastically endorse rejecting inclusion of them in public life

I could not finish this book. Hated every bit of it I did read.

I’ve given two of the three talks I am due to give in a 26-hour span (beginning 2pm today and running to 4pm tomorrow). Brain is mush. But it was great fun to discuss ancient philosophy and AI this afternoon at Hunter College and Pyrrhonian skepticism this evening at the Morningside Institute.

That’s horrible and demoralizing and stability, including psychological stability, is as important as money in your bank account.

But also just strange things like — we did UBI during the pandemic and people liked it and it went away.

Widespread unresolved collective trauma (plague, insurrection, war) combined with a toxic information environment.

Luxury goods, for example, are both more expensive—their prices have far outpaced general inflation—and much more broadly marketed than they were 20 years ago. If you get sucked into the wrong algorithmic feed, it can feel like you’re the only person without whatever fancy thing it is you desire

Ground Control to Magyar Tamás: you're on your course, direction's a smash.

Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies | Fortune Millions were spent putting laptops in every student’s hands. Now schools want them back as technology in the classroom is turning out not to be the miracle solution it was sold as.

It’s almost like WE ALL SAID THIS WOULD HAPPEN fortune.com/2026/04/10/a...

It is absolutely possible to live outside the algorithmic world. Read books. Have dinner parties. Enjoy the natural world. It matters a lot less what other people are doing if you can't see it online.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

What do you mean the rules of society don't apply because it's a dog!? www.curbed.com/article/dogs...

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

It could be any year between 2016 and 3000.

Excellent image. It’s easy enough to see these heads as masks, but a subtle interpreter will recognize the depiction of Altman as the ten-headed Ravana, the diabolical antagonist of the Ramayana.

E la chiamano vittoria...
Per chi?
La risposta è semplice
#criminalidiguerra

This is fantastic. Public theology at its best!

Your job is to stop this madman — or at least slow him down. Stop trying to do electoral politics.

Next week:

* Hunter College: Conversations across Time, Ancient philosophy and AI (general audience)
* Morningside Institute: on Pyrrhonian skepticism and intellectual honesty (for undergrads)
* Comments on "Aristotle and Tragic Temporality" at the Ancient Philosophy Society (academic)

I'm giving six talks in the next eleven days.

This week:
* UT–Austin: "God, the Grind, and the Good Life" (for undergrads)
* Union Theological Seminary: Dialogues for the common good, "Why try?" (general audience)
* Book symposium on Aristotle's Practical Epistemology at the Pacific APA (academic)

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!”

Black text on white background “Happy Easter, New York!  Today, millions of New Yorkers celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the victory of hope over despair and faith over fear.  As the air warms and cherry blossoms begin to bloom, this holy day is a sacred time to pause and reflect on a season of rebirth. Whether you spend this day singing in pews, parading on Fifth Avenue, joining a processional guided by the bamboo trumpets of Haitian Rara music, or hunting for painted eggs amidst the spring grass, I wish every New Yorker celebrating a joyous day.  Let us all embrace this holiday's spirit of hope and renewal as we build the City — and the world — that we deserve.”

I think that (Saturday morning) was the medieval way from about the 12th century onward!

The right response is: the Constitution isn’t a suicide pact, which is why it contains provisions for its amendment. Overriding its provisions by executive order is tyranny, the thing that the Constitution is designed to prevent.