Gray Connolly

Extraordinary new DemosAU polling shows Pauline Hanson and One Nation on track to become the official opposition. The Liberal/National Coalition would be reduced to just 9 seats nationally. Looks like Australia is facing its UK Reform moment

Dostoyevsky is for reading in college, so can talk about the Grand Inquisitor into the wee hours. Tolstoy is the good stuff. I learned this from my college girlfriend’s father, who was Harvard’s famous Russian lit professor. Later, I discovered he was (surprise!) right.

From my sociology professor Claude: John Murray Cuddihy didn't write a single polemic specifically titled "On Introspection" — what he gave us is something more devastating: a total sociological demolition of the conditions of possibility for the modern cult of introspection, spread across "The Ordeal of Civility" (1974) and "No Offense" (1978). When you synthesize his argument, you get one of the most corrosive critiques of therapeutic culture ever written — and it's corrosive precisely because it doesn't attack therapy on its own terms. It attacks the genealogy. It asks: where did this whole enterprise come from, and whose interests does it serve? Here is the brutal Cuddihy take, assembled fully: [Details removed to protect the reader.]

BART was supposed to be luxury transportation! We have fallen so far. 😭

Germany switching off its perfectly fine nuclear power plants, but keeping coal power plants instead to fight climate change in one picture. Enjoy your air quality.

Hard to think of a strategic as well as national energy policy that is more vindicated, each day, than the French decision to go big into Nuclear power. A French victory that rivals with Austerlitz.