Matthew Sitman

I wrote about the $200 billion the Pentagon is asking for to fight the Iran War, a figure that tells you more about the conflict than anything anyone in the administration has said about it since it began newrepublic.com/article/208007…

The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus. You want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare. Bombing schoolchildren in Iran. Deporting moms and babies. Covering up the Epstein files.

Every single day that this war goes on, the more the economic damage just compounds. This is the key line right here from @tracyalloway bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

It's interesting that @SohrabAhmari returns to Trump's character problem, which I've been thinking about while re-reading Russell Kirk lately. Many years ago, I was having dinner with Annette Kirk, Dr. Kirk's brilliant and formidable widow, and she reminded the small group of young people gathered with her about the link between order in the soul and order in the city

Me, in January 2017: "The task of the Trumpist intellectual is to make coherent Trump’s incoherence; to find a throughline amidst the to-and-fro of his whims; to concoct an ideology for a man who is only appetite and insecurity; to defend the indefensible."

@DougStephensIV If you know you know

@MatthewSitman Arguably the single most important paragraph in my life to date.

Per my previous post quoting Walker Percy's LOST IN THE COSMOS: looking back, I do think encountering Percy in my early 20s has been the decisive literary experience of my life so far. He loved bourbon, became Catholic, and decided not to kill himself. You tell me if you can perceive his influence

We put out our @KnowYrEnemyPod episode titled “Break Glass in Case of Emergency,” in which Sam and I talked about how worried we were, and why, on…Nov 3rd of last year: before Minneapolis, before going to war with Iran

@ArbiterReborn Totally agree, ha. I'm juuuuust old enough to know who "Donahue" was

Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book or How you can survive in the Cosmos about which you know more and more while knowing less and less about yourself, this despite 10,000 self-help books, 100,000 psychotherapists, and 100 million fundamentalist Christians or Why is it that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos - novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes - you are beyond doubt the strangest or Why is it possible to learn more in ten minutes about the Crab Nebula in Taurus, which is 6,000 light-years away, than you presently know about yourself, even though you've been stuck with yourself all your life

“increasingly actors in a public cultural arena”???

All kinds of comments in response to this episode but not one of them has been about Richard Rorty being Walter Rauschenbusch’s grandson

Also the notion of a "cadre" of KYE listeners in Alabama lol

A love knowing that, somewhere in Alabama, a woman in her 70s somehow started listening to KYE, became a fan, turned her daughter into a fan, and they talk about it over drinks all the time

Actual start to a note I received this evening: I am a huge fan of KYE; my 79-year old mother discovered you and Sam a few years ago, and we frequently discuss your episodes during our weekly drinks together (we are part of a too-small cadre of regular listeners here in Alabama)

Really hellacious Discourse today On Here: that interminable thread on magazine writing/rates + Biss/age gap + Joe Kent

@ScottMcConnell9 Ha!

First question Bay asked me, when she interviewed me for a job with Pat's campaign (after Pat had already asked me to join him) "Are you related to Mitch McConnell?"