Michael Lewanski

Imagining explaining to the Founding Fathers that the president imposed tariffs without an act of Congress and then removed them at the request of the King of England

You can only choose one

One of the odder American maps.

hello baseball

The Far Side from 1987

The bad news: Airport traffic control is so bad that it's genuinely dangerous to fly in America now. Also you need to arrive at the airport 4 hours early so the gestapo can menace you in the security line The good news: oil is so expensive you can no longer afford to fly anyways

There's an old saying in Schelling—I know it's in Hegel, probably in Schelling—that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as... as... tragedy... the second time as... as... it's funny if it happens again

The cover of OK Computer by Radiohead depicts the I-84 and I-91 interchange in Hartford, inspired by the city’s bleak highway sprawl seen during the band’s 1996 tour—a landscape that deeply unsettled Thom Yorke.

I disagree with Timothee Chalamet about opera (crowd cheers), because all art is essentially bad (crowd boos), in the Culture Industry sense! (crowd cheers) except for one medium, which encompasses all previous forms (crowd nodding expectantly), “gaming” (booing intensifies)

Kinda crazy that historians will look back on both the Iran and Iraq wars and consider Iraq to have been the more thought through one

☀️ Today is the start of 227 straight days of post 6pm sunsets. ☀️ Next Wednesday starts 181 straight days of post 7pm sunsets. ☀️ We’re just over 5 weeks till we get dusk past 8p, and that lasts 135 days.

the modern professor's feeling of warm relief and gratitude at encountering artisanal, human-crafted bad writing while grading papers

There are no 2 temperatures further apart than 55° in March and 55° in September

We’re gonna need a bigger Hague

my friend got a degree in egyptology, but can't get a job, so he's paying more money to get a phd, so he can work teaching other people egyptology. in his case college is literally a pyramid scheme.

I wish we lived in a world where I didn't feel constantly compelled to post this video, but until then here's Tony Benn speaking on war with clarity and moral conviction that you won't see from the evil people running the world today

US immigration officials picked up a blind Rohingya refugee last week in Buffalo, NY. Then, realizing they had no basis to deport him, they released him five miles from his home. He needed a walking stick and died trying to make his way back to his house: investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/bli…

Writers need to realize how stupid Chekhov's Gun is. Stories would have much more surprising twists if the gun was never shown at all and then in the final act Chekhov was like "well you're no match for my SECRET GUN" and started shooting a guy with his secret gun

Woke college football fans are the silent majority