SamuelGoldman
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SamuelGoldman
@SWGoldman
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Washington, DC Katılım Mart 2010
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@SWGoldman There is still a ticketed lounge area at NYP, which covers these needs.
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I understand the practical reason that there can’t be seats in Moynihan/NYP but man is it annoying.
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@nmpenn Except half the benches in Philly are unusable because they’re…occupied.
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@SWGoldman This is why 30th Street Station in Philly is the best major rail hub on the East Coast. Stations need to retvrn to the classic wooden benches they still have!
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@theotherjude If there were open seating, the station would immediately become a homeless shelter.
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@SWGoldman Yeah, it's wild. He spent years fighting for a Constitutional amendment to overturn that decision.
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Just looked at Harlan's lone dissent. He literally called it--projecting that Reynolds v. Sims would lead to the escalation of partisan gerrymandering because it nullified most other guardrails on districting.
Jason Willick@jawillick
Reynolds v. Sims (1964) said it was unconstitutional if districts of different sizes had the same number of representatives. That paved the way for more frequent redistricting & more intense partisan gerrymandering. Drive for “equality” in that sense disempowered voters overall.
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@BamaExpat @avrilbradley23 I later took college classes with Lloyd Gardner, who was much less hardcore about it.
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@BamaExpat @avrilbradley23 I’m always impressed people remember this stuff. I have recall almost nothing of what I was taught, except that my history teacher was a Wisconsin School revisionist.
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[Guy who didn't pay attention in school]: They didn't teach us this in school!
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Probably worth adding that Everett Dirksen, one of the leading legislative proponents of civil rights, was a huge foe of Reynolds v. Sims.
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I’m very happy about some of the novels that made this list, especially My Antonia, The Prime of Miss Brodie, and Tristram Shandy. But not including either Ivanhoe or Waverley? That’s nuts. theguardian.com/books/ng-inter…
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@GreenPlusAnE @Mr_Thomps_0 Is Widow’s Bay good though? I need some low stakes Content.
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Not only have we lost a shared popular culture but also a shared intellectual culture. Even in subgroups.
E.g. Kirk's "The Conservative Mind", Strauss' "Natural Right and History," and Nisbet's "The Quest for Community" all came out in 1953. Now, what?
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog
Another point about our cultural decline. We started watching the show Widow’s Bay. It’s really good. Fantastic writing. Perfect blend of comedy and horror. Last night’s episode was legitimately one of the finest episodes of television I’ve seen in years. If this same exact show came out in 2002, we’d probably remember it as an all time classic. But in 2026 most people haven’t even heard of it. It’s a blip on the radar. Another piece of content in the endless sea. You see it, or you don’t, and then it’s forgotten. It’s not that good stuff isn’t made anymore. It’s that even when good stuff is made, we don’t have any shared experience of it. There’s plenty of good music you can find on Spotify, recent stuff, but you experience it in your little algorithmic silo. Almost nothing breaks containment to become a bonafide cultural phenomenon. That’s what made Project Hail Mary so unique. Severance maybe also achieved escape velocity. But even in those cases the escape is fleeting. For the most part we experience the culture through the narrow pathway constructed for us by the algorithm. It might intersect with other people’s pathways, but only briefly. When we feel nostalgia for the Before Times, this is why. It’s not simply that we had a “better” culture back in the 90s or whenever. It’s that we had a culture at all.
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7 yo has announced that his favorite song is Crazy Train. Unclear how he learned about this.
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@davidpdeavel a course on Why College should begin with Aristophanes
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We have a course in this genre in our core: Liberal Learning.
Our professors use Boethius, Pipers, Newman, and often Plato and Augustine.
Niall Ferguson@nfergus
When I first saw the “Why College?”syllabus, I genuinely thought it must be a parody. stanforddaily.com/2026/05/14/stu…
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People have been texting me about my take on the latest Twitter beefs/writer dramas.
Guys, I’m on vacation.
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Contemporary life is so depressing. Every guy is either a gym rat meathead or thinks MJ Lenderman is good.
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The synthesis here is Black Flag
Ron DeSantis@RonDeSantis
Ramones are not better than Zeppelin.
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@BrianAcity Likely one of the factors suppressing fertility, which further weights things in favor of the old and against the young.
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The philosopher Michel Serres, who taught at Stanford for many years and was close to Rene Girard, noted in a number of books that the doubling of lifespans, as occurred in the twentieth century, had seismic social consequences: marriage vows designed for a decade or two become 65-year contracts; inheritance arrives in your old age instead of your prime; the willingness to die for a nation becomes less prevalent when you have six decades of life ahead. The radical slowdown of aging that some say is on the horizon would invert every institution built on the assumption that the old will soon yield to the young.
John Robb@johnrobb
Think about how many assumptions underlying our personal and social decision making will fracture if a large subset of the population radically slows their aging.
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@SWGoldman The Winter of Discontent was so egregious it led to the collapse of the post-war Keynesian consensus and to mass privatizations. We'll see if current conditions lead to anything as radical.
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England led the world in public hygiene.
Phil Magness@PhilWMagness
On my various trips to the UK I have seen Adam Smith's house and John Maynard Keynes's house. The next one I need to check off: Karl Marx's house.
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@chezaristote @SWGoldman @GregMcBrayer3 I think it’s useful to know the necessary, if not sufficient, criterion of the varieties of good teaching, though.
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“Faculty should meet to talk about teaching on a regular basis: troubleshooting, sharing insights, discussing best practices. Master teachers ought to serve as mentors for less experienced ones, including through team-teaching…”
persuasion.community/p/how-to-reviv…
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@DonBreslauer26 @GregMcBrayer3 Okay, but geometry does not seem to the same kind of thing as English literature or medieval history or whatever.
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@SWGoldman @GregMcBrayer3 Yes. But surely that depends on the literature and the student as much as on the teacher. In the Meno, Socrates does not manufacture geometry; he helps the student see it. The teacher matters, but only by awakening a capacity that must finally become the student’s own.
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