michael röbbins

gyre wide af

someone please let him know

I’ve forgiven Jalen Brunson for the 2018 Final Four

@bradbotkincbs please look up what “beg the question” means

@CBBonFOX KU has the most wins, no matter what the NCAA says

These programs have the most wins in men’s college basketball history 📈

@jc_leonard lol

this is true. the only exception i would make is that you ought to have a vague sense of the theoretical field he's engaging with. so id recommend reading petty, boisguilbert, stuart, smith, quesnay, turgot, say, ricardo, list, malthus, sismondi, senior, bailey, js mill, carey,

@amhcrane87 just had a poem accepted by them & like uh

Granta's response is truly breathtakingly insane

I wrote about @lowtheband & Mimi Parker, who have always been there when I needed a band the most substack.com/home/post/p-19…

@j_g_allen post your salary, then ask the people complaining about subscriptions to post theirs (or their hourly wages). maybe you won’t be so supercilious then

Good folks: journalism isn’t free. If you value it, subscribe.

@mcmansionhell melting down because the people whom we rely on to get to work are relatively well-compensated for their drudgery

the train drivers contribute more to society than think tank wonks and their slavish acolytes ever will

@iosif_lazaridis you’re an idiot

Taking a red pen to Emily Wilson's Odyssey Introduction and to her first page.

*featuring my two-hour Low playlist

@MSwain247 @Isaac__Trotter do you mean “higher” in the numerical sense? finishing 9th defensively (as we did last season) is intuitively “higher” than 20th

You're not wrong. Probably fair to have Qs about the PG spot and how the centers perform. But it'll probably be a mid-teens team defensively. KU hasn't had a team finish higher than 20th defensively since 2018. And that's with rosters like this, where KU had two or three below average (some might say bad) defenders on the floor at once.⬇️ Self has coached defense well in the current era. It's the offense that's been the issue over the last few years.

Kansas is up to No. 6 in Torvik's early 2027 projections.

@chrisokane_nyc @thezachloeffler reheated Frankfurters

@thezachloeffler All too typical there would be a revival of writing about the Frankfurt school without anyone having bothered to read them. So what we get is a return of the same wrong takes as before.

Can’t access, but TWA’s famous lecture “Kultur and Culture” rejects the German image of the US, arguing “the way in which every American child can devour an ice cream cone+thereby at any moment find a fulfillment of childhood bliss…is truly a part of the fulfilled utopia.”

@chrisokane_nyc i mean, love calls gordon a “horrible gatekeeper,” but this is not worth arguing about

@alienvsrobbins I don't think they gatekept CL though?

Interesting to see how Sonic Youth's standing seems to have fallen. I wonder if it's part of the rise of reactionary resentment and scapegoating as the current discourse about them seems to suggest? Or is it just the internet changing how people understand and experience music?

@chrisokane_nyc i don’t care about corgan but courtney love is forever stereogum.com/2494364/billy-…

@alienvsrobbins who did they gatekeep?

@PeterBrannen1 you can’t argue with stupid. ignoring them is the only recourse that won’t make you crazy

I'm begging dum-dums to stop telling me CO2's been higher and the planet's been warmer before. I wrote a whole book about it

So much of contemporary life is simply garbage that we have to put up with because it's making a bunch of idiots rich

@unclehaver penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761928/q…

Not sure what to do with the feeling that everything will simply keep getting worse