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Here is my new piece on the future of the world order, and how the most distinctive feature of 21st century international relations is that, unlike the last two centuries, it is not organized around ideology theideasletter.org/essay/power-wi…

@olivertraldi Democracy in exile

Had an idea of making an "almost-Great Books" syllabus, which might include things like - The best expressions of worldviews which ended up losing - The second-best expressions of worldviews which ended up winning - Less-known works by canonical authors What would you put on it?

@davidrkadler @UniofOxford @benwansell Mazel! Welcome to the club

Over the past few years, I have been privileged to prepare my doctoral dissertation at the @UniofOxford. Today, I successfully defended that dissertation. I am so grateful to all of you who supported this research — above all, to my brilliant supervisor @benwansell. Thank you 🩷

I put a prompt injection into my LinkedIn bio and recruiters are messaging me in Old English and calling me Lord.

@daniel_dsj2110 Democracy in exile

In your opinion, what is the best intellectual history book written since 2000.

Hitler and Wittgenstein probably had recess together sometime in the 1890s

Courtney < cordni

@wonton_sarah wait isn't she anti video games

do you have any video games on your phone

🚨 NEW: On Lever Time, David Sirota asks American Prestige hosts Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison what Trump’s Iran war is really costing Americans — from surging gas prices to a deeper failure: the U.S. clinging to oil while China races ahead on clean energy.

@getfiscal I’m never leaving this site

Tried a new Thai place here for lunch... some sort of spicy peanut sauce over tofu etc... pretty good 👍

I'm looking for somewhere for me and my family to stay the last two weeks of June(-ish) in LA LMK if you know of anything!

.@GoingMedieval and @lukeisamazing of @wnsdpod: Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the most powerful women in medieval Europe, but after her marriage to Louis VII collapsed, chroniclers portrayed her as promiscuous to explain political failure.

JStan reading my stuff jacobin.com/2025/03/trump-…

@antoniogm He can interview ghosts

One benefit of AVs taking over is that Thomas Friedman will finally stop writing.

33 years ago today, Krusty the Clown was forced to replace Itchy & Scratchy with Worker & Parasite. “Krusty Gets Kancelled” first aired on May 13, 1993.

Livestream … livedream

@cushbomb Sweatpants are antifa I agree

@dbessner oberstrumbanfuhrer Lägerfeld and Nazi collaboratist Coco Chanel. Designed by Hugo Bõss fasist/fascism.

It happened--someone in class compared Nixon to Clavicular, but instead of looksmaxxing, Nixon was powermaxxing

Everyone check out this piece by @RossBarkan on the Beach Boys. I'm not seven a big Beach Boys fan and I thought it was EXCELLENT rosselliotbarkan.com/p/let-me-hear-…

@jenbegakis congrats!

Hey, that's Dr. Begakis to you