Charlie Taben

An antique French Napoleon III crystal and ormolu triple perfume caddy from the 19th century.

A limestone bust of a priest from Roman Syria. Ca. 150-250 AD, Dallas Museum of Art. ὅς κε θεοῖς ἐπιπείθηται, μάλα τ᾿ ἔκλυον αὐτοῦ. - The prayers of him who heeds the gods are readily heard. Iliad 1.218

@thespybrief The WonderHound deserves Frisbee time. Early and HH is a good combo - IPA time. Comrade Xi reads Don the riot act on the inane war that empowers the IRGC and may trip a global recession. Couldn’t make it up. Cheers to informed TSB’ers. 🍸👊🍺

@thespybrief Outrageous

Apropos of the upcoming Substack on AI, Whitehead and Cassirer: a great event for NYC philosophers: Aspen Institute - Philosophy and Society with @sckimbriel and Anthropic on AI and the good society aspeninstitute.org/events/ai-and-…

This month’s @apa_blog post construing AI as our aesthetic fate will be philosophically refined in June’s APA Substack - drawing on Whitehead’s process theology and Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms @dioscuri @DouthatNYT @sckimbriel blog.apaonline.org/2026/05/14/cre…

@morallawwithin @mattyglesias Off all things, a theological case hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…

Please read Rawls. The Veil of Ignorance is an ILLUSTRATION meant to reflect the fact that justice has to be reasoned about in abstraction from your particular conditions. It’s not a metaphysical thesis about persons being separable from their circumstances or whatever.

@thespybrief While Don lines his pockets with military contracts and wants $1B for the ballroom. Off the hook

@thespybrief 💯 and we’re only seeing the leading edge of inflation and AI vaporizing jobs

@bgtennisnation @Tennis @ParsaBombs Another great update B4 dawn☀️. Incisive as always 👍✅👊💪

early morning 😎 thoughts 💭 on Rome ⁦@Tennis⁩ ⁦@ParsaBombs⁩

@bgtennisnation @SharkoTennis @rolandgarros @TennisChannel 💯

what a tremendous 1st clay court season for Jodar @SharkoTennis the way he plays, game should translate to all surfaces, he will be very dangerous @rolandgarros if he’s none Sin City 🌆 half draw ✍️ @TennisChannel

A link to my attempt, by means of a classical legal metaphor, to explain how to integrate both the heritage view and the creedal view: Non-heritage-Americans are like children adopted into a family, with consequent moral and legal obligations of filial piety and reverence — the duty to honor and uphold the legacy, specific traditions, and heritage of that family, not merely creedal abstractions: thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigration-…

@Revolution_IRL @thespybrief $125MM in instant profits on just the last trade at 3:40am. Banana republic at this point

@thespybrief in these trades, every winner means there is a loser. In normal times this would be he a huge scandal. Why are those (obviously wealthy) not using their influence? How deep is the rot ?

@thespybrief One page memorandum ending war still outstanding! Ready for another announcement/trade…

@bgtennisnation @CNBC 💯

Paul Tudor Jones says AI bull market has 'another year or two to run' @CNBC better news 🗞️ then doom and gloom shorters or big short dude u love to give headlines to his loser calls cnbc.com/2026/05/07/pau…

This is a 4th-century BC Thracian gold wreath from the Zlatinitsa-Malomirovo burial mound in Bulgaria.

@thespybrief 💯 and, sorry, but would speculate it’s all coordinated at the top. Regularity and no enforcement. Those trades are huge

@Meghan_Ottolini @suzania Brought James Reston’s home in Edgartown to my mind’s eye…thx.

This is the beginning of a Meg Ryan movie

@xsantiagoramos What flourishing looks like…

These dudes are in their 80s. x.com/RollingStones/…

Happy Birthday Søren Kierkegaard! Read the latest PloughStack: ploughstack.substack.com/p/kierkegaard-…