Richard Sennett

My dearest friend, Robert White, left us yesterday. I was with him only a couple of hours before he died as he sank into a deeper and deeper rest. He was a great musician and singer, a devoted teacher @JuilliardSchool a generous host, a wicked raconteur, a perfect dinner companion, wildly funny, deeply sensitive to beauty of all kinds. The album we made together many years ago for @hyperionrecords remains one of my favourites. New York will never be the same.youtu.be/45xCtXFTw0k?si…

This is just unbelievable: the Senate of Berlin wants to close the Archaeology Institute of the Humboldt University because of budget constraints, saying that there is another in the city anyway. A pillar of academic excellence in teaching and research, active for more than 200 years may be just wiped out with a flick of a pen. Incredible as it may seem, we need to explain to those people that certain things need to be preserved and that when they are gone, they're gone, killing hopes, projects, careers, and traditions. You dont bring that back like flicking a switch if the money comes back. I have just signed, please do the same: weact.campact.de/petitions/schl…

Shut down Dilley. thebulwark.com/p/kids-arent-a…

This has all of the potential to become the mother of all scandals. Again, some of us warned about this and the Palantir NHS contract at the time. It really doesn't take rocket science!

“If a newspaper’s publisher makes a bunch of decisions that lose money, and then the owner keeps the publisher while firing the staff who puts out the paper—none of this is really about the money, is it?” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…

NEVER FORGET THIS PHOTO. THIS MAN WAS MURDERED BY A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE CURRENTLY OPERATING OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE.

The Pink Jacket lady who filmed the killing tells a court that she is terrified to go home because she’s heard the federal agents who murdered a man in front of her are looking for her! Oh my god.

Donald Trump is mentally ill, and has dementia. This has been evident for a long time. Today it became clear that Keir Starmer is becoming co-dependent on him, as unskilled carers for the mentally ill often do, by trying to appease people who are sick.

When she was making enormous donations to groups such as the Terence Higgins Trust. I was sat one seat away from her in 2004 at a THT event. So lord knows how much she’d given prior to that. The point is she’s done more than you’ve ever even attempted. Sit back down.

There are a lot of files in this new dataset that have made me feel this way. I’m still making my way through DataSet 8, but this is some vile shit.

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BREAKING: In response to ICE's refusal to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo XIV calls on President Trump and Vice President Vance to respect the dignity and religious liberty of migrants in the United States. “The authorities must allow pastoral workers to assist with the needs of these people. Many times they have been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”

Like so many, I was devastated by news of the sudden passing of Setti Warren, director of the @HarvardIOP. Setti's devotion to public service was manifest in everything he did--as a politician; a mayor; Naval officer and mentor. Just a warm and wonderful man.

It will be easier for Trump’s successor to restore the White House to its former glory than America. x.com/Ronxyz00/statu…

John Searle suffered enormous harm to his reputation and career in the last years of his life. Most who know of this have only heard one side of the story. There is another side to it, which you can read about here: colinmcginn.net/john-searle/

Philosopher John Searle has died. dailynous.com/2025/09/28/joh…

RIP Conor Gearty. I'm shocked and saddened to get the news that @LSEnews and the world have lost this wonderful, committed scholar - who advanced study of law and human rights and the capacity of academics generally to ask needed questions of the work we do.

@jpodhoretz This makes good sense.

Here's the danger of social media. It allows people to publish their internal monologues. Our internal monologues and fantasies are often incredibly ugly. People go to therapists because they feel so guilty about them, and one of the tasks of a therapist is to explain that 1/