4 aug 26 briefs
a brief item for appreciating Jamelle Bouie’s option to pay attention to a bad movie
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8 jul 26 personal
A rare post of length — sort of an American death’s-head meditation.
14 jun 26 briefs
The Know Your Enemy guys put up an episode on Leo Strauss’s Natural Right and History the other day. I’ve added a link to it to the May 10 brief item, joining the In Bed With the Right and Law Chaos episode links.
10 may 26 briefs
A brief item noticing an accidental thematic synchronization between podcasts Law and Chaos and In Bed With the Right.
10 apr 26 briefs
A brief item for appreciating themes in a recent conversation recorded for new publication Equator and the Georgetown University Global Dialogues series.
20 mar 26 briefs
A brief item pointing back to two video essays made a year ago by YouTubers F.D Signifier and Lil Bill, a cross-channel collaboration on the subject of religious and political organizing on the social margin in Black America.
28 feb 26 briefs
A new brief item for calling attention to solidarity and cooperation in the LGBTQ+ local / regional media space with News Is Out’s ‘The Map of Us,’ while noticing also voices of some who don’t want to stand under its sort of umbrella.
22 dec 25 briefs
A brief item suggesting a listen to the Thinking Muslim podcast’s recent conversation recorded with Shadi Hamid and host Tom ‘Imam Tom’ Facchine.
7 dec 25 personal
A personal post remarking on my getting to know Lea Ypi’s work only recently and recommending her ‘Moral Socialism’ talks on Kant, Marx, c.
2 dec 25 briefs
A brief item in recognition of things that require us to give the Jeffrey Epstein story attention, like it or not.