Attn @BrianNosek

The Episcopal Church announced it wants to sell or lease its 12-story New York City headquarters. The decision reflects the shrinking of mainline Protestantism and institutional religion in the U.S. wapo.st/4fNCT9x

Would having more religious people be positive for the United States? In 2013, 75% of Americans said yes. In 2026, it was 65%. The biggest drops? (All down 16 pts) Young adults Democrats "Some college" @dcoxpolls notes this gap, too: Women down 16 pts Men down 3 pts

Split Ticket's 2026 Senate Model US HOUSE 🟦 DEM — 229 seats 🟥 GOP — 206 seats —— SENATE 🟥 GOP — 50 🟦 DEM — 50 —— GA: 🔵 Safe D (D 9.5) NC: 🔵 Likely D (D 5.6) FLIP MI: 🔵 Likely D (D 6.4) ME: 🔵 Lean D (D 2.3) FLIP OH: 🔵 Lean D (D 1.6) FLIP AK: 🟡 Toss up (R 1.5) TX: 🔴 Lean R (R 1.6) IA: 🔴 Likely R (R 5.5) FL: 🔴 LIkely R (R 8.3) NE: 🔴 Likely R (R 8.8) theargumentmag.com/p/split-t…

So much about who you know and who you get to know, not about your actual education This is true for educational institutions beyond New York City public k-12 schools

I’d go check it out just based on the sign

Super weird, and potentially wonderful. We now have several natural experiments suggesting that the shingles vaccine significantly reduces dementia risk, or delays dementia risk, potentially by suppressing reactivation of the underlying virus, which can linger in nerve tissue and cause brain damage

This is a really interesting graph for a narrative. Because it feels like the period between 1975 and 1995 is one era with its own dynamics, and then the period after 1995 is another.

In the mid-1970s: Mainline Protestants were 32% of the population Evangelicals were 22% Two decades later: Mainlines had dropped to just 20% Evangelicalism had risen to 31%. A complete reversal in less than 20 years.

As my tribute to Averil Cameron, my current project for Histos covers a "sensitive" yet important topic in our field. Cameron's highly charged intellectual rivalry with Anthony Kaldellis, which was provoked by the personal nature of his early attacks of her work on Procopius.

This. It’s blatantly obvious, the decline. And alarming. I don’t care what side of the political aisle u r on, this is now two in a row for us. As a reminder, at the CIA at the senior operational level, mandatory retirement at 65. For pilots, mandatory retirement at 65. Frustrating (and rather scary, the stakes r too high) to watch the dramatic health decline of a president, again.

Will make for a fun ad this fall

No paywall and updated with comment from Sen. Jones

No Kid Rock?

Hal Duncan is not a conspiracy believer, he's just a Trump-toadying piece of shit

A Russian militant known as “Grom” raped filmmaker and journalist Alisa Kovalenko for four days. Before that, militants beat and interrogated her. They threatened to cut off her fingers and teeth. Alisa was 27. She came to Donbas to film the start of Russia’s war, UP. 1/

"Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother. Also, anyone who needs IT support."

Two books I read back to back, both of which I was kind of surprised got published by major publishers, albeit for very different reasons.

All great options (well, mostly great options) but I would say Emily Wilson's intuition is right (though not her judgment), we shd look beyond written lyric. If you do this then Bob Dylan is my choice: harvests tradition, Shapes mindset, esp through other poets, is elite marker.

Who Is America’s Homer? If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity? We asked for contributions from ‍@fxxfy, @DanaGioiaPoet, @zenahitz, Emily Wilson, @ae_stallings, @_Zeets, @JcScharl, @amjuster, @RossBarkan, Christian Wiman. plough.com/articles/who-is-a…