Incredible @FantasticCatUSA show in Charlottesville last night…Go see this band!

I wrote an essay for the NY Times. nytimes.com/2025/12/19/opini…

🏟️ Calling all active Gooners, let’s celebrate our superb Carabao Cup WIN against Brighton by following each other. REPOST and drop your handles now for huge gains ❤️

Life is a gift — a wonderful, terrible, and unparalleled gift. It's a miracle that any of us are here at all. It’s amazing that we happen to be here together. Finding the novelty in every moment isn't hard if you're paying attention.

For the past decade I've been told that jokes, words, & scholarly debates need to be suppressed because they may cause 'harm' to vulnerable minorities. Yet when a global minority is butchered, tortured & maimed, those who suppress words shrug as if war crimes are no big deal.

I will read anything @JenSeniorNY writes, and this one reduced me to tears. I'll be thinking about it for a long time. theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…

In Memory of Milan Kundera: On the passing of the great Czech writer and dissident tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…

Happy Independence Day, America. 🇺🇸 Rog had the honor of speaking to a group of Newly Minted American Citizens who were sworn in at the National Archives in front of the actual Constitution this past Constitution Day. Here's what Rog wrote in the Raven back in September: "I type with fingers still buzzing after heading down to the National Archives in DC this week, and addressing a class of newly-minted Americans sworn in front of the actual Constitution. The ceremony was in celebration of that document’s 235th anniversary on Constitution Day this Saturday, and I found it incredibly moving, watching 25 people from 21 nations have their lives transformed by becoming Americans together. I am not going to lie. I sobbed through my remarks. Partially because of the memories of my own citizenship process which it unleashed. But also because I was overwhelmed by the symbolic power – of being blessed to stand there in the Rotunda, with the Constitution behind me, and tell the group that the iconic phrase, “We the people” now includes them as part of that “We.” I was also touched to discover just how many diehard football fans there are amongst the staff at the National Archives. I met Spurs fans, Arsenal supporters, United devotees. What a place it is. And the archivists are true American heroes. By dedicating their lives to preserving the records that underpin our nation, they ensure that the American stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are ones grounded in primary sources. Without them, we would have no shared truths. To experience a Naturalization Ceremony at the National Archives – that powerful process in which collective dreams were made real before my eyes – was so unbelievably profound. I truly believe every American should attend at least one a year. They are all that is good about our nation." 🇺🇸🙌

David Remnick on the defiance of Salman Rushdie newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Jim Redmond, who helped his injured son, Derek, finish his 1992 Olympic 400m semifinal, has died at 81 reuters.com/lifestyle/sports…

A story about an avalanche of lies, the malicious ethos of Trumpism, and the tactics of the gutter right--tactics that are wielded against public figures and private citizens. The message is clear. Get in line, or you will be made to pay: frenchpress.thedispatch.com/…

Rising levels of partisan animosity do not make me more willing to give more power to the state. It makes me less willing. Partisan animosity makes it more likely that new state power will be wielded as a punitive weapon of ideological war and not for justice and the common good.

We live in a culture in which many of the most celebrated people occupying the highest perches believe that words are violence. In this, they have much in common with the Iranian Ayatollah who issued the first fatwa against Salman Rushdie: commonsense.news/p/we-ignore…

We can't contain the excitement for @NASAWebb's first full-color images! On Monday, July 11 at 5pm ET (21:00 UTC), President Biden will unveil one of the space telescope's first images of deep space as a preview of what's ahead: go.nasa.gov/3NUQ8Dx

It’s no secret that teaching is a stressful career. But what if it gave you panic attacks? Exhaustion? Health Problems? For too many teachers that’s a reality. Quitting is their last resort. 🧵 bit.ly/3MCRAuf

There is a famous short story (supposedly) written by Ernest Hemingway: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." This is its photographic equivalent. One simple picture, seemingly prosaic, that says so much. Just heartbreaking.

Well said.

"He was never a big shot. No matter who you were, he’d talk to you. ... he’d respond as freely and generously as if you were a longtime colleague. ... He was neither superior nor patronizing. There was no BS." — @JVLast on the late, great @PJORourke bit.ly/3LCSqYc

Refute arguments you find insufficient, build and share your own positive vision, ignore sensibilities and personalities that offend you. It’s not that complicated.