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This is what authoritarian fascists do. Dictating what universities can and cannot do. Russia, Hungary, and now the United States. “Comply with our ideological agenda or we’ll shut you down.” It’s a blatant attack on democracy, free thinking, and research.

“America can break your heart." — W. H. Auden

Marcel Ophuls, the German-born filmmaker whose powerful documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” exploded the myth of widespread French resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II, has died. nyti.ms/43eHs68

"Whoever cannot be mobilized when freedom is threatened will not be mobilized at all." — Hannah Arendt

The loneliness economy that AI creates and thrives on illustrated in an advertising graphic. Much like the manipulation tactics of an abusive partner that says, "I'm all you need," it offers false recognition, isolates you, uses you, and offers no real companionship in return.

The question I used to get most often in interviews since 2015 was: Are we becoming a fascist country? In the last three months the question has changed. Now it is: How did Hannah Arendt know when it was time to leave?

Yes, things are going very well here for democracy in America when the King of England decides to visit Canada for the first time in fifty years to remind the President of the United States who the true head of state is from a throne …

Bob Dylan 1962: Where have you been, my blue-eyed son? 1965: It’s all over now, Baby Blue

W.G. Sebald on melancholy

"The only pleasure the melancholic permits himself, and it is a powerful one, is allegory." — Walter Benjamin

"When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to differentiate between good and evil." — Hannah Arendt

The future of AI youtube.com/watch?v=ARJ8cA…

There’s a step in my editing process I love: the moment I send a draft to a trusted reader. The second I hit send I can see my own writing more clearly. Rereading it, while imagining them reading it, is invaluable. It's something technology can't replace. It's a form of touching.

June book club! Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem Let’s talk about evil. open.substack.com/pub/samantharo…

My favorite definition of love Rainer Maria Rilke: