I confess, I laughed when this mother complained about her kids needing to catch the bus at 7:30. Back home in Raleigh in the early 2000s, my alarm went off at 4:54 in the morning for all of middle & high school so I could catch a 6:05 bus to my racially balanced magnet school.

I always loved Joan Didion’s “On Self-Respect,” but I had no idea her appreciation for life’s little disciplines came from the fact that her mother was a total slob.

“the extraordinary X feed ‘Yookay Aesthetics,’ curated by the pseudonymous ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 (the name is that of a 16th-century Tibetan Buddhist monk, poet, and sexologist avant la lettre).” claremontreviewofbooks.com/lands-end-2/

Just a reminder that Bobby Riggs almost certainly threw the match against BJK over gambling debts to the mob. espn.com/espn/feature/s…

Rather than a system optimizing for equality across the board, Romania has opted for a system that optimizes for the performance of its brightest minds. But unless other countries begin imitating Romania too, this talent largely fails to benefit Romania, because it emigrates.

Really looking forward to this book. A question I've been asking myself over and over is how the emerging coalition on the Right, formed under Trump, will settle out over the long term. Evangelicals will be a central pillar in this new coalition, as they have been in

“Joan Didion failed as a political journalist because she could not extrapolate this lesson to the national level. In the 1960s, she sensed that the disorder she observed in people’s personal lives was connected to a broader loosening of the bonds of civilization that threatened

“It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet there are those who love it.” The Dartmouth case in the age of Trump: commonplace.org/p/higher-educa…

In a 2023 survey of young scientists on the pros and cons of their career, 60 percent said “the level of cheating made them rethink their career choice and the people their field was attracting.”