"These historical markers of authoritarian takeover go to 16..."

I'm well aware that this site is a cesspool of grifters, creeps, political extremists, and pornographers, but for reasons I can't fully articulate, the "philosophy influencer" thing offends me on a deeper level than any of these.

I was pleased to discover that John Gray is also an appreciator of Rorbert Aickman's stories newstatesman.com/culture/2018/0…

The frankly bizarre speed with which a number of people have turned on Radiohead and imputed to its members positions they have never held is a good illustration of how the punitive impulse doesn't so much find its victims as create them

It makes no sense that this album is this good

Cosign. Chotiner going after her like this in October 2025 is not a meaningful critique, just a new movement in the game of musical chairs that is our political discourse.

When I wrote the other week that Ford was Mayor Quimby, this was before he had a) spent 75 million the province doesn’t have to b) derail international trade negotiations before c) passing legislation to keep himself in office indefinitely. thehub.ca/2025/10/16/pre…

He deleted, but this more or less frames the key questions: does Canada consider it in its interest to tilt toward China? Or does it suppose it can feint in this direction to remind the US of its value? Or does it it suppose it can trade either way with little geopolitical cost?

Sorry but it looks like it’s about to start singing “Memory”