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Watching Burgess Meredith drink wine was my favorite part.

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link

So many stories about Burgess Meredith, didn’t know what to expect in the Molly Ringwald thing.

A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 December 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link

It's not like I have much faith in liberal journalists but it's truly astonishing to see this passage in the New Yorker. What year is this? pic.twitter.com/WvXUUMJWWT

— Erik Baker (@erikmbaker) December 29, 2022

The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 December 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link

It's unfortunate to see some of the most respected venues in journalism taking this turn—exceptionalizing individuals and groups who advocate for greater public health protections and portraying them as deviant, immature, countercultural, Marxists, etc. 1/https://t.co/eqqA8x6YOY

— Martha Lincoln (@heavyredaction) December 28, 2022

The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 December 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link

That headline is awful.

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 December 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link

the headline seems designed to be hate read bait for the right, whereas the contents are not. and sure enough ian cheong is tweeting it and musk replying. congrats to the new yorker.

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 30 December 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link

The problem with creating hate read bait for the right is that the right doesn’t read.

Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 30 December 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link

if this is in reference to the emma green article, I haven’t read it and am not terribly interested to do so, I’m not a stan or anything for the new yorker but there is a certain… standard that she consistently falls below, just a very odd fit for the institution. her heterodox bumpkin david brooks-citing approach seemed more suited for the atlantic, where she was previously

k3vin k., Friday, 30 December 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link

an editorial failure I suppose

k3vin k., Friday, 30 December 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link

yes

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 30 December 2022 00:29 (one year ago) link

One to skip

one month passes...

I never had a source assaulted in front of me until today when an Israeli soldier who stopped my interview did this with a Palestinian peace activist Issa Amro in Hebron. I can't stop thinking how dehumanizing the occupation is on the young soldiers charged with enforcing it. pic.twitter.com/Qrsa1UJsfA

— Lawrence Wright (@lawrence_wright) February 13, 2023

papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 13 February 2023 20:51 (one year ago) link

amazing tweet

mookieproof, Monday, 13 February 2023 20:59 (one year ago) link

Man. (At the tweet, the video, the responses.)

Wright also had a very, very long story about Austin, Texas and how it’s changing in the latest issue.

The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 13 February 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link

That Austin piece was a rare example of a New Yorker article that seemed like it should be a book (in the vein of Sam Anderson's Boom Town, about Oklahoma City), rather than the reverse.

jaymc, Monday, 13 February 2023 21:13 (one year ago) link

I mean, he's not wrong about the dehumanizing effect on soldiers but ...

I am currently irritated with the NYer because it feels like they are doing “double” issues way more than they used to.

That Austin piece was kinda irritating, too.

mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 13 February 2023 21:16 (one year ago) link

That Austin piece was a rare example of a New Yorker article that seemed like it should be a book

He already wrote a big book about Texas, "God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State."

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 February 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link

Hope it was better than his novel, which was a pile of shit.

Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 11:32 (one year ago) link

Scientology book was ok, but fell short of being the definitive outlier text

mh, Thursday, 16 February 2023 04:34 (one year ago) link

that tweet phrasing is abominable

mh, Thursday, 16 February 2023 04:35 (one year ago) link

two weeks pass...

should i read the agnes callard thing

i mean i love a trainwreck as much as the next person but possibly it will be too depressing

mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 01:30 (one year ago) link

i read it and just kind of shrugged but she seems like she sucks

call all destroyer, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 02:07 (one year ago) link

Yet another pseudo-intellectual justifying their fucking around with bullshit, this stuff should have died with the Fabian Society.

Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 08:01 (one year ago) link

seems like she's surrounded by people who like her for some reasons and just kind of let her do whatever because it's not worth disagreeing

I did see some reactions on twitter from the guy she co-hosts a podcast with and he was kind of brutal!

mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:24 (one year ago) link

A few years ago, I wrote an essay that, in passing, questioned faculty solidarity with unionizing graduate students. I had not realized how sensitive that topic was, and I was inundated with angry and hateful messages and a few threats online.

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INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link

that bad stance still far outweighs the weird and bad relationship hijinks

mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link

JCO multiple-driveby for those who celebrate

(excerpt from an uncompleted novel of Iris Murdoch focusing intensely, one might say hysterically-minuscule-ly, upon banal-stereotypical notions dressed up in philosophy-speak is no departure for the deceased novelist but her usual fatuous characters are here unleavened by wit.) https://t.co/YLvTL4SYdS

— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) March 8, 2023

mark s, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link

damn

mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link

Thought JCO would like her for throwing out her kids' Halloween candy

INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:18 (one year ago) link

JCO = out there everyday, proving what a power user she is.

I read 2/3rds. Veered between "that's the piece I would point ppl to if they wanted an answer to "what is philosophy for?" question to juvenile giggling at stuff like this:

After seven years of marriage, they watched Ingmar Bergman’s “Scenes from a Marriage,” a portrait of a couple as they struggle to understand the limits and possibilities of their relationship in the course of a decade. “It’s extraordinary that two people can live a whole life together without—” the wife’s mother says. “Without touching,” the wife answers.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link

you've got to read to the end to get the final story twists

mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:19 (one year ago) link

It turns out she is...a cat person

INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link

the proposed book title "Marriage is a Preparation for Divorce" is like an alternate world Lana del Rey album title

mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link

sorry, song title

mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link

She wondered what it would look like if she and Arnold integrated new romantic relationships into their marriage. They would all keep talking about philosophy, but with fresh ideas in the mix. They asked each other whether it would violate the terms of their marriage if they became romantically involved with other people. “We didn’t think there was any good reason other than the usual conventions of marriage to answer that question with a yes,” she said. They referred to their new agreement as the Variation.

university of chicago philosophy geniuses, and they arrive at being poly

omar little, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link

After our conversation in Pennsylvania, Agnes said Arnold worried that they’d given me the impression that their marriage was a success story.

omar little, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link

as much as you can quantify marriage on a success/failure scale, no

mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-barney-frank-went-to-work-for-signature-bank
nice one from chotiner, again

fpsa, Thursday, 16 March 2023 02:06 (one year ago) link

Heard Frank on NPR the other day, and he sounded like a raving lunatic.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 March 2023 03:58 (one year ago) link

Abusive romantic relations between faculty and students are a genuine problem, it is irresponsible to willfully exacerbate this problem because you want an outlet for some negative energy towards me.

— Agnes Callard (@AgnesCallard) March 16, 2023

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 16 March 2023 23:33 (one year ago) link

Tfw analytical philosophy does not equip you with the tools to survive online.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 16 March 2023 23:33 (one year ago) link

the article about "hache carrillo" was great, they should be required to have an in-depth deconstruction of a literary fraud in every issue

na (NA), Friday, 17 March 2023 13:28 (one year ago) link

Before it's deleted

okay i've had just about enough of this shit. in our society, you can pretty much do whatever you like short of crimes. (you can also often get away with crimes.) have two boyfriends or whatever, that is your business. if you publicize your life, no matter how dull, https://t.co/0EeGDsYk9R

— John Ganz (@lionel_trolling) March 17, 2023

xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 March 2023 18:30 (one year ago) link

I liked Frank or at least admired him for a while because he was good at invective and took no shit. How reassuring to know he's brought these same virtues to corporate banking.

the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 March 2023 18:32 (one year ago) link

a good liberal!

k3vin k., Friday, 17 March 2023 22:01 (one year ago) link

Why didn’t anyone warn me that cat person was back?

mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 30 March 2023 18:20 (one year ago) link

uncatperson?

It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 March 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link


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