Author: Andrew
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After Political Assassination
I still feel quite sad and down today. I have seen many thoughts on where we are as a country and how the assassination of Charlie Kirk yesterday makes our state of things even more precarious. I do not wish to participate in a doomsday sort of reflection, but I can’t help but think that…
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Today is another step change
Today, there was an assassination attempt on Charlie Kirk. This is horrific. It’s devastating. And, unbelievably, there will be mixed emotions on the internet about it. This kind of political violence has the signatures of “last days of the empire” type events. Political actors who think there’s nothing left to do than burn it all…
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Two thoughts about “the elites”
Two things I’ve seen in the last hour on Twitter/X really illuminated for me how much “the elites” is front and center to the mess of the American culture right now. I’m also reading The Revolt of the Republic by Martin Gurri right now and have to come to see that it’s all about “the…
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This is the Great Ravine
You are forced to respond in kind if the other side escalates the narrative attacks, like using mustard gas in World War I, until eventually the entire game breaks because the anger you’ve created can’t be contained by the rules of the game. And that’s when you are well and truly in the Great Ravine.…
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So What, Now What?
As always, Ben’s note is sharp and on the surface feels like the right read of the situation. For someone skilled and informed below the surface, I’m sure there’s a lot more moving parts but taking it at face value its contents concern me. Greatly. I just think it’s time to get serious and see…
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Brave New World
As seems to happen each time I come to recounting a book I’ve read, I don’t like to do it very much because, I’m sorry to say, it requires me to think about it, comprehensively, and I think I’m so ‘of my time’ that thinking this way is uncomfortable. It’s much easy to just read…
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Get a life
Here is one of those things that when read I nod at the end and go, “Yes. It’s like that.”
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Camping as a useful measuring stick of parenting
For the past two years, we’ve gone camping about five times. Five isn’t a big number but it’s certainly relative. Packing for five (there’s that number) people in the family, kids 5 to .83 years old, is a lot. Getting there and unpacking once we’re home are hard, but it’s incredibly worth it for core-memory…
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Trump Seizes the Means of Production at Intel
From Tyler Cowen in The Free Press. If you are a major CEO, the message could not be clearer: Tread very, very carefully. Think again before you criticize this president or this White House. And The sad reality is that we are marching down a very dangerous road, the discourse surrounding the issue is an…
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Music, man, music.
There’s some word for feeling nostalgia for a period of time or experience you’ve never had and when I listen to the music I like the most, I feel this. Particularly the music of the 1960s and 1970s: I especially get this when I watch live stuff on YouTube. Like just now, I’ve been stuck…