this is a good post because it's pointing at something true without being quite true itself while the true thing is difficult to explicate, and the tension between these aspects inevitably makes readers very uncomfortable and mad well done

this won't happen. people are different, the west is different, and the world has moved on. the old coalition members are changed, and mostly diminished in number and influence, and the new potential partisans often want different things. this isn't unique to the center-left

total cultural failure of the economics profession to blandly call it the "2008 financial crisis" when they could have gone with The Market for Lehmans

begun the drone wars have

i guess we're prosecuting the entire obama administration now sure why not. turnabout's fair play

sitting in an interview with a candidate. watching his eyes flit back and forth between the camera and a second monitor to his left as he silently writes suddenly competent code after fumbling all the verbal discussion questions what are we even doing here

we are never going to have what are conventionally understood as meritocratic admissions to elite schools (and hence, all the other schools that mimic them) because these schools are not interested in merit

to be fair the last time we had stability in syria was the reign of ashurbanipal

it's actually kind of amazing that iran is still at it someone shouldve iced khamenai i guess? idk

People who don't have kids don't know what this gait means.