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And he was right! And it's still basically unserious, despite being adopted by a bunch of loons with a taste for political domination.
February 12, 2026 at 10:08 PM
And he was right! And it's still basically unserious, despite being adopted by a bunch of loons with a taste for political domination.
I laughed at the notion and told him I had no idea, and didn't especially care. To my mind the goal was to establish a correct theoretical framework for catholic politics, not to come up with concrete policies. He balked at this and suggested that this meant integralism was basically unserious.
February 12, 2026 at 10:08 PM
I laughed at the notion and told him I had no idea, and didn't especially care. To my mind the goal was to establish a correct theoretical framework for catholic politics, not to come up with concrete policies. He balked at this and suggested that this meant integralism was basically unserious.
To get personal, I was at a wedding once about a decade ago, and sitting next to me was a college friend. I was still one of the ringleaders of the catholic integralist movement online, and my friend asked me questions about what exactly we would do, as integralists, if given political power.
February 12, 2026 at 10:08 PM
To get personal, I was at a wedding once about a decade ago, and sitting next to me was a college friend. I was still one of the ringleaders of the catholic integralist movement online, and my friend asked me questions about what exactly we would do, as integralists, if given political power.
I could keep going. Many of these people are unwilling to say what they actually want. In some cases it's because they're embarrassed of the extremism, but more often it seems like there's "no there there", i.e. their extremism is all aesthetics and resentment and has no positive vision at all.
February 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
I could keep going. Many of these people are unwilling to say what they actually want. In some cases it's because they're embarrassed of the extremism, but more often it seems like there's "no there there", i.e. their extremism is all aesthetics and resentment and has no positive vision at all.
Or again, to take a 3rd (unnamed) case: you'd think that if someone was willing to continually endorse a racist, misogynistic fraudster in the name of restoring our public commitment to a strong form of particularist christianity, you'd be able to say what exactly that christianity was or believed.
February 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Or again, to take a 3rd (unnamed) case: you'd think that if someone was willing to continually endorse a racist, misogynistic fraudster in the name of restoring our public commitment to a strong form of particularist christianity, you'd be able to say what exactly that christianity was or believed.
Analogously, you'd think that if someone was willing to throw out decades of international diplomacy, foreign aid, norms around honesty and public decency and so on in defense of something like "thick religious communitarianism", they'd be able to say what that looks like, or name some policies.
February 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Analogously, you'd think that if someone was willing to throw out decades of international diplomacy, foreign aid, norms around honesty and public decency and so on in defense of something like "thick religious communitarianism", they'd be able to say what that looks like, or name some policies.
"What is white culture and how is it under threat?"
You'd think that if someone believes that white culture is so essential and so threatened that they had bought into an "hour is late" political movement prepared to subvert the US Constitution, they'd have *something* concrete to associate with it.
You'd think that if someone believes that white culture is so essential and so threatened that they had bought into an "hour is late" political movement prepared to subvert the US Constitution, they'd have *something* concrete to associate with it.
February 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
"What is white culture and how is it under threat?"
You'd think that if someone believes that white culture is so essential and so threatened that they had bought into an "hour is late" political movement prepared to subvert the US Constitution, they'd have *something* concrete to associate with it.
You'd think that if someone believes that white culture is so essential and so threatened that they had bought into an "hour is late" political movement prepared to subvert the US Constitution, they'd have *something* concrete to associate with it.
I want to call this phenomenon "The Deneen Effect", i.e. it's a phenomenon where you ask someone with a bigoted, extremist ideology to be concrete about what they are trying to save or restore in American culture, and they are totally incapable of giving an answer that has any substance at all.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:54 PM
I want to call this phenomenon "The Deneen Effect", i.e. it's a phenomenon where you ask someone with a bigoted, extremist ideology to be concrete about what they are trying to save or restore in American culture, and they are totally incapable of giving an answer that has any substance at all.
Without the yeasts, life could not exist and we would have no knowledge of breads. They continually speak to us, telling us the will of the Bread. When you learn to quiet your mind, you'll hear them speaking to you.
February 12, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Without the yeasts, life could not exist and we would have no knowledge of breads. They continually speak to us, telling us the will of the Bread. When you learn to quiet your mind, you'll hear them speaking to you.
there’s a gym i used to go to with a nice big co-ed sauna, and there was always this dude in there who seemed to think it was a good place to network for his sales job. weird.
February 12, 2026 at 9:25 PM
there’s a gym i used to go to with a nice big co-ed sauna, and there was always this dude in there who seemed to think it was a good place to network for his sales job. weird.
how much are eggs over there lately?
February 12, 2026 at 8:53 PM
how much are eggs over there lately?
the purpose of democracy is to have a society in which people pursue new and surprising forms of happiness, like subsisting off of pickles and goldfish.
I really don’t want to do another round of inflation discourse, particularly as a practicing economist, but like, this was $54. And, like, i’m not exactly splurging here. Store brand cheese and pickles? Crackers? Lunch meat? A pound of chicken?
February 12, 2026 at 8:43 PM
the purpose of democracy is to have a society in which people pursue new and surprising forms of happiness, like subsisting off of pickles and goldfish.
Today’s poem: Elizabeth Bishop, “In the Waiting Room” (in two parts)
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February 12, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Today’s poem: Elizabeth Bishop, “In the Waiting Room” (in two parts)
#lunchpoems
#lunchpoems
i don’t exist. i am therefore perfect.
February 12, 2026 at 4:34 PM
i don’t exist. i am therefore perfect.
fire island? you mean hawaii?
February 12, 2026 at 3:01 PM
fire island? you mean hawaii?
all i can see is your chest
February 12, 2026 at 2:58 PM
all i can see is your chest
i really like this one
February 12, 2026 at 2:52 PM
i really like this one
i remember reading about that production in the Times. it’s possible that was how i started listening to it, though i can’t remember.
February 12, 2026 at 2:47 PM
i remember reading about that production in the Times. it’s possible that was how i started listening to it, though i can’t remember.