@jkavanagh.bsky.social
Editor at New York magazine and Condé Nast in a previous life.
Also at Shakespeare on Politics on that other platform.
Also at Shakespeare on Politics on that other platform.
Shakespeare, in his unfinished play “Sir Thomas More,” portrays the May Day riots of 1517, when Londoners protested the immigrants from Lombardy.
February 5, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Shakespeare, in his unfinished play “Sir Thomas More,” portrays the May Day riots of 1517, when Londoners protested the immigrants from Lombardy.
“It seems as if the nation has degenerated, as if it has lost all sense of goodness and honor…There has been a catastrophe—and vermin of every kind have escaped from the cellars.”
(No, it’s not a description of Trump, his obsequious party, MAGA cult, and lawless ICE.)
(No, it’s not a description of Trump, his obsequious party, MAGA cult, and lawless ICE.)
January 30, 2026 at 5:31 PM
“It seems as if the nation has degenerated, as if it has lost all sense of goodness and honor…There has been a catastrophe—and vermin of every kind have escaped from the cellars.”
(No, it’s not a description of Trump, his obsequious party, MAGA cult, and lawless ICE.)
(No, it’s not a description of Trump, his obsequious party, MAGA cult, and lawless ICE.)
Our country under Trump and Noem
January 25, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Our country under Trump and Noem
Republicans questioning Jack Smith today
January 22, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Republicans questioning Jack Smith today
Is this The New York Times or
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social?
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social?
January 19, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Is this The New York Times or
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social?
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social?
Caliban Leavitt speaks
January 16, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Caliban Leavitt speaks
Trump Justice Department:
January 13, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Trump Justice Department:
This is a CBS Evening News parody account, right?
January 2, 2026 at 10:58 PM
This is a CBS Evening News parody account, right?
From “Tyrant,” by Stephen Greenblatt. (You thought it was about Trump, didn’t you?)
December 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
From “Tyrant,” by Stephen Greenblatt. (You thought it was about Trump, didn’t you?)
“Most ignorant of what he’s most assured.”
“Measure for Measure”
“Measure for Measure”
December 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
“Most ignorant of what he’s most assured.”
“Measure for Measure”
“Measure for Measure”
Kennedy Center salutes Trump last night
December 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Kennedy Center salutes Trump last night
Stephen Greenblatt, in “Tyrant,” on Shakespeare’s Richard III. (You thought he was talking about Trump and his complicit GOP and ignorant MAGA, didn’t you?)
December 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Stephen Greenblatt, in “Tyrant,” on Shakespeare’s Richard III. (You thought he was talking about Trump and his complicit GOP and ignorant MAGA, didn’t you?)
From “Tyrant,” by Stephen Greenblatt
December 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
From “Tyrant,” by Stephen Greenblatt
From David Remnick
December 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
From David Remnick
“Aggregators were held in especially low esteem. They did little, if any, original reporting. They were reusing our stories and everybody else’s, cherry-picking the most seductive elements, all without being saddled with the hard work and burdensome expense of original reporting.”
December 16, 2025 at 4:33 AM
“Aggregators were held in especially low esteem. They did little, if any, original reporting. They were reusing our stories and everybody else’s, cherry-picking the most seductive elements, all without being saddled with the hard work and burdensome expense of original reporting.”
Complicit GOP under Trump, take note:
“Examination of one’s own self—how very unpleasant it was. The list of despicable acts was unbelievably vile.”
On the death of Stalin and the sudden examination of conscience and sense of guilt over their moral weakness by so many who had bowed down to him.
“Examination of one’s own self—how very unpleasant it was. The list of despicable acts was unbelievably vile.”
On the death of Stalin and the sudden examination of conscience and sense of guilt over their moral weakness by so many who had bowed down to him.
December 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Complicit GOP under Trump, take note:
“Examination of one’s own self—how very unpleasant it was. The list of despicable acts was unbelievably vile.”
On the death of Stalin and the sudden examination of conscience and sense of guilt over their moral weakness by so many who had bowed down to him.
“Examination of one’s own self—how very unpleasant it was. The list of despicable acts was unbelievably vile.”
On the death of Stalin and the sudden examination of conscience and sense of guilt over their moral weakness by so many who had bowed down to him.
Via Charlie Sykes
December 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Via Charlie Sykes
Happy birthday, Jonathan Swift. The great satirist was also Dean of the Anglican St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. He had wheels installed on his pulpit in order to be moved directly over any parishioner who fell asleep during one of Swift’s hours-long sermons.
November 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Happy birthday, Jonathan Swift. The great satirist was also Dean of the Anglican St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. He had wheels installed on his pulpit in order to be moved directly over any parishioner who fell asleep during one of Swift’s hours-long sermons.
Happy birthday to the great satirist Jonathan Swift:
“I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed,” he wrote.
His essay “The Art of Political Lying” is ever relevant today in the lies spewed by Trump and his party and disseminated by his propaganda arm in Fox “News”
“I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed,” he wrote.
His essay “The Art of Political Lying” is ever relevant today in the lies spewed by Trump and his party and disseminated by his propaganda arm in Fox “News”
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Happy birthday to the great satirist Jonathan Swift:
“I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed,” he wrote.
His essay “The Art of Political Lying” is ever relevant today in the lies spewed by Trump and his party and disseminated by his propaganda arm in Fox “News”
“I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed,” he wrote.
His essay “The Art of Political Lying” is ever relevant today in the lies spewed by Trump and his party and disseminated by his propaganda arm in Fox “News”
Ho-hum. Just headlines from another week in Trump’s presidency:
November 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Ho-hum. Just headlines from another week in Trump’s presidency:
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
