Good looks?

I think the real story here is that @mattyglesias.bsky.social doesn’t subscribe to your substack.

Your Bluesky posts are of a different sort than your Slow Boring posts.

Oh and one more: Baldwin was speaking at what US history books regard as the apex of Civil Rights movement, popular on college campuses and among the liberal elite at home and abroad. This was followed by a reactionary movement that brought not just Nixon but Reagan. History rhymes.

3. Buckley called out the hopelessness in Baldwin, which I think was his only play. I agree with the sentiment of calling to action rather than despair but Jesus was he an ineffective messenger.

2. James Baldwin said “what has happened to white Southerners is in some ways, after all, much worse than what has happened to Negroes there” which I think is true and revelatory and why allowing platforms for debates brings to light intellectual rot

1. This debate is impossible today. The right would not engage and the left would boycott both whoever represented the right AND the left AND the forum that tried to host

Their hope is for somewhere else.