Nick Burns

Many major developments in American society happen because some group starts doing something that isn't really allowed and then blackmails the state into supporting it after the fact. On "filibusterism" in America:
americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/08/americ…

Index Librorum Prohibitorum was really a great name because it sounds so much like fake Latin that on more than one occasion I've thrown out some fake Latin version of its name as a joke only to realize I'd actually given the name correctly

Cowardly in the extreme.
thetimes.com/article/eeb12e…

Baby care is one of those sort of Kuhnian aporia things where the fact that all the recommendations have completely changed from 30 years ago sort of makes you feel like they're probably wrong now in some major way, but you also feel reluctant to disobey them

Jacobin is the exception to this I think but I don't see that "Woke 2" - or rather, the deemphasis (not abandonment) of 2010s cultural politics among progressive Democrats - has so far carried over all that much into the intellectual sphere