I’ve got a book about books coming next month! THE IDEA MACHINE: HOW BOOKS BUILT OUR WORLD AND SHAPE OUR FUTURE. It’s the history of the book as an information technology. Link in the thread below👇

Nick Fuentes probably a Die Hard denialist (that is, it's not a Christmas movie), and that Hans Gruber is the real hero.

Odd to see these in conversation. Wouldn’t have predicted the pairing.

Drug boats are typically piloted by poor fishermen and mechanics who are either tempted by the money or coerced by the cartels. They are typically unarmed. Likening them to warriors in a war is ignorant, not least because Congress has declared no war.

Turns out writing and weightlifting have this in common: each time you try you're supposed to fail.

Rand Paul: "We said, 'Ok, well we killed all your boat mates, but you can go back to' -- it wasn't even Venezuela -- 'you can go back to Colombia and Ecuador.' So this is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. And it's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow

Trousers!

It seems to me that when one's government is engaging in needless extrajudicial killings that violate the 5th amendment, proponents of limited Constitutional government should object rather than making light of the killings.

This is a clip showcasing the Boston accent from a piece called "American Tongues," which examines local accents in different American cities. Local American dialects are slowly dying off

I agree with @HenryEOliver here and have been exposed to a lot of great writers thanks to him. Well deserved nods to @joeljmiller , @anecdotal , @NaomiKanakia and others. 2025 was a very good year for literary writing on Substack too much to choose from

https://t.co/3HyO8PwLZy

We’re saying “Let that sink in” about entirely too many things. Let that sink in.

Kurt Vonnegut on why you should leave the house to buy an envelope (and avoid online life in general): “Then I’m going down the steps, and my wife calls up, ‘Where are you going?’ I say, ‘Well, I’m going to go buy an envelope.’ And she says, ‘You’re not a poor man. Why don’t you

https://t.co/Z26NovK12i

The tax code

So many columns in the NY Times should have a "*does not apply to people without rich parents" disclaimer.

Coffee. Revenge. I could keep going.

I’ve seen this movie.

Now cocaine is a "chemical weapon." The total corruption of language by the right is ridiculous. Words have meaning. Stop pretending otherwise.

@cturnbull1968

As the literacy rate declines, you’ll ask yourself why the quality of life continues to deteriorate in ways large and small, and in almost every instance the answer will be: because people stopped reading.