Friends, I wrote an essay on Alexis de Tocqueville, one of my favorite authors, and America’s loneliness problem. If you have a minute, give it a read! https://t.co/KS9DsxZOkC A big thank you to the editors at @Plough for helping me improve the piece!

The Family Compound Thing is more communal and multigenerational than the nuclear family [good] but ultimately it is another expression of the Culture of Retreat, another rejection of public life. Live walking distance from your family! But do it in a town with a wider community

Few things are more satisfying than needing a book you've never read, not sure if you own it or not, and then finding it right there on the shelf waiting for you

This is what Daniil Medvedev looks like when he plays tennis

Incremental development retains community character while allowing young people, immigrants, renters, and the less wealthy to join.

Just heard a couple dads talk about the homestead exemption for 90 minutes. Peak dad performance

The best policies for family-friendly housing include: repealing urban growth barriers, reducing green space requirements, reducing minimum lot sizes, and exempting 3+ bedroom apartments from floor area ratio rules, @lymanstoneky writes.

I have a new essay in the New Republic. I used to see things as left versus right. Now I worry about the money at the top. And while it may sound strange, I think this is a hopeful way of looking at the world that opens the door to coalitions that seemed impossible before

I used to sing Leonard Cohen in the shower, or would hear it in my head as I trailed off to sleep. Now it's the zoo train only : "ALL ABOARD! Climb aboard the zoo train, we say hello to all the animals. We hear them growl, and hear them chirp, and hear them ROAR"

Just looked this up and only after reading the actual name (Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog) did I realize for the first time that it is not a roaring sea crashing onto the rocks. Totally changes the meaning imo

This is kind of my entire dissertation

Nothing better captures the title of @DouthatNYT show, Interesting Times, than an ad halfway through for menopause telehealth—“the care women deserve”—followed by Ross question: “let’s talk about women . . . You’re theology takes a straightforwardly patriarch view of the family?”

Thread very well articulates that in America even what we think of as ‘traditionalist’ is really just a variation on the theme of hard work gets good stuff individualism. Traditionalist here means get married and have kids in a self contained nuclear family, maybe dad works and

Great piece here on the intersection of Yimbyism and family friendliness. Obviously, we need more supply, more of all kinds of housing to stabilize prices. And we need more density. A lot of good jobs are in cities; we can't build further and further out indefinitely, and land

Great piece here on the intersection of Yimbyism and family friendliness. Obviously, we need more supply, more of all kinds of housing to stabilize prices. And we need more density. A lot of good jobs are in cities; we can't build further and further out indefinitely, and land

There’s an incredible Leon Kass long essay on this if anyone is interested

While piece is a bit too ‘here’s 40 reasons women should stay away from men, and 1 reason it may be okay to love one,’ I’m trying to be a good person and not be mad when people agree with my basic conclusion but for different reasons. It is *good* that jacobin is publishing this

Really helpful explanation here of the housing bill that just passed in the Senate

It's a lot of fun when everything is working with the dissertation; I'm pulling books off the shelf, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Strauss, reading Frederick Jackson Turner for fun context, etc, the paragraphs are writing themselves. If only every day were like this

It seems insane to have George Santos in solitary confinement (even if for his “protection”); God will judge every single one of us who had a hand in building and sustaining our brutal, horrific prisons, prisons that should be the eternal shame of our nation

“What is it like to be a bat,” I recall as I am bombarded by Taylor Swift frenzy