RT @JohnJHarwood: repulsive. craven. corrupt. wrong. via @NYTimes.

"The Third Reich of Dreams" illustrates, profoundly, how people gird themselves for the great moral tests they know are coming, even as they absorb the shocking curtailments of freedom to their daily lives. @TimothyDSnyder @PrincetonUPress .

In which I discuss Hitler and orange hitler with two amiable and like-minded psychologists (I don't come in until an hour and ten minutes):

Biggest megaphone + world's richest idiot = "CHAINSAW!"

RT @DecodingFoxNews: A religious leader who actually believes in the words of her savior. Mary and Joseph were refugees trying to protect t….

Ok, guys it's really really bad. But it can't possibly be as bad as we imagi.

If you'd like to hear me talk about my favorite subject beyond American musicals—orange hitler 2.0—listen to this episode of "Shrinking Trump," a fantastic podcast. @duty2warn

If you'd like to hear me talk about this genius at New York's Lambs Club on December 5, dm me. You'll learn about how the American musical is forever stamped with Oscar Hammerstein II's innovations as well as his ethics and his vision for the country. @RnH_Org

My bossy final tweet: Follow me on bluesky and also this conversation with David Armstrong about Oscar Hammerstein and the Invention of the Musical is fun to listen to:

Nobody's ever talked the way Trump does. It's like no one before. Or so it seems

Spiritual father to Sondheim, Oscar Hammerstein, more than any single artist, created the musical, imbuing it with his humor and his ethical sense. The book 'Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical' is now out in paperback! @RnH_Org

Carousel is “a treatise on the messiness of forgiveness,” in which “our tears fall as an answer to the ever-evolving question: Can we forgive ourselves, each other, and the artists who came before us, no matter how imperfect we all might be?”

Lorenz Hart was a huge talent afflicted by drink, and Rodgers seemed to echo his descent in slow motion. @playbill @broadwaycom

“Hart wrote about sex and Hammerstein wrote about love. And love is the deeper, if less sexy, subject.” @SongbookFdn

Artists should write and represent their own stories, yes, but the very nature of art is nonliteral and imaginative leaps are vital to our understanding of the world. @nytimestheater

One hopes!.

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For the 50th anniversary of the movie @soundof music, @LadyGaga performed a medley at the Oscars. When she raised two tattooed arms at the triumphant finish of "Climb Ev'ry Mountain, she cut a path between parody and veneration, showing that the two can coexist in perfect harmony.

To critics, questions like 'How do you keep a wave upon the sand?' and 'How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?' seemed treacly, but to actual children, these are delightful questions, delightfully posed. @SoundofMusic @SethRudetsky @broadwayworld @Lin_Manuel @broadwaycom.

Learn who Oscar Hammerstein II really was! @RnH_Org @playbill @dramabookshop.