…isn’t really a transcript. But go ahead and read it anyway: it’s like two bobblehead dolls talking to each other. This reminds me of a common experience college professors have: being given work that is plagiarized, but not being quite able to tell from what it is plagiarized. My sources say that we will soon … More When a White House transcript…
…appears to be in this Ukraine thing up to his eyeballs. How can someone who was a federal prosecutor become so alienated from the basic principles of inhabiting a position of public trust, as this article in The Washington Post suggests? The article also makes me think that John Bolton may have actually had something … More Rudolph Giuliani, international thug…
..was the culmination of contemptuous confrontations the Trump administration has been provoking with Congressional Democrats for almost three years. Something had to give. That something came later that night, in the form of a Washington Post scoop about a whistleblower complaint from a member of the U.S. intelligence community about a promise Trump had made to a … More The turning point to impeachment…
…the Exiles on 12th Street team, a podcasting gang affiliated with Public Seminar, has dropped its fifth episode, and we are getting good at this. This is our Futures episode, which focuses on the cities that might respond to climate change and to people, as well as a segment on how becoming vegan might stop … More Listen up, podcast fans…
So says Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times. Perhaps the most chilling portion of the story Sulzberger tells is about a call the Times received from “a U.S. government official” saying that the Trump administration knew journalist Declan Walsh was about to be arrested by the Egyptian government and planned to do nothing about it. … More When Donald Trump says “fake news”, autocrats jail journalists
…ARGENTINA! New School economics grad student Santiago Mandirola’s super-smart essay on the ubiquitous presence of the American dollar in the life of Argentinians. At Public Seminar, of course. And even though I am going image-free at Tenured Radical 3.0 (yes, the truth is I never left you) I can’t help posting this video:
In today’s New York Times Noam Cohen writes about another scandal, other than the Epstein money, bubbling along at M.I.T. Media Lab. But it’s related, since the vector in the Venn diagram of this project should be colored with your “ambition” and “recklessness” Crayolas: At the center of the project — the Open Agricultural Initiative, … More Tech bros with tech woes at MIT Media Lab
President Tucker Carlson. In today’s New York Times, the “white national economic populist” who is pretty, speaks in complete sentences, and seems to understand policy. Where Trump was a chaotic, undisciplined narcissist, the Carlson who wins in 2024 is a canny political strategist who makes good on Trump’s forgotten promise to embrace anti-corporate economic policies. … More Farhad Manjoo asks: what could be worse than Trump?
