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Writer (The Atlantic). Next book: SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT (Knopf). Non-resident fellow (AEI). Senior fellow, visiting prof. of humanities (Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College). Representation (APB; Wylie). Student & Teacher. Instagram: @chattertonwilliams.
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My sister-in-law grew up in the Soviet Union. One thing I can say with 100 percent certainty is I’m not *ever* going to be shopping at a government-owned and -operated grocery store when I’m in New York City 🙃

submitted 20 hours ago • 53 comments

“Trump may have made a crucial mistake that could bring about the very outcome that successive American presidents have sought to prevent: an Iranian nuclear weapon,” Thomas Wright writes:

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

What an absolute joke www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

What doTrump supporters believe all the incessant tweeting and yapping was for? Obviously, it backfired, but what purpose could it have served in the best-case scenario?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The “n word.” 🙄 The entire raison d’être of this administration is simply to troll on every level, no matter the gravity of the issue at hand. It’s stupid enough to make you wonder if you’re hallucinating

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

One of the hardest things to empathize with: genuinely ignorant westerners enjoying a quality of life the overwhelming majority of human beings of any place or time would give anything to experience glamorizing backwards politics and ideologies that would devour them if given half the chance.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Truthing and tweeting threats is 4-D chess statecraft

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

“MIGA”

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

We’re fast producing a population that won’t even be able to read a book: “College Board, which does the SAT, cut "reading passages from 500-750 words all the way down to 25-150 words, or the length of a social-media post, with one question per passage.” www.joannejacobs.com/post/as-atte...

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submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

One of the saddest things I’ve ever read

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

Checked Bluesky and see even Ezra Klein is getting dragged for being right-wing 🙃 This is a totally normal marketplace of ideas.

submitted 8 days ago • 94 comments

Seven partners at Willkie Farr & Gallagher — a prominent law firm that cut a deal with President Trump to avoid a potentially punishing executive order — announced that they were departing to join a firm that helped successfully challenge one of Trump’s orders in court.

submitted 12 days ago • 54 comments

Did free-speech liberals lay the groundwork for Trump? An old anti-anti-communist belief resurfaces. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 14 days ago • 69 comments

The condescension and self-righteousness of 2020 is coming back

submitted 14 days ago • 69 comments

Don’t necessarily expect good faith here, but he video my post was in response to—which was deliberately omitted—makes clear that I mean resorting to violence and not mere speech. Peaceful protest is laudable.

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

Completely in bad faith. This is not a post about speech. It’s about property destruction and violence. Throwing bricks into cars is not speech. Nice trick omitting the video this is in reference to.

submitted 15 days ago • 52 comments

Anyone who says “property doesn’t matter, only people do,” is mistaken. It takes enormous time, effort and labor to buy a home, to build a business, to innovate the tech that produces a driverless car. It is outrageous to imply that any of this is somehow a category apart from real people’s lives.

submitted 15 days ago • 26 comments

I don’t care if you’re razing Kenosha, storming the Capitol, or doing whatever this is in LA, no democracy can function when every group and identity block decides it has the right and moral authority to take its specific political disagreements into the streets.

submitted 15 days ago • 27 comments

To be clear: you are saying interracial marriage will be outlawed next? Do you genuinely think that? This place is wild

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments