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Lecturer in philosophy. I blog about crime, disorder, and low status men @ flyingletter.substack.com
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He wasn't even subtle and quality control still missed it, we are losing knowledge of the old ways

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A lot of what we are seeing in us and world politics is the product of the internet increasingly making loneliness and frustrated sexuality the center of our self understanding

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Inter left disputes between research professors are very surreal to me, like you guys got ignored by the Democrats, crushed by your own administrators, and the smear campaign against you has worked and you are now generally unpopular, the nuances of your ideas are not the problem right now

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

I'm sorry but 'abundance agenda while being able to say slurs' is not what people want from the Democrats

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Mr. Beast: (yelling) I'm standing in front of the treasury building with scott bessent and we are seeing how many obligations we can renege on before moody's downgrades our bonds to junk

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Murder rate plummeting in Krasner's philly, looks like wokeness works

submitted 137 days ago • 1 comment

Time to start trimming my teaching portfolio down, only another 70 pages to go

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

Having finally processed the election results I have been thinking about how we move forward from here, first of all we need to be way harder on fancy boys who desire treats

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This isn’t a popular Johnny Cash opinion but I think after Highwayman he should’ve done a lot more songs where he flies a spaceship

submitted 146 days ago • 172 comments

The Manhattan Institute continues to push the narrative that our cities are descending into disorder, but as I've argued in a recent blog piece, there's just no real evidence for that flyingletter.substack.com/p/on-public-...

submitted 147 days ago • 1 comment

I like the vibe on here and let's be real twitter is a cesspool, but sometimes I find myself thinking, I wonder what happened on the last episode of the new norm show

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First class if they ever let me teach a graduate seminar: Hi! I'm so excited to take you through recent developments in philosophy! Second class: that's correct, four bags of his own poo

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Lots of liberals have been grumbling about the increase in public disorder in their cities and claiming that it is why trump won, in this new blog post I look at the evidence for the disorder thesis and find it to be pretty weak flyingletter.substack.com/p/on-public-...

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There's little chance the present court is going to rule against the police but this would be enormous if the 5th circuit court's momentary force doctrine were overruled

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I don't know how you can worship guys like Descartes and Aristotle and then engage in servile bootlicking in your discipline, those guys were nothing if not the biggest haters who ever lived

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Tech assholes going on about how GenAI is going to revolutionize education with personalized tutors like in that Neil Stephenson book. In just one year it completely killed the predominant mode of out-of-class learning used for over a century in higher ed: the research essay. Preventably.

submitted 150 days ago • 24 comments

This is going to be one of the central challenges of this administration. Also as I've written elsewhere, it's interesting to think that real estate developers hate this macro environment and real estate developers are literally Trump's people

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Lots of liberals have been grumbling about the increase in public disorder in their cities and claiming that it is why trump won, in this new blog post I look at the evidence for the disorder thesis and find it to be pretty weak flyingletter.substack.com/p/on-public-...

submitted 149 days ago • 2 comments

There's a lot of focus on the decline of the humanities and core disciplines but I don't think anyone is prepared for the coming collapse of the American business school

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I'm thinking of starting up my own philosophy graduate program rankings, I am already very experienced at yelling at vulnerable graduate students online so now I just need to figure out a way to mail some philosophy professors bags of my poop

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In before qts are disabled

submitted 149 days ago • 4 comments

If we want this site to actually be better than the other one we are going to need to fight disinformation in all its forms, sorry.

submitted 149 days ago • 12 comments

Reading thru a stack of papers about the impact of reform prosecutors on crime--I'll have blog post up in the near future summarizing and listing them--and the consistent point across almost every single paper? No impact on violent crime Little to no impact (maybe a small increase) on prop crime

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