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a brief item for appreciating Jamelle Bouie’s option to pay attention to a bad movie

A rare post of length — sort of an American death’s-head meditation.

The Know Your Enemy guys put up an episode on Leo Strauss’s Natural Right and History the other day.

A brief item noticing an accidental thematic synchronization between podcasts Law and Chaos and In Bed With the Right.

A brief item for appreciating themes in a recent conversation recorded for new publication Equator and the Georgetown University Global Dialogues series.

A brief item pointing back to two video essays made a year ago by YouTubers F.D Signifier and Lil Bill, a cross-channel collaboration on the subject of religious and political organizing on the social margin in Black America.

A new brief item for calling attention to solidarity and cooperation in the LGBTQ+ local / regional media space with News Is Out’s ‘The Map of Us,’ while noticing also voices of some who don’t want to stand under its sort of umbrella.

A brief item suggesting a listen to the Thinking Muslim podcast’s recent conversation recorded with Shadi Hamid and host Tom ‘Imam Tom’ Facchine.

A personal post remarking on my getting to know Lea Ypi’s work only recently and recommending her ‘Moral Socialism’ talks on Kant, Marx, &c.

A brief item in recognition of things that require us to give the Jeffrey Epstein story attention, like it or not.