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Social topic influence war, iraq, in the, book, israel, hamas, murder, united states, if you, this is

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @philklay @americangwyn @theatlantic @jeffsteele @fairfieldumfa @ragandboneshop @jayceladkins @gravitysra1nbow @elliotackerman @guernicamag @thomaschattwill @jacobsiegel @ruvisimmons @jennfrey @paulrelie @polanskydj @penamerica @loganmhb @commonwealmag @gregjaffe

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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"I once supported regime change in Iraq. Thats why Venezuela worries me. When we use our military and roll the dice with the fate of nations the consequences play out in a much longer time frame than social media trends"
X Link 2026-01-10T19:16Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Rough to have your debut novel come out in a pandemic and rougher to be reviewed by a critic so shallow he thinks THIS is why McCarthy uses difficult words. https://nyti.ms/2xBsBGm https://nyti.ms/2xBsBGm"
X Link 2020-03-31T23:21Z 22.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@jennfrey @AgnesCallard @NewYorker Also my students are reading "Torture" this week. I'll have to send this to them"
X Link 2020-04-13T02:21Z 22.1K followers, [--] engagements

"When we speak of trauma it is usually as something to be avoided at all costs.And yet soldiers like St. Ignatius who found in their suffering a strange and terrible blessing are not rare. I wrote about Ignatius Jnger and Amery on suffering https://nyti.ms/3e5h0iv https://nyti.ms/3e5h0iv"
X Link 2020-07-06T13:10Z 22.1K followers, [---] engagements

"This is delightful https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/books/review-rationality-steven-pinker.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/books/review-rationality-steven-pinker.html"
X Link 2021-09-29T13:39Z 22.1K followers, [--] engagements

"@matthew_komatsu @BrassAgainst Man I forgot about Rooster. Great song"
X Link 2021-10-05T11:25Z 22.7K followers, [--] engagements

""What does such a hagiographic approach offer to anyone who is not already a believer" @j_ckh_ns_n on Mario Vargas Llosa https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mario-vargas-llosa-tribe/ https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mario-vargas-llosa-tribe/"
X Link 2023-07-05T19:31Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@AmericanGwyn @NancyRomm Thanks guys. Thats too kind"
X Link 2025-02-17T21:25Z 21.7K followers, [---] engagements

"Increasingly thinking about leaving this app or only using it in the most minimal way. Musk gaming community notes in favor of the idiotic lies he chooses to believe pushing me closer"
X Link 2025-02-22T15:27Z 21.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Gogol who Pushkin referred to as that sly Ukrainian You just cant imagine how stupid the world has become in our times. (Gogol Dead Souls) https://t.co/PrP58txt2I You just cant imagine how stupid the world has become in our times. (Gogol Dead Souls) https://t.co/PrP58txt2I"
X Link 2025-03-01T18:52Z 22.6K followers, [----] engagements

"This is the village where I lost my legs. Fifteen years ago it was a war zone. Joao Silva"
X Link 2025-08-21T23:19Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/world/asia/afghanistan-joao-silva.htmlcampaign_id=61&emc=edit_ts_20250821&instance_id=161004&nl=the-great-read&regi_id=50419404&segment_id=204373&user_id=72bf27976013aa455967859d3de28a5f https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/world/asia/afghanistan-joao-silva.htmlcampaign_id=61&emc=edit_ts_20250821&instance_id=161004&nl=the-great-read&regi_id=50419404&segment_id=204373&user_id=72bf27976013aa455967859d3de28a5f"
X Link 2025-08-21T23:19Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"I cant remember anyone ever telling me we cant say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything the officer said"
X Link 2025-09-13T13:00Z 22.7K followers, 4.3M engagements

"This @yalereview Krasznahorkai short story is a nice entry point for anyone curious about the new Nobel Laureate"
X Link 2025-10-09T12:04Z 22.7K followers, 38.9K engagements

"Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island told us in a statement that every American should be alarmed that their President has decided he can wage secret wars against anyone he calls an enemy"
X Link 2025-10-10T01:24Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements

"https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/wouk-backlashr=ckdwj&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/wouk-backlashr=ckdwj&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true"
X Link 2025-10-15T15:26Z 22.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Honestly this was a factor in pushing me toward the Marine Corps. cant believe I went to the trouble of getting a PhD and didnt even get a sword out of it. cant believe I went to the trouble of getting a PhD and didnt even get a sword out of it"
X Link 2025-10-16T00:32Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Shrinking the addiction economy will require Americans to upend decades of conventional political and economic wisdom. For some time now we have imagined that robust moral judgments should be relegated to the private sphere @ianmarcuscorbin and Gov. Spencer Cox"
X Link 2025-10-26T18:39Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements

"I didnt think the inner life was everything but I saw its power. TOMORROW at 7pm at @FairfieldU Im in conversation with the great Joan Silber about the craft of writing and about her phenomenal new novel MERCY @FairfieldUMFA https://events.fairfield.edu/event/inspired-writers-series-joan-silber-with-mercy https://events.fairfield.edu/event/inspired-writers-series-joan-silber-with-mercy"
X Link 2025-10-27T16:33Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements

"He growled When one of your Marines is dying what are you gonna do recite poetry at him Well . . . no probably not. I wrote about the Yeats poem An Irish Airman Foresees His Death for @TheFP"
X Link 2025-11-09T14:04Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Id never seen this Nietzsche photo before. Quite something"
X Link 2025-11-14T20:38Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements

""I don't have any desire to live on a planet that has no heroes and no angels and no saints and no art. Patti Smith to William S Burroughs If youre a fan of art faith sex or controversy (or all four) you should come see me interview the great @Paul_R_Elie about his fantastic new book at @FairfieldUMFA on Monday at 730pm. https://t.co/QhZCRXJtGx If youre a fan of art faith sex or controversy (or all four) you should come see me interview the great @Paul_R_Elie about his fantastic new book at @FairfieldUMFA on Monday at 730pm. https://t.co/QhZCRXJtGx"
X Link 2025-11-15T23:42Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Graham Greene to Salman Rushdie after the publication of The Satanic Verses: "Rush-die Come and sit here and tell me how you managed to make so much trouble I never made nearly as much trouble as that'" If youre a fan of art faith sex or controversy (or all four) you should come see me interview the great @Paul_R_Elie about his fantastic new book at @FairfieldUMFA on Monday at 730pm. https://t.co/QhZCRXJtGx If youre a fan of art faith sex or controversy (or all four) you should come see me interview the great @Paul_R_Elie about his fantastic new book at @FairfieldUMFA on Monday at 730pm."
X Link 2025-11-17T19:38Z 22.6K followers, [----] engagements

"I met my translator. He didn't know a single word of Czech. "How did you translate it" I asked. "With my heart" he said. Kunderas adventures in translation"
X Link 2025-11-20T12:34Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements

"You can find meanness in the least of creatures but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. New episode @Jacob__Siegel and @PhilKlay are joined by @AmericanGwyn to discuss Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. New episode @Jacob__Siegel and @PhilKlay are joined by @AmericanGwyn to discuss Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian"
X Link 2025-11-21T00:31Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@polanskydj Butas with most revisionist Westerns the harsh violence contributes to the appeal.It draws us in more than it repels and the proximity of death makes the actions of itsdramatis personaeonly more vivid and compelling Nice"
X Link 2025-11-21T16:15Z 22.1K followers, [---] engagements

"@polanskydj I read LD in Kuwait on the way back from Iraq. Enjoyed it more the BM but it has stayed with me far less. In the podcast @AmericanGwyn points out that the end of BM very much makes the point you do at the end of your piece about modernity and fencing ending the west"
X Link 2025-11-21T16:16Z 22.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Fascinating on Lonesome Dove and Blood Meridian which apparently came out the same year. @PhilKlay There are some incredible bravura passages but yes I think many readers are too overwhelmed by the impressive bleakness of its vision https://t.co/K3bmCekUh0 @PhilKlay There are some incredible bravura passages but yes I think many readers are too overwhelmed by the impressive bleakness of its vision https://t.co/K3bmCekUh0"
X Link 2025-11-21T16:24Z 22.1K followers, 41.7K engagements

"The 28-point proposal from the White House which Kyiv has said was drafted without its involvement would give Russia most of what it has asked for including the surrender of Ukrainian territory and sharp limits on Ukraines military"
X Link 2025-11-21T20:07Z 22.1K followers, [---] engagements

"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/world/europe/ukraine-russia-trump-peace-plan.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/world/europe/ukraine-russia-trump-peace-plan.html"
X Link 2025-11-21T20:08Z 22.1K followers, [---] engagements

"By summer the NSCs entire full-time legal staff of about half a dozen was gone including the shops top lawyer former Pentagon general counsel Paul Ney Ney had been among the lawyers who had raised concerns about the legality of lethal strikes"
X Link 2025-11-22T14:46Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Something deeply moving about Lincoln making Thanksgiving a national holiday in the midst of the Civil War because we may expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom and God who while dealing with us in anger for our sins hath nevertheless remembered mercy"
X Link 2025-11-25T15:13Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements

"I write for my country which no longer resembles itself except in the horizontal drawing of its name and its position on the map. I do not recognize this strange monster where poems are prosecuted and poets are imprisoned. @PENamerica https://pen.org/freedom-forbidden https://pen.org/freedom-forbidden"
X Link 2025-11-25T18:34Z 22.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Some will say this means the U.S. should never admit such refugees but the alternative is abandoning allies who assist Americans in war to the retribution of our enemies. The fate of Afghans men and women who worked with the U.S. has often been brutal"
X Link 2025-11-28T15:19Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements

"https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-ambush-on-the-national-guard-e4beceaest=h15Wp3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-ambush-on-the-national-guard-e4beceaest=h15Wp3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"
X Link 2025-11-28T15:20Z 22.1K followers, [---] engagements

"The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. [--] attack ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseths instructions two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water"
X Link 2025-11-28T19:08Z 22.1K followers, [---] engagements

"https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/28/hegseth-kill-them-all-survivors-boat-strike/utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/28/hegseth-kill-them-all-survivors-boat-strike/utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social"
X Link 2025-11-28T19:08Z 22.1K followers, [---] engagements

"I don't think writers are sacred but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead. RIP Tom Stoppard"
X Link 2025-11-30T01:41Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Ungenerous Conduct of the Enemy might at first prompt me to Retaliation yet Humanity & Policy forbid the measureExperience proves that their wanton Cruelty injures rather than benefits their Cause; That with our Forbearance justly secures to Us the Attachment of all good Men For [---] years Americas military has appealed to Heaven. https://t.co/4P94LolLcm For [---] years Americas military has appealed to Heaven. https://t.co/4P94LolLcm"
X Link 2025-12-02T16:08Z 22.5K followers, [----] engagements

"George Washington to Major General Adam Stephen [--] April 1777"
X Link 2025-12-02T16:08Z 22.5K followers, [---] engagements

"The president inhabits a position of moral leadership. When the president and his officials sell their policies theyre selling a version of what it means to be an American I wrote about the Trump administration the boat strikes and St. Augustine"
X Link 2025-12-05T11:37Z 22.7K followers, 164.4K engagements

"@PabloTorre The greatest all-boys Catholic high school"
X Link 2025-12-07T02:36Z 22.6K followers, 23K engagements

"At an open house for a DOE middle school in NYC I asked what options there were for parents who wanted to minimize their kids time on electronic devices and was told there werent any. Almost every class does work on devices. Deeply frustrating"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:07Z 22.5K followers, 10.9K engagements

"@PeterLucier And Klay Thompson has the far more impressive NBA record as far as Klays are concerned"
X Link 2025-12-18T23:10Z 22.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Our country hasthrough presidential aggrandizement accompanied by congressional authorization delegation and acquiescencegiven one person the president a sprawling military and enormous discretion to use it in ways that can easily lead to a massive war"
X Link 2026-01-03T19:46Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"https://www.execfunctions.org/p/on-the-legality-of-the-venezuelautm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true https://www.execfunctions.org/p/on-the-legality-of-the-venezuelautm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true"
X Link 2026-01-03T19:46Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"A note on the Venezuela attack. When I began thinking about joining the military in the lead up to Iraq in [----] I thought that even in the worse case scenario Iraq would be better off without a dictator"
X Link 2026-01-06T16:35Z 22.7K followers, 49.7K engagements

"What followed was civil war mass death swelling ranks of terror groups genocide mass rape and slavery. Sixteen years after I had that calming thought about removing a dictator I spoke with a woman in northern Iraq whod been enslaved by ISIS"
X Link 2026-01-06T16:35Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"A smuggling operation had got her out back to Sinjar but her sister was still in al-Hol still enslaved. Near where the survivors spoke their children played and sang along to Baby Shark"
X Link 2026-01-06T16:36Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"The man who ran the smuggling operation told us there still many survivors enslaved in these camps. Three years after we spoke in [----] a U.S. military operation would find six girls chained up in al-Hol subject to rape and sexual torture eight years after theyd been captured"
X Link 2026-01-06T16:36Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Why are we not having enough attention from your side he asked. We have a high number of survivors people in mass graves why dont we have assistance"
X Link 2026-01-06T16:36Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"But the genocide had been years ago and Americans were tired of the endless horrors of the Iraq War and the human wreckage as uninteresting as our responsibility for what happened in the first place"
X Link 2026-01-06T16:36Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Do I think all that will happen in Venezuela No. I have no idea. But those spiking the football should remember that when we use our military and roll the dice with the fate of nations the consequences play out in a much longer time frame than social media trends"
X Link 2026-01-06T16:36Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Im hoping for the best. I have delighted Venezuelan friends hoping fora post-Trujillo-like soft-transition. One told me about his former students who had been killed peacefully protesting Maduro. I understand why he supports what weve done"
X Link 2026-01-06T16:36Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"But when when you launch military action in an unstable part of the world long beset by violence there isnt really a bottom to how bad things can get. And rather than a serious plan for the future were already threatening other countries"
X Link 2026-01-06T16:36Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Our Venezuela policies were already alienating Colombia long a reliable ally. Now Trump has threatened them with military action too. No doubt it makes him feel like a tough guy. But is anyone stupid enough to think that will help American interests"
X Link 2026-01-06T16:36Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"If the only substitute the Trump administration has for getting willing cooperation from our allies is cooperation at the barrel of a gun America will rapidly become a much diminished thing. Not just weaker but also morally repulsive"
X Link 2026-01-06T16:36Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"And even if this works out how often will Trump roll the dice this way If we continue to allow an unrestrained president to initiate acts of war against other countries without debate or authorization how long before the whims of one irresponsible man lead to genuine disaster"
X Link 2026-01-06T16:36Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@ragandboneshop @JaycelAdkins If after returning from seeing Hamlet good publican Giles insisted hed just read it we would all think he was a big weirdo. Seeing a play and reading it are very different things. I think people are unnecessarily assuming a value judgement here"
X Link 2026-01-07T16:44Z 22.7K followers, [--] engagements

"@ragandboneshop @JaycelAdkins I think it would be a very different experience hearing a bard perform say Beowulf rather than reading it. Isnt that obviously the case Again Im not making a value judgment here. Maybe its a better experience. But it is a different one"
X Link 2026-01-07T17:55Z 22.7K followers, [--] engagements

"@loganmhb @ragandboneshop @JaycelAdkins Sure though going back to hear a part again is different (and how often do you really do it unless you got distracted) from reading pencil in hand and underlining before moving on. Likewise a good actor putting feeling into a line offers something distinct from a read"
X Link 2026-01-07T20:07Z 22.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@loganmhb @ragandboneshop @JaycelAdkins I like to listen to audiobooks. I find them a wildly different experience from reading and some books lend themselves to it better or worse. I dont really see the point in pretending theyre the same. Both are good"
X Link 2026-01-07T20:09Z 22.7K followers, [---] engagements

"@ragandboneshop @freganmitts @loganmhb @JaycelAdkins Interesting. Its wildly different for me. As for what countsup to the reader: After reading The Divine Comedy a high school teacher told us Never say I read The Divine Comedy. That suggests you finished it. You never finish reading this book if you read it right :-)"
X Link 2026-01-07T21:49Z 22.7K followers, [--] engagements

"At [--] I thought the Iraqi people were suffering under a brutal dictator and even in the worst-case scenario removing him would be a net good. What followed was civil war mass death swelling ranks of terror groups genocide mass rape and slavery. I wrote about Venezuela Author @PhilKlay: When you launch military action in an unstable part of the world long beset by violence there isn't really a bottom to how bad things can get. https://t.co/SB6P83f2hK Author @PhilKlay: When you launch military action in an unstable part of the world long beset by violence there isn't really a bottom to how bad"
X Link 2026-01-07T21:54Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"The video that we have seen shows him documenting it with his cell phone which is a lawful thing to do and the only time he seemed to interact with law enforcement is when they went after him. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=-VBJx116hqk https://www.youtube.com/watchv=-VBJx116hqk"
X Link 2026-01-26T17:10Z 22.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Worth watching this in its entirety. It is remarkable how much of the Trump administrations case to justify their actions depends on lying about stuff every American can see with their own eyes The video that we have seen shows him documenting it with his cell phone which is a lawful thing to do and the only time he seemed to interact with law enforcement is when they went after him. https://t.co/tKaLioLRqQ The video that we have seen shows him documenting it with his cell phone which is a lawful thing to do and the only time he seemed to interact with law enforcement is when they went after"
X Link 2026-01-26T17:11Z 22.6K followers, [----] engagements

"@Eugenia_Kim @TheBookMaven That's so lovely of you Eugenia"
X Link 2022-09-23T18:30Z 22.7K followers, [--] engagements

"There is no God but God Muhammad is his messenger the paramedic is heard saying. He asks God for forgiveness and says he knows he is going to die. Forgive me mother. This is the path I chose to help people he said. Allahu akbar God is great he says"
X Link 2025-04-05T01:26Z 22.7K followers, 1.6M engagements

"Looking forward to talking about male troubles next week at the @92ndStreetY @daniel_lefferts @ailipstein @stconroe"
X Link 2026-01-23T22:24Z 22.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Got that new Scialabba"
X Link 2026-02-01T23:39Z 22.7K followers, 10.1K engagements

"February [--] Ill be in conversation with Chris Beha about his fantastic new book WHY I AM NOT AN ATHEIST"
X Link 2026-02-02T17:44Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Not long into his career at The Washington Post Martin Weil learned to ignore most of the crackles on the police scanner. One night in June [----] though he paused upon hearing this: Doors open at the Watergate. Being greeted nearly every day by Marty Weil ("Carlos -- hello") was one of the highlights of working at the Washington Post. https://t.co/NwLI6TOqFo Being greeted nearly every day by Marty Weil ("Carlos -- hello") was one of the highlights of working at the Washington Post. https://t.co/NwLI6TOqFo"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:15Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Wish I was in DC for this Lovers of books and of the @washingtonpost Join us at @PoliticsProse on Feb [--] at 5pm to honor the dearly departing @BookWorld section. @cspan will be there to record reflections from former editors critics and contributors. https://t.co/2iAE0tDUrn Please spread the word Lovers of books and of the @washingtonpost Join us at @PoliticsProse on Feb [--] at 5pm to honor the dearly departing @BookWorld section. @cspan will be there to record reflections from former editors critics and contributors. https://t.co/2iAE0tDUrn Please spread the word"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:15Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Education is for the students benefit not for the benefit of their future employer and that students go to school not merely to acquire skills but to develop an entire social and intellectual life: to have something good and to have it forever @dwaldenwrites"
X Link 2026-02-01T19:27Z 22.7K followers, 157.8K engagements

"For the love of God can left-wing people stop sharing Nick Fuentes clips where hes attacking the right Hes a troll. Of course hell occasionally confirm your priors but hes also vile and youre helping him gain an audience"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:53Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"What happens when the humanities are seen not as having intrinsic worth but as valuable only insofar as they can be of service to a cause Ive spent the last year working on a story about the Mellon Foundation the mega-wealthy private nonprofit that has a monopoly on humanities funding in America. The article about how Mellon has held the humanities hostage to its progressive political ideology is out today. 🧵 Ive spent the last year working on a story about the Mellon Foundation the mega-wealthy private nonprofit that has a monopoly on humanities funding in America. The article about how"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:42Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Nothing stays boundary-pushing forever except Wuthering Heights. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/opinion/wuthering-heights-film-love-story.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/opinion/wuthering-heights-film-love-story.html"
X Link 2026-02-14T14:04Z 22.7K followers, 55.7K engagements

"I joined the Marine Corps because America ideals are deeply important to me. And also you get a sword. Armies do not fight for abstractions. They fight for a people a nation and a way of life. That is what we are defending. https://t.co/vxxg3hFqT2 Armies do not fight for abstractions. They fight for a people a nation and a way of life. That is what we are defending. https://t.co/vxxg3hFqT2"
X Link 2026-02-15T20:56Z 22.7K followers, 17.1K engagements

"Please stop picking generals for this job. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/07/lloyd-austin-biden-secretary-defense-frontrunner-contender-443479 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/07/lloyd-austin-biden-secretary-defense-frontrunner-contender-443479"
X Link 2020-12-08T00:12Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Only today did I learn about Cynthia Ozick asking Norman Mailer about dipping his balls in ink. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=BLFQ5wQOY-g https://www.youtube.com/watchv=BLFQ5wQOY-g"
X Link 2021-12-06T01:10Z 21.9K followers, [--] engagements

"Superb essay from @ChristineEmba"
X Link 2023-07-11T05:06Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@SamAdlerBell @UnhappinessPod The times Ive run out of ink and never thought of the obvious solution"
X Link 2023-07-11T01:59Z 22.7K followers, [---] engagements

"Le Carr wrote many good books and a handful of great ones. A spy must learn to distinguish signal from noise. Here are his best works"
X Link 2023-07-12T18:10Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@Bobic Thats Nabokov from Pnin which is a short and stunning book. Not sure what you mean with DeLillo. Id say reread Pafko at the Wall and forget about philosophy altogether and just enjoy it for the tour de force it is"
X Link 2023-08-09T02:38Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Found the mountain I used to draw as a kid"
X Link 2023-08-11T19:29Z 22.7K followers, 13.1K engagements

"What are the best opening lines in poems Just thinking of The pure products of America go crazy from To Elsie which I memorized in the Quantico woods"
X Link 2023-08-16T22:13Z 23.4K followers, 120.9K engagements

"@matthewwalther @mair__wright @JcScharl The defense of many a lazy student"
X Link 2023-08-18T03:52Z 22.6K followers, [---] engagements

"There is no strict personal order for my inheritance. No Greek will be able to discriminate my body. An American is a complex of occasions themselves a geometry of spatial nature. I have this sense that I am one with my skin Plus thisplus this:"
X Link 2023-08-19T04:34Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Fascinating piece from @readliberties I would like to propose a contrast between two conceptions of the deity: God as a personality and God as a being. https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/two-concepts-of-god/cache_busting=64eaa75256754 https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/two-concepts-of-god/cache_busting=64eaa75256754"
X Link 2023-08-27T17:46Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Like Dillon I am a partisan of creative criticism but when I am told that something is unkillable by argument I reach for my revolver. @ryanruby admits to armed reading in the latest @bookforum"
X Link 2023-08-30T01:30Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Lord of the Flies is really worth rereading if you havent read it since you were a kid btw. Brilliant and just as interesting in how Ralph and Piggy fail as in the dangers posed by Jack"
X Link 2023-09-04T01:19Z 22.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Who is Hieronymus Bosch Who is Hugo van der Goes Who is Hans Memling Inform us of their addresses Interrogation of Czech artist Oldich Kulhnek in 1971"
X Link 2023-09-05T02:38Z 22.7K followers, 43.4K engagements

"Zadie Smith doesnt think politics should be separate from our evaluations of art and she says this quite explicitly. She just objects when its thin reductive boring or when the political objection is itself politically objectionable as she felt in the Emmett Till painting"
X Link 2023-09-06T13:26Z 22.7K followers, 50.2K engagements

"In raw financial terms the transaction will weaken Simon & Schuster the moment it closes never mind what KKR does as an owner"
X Link 2023-09-11T17:33Z 22.6K followers, [----] engagements

"@StrBene @GravitysRa1nbow Read him because of the baggage (The only genuine continuer of Nietzsche according to fellow baggage-haver Heidegger). For me the most compelling 20th century writer who loved war. Also your twitter bio reads Staring into the abyss. So come on man stare into the abyss"
X Link 2023-09-11T21:18Z 22.7K followers, [--] engagements

"We must first of all recall a principle that has always been taught by the Church: the principle of the priority of labour over capital. Pope John Paul II"
X Link 2023-09-12T19:25Z 22.7K followers, 17.2K engagements

"Hes seen the bloody tables of trauma hospitals the postwar struggles of the burned and maimedalong with their triumphs and joysthe whole life cycle of war. Yet here he was back at the beginning I wrote on @pvanagtmael / US training for major war"
X Link 2023-09-14T12:41Z 22.7K followers, 11.6K engagements

"As long as its not a major war Congress shouldnt worry their pretty little heads about it. Not comforting"
X Link 2023-09-15T13:37Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Today I turned [--]. And then the three-year-old got ahold of the balloon and now Im back to nothing"
X Link 2023-09-15T15:49Z 22.7K followers, 15.6K engagements

"My six-year-old and I share a birthday so my wife got us a half-dogs half-books cake"
X Link 2023-09-16T00:43Z 22.7K followers, [---] engagements

"I once heard Peter Carey describe historical fiction as science-fiction of the past and I suspect that might be a clue as to why Carey is so damn good at it"
X Link 2023-09-20T21:20Z 22.6K followers, [----] engagements

"For decades Helen Keller had publicly extolled Vladimir Lenin as one of the greatest figures of her time. They did not tell me about that when I learned about Helen Keller in elementary school"
X Link 2023-09-24T14:36Z 23.4K followers, 15.6K engagements

"Apparently theres a whole gross little subculture of Heller Keller truthers out there. Thanks Twitter. Could have gone my whole life without knowing about that but whatever"
X Link 2023-09-25T12:56Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"Im no more convinced by the its curation not censorship point when its made by @matthewwalther than when Roxane Gay makes it from the left. Attempts to limit access to ideas should concern us even if theyre not at the Chinese Communist Party level"
X Link 2023-10-01T16:43Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"In this world shipmates sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue if a pauper is stopped at all frontiers. Moby Dick"
X Link 2023-10-02T14:40Z 22.7K followers, 22.1K engagements

"This made me laugh. Im pretty skeptical toward the idea that its a failing of a publication to not be sufficiently online"
X Link 2023-10-04T15:13Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"The Klay childrens Great Books curriculum for October"
X Link 2023-10-05T00:42Z 22.6K followers, 20.5K engagements

"Scandinavian authors are required by law to title their books like this"
X Link 2023-10-05T13:24Z 22.6K followers, 25.4K engagements

"if the top [--] percent just paid the taxes they owe not paid more taxes or a higher tax rate but stopped evading taxes so successfully- then we as a nation could raise an additional $175 billion a year. That's almost enough to pull everyone above the official poverty line"
X Link 2023-10-07T15:01Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"My voice to Godlet me cry out. My voice to Godand hearken to me. In the day of my straits I sought the Master. My eye flows at night it will not stop. I refused to be consoled. I call God to mind and I moan. from Psalm 77"
X Link 2023-10-09T01:06Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"And were telling our daughters You have to be quiet now. You have to be absolutely quiet. Not a word. You cant cry. Cant talk. Its dangerous. And my girls were absolute heroes. They waited silently in the dark for [--] hours and they did not cry. "We're all going to die here." My friend @amirtibon spent a harrowing [--] hours barricaded in his home's safe room with his wife and young daughters as men with guns hunted them before an extraordinary rescue. He told me his story. Please read it. https://t.co/2hda3cMVAN "We're all going to die here." My friend @amirtibon spent a harrowing [--] hours"
X Link 2023-10-10T18:23Z 23.5K followers, 30K engagements

"What we actually witnessed was not the Palestinians mounting a violent struggle for justice but a far-right theocratic organization committing mass murder in the name of blood-and-soil nationalism. @EricLevitz"
X Link 2023-10-11T16:46Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Whitewashing mass murder as an act of liberation followed by a cowardly use of the passive voice. This helps no one"
X Link 2023-10-16T11:43Z 22.7K followers, 12.1K engagements

"This was not combat or a military conflict or a state conflict or a political conflict. Hamas enjoyed the murders so much that they did everything they could do to celebrate the killing. They celebrated burning houses with civilians inside who didnt do anything to them"
X Link 2023-10-22T04:25Z 22.7K followers, 69K engagements

"As a kid Id make fun of my dad for liking Jackson Pollocks scribble scrabble. As an adult though not long after I came back from Iraq I walked in front of this painting and was stunned by the power of it. A beautiful experience. Cant really say what it means though"
X Link 2023-10-24T22:16Z 22.6K followers, 21.6K engagements

"Smotrich is now Netanyahu's finance minister and one of the most influential members of the government"
X Link 2023-10-25T20:15Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Im a veteran Im telling you dont rip off any signs. Im not Jewish hes not Jewish I dont know if he is or not doesnt fucking matter. My neighborhood. Friday morning in Forest Hills Queens. Seems like some good old New Yorkers are pissed. https://t.co/TY7gcV9nak Friday morning in Forest Hills Queens. Seems like some good old New Yorkers are pissed. https://t.co/TY7gcV9nak"
X Link 2023-10-27T17:16Z 22.7K followers, 76.4K engagements

"I keep thinking of a father I met in Mosul who described living under bombardment in the battle against ISIS: We were trapped in the old city. We ate cats rats.There were days when they were so hungry and there was shelling and shooting and I just wanted to rescue them"
X Link 2023-10-29T04:07Z 22.7K followers, 12.4K engagements

"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. Orwell"
X Link 2023-10-29T17:16Z 22.6K followers, 16K engagements

"@kisstheblade_ The game works dramatically really well on the page which i didnt get until Id read it to my son. But you have regular scoring plus violence from the Bludgers as well as an all-or-nothing moment each game. Its far more fun to read to a kid than a game that makes sense"
X Link 2023-10-31T01:36Z 22.7K followers, [---] engagements

"For the Cub Scouts Halloween party the game my kids and I made was Feed the Monster (throw squishy monster balls into the big monsters mouth to win candy)"
X Link 2023-10-31T02:57Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"at the height of the Oslo accords in [----] when a settlement seemed possible Palestinian support for the peace process reached [--] percent while support for violence dropped to around [--] percent"
X Link 2023-10-31T19:33Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Combat in a city is like a knife fight in a phone booth. The violence is fast and intimate. The images coming out of Gaza are beyond grim. They will worsen as Israeli troops push deeper into the city @elliotackerman"
X Link 2023-11-07T21:42Z 22.7K followers, 12.4K engagements

"Over [---] Palestinians have been killed [--] of them children. Most were the victims of Israeli soldiers fire but eight of them including one child were gunned down by settler militias sometimes in army uniform"
X Link 2023-11-07T22:09Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Hamas is an idea that cannot be defeated only with a military said the diplomat. If non-violent alternatives continue to be undermined Israel will have accomplished nothing in this war"
X Link 2023-11-14T01:39Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Upon entering they begin speaking in a characteristic tone of outraged conscienceThey ignore any facts that taint their purity of belief. They squarely refuse to face the trade-offs and dirty compromises that politics requires. On art and politics"
X Link 2023-11-17T14:46Z 22.6K followers, [----] engagements

"@seanphughes99 @KnowYrEnemyPod Back then they didnt even know about extreme ownership"
X Link 2023-11-20T00:29Z 22.6K followers, [--] engagements

"Something she had learned in her brief time in New York was that anyone she would meet in New York had relocated there at great personal and financial cost to chase ambitions none of them achieved"
X Link 2023-12-21T14:39Z 22.7K followers, 14.9K engagements

"@GravitysRa1nbow The Frick is actually the best museum in NYC"
X Link 2023-12-28T18:12Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Laurence Sterne plagiarized Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" in "Tristram Shandy." Coleridge plagiarized Schelling in "Biographia Literaria. Any other great writers who did this in notable work"
X Link 2024-01-07T00:22Z 22.6K followers, 34.3K engagements

"@GravitysRa1nbow Thats a damn good cup of plagiarism"
X Link 2024-01-07T00:31Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Biden administration twice bypassed congressional review to approve emergency weapons sales to Israel and the Senate just voted down a resolution demanding a report on whether Israel has committed human rights violations Never good to pursue less debate and more ignorance of war NOW - Netanyahu: "In the future the state of Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea." https://t.co/M0uyN4SOzW NOW - Netanyahu: "In the future the state of Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea." https://t.co/M0uyN4SOzW"
X Link 2024-01-18T21:14Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"I love these covers Everything got the pulp treatment from Popular Library whether the book deserved it or not https://t.co/NIp9DOEmbH Everything got the pulp treatment from Popular Library whether the book deserved it or not https://t.co/NIp9DOEmbH"
X Link 2024-01-20T16:07Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"The deaths of U.S. service members most of whom were military reservists will almost certainly increase pressure on President Biden to retaliate more forcefully as strife grows in the Middle East"
X Link 2024-01-29T01:10Z 22.7K followers, [---] engagements

"Given the circumstances and the conditions there that we see right now we think a military operation at this time would be a disaster for those people a White House spokesman John Kirby told reporters"
X Link 2024-02-11T02:41Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Reading Njals Saga as a kid I did not think I would one day go the Iceland to teach writing. Excited for this. National Book Award winner @PhilKlay will be teaching at the [----] Iceland Writers Retreat in Reykjavik Iceland Register now for whats been called the writing retreat of dreams. https://t.co/sB46Pld7Po #writersretreat #Iceland #creativewriting #amwriting #fictionwriting https://t.co/bjEJBCVlHy National Book Award winner @PhilKlay will be teaching at the [----] Iceland Writers Retreat in Reykjavik Iceland Register now for whats been called the writing retreat of dreams."
X Link 2024-02-14T20:27Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"@BrianKGoodman I love her. Shes living in Prague actually"
X Link 2024-02-15T21:40Z 22.7K followers, [--] engagements

"@SamAdlerBell @KnowYrEnemyPod Yes but just wait until the mimetic desire kicks in"
X Link 2024-03-04T21:34Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@polanskydj @GuernicaMag Cowardly"
X Link 2024-03-10T05:31Z 22.8K followers, [----] engagements

"Anyone who wants to seriously grapple with war had better be prepared for far more shocking opinions than are found in this thoughtful essay by a translator and writer living in Israel. Shame on @GuernicaMag for pulling it down. Archived link here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240305095742/https://www.guernicamag.com/from-the-edges-of-a-broken-world/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240305095742/https://www.guernicamag.com/from-the-edges-of-a-broken-world/"
X Link 2024-03-10T12:43Z 22.7K followers, 436.3K engagements

"Peace is not made between angels and demons but between human beings and the real hell of life as Jean Renoir once noted is that everybody has their reasons. I wrote about the recent controversy at @GuernicaMag for @TheAtlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/guernica-retracted-essay-joanna-chen/677738/ https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/guernica-retracted-essay-joanna-chen/677738/"
X Link 2024-03-12T23:00Z 22.7K followers, 124.9K engagements

"In a country in which counterterrorism special forces chase after online commenters Ruslan Leviev an exiled Russian military analyst wrote in a social media post on Saturday terrorists will always feel free"
X Link 2024-03-24T01:10Z 23.2K followers, [----] engagements

"Wonderful conversation with @jordan_castro2 📣🔊NEW PODCAST EPISODE: "The World According to Jordan Castro the Novelist" with @shadihamid @xsantiagoramos & @jordan_castro2 https://t.co/EiYTvyzSAR 📣🔊NEW PODCAST EPISODE: "The World According to Jordan Castro the Novelist" with @shadihamid @xsantiagoramos & @jordan_castro2 https://t.co/EiYTvyzSAR"
X Link 2024-03-24T15:51Z 23.2K followers, [----] engagements

"Its Almost as If They Support a Hypothetical War I wrote about why America shouldnt be supporting Israels war in Gaza. @TheAtlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/03/gaza-war-indefensible-united-states/677896/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/03/gaza-war-indefensible-united-states/677896/"
X Link 2024-03-28T11:19Z 22.7K followers, 137.8K engagements

"@MLedgerLomas The first time I read Funeral Music I had to put the book down. Amazing"
X Link 2024-03-29T17:52Z 23.3K followers, [--] engagements

"John Spencer describing an IDF strike on an area we know was full of civilians where childrens corpses were pulled from the rubble: The morning after all I saw were adult military age males surrounding that crater in an area that was told to evacuate. Gross propaganda In the latest episode of #TheDispatchPodcast @Jamie_Weinstein talks with @SpencerGuard about the IDF's tactics in Gaza. Check out the full episode here: https://t.co/96QLuC6p79 https://t.co/WJQCbpV13p In the latest episode of #TheDispatchPodcast @Jamie_Weinstein talks with @SpencerGuard about the IDF's tactics in Gaza. Check out"
X Link 2024-04-04T20:43Z 23.3K followers, 35.4K engagements

"I very much appreciated @noam_dworman and @missperiel bringing me on to argue over whether the US should support Israel in their war in Gaza. I interviewed the very thoughtful @PhilKlay about his @TheAtlantic article U.S. Support for Israels War Has Become Indefensible. I hope people will not watch this and try to jump on one sentence he said or one sentence I said. It's not an easy subject. Captions are iffy https://t.co/z7Mukx3Mcv I interviewed the very thoughtful @PhilKlay about his @TheAtlantic article U.S. Support for Israels War Has Become Indefensible. I hope people will not watch this"
X Link 2024-04-12T19:40Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@Aizenberg55 @noam_dworman @TheAtlantic The point of comparison is the counter-ISIS campaign during which the international coalition fighting ISIS dropped an average of [----] bombs a month across all of Syria and Iraq. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA388-1.html https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA388-1.html"
X Link 2024-04-12T20:13Z 23.3K followers, [---] engagements

"What are the lesser known classic books you should have in a house with children"
X Link 2024-04-15T14:03Z 23.4K followers, 10.5K engagements

"One becomes accustomed to precisely nothing in Oyeyemis difficult marvel of a novel. Its plot is both fascinating and beside the point branching and digressing in a fashion the authors fans will anticipatebut can never fully prepare for. Another great @togglecoat piece in @bookforum https://t.co/2740LdiyuY https://t.co/XbL6oCDCSa Another great @togglecoat piece in @bookforum https://t.co/2740LdiyuY https://t.co/XbL6oCDCSa"
X Link 2024-04-15T17:56Z 23.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Unsurprisingly I loved this article about a guy named Philip who went to Dartmouth did terribly at foreign languages joined the military and believed passionately in a liberal arts education. From David M. Shribman @TheAtlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/philip-shribman-liberal-arts-wwii/677836/utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=true-anthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/philip-shribman-liberal-arts-wwii/677836/utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=true-anthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter"
X Link 2024-04-16T00:39Z 23.4K followers, 14.2K engagements

"So many writers signing a statement claiming among writers of conscience there is no disagreement. Ive publicly criticized US support for the war in Gaza (and Im still being called a Nazi for it) but on this I side with @PENamerica and the right to disagree"
X Link 2024-04-18T12:30Z 23.4K followers, 89K engagements

"I wish less of the folks driving activism in the literary community werent also apologists for mass rape and murder For authors still wondering if your voices matter $75000 will now be donated to the @ThePCRF because of the dogged work of @wawog_now and the moral courage of dozens of writers of conscience who spoke out in solidarity with the people of Gaza. For authors still wondering if your voices matter $75000 will now be donated to the @ThePCRF because of the dogged work of @wawog_now and the moral courage of dozens of writers of conscience who spoke out in solidarity with the people of"
X Link 2024-04-22T19:35Z 23.4K followers, 142.1K engagements

"@EQuotah Im responding to the org the reporter at Lithub credits for driving this. Im sure many of the other people involved are fine moral people who would never equivocate about such atrocities. But its certainly valid to point this out"
X Link 2024-04-22T19:49Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The assessment from the four bureaus also cited [--] instances of Israeli military actions the officials said "arbitrarily restrict humanitarian aid https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/some-us-officials-say-internal-memo-israel-may-be-violating-international-law-2024-04-27/ https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/some-us-officials-say-internal-memo-israel-may-be-violating-international-law-2024-04-27/"
X Link 2024-04-28T08:57Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Ive been trying to direct attention to American supported wars my entire career but it never occurred to me to go after the thing American elites care about mostthe bucolic campuses of the universities they attended"
X Link 2024-04-30T12:31Z 23.4K followers, 12.5K engagements

"Democratic debate is raucous and can often turn ugly when the passions are high but when the subject is war the passions should be high and democratic debate is never more necessary. Today Congress will vote on legislation that will stifle free speech on campus and unconstitutionally restrict expression protected by the First Amendment. Members should vote no. https://t.co/OaM5v6L2q3 Today Congress will vote on legislation that will stifle free speech on campus and unconstitutionally restrict expression protected by the First Amendment. Members should vote no. https://t.co/OaM5v6L2q3"
X Link 2024-05-02T02:00Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"From @PENamerica Kenneth Stern the lead author of the IHRA definition has himself stated that using the definition as enforceable policy is both unconstitutional and unwise and the worst way to address antisemitism on campus. https://pen.org/the-wrong-way-to-fight-campus-antisemitism/ https://pen.org/the-wrong-way-to-fight-campus-antisemitism/"
X Link 2024-05-02T02:03Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@classicvirtues @GravitysRa1nbow RS Thomas is so good"
X Link 2024-05-05T22:39Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Then theres the supposedly smart and successful part of Trumps diplomacy the push for normalization of relations with the Gulf States while trying to totally ignore the Palestinian issue. This was always a recipe for disaster Trump was the worst president we ever had on Palestine. https://t.co/bl7vWkekNW Trump was the worst president we ever had on Palestine. https://t.co/bl7vWkekNW"
X Link 2024-05-08T12:56Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Hamas will likely survive a major Israeli operation in Rafah if a major operation occurs. Hamas infiltrated and then rebuilt itself in areas that the IDF withdrew from in December [----] and April [----] https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-may-8-2024 https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-may-8-2024"
X Link 2024-05-11T00:52Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"More sermons should be like this (RS Thomas)"
X Link 2024-05-14T20:37Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@KellySKennedy Yes that was so cool to have a Kelly Kennedy connect And its great enjoy. I love Iceland. We brought the whole family (not just the kids but all three grandparents)"
X Link 2024-05-14T22:02Z 23.4K followers, [--] engagements

"@BeijingPalmer I am not Thats incredible"
X Link 2024-05-15T16:00Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Israels soldiers have been fighting pitched battles with Hamas in placesthat had previously been cleared by the IDF. Without any plan to govern these areas Israels army has achieved many tactical victories in Gaza but suffered a strategic defeat https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/05/israel-defense-netanyahu-gaza-gallant/678391/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/05/israel-defense-netanyahu-gaza-gallant/678391/"
X Link 2024-05-16T23:31Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@PhilWMagness The obvious flaw is the assumption that merit corresponds with contemporary notice. I could mention Keats Van Gogh Thoreau Melville Hopkins Poe ect but the point is blindingly obvious. Thats why Im asking for better sophists who might provoke interesting disagreement"
X Link 2024-05-24T17:34Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"@AmericanGwyn @jennfrey I was thrilled when Jenn told me she was talking Blood Meridian with you and was not disappointed"
X Link 2024-05-25T23:54Z 23.4K followers, [--] engagements

"My wife Jessica Alvarez will be discussing affirmative action expression and the future of higher education at @alumni_society Leadership Summit June [--] in BK. AGENDA REVEAL The Alumni Society is thrilled to reveal the full agenda for the [----] Leadership Summit on Thursday June [--] in Brooklyn Explore the agenda and impressive lineup of speakers: https://t.co/hTcLzKvTO1 #TheAlumniSociety #LeadershipSummit #AngendaRevealed https://t.co/4UGmiwew7c AGENDA REVEAL The Alumni Society is thrilled to reveal the full agenda for the [----] Leadership Summit on Thursday June [--] in Brooklyn Explore the"
X Link 2024-06-01T01:47Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@fxxfy Right by Ben Sasse and Nikki Haley"
X Link 2024-06-05T23:13Z 23.4K followers, [--] engagements

"On the changed IDF tactics and the impact on civilian casualties (and the flaws in reporting from the Gazan Health Ministry) In April women and children made up 38% of the newly and fully identified deaths the Health Ministrys most recent data shows. https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-casualties-toll-65e18f3362674245356c539e4bc0b67a https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-casualties-toll-65e18f3362674245356c539e4bc0b67a"
X Link 2024-06-07T23:25Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"When we askedBrig. Gen. Avi Bluth why the I.D.F. was promoting the military support of settlements that are illegal under Israeli law he directly asserted that the farms were indeed legal and offered to arrange for us to tour some of them"
X Link 2024-06-14T01:37Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"But war might just be the goal. Ehud Olmert the former Israeli prime minister said They want intifada he says because it is the ultimate proof that there is no way of making peace with the Palestinians and there is only one way forward to destroy them"
X Link 2024-06-14T02:02Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements

"My brother and sister-in-law (Megan Jeans Secret Family) on @npr Mountain Stage @mjsecretfamily https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1-032-bettye-lavette-keller-williams-kim-richey-the/id357520844i=1000657319122 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1-032-bettye-lavette-keller-williams-kim-richey-the/id357520844i=1000657319122"
X Link 2024-06-17T17:07Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements

"According to a recent Israeli assessment Hamas now has more fighters in the northern areas of Gaza which the IDF seized in the fall at the cost of hundreds of soldiers than it does in Rafah in the south. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/middle-east-robert-pape https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/middle-east-robert-pape"
X Link 2024-06-22T18:10Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Props to this guy"
X Link 2024-06-23T22:48Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Among voters overall just [--] percent think Mr. Biden has the mental and cognitive health to serve as president. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/us/politics/biden-debate-anxious-democrats.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/us/politics/biden-debate-anxious-democrats.html"
X Link 2024-07-01T04:14Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements

"The first missile strike destroyed a large part ofa major childrens hospital.The follow-up strike demolished Isida a separate private maternity hospital in Kyiv killing at least seven people. As rubble is being cleared the number of reported casualties is growing. "The destruction of hospitals in #Ukraine as well as residential buildings and essential infrastructure are abhorrent and any acts that target or disregard civilians must be unequivocally condemned" says @amnesty's Marie Struthers. https://t.co/53Lx6tBhko "The destruction of hospitals in #Ukraine as well as residential buildings and"
X Link 2024-07-09T00:34Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Quilmes o Pony Malta"
X Link 2024-07-13T22:02Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"A prisoner swap at a Turkish airport involving seven countries on Thursday freed the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and two other Americans held in Russia along with several jailed Russian opposition figures https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/08/01/world/russia-prisoner-swap-us https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/08/01/world/russia-prisoner-swap-us"
X Link 2024-08-01T15:54Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"A great book I'm grateful to Colm Tibn Kaveh Akbar Miranda July Raven Leilani Sarah Moss Katie Kitamura & Phil Klay for these words about SMALL RAIN. 1/2 SMALL RAIN is out 9/3 in the US. Please preorder from your local bookstore or online here: https://t.co/dRueMlBzue https://t.co/5kIrlSbucY I'm grateful to Colm Tibn Kaveh Akbar Miranda July Raven Leilani Sarah Moss Katie Kitamura & Phil Klay for these words about SMALL RAIN. 1/2 SMALL RAIN is out 9/3 in the US. Please preorder from your local bookstore or online here: https://t.co/dRueMlBzue https://t.co/5kIrlSbucY"
X Link 2024-08-05T21:43Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"@joel_whitney Had I argued that art should be apolitical this would be a good rejoinder. But then Oppen would be far from my oddest choice of writer to approvingly cite (or do you think Im under the impression that Orwells Spanish Civil War writings are apolitical). Read more carefully"
X Link 2024-08-06T13:27Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements

"WAWOG is interesting. Theyre pretty vile (theyve defended Oct [--] cheered Hamas military propaganda spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories etc) but early in the war put out a comparatively moderate letter that half the literary world signed. This bloated meandering op-ed by a former propagandist for the US Marines is best read like the broader US mission in the Middle East as a weak attempt at counterinsurgency against a broad-based anti-imperial movement. https://t.co/vWPTmYJx4m This bloated meandering op-ed by a former propagandist for the US Marines is best read like the broader US mission"
X Link 2024-08-07T14:15Z 23.4K followers, 15.5K engagements

"Horrifying comments from Israels Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich though he inadvertently justifies the international scrutiny Israel is receiving. https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-it-may-be-justified-to-starve-2-million-gazans-but-world-wont-let-us/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-it-may-be-justified-to-starve-2-million-gazans-but-world-wont-let-us/"
X Link 2024-08-09T20:00Z 23.4K followers, 21.3K engagements

"Young men milling in a street in Ein al-Hilweh said this was the first time they were hopeful and they each knew dozens of family members or friends who had joined Hamas since the war began in October. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/world/middleeast/palestinian-refugees-hamas-lebanon.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/world/middleeast/palestinian-refugees-hamas-lebanon.html"
X Link 2024-08-24T14:25Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The democratic value of deep engagementwith a text a trifle another persontakes on more explicitly civic dimensions in Small Rain than it has in Greenwells previous books and it is one of the novels driving currents. Wonderful review by @togglecoat I wrote about artistic immodesty and civic responsibility in the fiction of Garth Greenwell whose writing I admire so much for the new issue of @thenation https://t.co/fAhHmXZBss I wrote about artistic immodesty and civic responsibility in the fiction of Garth Greenwell whose writing I admire so much for the new issue of @thenation"
X Link 2024-08-29T00:15Z 23.4K followers, 12.3K engagements

"What are the greatest Catholic short stories NOT by OConnor or Dubus"
X Link 2024-08-29T13:21Z 21.8K followers, 32.1K engagements

"As a former public affairs Marine Vance definitely knows better. President Trump was there at the invitation of families whose loved ones died because of your incompetence. Why dont you get off social media and go launch an investigation into their unnecessary deaths President Trump was there at the invitation of families whose loved ones died because of your incompetence. Why dont you get off social media and go launch an investigation into their unnecessary deaths"
X Link 2024-08-31T17:56Z 23.4K followers, 15.9K engagements

"The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions. She regards with sincere reverence those ways of conduct and of life NOSTRA AETATE PROCLAIMED BY HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI ON OCTOBER [--] [----] Pope Francis to children in Singapore: "All religions are paths to reach God. They areto make a comparisonlike different languages different dialects to get there. But God is God for everyone. If you start to fight saying 'my religion is more important than yours mine is https://t.co/oR1Qpm9cb9 Pope Francis to children in Singapore: "All religions are paths to reach God. They"
X Link 2024-09-15T00:36Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 19:33-34"
X Link 2024-09-15T02:32Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"My generation like all the generations before me was raised for export. We were cheap labour of little worth. But we could write. We were artists. Art may have been all we had but what a thing to have. Claire Kilroy will be at Fairfield Monday https://quickcenter.fairfield.edu/2024-25-season-calendar/lectures/ovfe-claire-kilroy.html https://quickcenter.fairfield.edu/2024-25-season-calendar/lectures/ovfe-claire-kilroy.html"
X Link 2024-09-21T22:35Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The U.S. governments two foremost authorities on humanitarian assistance concluded this spring that Israel had deliberately blocked deliveries of food and medicine into Gaza. https://www.propublica.org/article/gaza-palestine-israel-blocked-humanitarian-aid-blinken https://www.propublica.org/article/gaza-palestine-israel-blocked-humanitarian-aid-blinken"
X Link 2024-09-25T01:10Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Loved chatting about Davenport with the great @jmkeegin I recently joined @PhilKlay on @PodManifesto to discuss Guy Davenports magnificent essay The Symbol of the Archaic and the pedagogical task of modern art: https://t.co/g4gh3u1PLA I recently joined @PhilKlay on @PodManifesto to discuss Guy Davenports magnificent essay The Symbol of the Archaic and the pedagogical task of modern art: https://t.co/g4gh3u1PLA"
X Link 2024-10-02T18:57Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements

"But the story is in a rather important way a subtle lie. I wrote about Evelyn Waugh culture war and faith for @commonwealmag"
X Link 2024-10-18T14:45Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Doug Mills is a legendary photographer who has photographed presidents and presidential campaigns for decades. Silly shallow complaint from @IChotiner"
X Link 2024-11-04T00:41Z 23.4K followers, 15.7K engagements

"I went on @nprfreshair and spoke with @TonyaMosley about Trump and the military Veterans Day faith and American citizenship. https://www.npr.org/2024/11/11/g-s1-33701/a-marine-corps-veteran-expresses-concerns-for-the-military-in-a-2nd-trump-presidency https://www.npr.org/2024/11/11/g-s1-33701/a-marine-corps-veteran-expresses-concerns-for-the-military-in-a-2nd-trump-presidency"
X Link 2024-11-11T20:13Z 22.3K followers, [----] engagements

"I was in their studios so I didnt have it handy and went with another translation but if I could have Id have quoted from this Robert Alter translation of Psalm [--] I went on @nprfreshair and spoke with @TonyaMosley about Trump and the military Veterans Day faith and American citizenship. https://t.co/0GNV6fpPrx I went on @nprfreshair and spoke with @TonyaMosley about Trump and the military Veterans Day faith and American citizenship. https://t.co/0GNV6fpPrx"
X Link 2024-11-11T20:24Z 22.4K followers, [----] engagements

"During Trumps first termHegseth lobbied for the pardons of Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance and Army Major Mathew Golsteyn and pushed to support Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher each of whom were facing charges or convictions related to alleged war crimes https://time.com/7176342/pete-hegseth-donald-trump-pardon-war-crimes-military/ https://time.com/7176342/pete-hegseth-donald-trump-pardon-war-crimes-military/"
X Link 2024-11-18T20:04Z 22.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Since Hegseth helped push pardoning Clint Lorance for murder its worth revisiting this superb @GregJaffe piece on his platoon. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/clint-lorance-platoon-afghanistan/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/clint-lorance-platoon-afghanistan/"
X Link 2024-11-18T20:39Z 22.3K followers, [----] engagements

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