Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
Thought Crimes for All Occasions. No Charge.
To the four year old girl who saw me walking down the street and called down from her apartment “Hello, Beautiful!”— Everything I have is yours
I could have wept when I saw William Hazlitt in the lede. The secret knowledge lives! nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opi…
“My mom was coming with me to appointments and sometimes she’d be in the room, and they know how to handle her as a parent, which is a skill." nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/…
Listen, if I’m going to get an evil chess set I’m going all the way.
Oh my god. A Mid-Evil chess set
The most alpha thing a man can do is marry and be faithful to a good woman for the entirety of his life and to be willing to storm the gates of hell to stay married to her.
Marriage isn’t “natural.” It’s supernatural.
Pamela Anderson, 58, at the premiere of "The Naked Gun"
The Fisherman and the Siren, Frederic Leighton
“I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor
A lot of women have no idea how to close a deal, and a lot of men know how to chew their leg out of a trap. nytimes.com/2025/07/21/mag…
Nine dead kids: millions of pools recalled. Now do guns. cbsnews.com/news/pools-rec…
The past 10 years have been tumultuous for higher education, Tyler Austin Harper argues. He recommends eight books that look with clear eyes at the goals, accomplishments, and failures of American universities. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…
Revenge of the kayaking center left.
Mainers kayaked to the island summer home of Chief Justice Roberts this morning to protest the extremist agenda & demand resistance to tyranny. By land and by sea Mainers get it done! #MEpolitics
I can’t wait to read this book. It brings order to the “What just happened?” era.
Hardcovers have arrived! The attempt to memory hole 2020 has been something to see. Four years ago, I set out to write an honest account of the ideological convulsions that have beset American society from the election of the first black president in 2008 to the reelection of…
It seems that originally the story was that the FBI left some of the hard drives unattended in the NY house because they didn’t have the right equipment to copy them. Now it seems because they didn’t have the right kind of warrant. Is any of that true?
Meet the new kid: "Babies give us new songs to sing." chriserskinela.com/2025/07/19/mee…
It’s a beautiful day in Southern California and I’m sitting inside watching Pat Buchanan’s testimony at the Watergate hearings.
Trump & Epstein became buds in the 1980s, when an Epstein financial client was crooked Saudi arms dealer Adnan Kashoggi. In 1988-89 Spy magazine sent 3 checks for diminishing tiny amounts to dozens of rich people. Only 2 cashed the $.13 ones—future bankrupts Trump & Kashogggi.