Joseph Shaw

“Flip-flopping between tough talk and muddled actions”, David Lammy had said of the Tory approach to China Now, with the bottling of the China audit, Labour has ditched the tough talk and is muddling down the same path My new column for @thetimes thetimes.com/comment/column…

Alasdair MacIntyre has died. @NPinkoski explains how he, a Marxist turned Aristotelian, helped shape the postliberal Right: compactmag.com/article/postli… @compactmag_

Assisted dying takes people at their most vulnerable moment and says to them, "That's right, your life really isn't worth living." I describe what the euthanasia movement is really about and why we should oppose it: brusselstimes.com/opinions/15055…

Almost every single AI company logo is a butthole. The visual representation is painfully accurate, as their product is an excretion of other people's work. Perfectly good fare goes in, and defecation comes out.

“All Power ought to be used for the Common Good.” A proposal for sanctifying the world is a proposal for the right use of power... and the laity in a special way, ought to become powerful, is presupposed by this statement. newpolity.com/blog/catholic-…

Excellent pod and hitting the nail on the head with a new generation's rebellion against the received order with Joris-Karl Huysmans as the segue! Give @matthewschmitz & @juliadyost a listen for incisive and wry insight.

Some news: @juliadyost and I are launching Against the Grain, a podcast on how the right is remaking America. Subscribe to @againstthepod at patreon.com/againstthepod

Pope Leo XIV making some solid points for lawmakers' consideration... vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

Wokeness represented a shift toward a system where the measure of justice wasn't proportional punishment of criminals, but the compliance of normal society. Read my latest for @compactmag_ compactmag.com/article/woke-l…

Food for thought. Not the total picture, but a potentially useful data point.

From Biden’s ‘politburo’ to Jackson’s kitchen cabinet, every President has an inner circle Meet Donald Trump’s ⬇️ New @thetimes column: thetimes.com/us/american-po…

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For @TimesMagazine I've written about my family's journey to the UK, how I ended up in journalism writing about my motherland... ...and how this has led to accusations of espionage. The truth is a little less exciting. Read about my real mission 👇 thetimes.com/comment/column…

Trump negotiates his big beautiful bill, Biden is diagnosed with cancer, and South African refugees resettle in the United States. Ashley Frawley and Geoff Shullenberger join Matthew Schmitz. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

This is the hour for love! The heart of the Gospel is the love of God that makes us brothers and sisters. With my predecessor Leo XIII, we can ask ourselves today: If this criterion “were to prevail in the world, would not every conflict cease and peace return?” (Rerum Novarum)

What’s Trump really up to in the Middle East? Look to his new jet… New @thetimes column ⬇️ ✈️ thetimes.com/article/58f573…

"The pathologies of our economic system—of despair and anger, landscapes plundered and robbed from future generations, needles hanging from arms—are not distributional issues, or not solely." Kyle Harper on @JohnCassidy's "Capitalism and Its Critics": compactmag.com/article/everyt…

First column for @thetimes: on the trade war, who blinked first and what I learned from making a bet with China’s ‘hat king’ 👇🏼 China’s hat king shows the futility of Trump’s trade war thetimes.com/article/7e8e55…

Everything’s Amazing, and Nobody’s Happy: "...“the central indictment of capitalism has remained remarkably consistent: that it is soulless, exploitative, inequitable, unstable, and destructive, yet also all-conquering and overwhelming.”..." compactmag.com/p/c38deacf-467…

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