Sam Adler-Bell
@SamAdlerBell
cohost of @knowyrenemypod with my pal @matthewsitman // writing @nymag @nytimesbooks @bookworld @newrepublic // literary rep @CarolineMEisen
My review of Sam Tanenhaus's long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley Jr. is in @TheIdeasLetter Turns out I had a lot to say about this guy. theideasletter.org/essay/a-practi…
Whether they’re willing to explicitly state it or not, pretty much everyone on the left has come to accept the Bernie 2016 approach of focusing relentlessly on the economy and corruption as the best way forward. We know this because it’s what they’re doing in practice.
🚨 🚨🚨 “Nearly one in three people are going multiple days without eating, according to the United Nations” “In a video filmed Tuesday inside Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, families fretted over babies with distended bellies and tiny fists that they clenched as they cried.”…
i will sneer at middlebrow taste until my last breath
The left does just as much convenient distortion of history. And your sneering contempt for other people's middlebrow tastes makes you seem ugly inside.
The Epstein diversion campaign is so unimaginative! It’s all Killary and Obamna. He should send out $1000 checks. Produce evidence of alien life. Do universal healthcare. Go big or go home.
O M G "High-level DNC emails detailed evidence of Hillary Clinton's 'psycho, emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, & cheerfulness.' Secretary Clinton was allegedly on a daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers."
I am increasingly convinced that the organizations and individuals who make up "the Jews" in newspaper headlines are deluded about the durability of the American public's tolerance for and susceptibility to their moral superciliousness. That account has been overdrawn.
New: Minneapolis Jews sound an early alarm on Democratic Party endorsement of DSA lawmaker in mayoral race jewishinsider.com/2025/07/minnea…
two really stupid guys telling each other scary stories before bedtime
Weird then to turn and say I should stop acting like I care about NYC. If anybody is doing acting it ain’t me
Someone should study how diving into AI makes us absorb its capabilities. When I hit ~50k image prompts, I noticed something insane: Simply *thinking of* a prompt would cause images to "appear" in my mind. Hard to explain—It's like I "see" it MENTALLY without seeing it visually.
I met with Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student at Columbia University, who was imprisoned for 104 days by the Trump administration for opposing Netanyahu’s illegal & horrific war in Gaza. Outrageous. We must not allow Trump to destroy the First Amendment & freedom to dissent.
I don't make movies for the critics. In fact i don't make movies at all
Maybe it’s just because I’m an American but yes you’re absolutely right that Gaza protestors are the spiritual descendants of religious zealots two hundred years ago. In this country they were called abolitionists.
One of the funnier effects of a decade of Trump is how many rightwing guys are now really chintzy and queeny like him. They're retvrnposting fancams of scarlett o'hara in ball gowns
Was it all worth it ? Is the Ethiopian food that good ?
The Apostle Park is a very important figure in aboriginal Christianity, but you can only find his teaching in the apocrypha.
Lots of guys with names like "Khalil" and "Firas" and "Zaid" and "Shadi" logging on to explain to American Protestants what Christianity is and isn't over the last couple days...