John Wilson
@jwilson1812two
Everybody likes grift and scandal: check out the Bush-Obama Hamilton cult, and its connection to the 2008 bank bailouts, in the Epilogue to THE HAMILTON SCHEME: amazon.com/Hamilton-Schem…
Trump's defundings and takeovers of major cultural institutions are total Orban playbook--but the institutional norms whose erosion liberalism is bemoaning are corrupt, especially in public history. constitutioncenter.org/about/liberty-…
Aimi of Maru Ebiya, by Kikukawa Eizan, 19th century
"Susannah Gibson uses intricate prose....": at which point I stop reading. The book in question may of course be MUCH better than this account of it.
Extraordinary.
The Beekeepers and the Birdnester, a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, created around 1568.
It's tough nowadays for a dystopia to distinguish itself from all the other dystopias.
Trump's defundings and takeovers of major cultural institutions are total Orban playbook--but the institutional norms whose erosion liberalism is bemoaning are corrupt, especially in public history. constitutioncenter.org/about/liberty-…
Very glad to hear that Luci Shaw has a new book of poems: englewoodreview.org/luci-shaw-an-i…
My little shop now has signage!!! Books are now available from the website. If there is a book you'd like that isn't on there, please let me know, and I'll add it for you. Psst...free postage in UK! arcadebookshop.com
It just keeps getting worse. If Britain isn’t safe for Jews to perform, maybe it’s time we stopped cancelling the Jews – and started cancelling the antisemites. And if you’re tired of hearing about antisemitism, imagine how tired we are of living it.
In the newsletter this week, @SallyThomasNC on @pauljpastor's "The Locust Years" from @WisebloodBooks
I wonder who will write it. x.com/NewYorkSun/sta…
Hachette has agreed to pay former President Biden \$10 million for a new memoir covering his years in the White House. buff.ly/qkp41d5
Talking with @AEI's @dpletka & @marcthiessen about free speech in Britain and my recent @TheFP article.
NEW🎙️ #WTH is the UK strangling free speech? @DrDominicGreen joins us and honestly, you will share our outrage… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wha…
In Animal Farm, Boxer the horse's solution is always "I will work harder." He ends up at the glue factory. I think the "just work harder" p.o.v. is often destructive for mothers. Problem-solving to reduce workload & increase rest & recreation is essential to avoid later burnout.
👉🏻 For friends of Jane Greer (@NorthDakotaJane) I have organized a flower fund for Jane so that her Twitter/X friends can express our appreciation for her. This is not affiliated with her family. Any additional funds will be donated to a small literary journal that published her…
Over 2024-25, just 30 players are hitting .280 or better, and just 6 are hitting .300. Aaron Judge is hitting .331.