David Sessions
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Finished Middlemarch this weekend. There’s classic books you have to learn to appreciate, and then only somewhat abstractly, and then there are the ones that are just immediately, obviously great. And then there’s Middlemarch, which is somehow transcendent on almost every page.
January 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Finished Middlemarch this weekend. There’s classic books you have to learn to appreciate, and then only somewhat abstractly, and then there are the ones that are just immediately, obviously great. And then there’s Middlemarch, which is somehow transcendent on almost every page.
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In fact we know perfectly well *how* to cover someone like Trump: instead of reporting the outrageous shit he SAYS (which is easy & generates lots of clicks) journalists need to do shoe-leather investigations into what his administration actually DOES.
The problem is that this is hard, low-ROI work
The problem is that this is hard, low-ROI work
“‘Trump is genuinely crazy’ & ‘Trump is trying to seem genuinely crazy as a negotiating strategy’ are obviously going to look similar. It’s challenging to know how to cover someone whose allies say he’s a huge liar & you’re deranged lib if you take him seriously.” www.slowboring.com/p/nobody-kno...
Nobody knows what Trump is going to do
A flagrantly dishonest president meets a deeply incurious conservative base
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January 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
In fact we know perfectly well *how* to cover someone like Trump: instead of reporting the outrageous shit he SAYS (which is easy & generates lots of clicks) journalists need to do shoe-leather investigations into what his administration actually DOES.
The problem is that this is hard, low-ROI work
The problem is that this is hard, low-ROI work
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In the first part of my series on “The History of Sexuality”: Socrates vs. femme twinks, Christians and elephant sex, and, of course, a bit of moral philosophy. www.hdavidsessions.com/p/foucault-h...
Body, Wife, Boys and Truth
Reading Foucault's 'The History of Sexuality,' Part I.
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January 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
In the first part of my series on “The History of Sexuality”: Socrates vs. femme twinks, Christians and elephant sex, and, of course, a bit of moral philosophy. www.hdavidsessions.com/p/foucault-h...
In the first part of my series on “The History of Sexuality”: Socrates vs. femme twinks, Christians and elephant sex, and, of course, a bit of moral philosophy. www.hdavidsessions.com/p/foucault-h...
Body, Wife, Boys and Truth
Reading Foucault's 'The History of Sexuality,' Part I.
www.hdavidsessions.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
In the first part of my series on “The History of Sexuality”: Socrates vs. femme twinks, Christians and elephant sex, and, of course, a bit of moral philosophy. www.hdavidsessions.com/p/foucault-h...
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Excited to get started on this new series reading through Foucault's "History of Sexuality," which is already a blast. www.hdavidsessions.com/p/reading-fo...
Reading Foucault's "History of Sexuality"
An introduction.
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January 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Excited to get started on this new series reading through Foucault's "History of Sexuality," which is already a blast. www.hdavidsessions.com/p/reading-fo...
Excited to get started on this new series reading through Foucault's "History of Sexuality," which is already a blast. www.hdavidsessions.com/p/reading-fo...
Reading Foucault's "History of Sexuality"
An introduction.
www.hdavidsessions.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Excited to get started on this new series reading through Foucault's "History of Sexuality," which is already a blast. www.hdavidsessions.com/p/reading-fo...
If it is lightly raining I think one is justified in being so demoralized as to need to skip the gym. If, however, it is raining cartoonishly hard for many hours, then it is too ridiculous not to go anyway
December 11, 2024 at 11:17 PM
If it is lightly raining I think one is justified in being so demoralized as to need to skip the gym. If, however, it is raining cartoonishly hard for many hours, then it is too ridiculous not to go anyway
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I wrote about Emily Witt's books "Future Sex" and "Health and Safety," and her search "for a higher principle of life than mere contentment."
davidsess.substack.com/p/the-first-...
davidsess.substack.com/p/the-first-...
The First Draft of the Future
Emily Witt’s journeys through the fragments of the end of history.
davidsess.substack.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:40 PM
I wrote about Emily Witt's books "Future Sex" and "Health and Safety," and her search "for a higher principle of life than mere contentment."
davidsess.substack.com/p/the-first-...
davidsess.substack.com/p/the-first-...
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“Like every moral panic, cancel culture skirmishes thrive on contradictory impulses: incuriosity regarding accuracy coupled with intense, even prurient interest in perceived violations of norms; presumptive familiarity cut with historical amnesia.”
November 25, 2024 at 2:47 PM
“Like every moral panic, cancel culture skirmishes thrive on contradictory impulses: incuriosity regarding accuracy coupled with intense, even prurient interest in perceived violations of norms; presumptive familiarity cut with historical amnesia.”
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My review of Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel (and more!) in the December issue of @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Discontents of Michel Houellebecq
What happened to the French novelist?
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November 25, 2024 at 3:13 PM
My review of Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel (and more!) in the December issue of @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Y’all realize he canceled the endorsement out of support for Gaza? He’s just a weird guy!
LA Times owner getting his money’s worth for nixing the Harris endorsement
November 24, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Y’all realize he canceled the endorsement out of support for Gaza? He’s just a weird guy!
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Hi everyone! This is the introduction skeet. I’m a fiction writer and book editor at HarperCollins. Here’s a story I wrote that came out earlier this year in Sewanee Review. thesewaneereview.com/articles/404
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thesewaneereview.com
November 20, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Hi everyone! This is the introduction skeet. I’m a fiction writer and book editor at HarperCollins. Here’s a story I wrote that came out earlier this year in Sewanee Review. thesewaneereview.com/articles/404
I wrote about Emily Witt's books "Future Sex" and "Health and Safety," and her search "for a higher principle of life than mere contentment."
davidsess.substack.com/p/the-first-...
davidsess.substack.com/p/the-first-...
The First Draft of the Future
Emily Witt’s journeys through the fragments of the end of history.
davidsess.substack.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:40 PM
I wrote about Emily Witt's books "Future Sex" and "Health and Safety," and her search "for a higher principle of life than mere contentment."
davidsess.substack.com/p/the-first-...
davidsess.substack.com/p/the-first-...
I wrote about Emily Witt's books "Future Sex" and "Health and Safety," and her search "for a higher principle of life than mere contentment."
The First Draft of the Future
Emily Witt’s journeys through the fragments of the end of history.
davidsess.substack.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:39 PM
I wrote about Emily Witt's books "Future Sex" and "Health and Safety," and her search "for a higher principle of life than mere contentment."