I would just like the guy to read about the Meiji Restoration for twenty minutes

Japan took such a pronounced interest in Western music that by the end of the 19th century there was a nickel-plated shakuhachi emulating the Boehm mechanical key layout, Romantic Lieder set in Japanese, etc.

Okay, but damaged how? Dude grew up in an affluent corner of Santa Monica. I could sort of see some of this stuff if he was peering in resentfully at immigrants partaking in a life he couldn't have. But the guy had a lot, if not everything, and directed his vitriol at those with far less

Okay, but when he kicks out everyone he doesn't like, what among even the chintziest traditional dances are even left? Square dancing?

JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.

I try to live my life in such away as to never have my picture appear in a comparative news graphic alongside Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Ali Khamenei, and Xi Jinping

It's sort of a minimum baseline threshold I impose for myself

I recognize that doing things on a fixed income is challenging, but at the same time it's hard for younger folks to be entirely sympathetic about the plight of anyone who starts a sentence with, "I bought a home in 1970 for £4,000 and--"

I was astounded to read a thing a few months ago that argued that some 30-50% of all productivity growth in the US between 1990 and 2010 was driven by H-1B visa holders alone www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

In an election, it’s usually the candidate that is culpable for their own electoral failures

Someone for whom a proper object with a given mass moving across another object with a specific friction coefficient is always going to miss the point of close reading a passage from Ralph Ellison

It is also extremely on-brand for a STEM person, pointing to the irrelevance of the liberal arts and the already sufficient critical apparatus available to STEM thinkers, to demonstrate how oblivious they are to the ways that the humanities and liberal arts specifically access *ambiguity*

"...his cosmetically altered proportions knocked his overall facial harmony into the realm of the improbable"

Just have to say, Nuzzi's writing is every bit as bad as everyone says

Few years old now, but still getting good feedback on it. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-ja...