The etymology is illustrative. Educate: e (from, out of) + duco (lead). To lead out of. To lead out of what? Ignorance. Myopia. Solipsism. Selfishness. To lead you out of your unexamined self and into a larger world.

It's such a beautifully shot film.

Also he won't stop hectoring, lecturing, or moralizing when it comes to Europe, but nobody expects this asshole not to be a hypocrite.

Ross Douthat has stumbled upon performative Christianity, the calling card of the American right.

Trump has never seen deals as a means for benefiting both parties. He's always seen them as a way to screw someone else. That is not why he doesn't understand Putin. He understand Putin because Putin values something--the extermination of those he hates--even more than money.

Far-right Catholics are much better at intellectually justifying bigotry and atrocities than Evangelicals are.

JD would do it because he thought other people wanted him to. Hegseth would do it because he himself would want to.

Kash Patel is FBIgor.

By which point they'd been adults for a decade.

I loved Zep as a teen and into my early 20s. I knew every album's track list, almost every lyric, and almost every song note for note.

I hardly listen to them anymore. There's little in the lyrics that suggests the lived experience of an adult. A clever teenager could've written almost every word.