Peter D. Kramer
@peterdkramer.bsky.social
Author, most recently, of Death of the Great Man, a novel. Also new: 30th anniversary edition of Listening to Prozac. peterdkramer.com
Were in, are out: ALKANE, ALKENE
November 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Were in, are out: ALKANE, ALKENE
Interestingly, despite research subjects' getting much more attention from caregivers in the psychotherapy arm, SSRIs were more effective at treating and preventing depression.
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Interestingly, despite research subjects' getting much more attention from caregivers in the psychotherapy arm, SSRIs were more effective at treating and preventing depression.
Was in, is out: LATEEN
October 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Was in, is out: LATEEN
Twofer today:
Was in, is out: BELATE
Was in, is out: ABETTAL
Was in, is out: BELATE
Was in, is out: ABETTAL
October 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Twofer today:
Was in, is out: BELATE
Was in, is out: ABETTAL
Was in, is out: BELATE
Was in, is out: ABETTAL
[what else had made the cut was: LABIALIZING.]
October 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
[what else had made the cut was: LABIALIZING.]
Given what else made the cut today, BANALIZING (missing pangram) would have fit fine.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/b...
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/b...
October 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Given what else made the cut today, BANALIZING (missing pangram) would have fit fine.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/b...
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/b...
Was in, is out: NOONTIDE
September 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Was in, is out: NOONTIDE
Apeneck Sweeney spread his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to MACULATE giraffe.
TS Eliot, Sweeny among the Nightingales
[missing pangram]
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to MACULATE giraffe.
TS Eliot, Sweeny among the Nightingales
[missing pangram]
September 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Apeneck Sweeney spread his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to MACULATE giraffe.
TS Eliot, Sweeny among the Nightingales
[missing pangram]
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to MACULATE giraffe.
TS Eliot, Sweeny among the Nightingales
[missing pangram]
While I'm at it: If MICROCRACK was low frequency, how about ANABIOTIC?
September 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
While I'm at it: If MICROCRACK was low frequency, how about ANABIOTIC?
While I'm at it: a link to the current—30th anniversary—edition of Listening to Prozac.
bookshop.org/p/books/list...
bookshop.org/p/books/list...
Listening to Prozac: The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self
The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self
bookshop.org
September 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
While I'm at it: a link to the current—30th anniversary—edition of Listening to Prozac.
bookshop.org/p/books/list...
bookshop.org/p/books/list...
Yesterday's formerly accepted word: TELETYPED.
@merriam-webster.com does not accept TELETYPE as a verb, but the OED finds many examples from 1904 to 2007.
& why isn't the OED here on BlueSky?
@merriam-webster.com does not accept TELETYPE as a verb, but the OED finds many examples from 1904 to 2007.
& why isn't the OED here on BlueSky?
August 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Yesterday's formerly accepted word: TELETYPED.
@merriam-webster.com does not accept TELETYPE as a verb, but the OED finds many examples from 1904 to 2007.
& why isn't the OED here on BlueSky?
@merriam-webster.com does not accept TELETYPE as a verb, but the OED finds many examples from 1904 to 2007.
& why isn't the OED here on BlueSky?
was in, is out: past tense of an accepted entry
August 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
was in, is out: past tense of an accepted entry
I'm thinking of Cato the Elder's policy of ending every speech with the demand that Carthage must be destroyed: that kind of consistency.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthag...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthag...
Carthago delenda est - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I'm thinking of Cato the Elder's policy of ending every speech with the demand that Carthage must be destroyed: that kind of consistency.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthag...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthag...
I think that this sort of reminder should appear as a drumbeat—an element in all reporting on Trump's various transgressions. Every article should include that reminder: This act also serves to undercut democracy, concentrate power, and move us toward tyranny.
August 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I think that this sort of reminder should appear as a drumbeat—an element in all reporting on Trump's various transgressions. Every article should include that reminder: This act also serves to undercut democracy, concentrate power, and move us toward tyranny.
Authoritarian playbook: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook
www.nytimes.com
August 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Authoritarian playbook: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
Glory days. Here's the cover, with an image taken from the office television. I was a college intern, but I had three pieces in the issue & got written up in the house organ, N/W. In the photo, I was more or less in uniform, wearing a seersucker suit with a thin bow tie.
July 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Glory days. Here's the cover, with an image taken from the office television. I was a college intern, but I had three pieces in the issue & got written up in the house organ, N/W. In the photo, I was more or less in uniform, wearing a seersucker suit with a thin bow tie.
Here's a link:
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-bra...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-bra...
Trump's Brazil Tariff Is Blatantly Illegal
Shouldn't someone be suing?
paulkrugman.substack.com
July 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Here's a link:
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-bra...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-bra...