Peter Zusi
@peterzusi.bsky.social
Director, NYU Prague. Czech, German and Comparative Literature. Verbal and visual modernisms. Kafka. Mushrooms. Cats (or, at least, one particular cat). All opinions here are my own (re-post ≠ necessarily endorsement).
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
December 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
American morality has always been simple, and often mocked as simplistic. Simplicity was often a strength though. But how have we flipped so quickly from casting ourselves as the noble resisters against Darth Vaders and Pres. Snows to holding them up as role models?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
Trump’s Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:47 AM
American morality has always been simple, and often mocked as simplistic. Simplicity was often a strength though. But how have we flipped so quickly from casting ourselves as the noble resisters against Darth Vaders and Pres. Snows to holding them up as role models?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
Reposted by Peter Zusi
Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud.
In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that.
What a confession.
In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that.
What a confession.
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud.
In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that.
What a confession.
In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that.
What a confession.
Didn’t realize till just now how much my life has been missing early-Modern citrus fruits
What looks like an alien starship visiting a small country estate in eighteenth-century Germany is in fact, *checks notes* a giant pomelo. So nothing to see here, #skystorians
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Didn’t realize till just now how much my life has been missing early-Modern citrus fruits
Overheard in pub in central Prague: two Americans explaining to a very patient waiter that “We’ve never been to Czechoslovakia before”
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Overheard in pub in central Prague: two Americans explaining to a very patient waiter that “We’ve never been to Czechoslovakia before”
“Given that we are all, every day, imbibing madness, how do we guard our souls?”
Trump’s Boat Strikes Corrode America’s Soul www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Trump’s Boat Strikes Corrode America’s Soul www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Boat Strikes Corrode America’s Soul
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
“Given that we are all, every day, imbibing madness, how do we guard our souls?”
Trump’s Boat Strikes Corrode America’s Soul www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Trump’s Boat Strikes Corrode America’s Soul www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
Reposted by Peter Zusi
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It’s those little things… like that the bend in Maiselová is placed not BETWEEN buildings but 1/3 of the way into one building….
#PragueIsBeautiful
#PragueIsBeautiful
October 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
It’s those little things… like that the bend in Maiselová is placed not BETWEEN buildings but 1/3 of the way into one building….
#PragueIsBeautiful
#PragueIsBeautiful
Trump’s “campaign of summarily killing people”
October 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Trump’s “campaign of summarily killing people”
Oh my god
Waves of destruction, just for the sake of destruction.
Waves of destruction, just for the sake of destruction.
October 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Oh my god
Waves of destruction, just for the sake of destruction.
Waves of destruction, just for the sake of destruction.
Was this headline written at gunpoint, @nytimes.com ? Dangerously close to “Dear Leader” rhetoric…
Watch it.
Watch it.
October 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Was this headline written at gunpoint, @nytimes.com ? Dangerously close to “Dear Leader” rhetoric…
Watch it.
Watch it.
Can anyone enlighten as to why Qatar needs an air base in Idaho? (Serious question.)
A five-point-five billion Trump golf course in Qatar, and Qatar gets an air base in Idaho.
October 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Can anyone enlighten as to why Qatar needs an air base in Idaho? (Serious question.)
How did they manage to find three?
October 8, 2025 at 7:03 AM
How did they manage to find three?
Superb analysis:
I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.
It's especially for journalists covering this story!
Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
It's especially for journalists covering this story!
Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Superb analysis:
We’ve all done it at some point
Chien-Chi Chang. A newly arrived immigrant (Tang Z) eats noodles on a fire escape. New York City, USA, 1998.
October 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
We’ve all done it at some point
Reposted by Peter Zusi
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
Reposted by Peter Zusi
My hot take of the elections in n the Czech Republic:
There is a strong case to be made that Czech political parties have the goofiest names in all of Europe.
There.
There is a strong case to be made that Czech political parties have the goofiest names in all of Europe.
There.
October 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
My hot take of the elections in n the Czech Republic:
There is a strong case to be made that Czech political parties have the goofiest names in all of Europe.
There.
There is a strong case to be made that Czech political parties have the goofiest names in all of Europe.
There.
Reposted by Peter Zusi
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM