Author of "Rethinking Sex: A Provocation" (https://xitter.cf/t.co/xs49Yjuzbs). Senior Fellow @AEI. Previously: @TheAtlantic, @WashingtonPost. Generally curious!

Washington, DC
Joined August 2011
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by Mark Rothko, 1951
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Launch party in DC with @WCrowdsLive @ChristineEmba @sckimbriel hosted a great discussion on the book "Can Religion Save Democracy"
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Whitepill: remaining faithful to your first wife is free
You want a blackpill? A trillion dollars can’t find a man a decent woman in 2026.
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Hilma af Klint gave childhood a blue background. Youth turns orange, adulthood purple, old age ocher across The Ten Largest. Childhood, No. 1. 1907. Tempera on paper mounted on canvas. With swatches, discs and colored cubes.
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Tomorrow evening in Washington, DC: join us for a conversation with @RichardVReeves, author of, "Of Boys and Men," and @ChristineEmba: why are many struggling and how can we -- including the church -- support them to flourish? October 13, 6:15–8:30 pm. Register here: ttf.org/events/evening-conve…
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saw a handsome man sitting by himself, conspicuously reading a ww2 book at the le diplomate bar… i know bait when i see it
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This, above all else.
Simply shocking to me that the entire right has decided the main takeaway from Cornell is: she had it coming. Disgusting. If one of my sons were directly involved or one of the 57 men on that text chain who did nothing, I would be furious and ashamed. These are broken people.
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A senior at Harvard observes “a narrative emerging among young people that more than just consent is required to make a sex act ethical.” “In the Cornell Daily Sun, a student says fraternities function as ‘a market, where women are seen as commodities.’” “A Dartmouth contributor lambasts frat culture where brothers ‘humiliate and degrade’ and that teaches ‘men to treat women and each other like subhuman objects.’” “The emerging picture is of a sexual ethic that cannot be satisfied simply by one liberal-autonomous agent assenting to the action of another. The new ethic requires upholding the dignity and respect of the human being involved. Respecting women is incompatible with drug-fueled orgies where the ‘shop’ is ‘open,’ regardless of how consensual said orgy may or may not be.”
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Everyone begins as a philosopher. Kids start sincerely asking big questions early. The challenge is helping them retain that sincerity and urgency. (And you’re going to be doing philosophy anyway when you do lit, just implicitly)
High schoolers should not be studying this much philosophy. Truly. Leave the literature, epics, etc. but cut the philosophy. It is at best destabilizing at that age. Make it available for some precocious and interested in senior year, but not for 9th graders.
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The third great American religious authority has weighed in after the papacy and the Mormon presidency.
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My body functions at its highest level when I am eating fresh, in-season produce.
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The Italian Futurism of Campari advertisements by Fortunato Depero (1925–1933)
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"not only are your gen AI memes ugly, they are ontologically hollow" - the pope
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Tim's post is spot on. Consent alone is a horrible basis for sexual morality. It's a criminal baseline, not a moral standard. Consent keeps you from being convicted. I don't expect everyone to agree to preserving sex for marriage, but we can and should expect an ethic of actual care as the bare minimum.
*Why did she go to the cops?* has a simple answer. She was treated as a sex toy by men she didn't know. However much she did or didn't consent to it at the time, the sex was inherently objectifying and denigrating. Of course it made her feel totally violated.
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Whoever first put animal ears on baby hats and hoods did a great public service.
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So that actually won’t be necessary
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Here at Galadriel, we are building a different kind of AI. Instead of a Dark Lord, it will be a queen. Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love it and despair!
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