à mon avis il sera (croisons les doigts) le seul sénateur américain à avoir lu Au delà du PaCS - @ericfassin.bsky.social

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I also already thought that - as this clip indicates - being a very smart man of faith might be a good thing to be in the US arena. Even though 2026 is not 2008, I hope that holds true.

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reading Rousseau's Lévite (an extremely weird text for an intro class) the class kicked off about how noone in the text had a name; he pushed his chair back and asked them how it is that we only relate to people's suffering if we know them by name, and if good writing could help us get past that.

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we stayed in touch for a pretty long time, certainly through his run for the governorship nomination. He's a terrific guy and I always thought he'd be, should be, in politics. He really was always like this.

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I just looked up the syllabus of the class - overambitious - Charrière, Lettres de Mistriss Henley; Rousseau, Le Lévite d’Ephraim, Du contrat social; Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal; Montaigne, De l’amitié; Racine, Bérénice; Truffaut: Jules et Jim; Denis, Nenette et Boni; Fassin, articles sur le PaCS

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