It seems to me that the major divide is between people who see scholarship (or writing more generally) as an enriching conversation between humans and people who see scholarship (or writing more generally) as just another consumer product to acquire and accumulate for some industrial purpose.

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Alas, “The Diplomat” missed the opportunity for a lesson on the 25th Amendment, although technically the issue remains open for the next season.

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You know the aphorism that "society is great when old men plant trees under whose shade they will never sit"? This is the literal opposite of that.

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whatever else there is to say about the Crawford tweet, I’m just floored by what a bad piece of reporting it is Seemingly so bad that I find myself wondering whether the el Sayed exchange is a “they saw a protest” situation? digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/faculty-arti...

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He says that he wants allegations of corruption to be based on “facts and not based on one random news media report that I read”… but when it comes to immigrants eating dogs and cats, I guess that’s just completely different?

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