The Folger in DC does lovely historical music concerts, and hearing something that may not have been played for three hundred years is special. (Also the performers are usually both musicians and academics and very interesting to talk to afterward.)

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like I suspect a lot of people I rewatched THE INNER LIGHT tonight, which I hadn't seen since it first aired or close to. The thing that struck me this time was how it is a metaphor for the work of history itself: that you might recover something of people a thousand years gone.

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Lot of you still doing the "NYT has the right to defend itself" thing every time they conspire against Democrats. "They have a lot of good reporters." Who gives a fuck. The US Army will bomb the shit out of your country then come back a few months later with some bags of rice. Or used to anyway.

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Spent a fair amount of my diplomatic career promoting this project and I’m glad that it still is getting the attention it deserves. Critical test of the country to see if we can still build big things.

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My parents are legends.

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