Stanley Fish on the challenge the effectively pro-Hamas cosplaying student encampment movement poses to the academy's institutional integrity. It is also somewhat of a manual for cold-cocking the corrosive activist usurpation of our institutions generally.thelampmagazine.com/blog/a-note-to…

The PRC isn’t “considering” undermining the U.S.-led order and replacing it, it is doing it and will keep doing it as long as the U.S. doesn’t sufficiently disincentive it to.

And you shall know them by their friends.

Thread.

Yesterday I watched one of the most disturbing films of my life.

Sheryl Sandberg, former COO of Meta, made an hour-long documentary film with never-before-heard eyewitness accounts from released hostages, survivors, and first responders.

The film is certainly one of the most…

It’s not inconsistent on a couple of levels.

King's Day in The Netherlands, today. 😊

Intimate partner homicide has declined 70% in 30 years, yet one woman is killed by a partner ever 15 days; one man every 28 days. More needs to be done. But broad brush denunciations are no substitute for policy on bail, substance abuse, mental health and cultural heterogeneity.

Ukraine keeps targeting Russian refineries with drone attacks. Massive overnight raid on the Krasnodar region in the northern Caucasus, with the Slavyansk and Ilsk refineries hit among other targets. Footage from local social media channels.

All very well to say social media should be regulated like traditional publishing and broadcasting—so they should be. But must crack two nuts: 1) platforms like X/FB claim not to be publishers but are not common carriers in any sense and 2) operate across multiple jurisdictions.

The high cost of Putin’s vainglory.

Mein Camp

Holocaust memorial breaches “Openly Jewish” rule.

Best thing on the interweb this week.

Cecil B. DeMille retired the trophy when he cast Moses as himself.

1/ Had a few minutes before the faculty meeting yesterday so I stopped by the Harvard Yard encampment. An interesting mix: a bunch of people quietly hanging out and listening to a teach-in lecture, amid handmade signs glorifying violence and urging the destruction of Israel

Vale.

#OTD in 1976, RIck Monday of the Chicago Cubs snatched a U.S. flag away from two protestors who were attempting to burn it after invading the field during a game at Dodger Stadium. Monday, who served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, still has the flag.