Last month, Paul Schofield posted a series of powerful pictures of unhoused people in Olympia, Wash., taken by local photographer John Simpson. For itsflaminghydra, I asked Simpson to share the stories behind five of his indelible portraits. flaminghydra.com/im-only-one-pe…

I love how his 'mistake' was that he failed to scream cuss words directly into the face of a heckling 12-year-old

MIND is pleased to present the next installment of its series highlighting authors recently published in the journal. This week's Author Spotlight focuses on Francey Russell, author of 'Kant's Fantasy.' academic.oup.com/mind/advance-a…

“Feel some sympathy”

This is Twitter. I have seen jokes about worms eating his brain.

Has there been anything good written about what the campus protests could optimistically, but realistically, hope to accomplish and how that might work?

For The Nation's May issue, I wrote a short piece on Grants Pass v. Johnson, the Supreme Court case that will decide if the state can punish people who have nowhere else to go. (It's in print now)

thenation.com/article/societ…

From the middle of a trenchant thread about why we don’t have a hotter left in this country.

A student whittled me this, and it’s making me realize how few of you have ever even bothered to whittle me anything.

One way I get my students to think I’m cool and approachable is to tell them to call me P-Diddy and to then point out that their other professors don’t allow them to do that.

Why don’t humans do great things anymore?

Went to a movie theater yesterday that had been renovated with large recliners (meaning many fewer seats). Seems like the idea is that even if you can no longer provide a communal viewing experience, you might as well try to make the theater 70% as comfortable as staying home.

In college I met a young woman who said “I’ve always made fun of people from Indiana. But if you think about it, they didn’t choose to be born there.”

Pretty sure that’s straight out of A Theory of Justice.