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"I am quite certain that neither love nor grief can ever be excessive; each is its own absolute measure, and knows its own proper proportions. And, as a rule, we generally fail to love or grieve nearly as much as we ought to do." ~David Bentley Hart

This is a new angle for POTUS, so openly positioning his preferences opposite those of "America."

"Those with children have a bigger stake in the future." I understand why people say this. Elon says it. And I think it's true. But I'm not convinced that having a bigger stake in the future is necessarily a good thing. Family obligations can distract from higher-order ideals.

Imagine if the Fed had caved to Trump and cut rates like he wanted. Imagine if his tariffs hadn't been struck down. Inflation would be even worse, and probably much worse! Separation of powers is a good thing, most of the time. If Congress had done its job and prevented this War

It is nice here. But please don't tell anyone 😉

From David Bentley Hart today – a comment on the nature of LLMs, and a criticism of the sort-of "analytically propositional thinking" that gives rise to the impoverished conclusions of thinkers like Richard Dawkins, whose methods all-but oblige him to conclude that Claude is

On Catholic traditionalism, from the late Stratford Caldecott 👇 "The temptation to set the authority of tradition against that of Rome was felt by many of the most devout, precisely because they felt they understood the tradition so well. Yet the two authorities cannot be so

"The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of the self as it entered the age of science and technology. Dazzled by the overwhelming credentials of science, the beauty and elegance of the

Alternative take: It's kind of cool to have your own line-item. I mean, "Jesus Christ" is in the name, for Pete's (I mean Joe Smith's) sake. Just own it. Mike Lee is a big baby.

Sounds like Jean Luc Marion: "The face is given to me only in the measure that it withdraws from any objectifying gaze, and precisely in this withdrawal it gives more than any object could: it gives the other himself, in the mode of his call."

What's funny about this, to me, is that Trump has worked so hard trying to get everyone to believe in his "Golden Age," yet all his team ever wants to talk about is civilizational collapse. They are addicted to the narrative, and there's nothing Trump can do about it.

Have high standards.

"Redon's forebears are only to be found among musicians, and undoubtedly among poets. It is indeed a true transposition of one art into another." Odilon Redon is my favorite painter. I wish he were more familiar in our era. He has much to say to us moderns, I think – we who

"Edison said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. But we see perspiration becoming increasingly automated." I love Anthropic's tech, but this is dumb. "Inspiration" and "perspiration" are moving targets, relative to the goals of the entrepreneur and the tools at