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A friend recently asked what tabletop roleplaying games I recommend for getting kids into the hobby. I think Dungeons & Dragons is a ...

Posts on this subject are obviously fraught, so first: I keep an index of resources the moral question is simpl...

Over on Twitter, journalist David Roberts makes an observation about sexism in American politics: CNN Breaking News : Democratic...

I didn't write this, economist Brad DeLong did. Nor do I endorse it, though I do endorse DeLong as smart. I just couldn't stand ...

I'm snipping out the meat of an article ostensibly about Donald Trump and John Bolton because it delivers a crisp telling of how Ame...

It's not just that they bought him, though they did. It looks like for the last two decades at least, Trump has been a bagman laun...

Last week I tweeted a link to an article in The New Yorker. The Government Has No Plan For Reuniting the Immigrant Families It is Te...

I have been meaning to compile a proper index of critiques of New York Times columnist David Brooks. This improper one will have to do. ...

A slightly refined version of a Twitter thread I ranted in March 2017. I should turn this into a proper article someday. Via @vgr...

This isn't a post, more like a goad to myself to make a post. A few times recently I have encountered people opposed to the curren...

Sartre I keep needing this observation from Anti-Semite and Jew . It describes not just antisemitism but the sensibilities of the far ...

This is a story about doing your best. So like a lot of people I have a certain ambivalence about Ms Amanda Palmer, but I love this th...

The Wild Hunt asked for a quote. I got carried away. My patron god is Hermes, god of communication, magic, and the agora, who sin...