In the realm of sports talk, kindness is unrelatable; it’s alien, even. What’s relatable is irrationally caring for your team and irrationally hating its rivals—not pandering by saying that you happen to like all of the teams in key Rust Belt swing states.
~ Nathaniel Frum via The Atlantic
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via The New Yorker:
Something Is Very Wrong with Modern Longevity Science
by Dhruv Khullar
published on June 29, 2026
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The politics of the Valley was always a liberal sort of libertarianism: pro-choice, pro-immigration, idealistic, even utopian, arrogant about its mission of empowering individuals and connecting humanity, but indifferent to and ignorant of government, with an engineer’s contempt for the creaky workings of bureaucracy and the cluelessness of elected officials.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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Our republic has died and been reborn again more than once in America’s history. America has had multiple “foundings.” Perhaps we are on the verge of another rebirth of the American republic, another chapter in America’s continual reinvention of itself. I hope so.
~ Dean Ball via Hyperdimensional
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Ingratitude is more common than you might think.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Introduction to Behavioral Ethics | Concepts Unwrapped
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Kafka was a realist.
~ György Lukács
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