Konstantin Asimonov linkthread.
A new issue of the LRB. I don’t want to definitively blame the editors, however much I think Wilmers just did it better. But it seems to me that the current iterations are increasingly just reactions to the twitter dramas du jour. Quick little piece on LA. One on Reagan, since Carter just passed. And all together, Trump and Tiktok and Luigi. I’ve already done the assigned reading ma’am, you don’t have to go over it again (although I suppose the article on status can’t be ascribed to the current right-wing anxieties about elite overproduction, as that is too recent). Anyways, I’d much rather read more articles by Lockwood (perhaps the perfect reviewer to describe philosophers as saying “every word three times, its opposite twice and then the original word again, italicised”), or something like the origins of Hindutava, which introduce something different so I can pretend to be cultured.
Rob Kurzban with a good response to the critique that “evo-psych” is not falsifiable.
Exteligence on how to handle ongoing situations involving strangers.
