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Published: March 17, 2025 02:09

A request to Bluesky folks: Please don't send links to things with a dozen media accounts copied. Trust me, we read the same news as you. You don't need to spam us. If you'd like to comment, great, but "HERE IS SOMETHING TO READ, 20 ACCOUNTS!" is just…

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Published: March 16, 2025 23:27

This is a quality post [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 16, 2025 20:57

Going through old photos looking for one of my Greek grandma, and found this: My very first "expert" appearance. PBS, Boston, 1988, right on my 28th birthday, IIRC...I had just gotten my PhD about two weeks earlier, and I was working at CSIS.

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Published: March 16, 2025 20:01

“A toast to the First Amendment,” she said. A knowing look passed between attendees as they clinked their glasses. wapo.st/3XYUv8z https://wapo.st/3XYUv8z

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Published: March 16, 2025 14:00

And I looked fabulous in a white tie and tails. Might as well be stylish while toasting democracy. Believe me, people were aware of what they’re up against . [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 16, 2025 12:55

Hot stove: still hot [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 15, 2025 18:59

The thief of Joy is back

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Published: March 15, 2025 18:02

She does not accept the idea of closing a door

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Published: March 15, 2025 17:14

Hello, DC.

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Published: March 14, 2025 01:25

I'm not sure why Hegseth is doing this, but this is one office that probably could have been dissolved a long, long time ago. ONA was a fiefdom run by one man who created a lot of loyal alumni with contracts and projects. Some people revered the office; I…

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Published: March 14, 2025 01:20

Wonder if that'll include changing policy on tattoos [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 13, 2025 19:08

Holds the codes to… well, you know [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 13, 2025 16:50

Me: Lynn, time to move the grandkid stuff, gonna make my new library / cave Lynn: okay Lily: what? No

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Published: March 13, 2025 14:47

Headed up to Copley Square shortly. Have a few things to do.

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Published: March 13, 2025 04:29

I am inevitable [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 13, 2025 02:39

China vs Russia, 1969 Also, actual Soviet forces attacked US forces (but undercover, I grant you) in both Korea and Vietnam [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 13, 2025 02:35

I wrote about UKR and nukes here: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/02/no-ukraine-should-not-have-kept-nuclear-weapons/676415/ About conventional deterrence against small (even small nuclear) states:…

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Published: March 13, 2025 02:32

What's exceptional is the tiny number of nuclear nations. In 80 years, only ten, and today only nine: US, USSR, UK, FR, PRC, IN, IL, PK, NK - and South Africa, briefly. These are not good case studies for generalizations (esp IN and PK) [contains quote…

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Published: March 13, 2025 02:10

This is why my work is never done. Three Mile Island happened almost a decade after Reagan was governor and two years before he was president. And I recall it in the 1970s about housing in New York, but everything can be bad if you remember it that way …

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Published: March 13, 2025 02:08

Everyone thought this in the 1950s and 1960s, too [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 13, 2025 02:07

So many nuclear experts and Cold War historians

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Published: March 13, 2025 02:04

Um, nuclear China attacked nuclear Russia in 1969, but other nuclear powers have fought proxy wars for a long time. The Soviet Union greenlit North Korea's attack in 1950 on the assumption that South Korea wasn't important enough for the US to fight.…

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Published: March 13, 2025 02:01

The "small n" problem here. Nuclear deterrence kept the Cold War cold. But "everyone is more secure with nukes" is stuff that comes from academic realism, and flies in the face of decisions by real policymakers who realized decades ago that nukes create…

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Published: March 13, 2025 01:40

No one seems willing to think about how getting nuclear weapons creates a pretext for attack against those weapons. If UKR had kept its nukes - aimed mostly at us, btw - the Russians would have attacked them many years ago. Iran has played this game of…

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Published: March 13, 2025 01:33

Over in the other place, I see that "everyone should get nukes" is back as an argument. This is a bad solution to America's collapse as an ally. Build up conventional forces. Nukes are not the magical answer.

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Published: March 12, 2025 17:51

I've seen him twice here in Rhode Island. Great shows, even at his age. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 12, 2025 17:49

Honorable mention: Fagan and Becker rhyming "swear and kick and beg us" with "back in Vegas" [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 12, 2025 16:08

Only Al Stewart could get away with rhyming "so coolly" with "incense and patchouli"

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Published: March 12, 2025 15:59

I think she's settling in

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Published: March 12, 2025 15:32

"But I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom. Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation." -Madison [contains quote post or other…

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Published: March 11, 2025 18:23

All this nostalgic talk on X about factories from people who never saw one from the inside. Posting this video from 2021 (directed by my daughter!) for my book from @oxfordunipress.bsky.social Filmed in Chicopee, Massachusetts, in the neighborhood where…

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Published: March 11, 2025 17:27

“Unnamed experts” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 11, 2025 16:28

Definitely did not predict a call to MAGA world to go buy Teslas [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 11, 2025 16:27

Basically, just don't look at your retirement account for a while [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 11, 2025 16:24

Every few years (as a federal worker), I had to take required training in preservation of government documents and records. This was definitely not in the training [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 11, 2025 15:28

She turned one and is feeling the call of the wild out there

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Published: March 11, 2025 15:23

It's not that the kid is wrong, it's that he's wrong with utter and serene confidence. When people ask me why I wrote The Death of Expertise, it wasn't ignorance that compelled me to write, it was this kind of unbreakable, completely self-assured ignorance…

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Published: March 11, 2025 00:07

Well there’s that [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 10, 2025 17:13

When I started writing Our Own Worst Enemy, I kept telling people that the economic deprivation argument just didn't explain what was going on, no matter how beloved a theory it was. Now here's @jvl.bsky.social reviews the record, and, well...

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Published: March 10, 2025 14:41

"Superpower Emeritus." A chilling idea from @jilldlawrence.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 9, 2025 19:02

it's that time of year where I spend the day feeling drowsy and out of sync because of the time shift [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 9, 2025 16:33

Hi

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Published: March 9, 2025 15:46

Listen, this is a great ad that used to be done by Alex Trebek. Mr. Lawson could sell ice to an eskimo, and I love that two of three Ps are the same thing. "I'm 80 and blind in one eye and was convicted of terrorism and I take thyroid pills. What's MY…

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Published: March 9, 2025 15:29

Another unjustly forgotten show

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Published: March 9, 2025 05:17

Choose your fighter

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Published: March 9, 2025 05:14

Kolchak whistling freaked her out and she jumped up to stare at the TV

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Published: March 9, 2025 04:50

The jacuzzi remodel uptalker is worse than Kars for Kids

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Published: March 9, 2025 04:49

Including my piece about ending the tyranny of Morning People. Sleep in, people. Don't yield. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 9, 2025 04:42

LORD Garth

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Published: March 8, 2025 05:53

You are an excellent tactician, captain

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Published: March 8, 2025 02:22

Tough week. Gonna go hang out in a more peaceful neighborhood.

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Published: March 8, 2025 01:53

Always a pleasure to join Russell Moore and the folks at Christianity Today: https://www.christianitytoday.com/podcasts/the-bulletin/153-ukraine-trump-masculinity-pew/

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Published: March 7, 2025 22:13

Pete Hegseth has ordered a massive review of DOD computer archives in an attempt to “align” the department with Trump’s directive to eliminate anything related to DEI. What are America's warfighters so afraid of? …

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Published: March 7, 2025 21:54

Lily joins us on The Bulwark podcast today:

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Published: March 7, 2025 19:59

I have a piece about this coming today, and if you want to read it for free, sign up for the Atlantic Daily: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/sign-up/atlantic-daily/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 7, 2025 17:02

Well, ladies and gentlemen, I believe Lily Nichols is going to make her video debut on today's podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social