
Crispin Sartwell
Writer at Freelance
'Political Aesthetics'; opinion journalism; beauty; epistemology; anarchism. Views expressed come from your sub-conscious. nyt, tls, wsj. podcasts
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1 week ago |
splicetoday.com | Crispin Sartwell
I'm late (I was distracted from Joe Biden's aging by my mother's 100th birthday), but I want to drop back and talk about the book Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, and in general the blame-Biden movement. A typical take was provided by EzraKlein on his podcast, in an episode titled How Groupthink Protected Biden and Re-Elected Trump.
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3 weeks ago |
splicetoday.com | Crispin Sartwell
There are two basic ideas about the relation of a name to what it names, both of which have some intuitive sway. On the first, a name is purely conventional and could be changed at will. We all know this is true. We pluck the names of children off lists, often before they’re born, based on tradition or euphony. We don't look into the baby's eyes and see her true name.
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1 month ago |
splicetoday.com | Crispin Sartwell
American prisons are great institutions, detaining millions and beefing up regional economies. We’re justly proud of them. As we lost factories to China and Vietnam, we gained prisons, our new industrial system. At this point we hold about 1.8 people in domestic prisons and jails. That's a lot, but I'm sure you'll agree with Pam Bondi and me that jailing people is desirable for its own sake, no matter what process, if any, leads to that outcome.
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1 month ago |
splicetoday.com | Crispin Sartwell
Almost from the first day of the second Trump administration, one of the primary goals has been to dismantle or entirely remake the Kennedy Center, the very impressive if (I speculate) unbeloved block of marble across the street from the Watergate, on the shores of the Potomac about a mile from the White House. I grew up near there, and I remember when it was built. My mom thought it was hideous.
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1 month ago |
splicetoday.com | Crispin Sartwell
Early Saturday morning, the Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration from removing migrants to prisons in El Salvador without due process. The justification for sudden deportations into nightmare conditions was cooked up by appealing to the Alien Enemies Act, a vestige of a late-18th-century political conflict between President John Adams and his rival Thomas Jefferson. More widely, it was a conflict between their political parties, the Federalists and the Democrat-Republicans.
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alasdair macintyre’s definition of what it is to be a person - i.e. that we are characters in a story, strikes me as childish. also as not plausible. https://t.co/QRr6SPKs7c