Tweets my own. American religious/civil rights history. Emory/UofSC alum. Fan of Arsenal FC, cursed sports teams, Mississippi gas station food, The Joshua Tree.
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Some personal news...👀
I can't thank @heathwcarter enough for his support and encouragement to pursue a #ReligiousBio of Medgar Evers. This is only a start, but already, it's been a journey.
I am delighted to share that @PLConnelly will publish a #ReligiousBio of Medgar Evers in the @eerdmansbooks Library of Religious Biography series. The book will come complete with a foreword by @JemarTisby. Can’t wait!
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absolutely repugnant from the nba
The NBA is formally stepping into the prediction markets ecosystem.
The league announced agreements Monday morning with Kalshi and Polymarket that will allow the companies to use official league data and intellectual property and give the league control over what trades the companies are allowed to offer.
nyti.ms/4smgsfG
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If you’re of a certain age, you probably still believe this is what Saturday afternoons should sound like. And you’re right.
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Jerry Mathers basically playing Beaver Cleaver in this Cuban Missile Crisis inspired episode of INSIGHT. "The Boy and the Bomb." 1963. youtu.be/HV7EtsbiPpo?si=yj5E…
The chef's kiss at the end of this piece:
"The author drafted this essay in extended collaboration with Claude Fable 5.1."
Opinion: If AI is now part of academic writing, what should institutions actually evaluate? This essay argues that analytical writing should be judged by evidence, structure, argument, and accountability not by guesses about how each sentence was produced. chroni.cl/4eDRdjg
If one was searching for a metaphor to illustrate the fracturing of the Western alliance that was built by Eisenhower and others over the past 80 plus years...
🚨NEWS: Pete Hegseth wanted a priceless World War II-era globe used by Dwight Eisenhower displayed in his Pentagon office, but instead of waiting for professional curators, his staff attempted to move the historic artifact themselves and DROPPED IT, puncturing the globe near Antarctica and breaking its mounting, according to The Washington Post. The Pentagon confirms the damage.
This reminds me of @MichaelRWear's book The Spirit of Our Politics (read it!) & of this James Davison Hunter piece from 2024. "Nihilism is the operative reality of contemporary public life." The stench of nihilism is all over the sad, sordid tale in Ohio. hedgehogreview.com/issues/in…
Thank you for coming to Jackson, @GreatLakeSwim. It was a true pleasure to hear you play last night and meet you after the show. If Great Lake Swimmers are headed your way, don't miss them!
greatlakeswimmers.com/#tour
I never thought I'd see the day where an American "diplomat" would say this to an authoritarian war criminal, who just this week bombed and murdered children, just as he has for the last four years. A moral compass and serious diplomacy is required.
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Russia killed a one year old girl in her stroller today. Her mother died in the hospital a few hours later.
"He warned his followers against falling into this potential 'doom loop,' where AI does the reading and writing and leaves behind an 'ocean of sameness.'"
This was so foreseeable (indeed my early prediction when ChatGPT came out) but a lot of tech people have a hard time understanding that the hypothetical enriching use of a tech loses out to the lazy corner cutting use 99.9% of the time theguardian.com/technology/2…
Things surely can't get worse...until they do.
BREAKING WSJ:
Vladimir Putin has proposed that he, Trump, and Xi Jinping meet next month to talk about Ukraine in an attempt to negotiate an end to the four-year conflict that would favor Moscow. wsj.com/world/russia/putin-f…
"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction...But this alliance now exists."
I wish @RadioFreeTom was wrong, but the evidence seems overwhelming that we crossed an unthinkable Rubicon this week.
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
Yes. I'll never understand how those who claim to be defend "Western civilization" can be apathetic to or even enable the malignant vision of an authoritarian who operates in a manner completely antithetical to the ideals and institutions of the West.
A tragic, seismic mistake.
"This is subjective but … Name three PERFECT movies. No argument. No explanation. Just three flicks you think are perfect. Here are mine:"
A Hidden Life
Before Sunrise
The Third Man
Randomly, Austria is the setting of all three... 🤷♂️
First impression:
Is this new @U2 song about the United States, Western civilization, the institutional Church, an aging relationship, or the band itself?
Yes.
youtube.com/watch?v=TUuVOW7X…
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The Ukrainian people are the victims of this war, not its perpetrators. That simple historical fact eludes some in this administration, so it must be restated again and again.
Putin’s Kremlin isn’t just Ukraine’s enemy. It’s America’s enemy.
Whatever it is that drives the Trump administration’s animosity toward Ukraine, that hostility represents a grotesque moral failing. It isn’t just strategically incomprehensible; it betrays America’s values and traditions. nationalreview.com/corner/th…
Yes, and many of the same folks remain silent or indifferent while Ukrainian Evangelicals and Catholics in Russian-occupied territory experience murder, torture, rape, pillage, religious suppression, and destruction of churches. It's all too tragic and hard to believe we're here.
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A question for @AndrewTWalker regarding this quote from your @NRO death penalty piece:
"previous eras practiced capital punishment with far more sobriety than we do now."
When was this, specifically?
For example, look at the Crimes Act of 1790... 1/3
nationalreview.com/2026/10/w…
Congress passed this law to restrict the death penalty to only 7 capital crimes, partly b/c states (and colonies before) practiced it so harshly and expansively. Yet this act still called for the death penalty for forgery and counterfeiting. A reflection of moral seriousness? 2/3