sympathetic opposition

April 2026

Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me

Eine Kleine Space Opera

Apr 22 • sympathetic opposition

33

Tertius Lydgate is in Emotional Consumer Debt

Middlemarch is a) the greatest English novel and b) about a young woman who wants to do the most good that she can, but whose idealism is often hampered…

Apr 7 • sympathetic opposition

36

26

3

Easter Monday Miscellany

One way in which I’m very trad: like many great Catholic princes, I only go to Mass a couple of times a year.

Apr 6 • sympathetic opposition

23

10

1

A Silver Divorce

Once upon a time--just long enough ago for a life story to play out from start to finish--there was a young man of exactly the character that I like the…

Apr 2 • sympathetic opposition

55

14

4

Evidence of Time Travel

Prehistoric, Historic, Contemporary, Future

Apr 1 • sympathetic opposition

63

10

9

January 2026

Contra Ajeya Cotra on Women Asking Men Out

If the Gale-Shapley algorithm is asker optimal, why don’t women ask men out? Are women just stupid? Lazy? Cowardly? Conformist? Unagentic? Or is the…

Jan 30 • sympathetic opposition

209

38

36

Lamb Shanks with Guinness and Mustard

I have a taste for bitter flavors.

Jan 22 • sympathetic opposition

16

11

2

November 2025

Preserves

Let’s make it last like jam.

Nov 5, 2025 • sympathetic opposition

25

2

2

None of my business

but....

Nov 5, 2025 • sympathetic opposition

6

7

In Defense of the Baby Shower

not that they really need defending?

Nov 3, 2025 • sympathetic opposition

30

1

Somewhat Against Online Vulnerability

Towards the Online Here-and-Now

Nov 3, 2025 • sympathetic opposition

56

5

2