sympathetic opposition

May 2026

April 2026

Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me

Eine Kleine Space Opera

Apr 22 • sympathetic opposition

36

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

39

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

25

8

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

57

13

4

Evidence of Time Travel

Prehistoric, Historic, Contemporary, Future

Apr 1 • sympathetic opposition

70

10

10

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

218

38

36

Lamb Shanks with Guinness and Mustard

I have a taste for bitter flavors.

Jan 22 • sympathetic opposition

17

11

2

November 2025