{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Brad East","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/eastbrad","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1616697","username":"eastbrad","bio":"","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":1,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2024/19/1616697.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"98487041","content_html":"<p>One more argument for <a href=\"https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/you-dont-have-to-use-ai\">simply opting not to use any LLM at all</a> in one’s work, writing, or personal life: <a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/claude-chatgpt-ai-speak-chatbot-cb804933\">their ‘idiom’ won’t infect your own voice.</a></p>\n<p>AI-style is ugly, boring, and contagious. The easiest way not to catch it is straightforward: stay away.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/10/01/one-more-argument-for-simply.html","date_published":"2026-10-01T14:13:19+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"14:13","date_timestamp":1790863999,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98443189","content_html":"<p>I see that <a href=\"https://firstthings.com/life-and-death-in-ai/\">I’m not the only one enamored</a> with <a href=\"https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/02/screwtape-for-our-times-body-of-this-death-review/?utm_medium=widgetsocial\">Ross McCullough’s unclassifiable new book.</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/30/i-see-that-im-not.html","date_published":"2026-09-30T19:28:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-30 19:28","date_timestamp":1790796523,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98342587","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://clip.cafe/the-fabelmans-2022/were-never-not-going-know-other-sammy/\">“We’re never not going to know each other, Sammy.\"</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/28/were-never-not-going-to.html","date_published":"2026-09-29T03:50:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-29 03:50","date_timestamp":1790653842,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98054576","content_html":"<p>So Brad Bird gets bundles of Netflix cash to make his long-shelved dream animation project … and his aesthetic vision is to recreate George Lucas’s version of Coruscant from the worst Star Wars film ever made?</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/23/so-brad-bird-gets-bundles.html","date_published":"2026-09-23T21:05:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-23 21:05","date_timestamp":1790197517,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97930826","content_html":"<blockquote>\n<p>Ultimately I think, if given the choice, people will pick home-cooked, locally-grown, heart-felt digital meals over factory-farmed fast food technology every time.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>That is Anil Dash, in <a href=\"https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/\">“Endgame for the Open Web”</a> (h/t: Alan). It’s a lovely sentiment and a wonderful peroration of an article, but this kicker leaves me less rather than more persuaded. After all, the analogy is to fast food versus healthy, home-cooked meals. We know what’s better. But, given the “choice,” what do people in fact opt for?</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/21/ultimately-i-think-if-given.html","date_published":"2026-09-21T19:11:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-21 19:11","date_timestamp":1790017882,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97375986","content_html":"<p><em>Phaedrus</em> 253a:</p>\n<p>ἰχνεύοντες δὲ παρʼ ἑαυτῶν ἀνευρίσκειν τὴν τοῦ σφετέρου θεοῦ φύσιν εὐποροῦσι <strong>διὰ τὸ συντόνως ἠναγκάσθαι πρὸς τὸν θεὸν βλέπειν</strong></p>\n<p>You could translate the bolded clause as: “an impetuous compulsion to see God.” Or in Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff’s translation, “their driving need to gaze at...</p> <a href=\"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/11/phaedrus-a-you-could-translated.html\">micro.bradeast.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/11/phaedrus-a-you-could-translated.html","date_published":"2026-09-11T19:37:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-11 19:37","date_timestamp":1789155428,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97374484","content_html":"<p><strong>Socrates in <em>Phaedrus</em> 256b:</strong></p>\n<p>οὗ μεῖζον ἀγαθὸν οὔτε σωφροσύνη ἀνθρωπίνη οὔτε θεία μανία δυνατὴ πορίσαι ἀνθρώπῳ.</p>\n<p><strong>Jesus in John 15:13:</strong></p>\n<p>μείζονα ταύτης ἀγάπην οὐδεὶς ἔχει, ἵνα τις τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ θῇ ὑπὲρ τῶν φίλων αὐτοῦ.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/11/socrates-in-phaedrus-b-jesus.html","date_published":"2026-09-11T18:58:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-11 18:58","date_timestamp":1789153095,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97374146","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://thepointmag.com/politics/internal-goods/\">An excellent essay in <em>The Point</em> by Campbell Scribner.</a> Titled “Internal Goods,” it uses MacIntyre’s account of rationality, moral reasoning, and the university as a lens for understanding both the tragedy of Jason Arday and the response to it on the part of academics.</p>\n<p>Quote:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In colleges of education, one often hears the slogan “all education is political,” which people repeat with the certainty of moral truth. And it <strong>is</strong> true. But it is also a truism, a phrase that one can utter without fear of contradiction: either others agree and confirm the statement, or they disagree, reveal their political bias...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/11/an-excellent-essay-in-the.html\">micro.bradeast.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/11/an-excellent-essay-in-the.html","date_published":"2026-09-11T18:49:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-11 18:49","date_timestamp":1789152573,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97369767","content_html":"<p>Yesterday on the blog I wrote about <a href=\"https://www.bradeast.org/blog/colin-from-accounts\">the (perhaps unwitting) heteropessimism of the Australian TV show <em>Colin from Accounts</em>.</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/11/yesterday-on-the-blog-i.html","date_published":"2026-09-11T17:06:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-11 17:06","date_timestamp":1789146415,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97331342","content_html":"<p>Life goals: <a href=\"https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/everything-is-a-song\">I finally made it into an Austin Kleon newsletter.</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/10/life-goals-i-finally-made.html","date_published":"2026-09-11T02:12:35+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-11 02:12","date_timestamp":1789092755,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97330963","content_html":"<p>Read Leah Libresco Sargeant <a href=\"https://www.commonplace.org/p/leah-sargeant-anti-anti-family-policy?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">on “anti-anti-family policy.\"</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/10/read-leah-libresco-sargeant-on.html","date_published":"2026-09-11T02:00:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-11 02:00","date_timestamp":1789092015,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97330934","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://calnewport.com/are-we-at-war-with-ai-agent-civilizations/\">Read Cal Newport on AI “agents.\"</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/10/read-cal-newport-on-ai.html","date_published":"2026-09-11T01:59:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-11 01:59","date_timestamp":1789091964,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97233442","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-ai-apocalypse-is-already-here/\">“The AI Apocalypse is Already Here,\"</a> by Gregory Conti in <em>Compact</em>, is an early front-runner for essay of the year. I plan to blog about it later.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/09/the-ai-apocalypse-is-already.html","date_published":"2026-09-09T15:48:04+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-09 15:48","date_timestamp":1788968884,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97233387","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://firstthings.com/why-the-afd-wins/\">Read Caldwell on “Why the AfD Wins.\"</a></p>\n<p>You don’t have to share Caldwell’s political sympathies to find his analysis illuminating—if every report out of Germany amounts to little more than scaremongering with euphemisms and epithets, we will continue to fail to understand what is happening right now, both...</p> <a href=\"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/09/read-caldwell-on-why-the.html\">micro.bradeast.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/09/read-caldwell-on-why-the.html","date_published":"2026-09-09T15:46:57+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-09 15:46","date_timestamp":1788968817,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97165965","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/09/old-age-is-not-a-problem-to-be-solved/?utm_medium=widgetsocial\">This is a wonderful, carefully written theological reflection on aging, appearance, and death.</a> Kudos to Jen Pollock Michel (and to the authors she reviews).</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/08/this-is-a-wonderful-carefully.html","date_published":"2026-09-08T13:56:31+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-08 13:56","date_timestamp":1788875791,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97026530","content_html":"<p>I laughed hysterically throughout <a href=\"https://www.theringer.com/podcasts/the-rewatchables/2026/08/31/aliens-with-bill-simmons-chris-ryan-and-sean-fennessey\">The Rewatchables' episode about James Cameron’s <em>Aliens</em>.</a> Self-recommending.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/05/i-laughed-hysterically-throughout-the.html","date_published":"2026-09-05T20:32:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-05 20:32","date_timestamp":1788640337,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97026384","content_html":"<p>Read <a href=\"https://profadamroberts.substack.com/p/philip-hensher-a-history-of-the-novel\">Adam Roberts on Philip Hensher’s new book <em>A History of the Novel in Britain</em>.</a> The avoidance of all genre, general tone of condescension, and reliance on “judgment as summary” are damning indeed.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/05/read-adam-roberts-on-philip.html","date_published":"2026-09-05T20:30:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-05 20:30","date_timestamp":1788640201,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97026290","content_html":"<p>I’m not the direct audience for it, but <a href=\"https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/the-way-we-were-and-are\">Timothy Burke’s policing of his fellow leftists</a> on Cold War politics and those who lived through it is both wise and laudable.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/05/im-not-the-direct-audience.html","date_published":"2026-09-05T20:27:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-05 20:27","date_timestamp":1788640040,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96927305","content_html":"<p><em>Deadline</em> interviews Paul Schrader about his new film: <a href=\"https://deadline.com/2026/09/paul-schrader-basics-of-philosophy-interview-venice-1237065393/\">come for the Calvinism, stay for the Plantinga/Wolterstorff shout-outs:</a></p>\n<p><strong>DEADLINE:</strong> I wanted to ask what by now you’ve learned about guilt and inherent vice or human fallibility? You’ve explored these themes a lot across decades. What have you learned about...</p> <a href=\"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/03/deadline-interviews-paul-schrader-about.html\">micro.bradeast.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/03/deadline-interviews-paul-schrader-about.html","date_published":"2026-09-04T02:42:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-04 02:42","date_timestamp":1788489759,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96868295","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/nationalism-properly-understood/\">MBD:</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I also try to be a moral realist, in the sense that I don’t confuse expressing opinions about various evils done by foreigners with providing material assistance to the victims of those policies. Condemning Han supremacy from my desk in New York State is not brave, it involves no sacrifice or risk, and it doesn’t even take much in the way of moral acuity. At most I might be holding up norms where I have influence. At worse [sic], and when done with too much self-regard, bombastic moral pronouncements on activities over which you have no real influence is a kind of seductive substitute for real...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/03/mbd-i-also-try-to.html\">micro.bradeast.org</a>","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/03/mbd-i-also-try-to.html","date_published":"2026-09-03T04:30:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-03 04:30","date_timestamp":1788409834,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96801613","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://firstthings.com/wendell-berrys-eternal-story/\">Read Paul Kingsnorth’s eulogy for Berry:</a> “In the end … Berry will be proven right.”</p>\n<p>See also my 2021 essay on Berry for <em>The Point</em> titled <a href=\"https://thepointmag.com/criticism/when-losing-is-likely/\">“When Losing is Likely.\"</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/01/read-paul-kingsnorths-eulogy-for.html","date_published":"2026-09-02T02:25:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-02 02:25","date_timestamp":1788315918,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96800935","content_html":"<p>I’m heartbroken about losing Wendell Berry, though he died full of years, at a good old age, at the end of a live well lived. I hope to write about his impact on my life later this week. Until now: may he rest in peace and rise in glory!</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/01/im-heartbroken-about-losing-wendell.html","date_published":"2026-09-02T02:15:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-02 02:15","date_timestamp":1788315346,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96800878","content_html":"<p>Matt thinks that, given the nature of forgiveness, the act of forgiving is (a) <a href=\"https://matthewleeanderson.substack.com/p/784-praying-for-offenders-to-repent\">dependent or contingent upon the repentance of the offender</a> and (b) <a href=\"https://matthewleeanderson.substack.com/p/786-forgiving-the-dead-and-disclosing\">impossible to do for those who have wronged us if they died unrepentant.</a> I lack the time to respond in full now, <a href=\"https://comment.org/the-theological-terrain-of-forgiveness/\">but I disagree!</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/01/matt-thinks-that-given-the.html","date_published":"2026-09-02T02:13:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-02 02:13","date_timestamp":1788315207,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96800813","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/luke-burgis/\">Luke Burgis’s conversation with Tyler Cowen</a> was a pleasure to listen to; it made me like Burgis more than I did already.</p>\n<p>Tyler, convert already!</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/01/luke-burgiss-conversation-with-tyler.html","date_published":"2026-09-02T02:10:35+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-02 02:10","date_timestamp":1788315035,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96800770","content_html":"<p>I’m sure you don’t need me to recommend <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/09/elite-academia-leadership-hypocrisy/687969/\"><em>that</em> bombshell essay by Tyler Austin Harper,</a> but do also read <a href=\"https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-confessions-of-tyler-austin-harper?sra=true\">his interview with Len Gutkin and Evan Goldstein at the <em>Chronicle</em>.</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://micro.bradeast.org/2026/09/01/im-sure-you-dont-need.html","date_published":"2026-09-02T02:07:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad East","url":"https://eastbrad.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F19%2F1616697.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eastbrad"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-02 02:07","date_timestamp":1788314872,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}