Yup. You did. And cancer research for children was first to go.

“America is a mistake; a gigantic mistake, but a mistake.”

Freud hated birthdays, and also hated America. Revisiting this on America's birthday and, yeah, his reasons check out.

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my social science masters degree was not a waste of money and has in fact made my life better and easier

The amazing Christian Lorentzen interviewed me in the new @bookforum.bsky.social:
www.bookforum.com/print/3203/a...

spotify wrapped? more like “spotify warped music and devalued labor while paying those who made the songs you love fractions of pennies,” thank you

My latest for the Reader, a story about how Chicagoans made it really, really rough on out-of-town goons who tried to abduct Black folks off their streets.
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...

My Intro to Psychoanalysis course continues this Saturday! Part 2 of a 12 part online class renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/my-intro-t...

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Geordie Greep at Empty Bottle

Happy Holidays! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 3rd!

We’re saddened to hear that Steve Albini has passed away at the age of 61. On top of being an influential musician and engineer, he was an outspoken critic of the recording industry. His 1993 story “The Problem with Music” took labels to task.

Rest in peace to probably the best rock engineer of all time, @electricalwsop.bsky.social One of the most generous, thoughtful, talented people I’ve met.

If you’re in Washington, join me on Thursday evening at a very good bookstore, for a discussion of a very good book. I’ll be moderating a discussion with Ieva Jusionyte, whose book *Exit Wounds* was just released today, at the original Politics and Prose store up on Connecticut Avenue.

I think this essay by Winnicott helps get at his particular version of psychoanalysis. He describes both a personal movement *from* pediatrics *to* psychiatry, as well as a vocational self-understanding of his own disciplinary practice as taking place *between* pediatrics and psychiatry.