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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Alternative explanation: Maybe he’ll stop acting out if I pretend he’s my friend.

David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

My monthly offering for Writer Unboxed, in which I abandon the topic I'd meant to write about--the depiction of grief in fiction--for a far more immediate and necessary discussion of grief for Renée Nicole Good and all the things her killing renders so terrifyingly at risk. (Link in comments)

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

That time again: The audiobook for The Truth Against the World is now available at half-price. Narrated by the inimitable John Keating, whose other credits include Leon Uris's TRINITY, Ian McGuire's THE NORTH WATER, Benjamin Black's Quirke Series, and many more.) Buy link in comments.

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

For the terminally curious, may I offer a few crumbs for thought: this month's contribution to Writer Unboxed. It's titled, "The Elusive 'I' in Identity (link in comments), in which I describe recent research that establishes you are not who you think you are, and neither am I.

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

One more reason time travel novels seldom feel convincing.

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I have a copy of her book, Prison Notes, about being jailed in the Jim Crow south after taking part in civil rights protests. It awakens you to the hard work of defying racism and autocracy. I have always loved this photo of her by Consuelo Kanaga.

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Why I love @groundnews.bsky.social -- check out the factuality and political leaning ratings at the top RH corner of each listing. I appreciate the chance to compare what I'm reading from MSM or my more left-leaning sources with what's reverberating inside the RW bubble w/o having to "go there."

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Who makes the more valid point? The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. --Bertrand Russell The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. --William Butler Yeats

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

"What is asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." --Christopher Hitchens

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It is perhaps no better sign of the times than this has become my “comfort reading.”

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

We should also care because of the bad faith arguments they make, the bogus history they invoke (Clarence Thomas), and the Machiavellian hypocrisy: the right channels every case suiting their purposes through Kaczmaryk in Amarillo precisely to get a national injunction.

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

There's an appealing assonance in the phrases: belligerent ignorance ignorant belligerents The term came to me as I was contemplating how screwed the environment is. But the real culprits, the petrochemical industry, can't hide behind ignorance. They're cynically, hypocritically, greedily aware.

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Gee, and here I was, thinking I was just plain lazy.

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

First Vance destroys Ohio State’s National Championship trophy, then he kills the Pope. And the stock market kicks off the week in the crapper, just for a little icing on the [insert scatological term of choice] #EVTD

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

"[T]ime does not matter in China. Four years of war is a long time. But perhaps if your history goes back four thousand years it does not seem so long. The Chinese are born patient, and they learn endurance when they start to breathe." --Martha Gelhorn, "The Canton Front" (March 1941)

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together." --Edmund Burke

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

It's Monday morning, the outrages are already piling up, and I needed to remind myself that I should be reading more poetry, to feed my seething soul. If you find yourself in the same boat, may I offer you this, from Bob Hicok, "Toward accuracy:"

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I still believe one of the chief reasons behind the Temper Tantrum Tariffs is the opportunity they give Trump to strong-arm businesses, industry groups, countries and anyone else who dares defy him. It's extortion, not economics. A protection racket posing as protectionism.

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Okay, am I crazy to think Trump will time the invasion of Greenland to coincide with the midterms, the better to invoke emergency powers and the Insurrection Act, suspend voting (exposing the farcical condemnation of Zelenskyy for not holding elections), and turn the AEA on its head?

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Poor dears. That horse is just too damn easy to flog.

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Time to get to work on that Canadian accent.

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Has this been making the rounds as yet?

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Libraries resembling temples is exactly how it should be. #BrooklynPublicLibrary

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Taking our cue from recent events, the wife & I watched a double feature last night: Number 24: about the Norwegian resistance during WW2 Conspiracy: depicts the 1942 meeting at which a gathering of Nazi officials, lawyers & SS officers worked out the details of the Final Solution Both excellent

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Cartoons are finding less and less mirth in the current situation.

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

"Every modern age is known by the medievalism it spawns." --Adam Gopnik

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Cover for the March 3, 2025 edition of the @newyorker.com by Barry Blitt: “You’re Fired.”

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This, from Richard Rorty, always struck me as a more "pragmatic" (ho ho) approach to this issue:

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Pity this couldn't have come out sooner, but THE FIFTH RISK by the same author describes in marvelous detail the essential work many largely unknown government agencies perform. I'd highly recommend both. @authormichaellewis.bsky.social Visit his website here: www.michaellewiswrites.com#top

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David Corbett @davidcorbett.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Isn't it past time we began referring to the sniveling, groveling, prostrate Trump GOP as simply The Party?

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