Reposted by Michael FeinbergBenjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 6hThis post kind of blew up yesterday. I think Americans really want to know about little things they can do it help people while our government is doing violence to our values, interests, and allies. So I will try to help provide guidance that might be useful for people who want such direction. 620863
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 7hThis is easily one of my favorite box sets, ever. The recording of “In the Wee Small Hours” might be the best since Ben Webster and Oscar Peterson’s version. 0151
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 19hThis essay easily influenced my political views and philosophy more than anything else I’ve ever read. It was once a bedrock of conservativism, and I bet the average Republican now couldn’t even tell you who Oakeshott was or why he mattered. 0151
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 19hThese are politicos who cheer on, for example, Ron DeSantis’s efforts to destroy his state’s institutions of higher education. They’re the sort of people who believe that some books’ highest value are as props for a public burning. 0295
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 19hI’m pretty sure that the MAGAsphere’s understanding of the classical world comes from Grokipedia and not the original sources. 1243
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 23hAlong with an Eames chair in which to read it. 162
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 23hMy birthday is coming up, and I've been meaning to reread "Moby Dick," so I would very much appreciate a copy of the 1979 Arion Press edition. I'd obviously prefer near fine or better, but beggars and choosers and all that. 2213
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Authoritarianism is less likely to take hold when the population visibly refuses it. Use your voice next weekend.nokings.orgNo KingsFor more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo... 213139
Reposted by Michael FeinbergThe Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing.” —James Salter buff.ly/vGRwszIbuff.lyJames Salter, The Art of Fiction No. 133“The real event of the 1980s was . . . the emergence of great looting fortunes . . . which made us revise the value of everything—not to the benefit of society . . . ” 0111
Reposted by Michael FeinbergMichael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 29/07/2025This was one of Patel’s dumbest ideas. The goal of a UFC fight is to force your opponent into submission, usually through ground-fighting. If an FBI agent is engaged in hand-to-hand combat, the primary goal is to momentarily incapacitate your adversary, gain distance, and draw one’s weapon. 812227
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In light of today's latest idiotic announcement from Kash Patel that UFC will officially begin training new agent trainees, I'm reposting a few of responses to his similar, previous efforts. 210227
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Less than two weeks until this arrives.criterion.comThe Complete KubrickA titan of cinema whose influence extends across visual art, philosophy, politics, technology, fashion, and beyond, Stanley Kubrick created an unprecedented string of masterpieces, from Paths of Glory... 383
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026@amber-tee.bsky.social’s point below is 100% correct; “Suspiria” isn’t even Argento’s best movie (that honor clearly belongs to “Deep Red”). 150
Reposted by Michael FeinbergAmber T @amber-tee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Now why is Luca’s SUSPIRIA catching strays here when it’s superior to the OG? 1122
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Your gentle reminder that the selection at @bookshop.org is just as good as at Amazon, and that using them doesn’t enrich someone who’s never missed an opportunity to fall on his knees and kiss an authoritarian’s jackboots. Seriously, what’s the point of “fuck you” money if you’re this servile? 7727228
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is an important and necessary reminder, and I completely second the recommendation to read Havel's essay. (I'd also add in Milosz's "The Captive Mind.") 0318
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Welsh rarebit or nothing. It’s grilled cheese, but for grownups. Grilled cheese, itself, with fig jam, bacon, and tart apple slices also works. 1240
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My wife just called me "snooty," and I'm genuinely wondering how on God's green earth it took her this long to notice. 11691
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The odd thing is that the administrators and politicos behind this seem like the type who would just love the Han Feizi or the Book of Lord Shang. 3125
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is a great opportunity for law students, particularly those of conservative temperaments who utterly revile what the current administration has done to the rule of law and the agencies which should be enforcing it.chkbal.substack.comApplications are open for Spring 2027 Law Clerks!We’re looking for exceptional students to join our fight to defend American constitutional principles. 0242
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026An invisible man who can sing in a visible voice with which to start your week.youtube.comBig Star-14- September gurls - Live in Memphis 94YouTube video by Juan C Marioni 191
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We’re being fought to a draw by Iran, and we can’t protect our aircraft from them in, ahem, the United Kingdom, but at least the Defense Department is winning the war on — let me check my notes — beards and wokeness. Pete Hegseth is clearly the second coming of George Marshall.nytimes.comU.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New ThreatsThe withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation. 1131272
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A hot take for the weekend: DePalma's film version, like most of his films, is horrendously overrated, and the Flanagan miniseries adaptation of "Carrie" beginning this week will be much better. 2110
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’ve been thinking quite a lot about the Camus essay “Reflections on the Guillotine” since this story broke. Rereading it, I’m reminded of how humane and wise a thinker he was, and wishing that more were familiar with the piece. 0334
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Come for our thoughts on national security, but stay for the commentary on the fiction of Benjamin Labatut and Alina Habba’s wedding decor. We really do try and have something for everyone. 0263
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026What is Peng Liyuan if not a pop siren? 000
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And here I thought the Odyssey was written just for you. Not, you know, the sung poem, but the fact that someone eventually wrote it down so you could read it. 100
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026They were out of the ones I wanted, but I did check there. 100
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Anything is possible, but there are reasons for them, and it’s unlikely. 4261
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Absent a major change in policy, none of us will return to the Bureau. If you leave for more than two years, you’re required to redo the Academy. I’m quite sure that my wife, son, and my then-fifty-year-old body will not agree to that. 635656
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If people asking you to do things like explain the concept of consent and power differentials to your sons make you feel like you’re getting lumped in with rapists, then perhaps you need to hear the talk, too. 1151
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Oh, man, this is going to get me in trouble, but I find his work barely readable. I’ve read all nine Sampson novels, and the Harry Palmer series, and every single one was an effort. 110
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026These are just different profiles of the same person. 031
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I very, very much hope that you're not ridiculing either "Arthur" or Sir John Gielgud... 110
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026(This should take nothing away Guinness's portrayal, for what it's worth, and if you haven't read his three volumes of memoirs, you're very much missing out; they make his portrayal of Father Brown that much more poignant.) 1150
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I recorded a podcast this very morning in which I proclaimed that Gary Oldman is my favorite George Smiley. I thought that the estate of Sir Alec Guinness might come after me, but now I apparently have to worry about "Succession" fans, too.bbc.comMatthew Macfadyen and Charlie Hunnam revealed in first-look images from Legacy Of SpiesFilming has wrapped on the highly anticipated espionage thriller, which will launch exclusively on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the UK 1220
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’ll be on MS NOW during the 11:00 hour to provide commentary on Jack Smith’s testimony. 59711
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This, if anything, understates the case. Prior to Trump, the Deputy Director was always a capstone and final position in a decades-long career, spent in its entirety at the FBI. 114032
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Your old friends are in my hometown. Please tell Marc "hello," as I fear his windows get overshadowed by some of the other treasures there. 040
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026What do you mean you haven’t seen “Cold War”?!?! 0112
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026On a slightly more serious note, counterintelligence concerns only arise when one cares about one’s country; none of these people do. 48425
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hell is empty and the devils are all here. 7596
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026My thoughts be fucking bloody, or nothing worth. 2271
Reposted by Michael FeinbergThe Onion @theonion.com · 26/09/2026“First of all, he’s got my face as his profile picture, so that right there gave me a high degree of confidence, because I know what I look like.” — Kash Patel theonion.comKash Patel Phished By Scammer Posing As Kash PatelWASHINGTON—Despite carefully checking and double-checking the credentials of the man who reached out to him via email, FBI director Kash Patel was reportedly phished Friday by a scammer posing as FBI ... 261631180
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I pre-ordered it the day I heard about it, and then realized I have to wait until next spring. I may just re-read "When We Were Orphans," for the umpteenth time, even if I'm the only one who favors that particular novel 030