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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ICYMI: My thoughts on the converts, and what they and cradle Catholics (or less-recent converts) owe one another:

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In dialogue with @heidischlumpf.bsky.social’s recent @commonwealmagazine.org essay on this topic:

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My latest uses The Odyssey to think about The Converts: gorebuildmyhouse.substack.com/p/the-church...

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The Church’s Sea Peoples?

By Daniel A. Rober

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My latest uses The Odyssey to think about The Converts: gorebuildmyhouse.substack.com/p/the-church...

gorebuildmyhouse.substack.com

The Church’s Sea Peoples?

By Daniel A. Rober

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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 03/08/2026

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

He really wants to make Amadeus or Hamilton happen here when their later trajectories hinged on independent events.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Reminds me of the classic Society of St Pius I website advocating for return of the Greek Mass.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Skimming Jesus Wept to cover my bases and

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is related to the way that major corporations all speak in memeslop now. You know who talks like a grownup though? Zohran Kwame Mamdani, the mayor of New York City

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This will be me taking my daughter on the Jewish literary Montreal tour in a couple of weeks.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The politics of canonization under JPII an extremely rich topic. Willing to steamroll opposition to Stein martyrdom designation (similarly to quick Escriva canonization) but not to beatifying Romero whose grave he visited twice.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

They’re collaborating on Easter II.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The reaction of some people who should have known better (I’m not talking about politicians here) has been one of the most disappointing things I’ve ever experienced.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

To a certain extent the Emily Wilson essay was a harmless version of this.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Since there is Bishop Barron discourse, this passage of Catholicism I found doing research seems ignorant of what “The East” clearly communicates in this context. That’s setting aside his mystical interpretation, which…

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

People are now flipping out about correctly losing street parking for trash containerization which was one of the few good things the *previous* admin got started.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Then as now the specter of socialism could motivate people.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 29/07/2026

The Mary Tyler Moore Show would send both their preconceived notions & their libidos into a tailspin. The name Dick Van Dyke alone would put them into a coma.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The toxicity in conservative Catholic institutions - publications, colleges, ministries like WoF that combine elements of both - is enabled in part by decent people who have made a career in them and understandably don’t want to just give that up in collapsing professions. But there’s a limit.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

New York’s Hottest Club is the Free Press-Reading Catholic Church

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Trump is Trump. But lots of “nice” people who know better nod along or say nothing while their ignorant neighbors talk like this.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This is the theory behind Heaven’s Gate having a Criterion release.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I want Caroline Alexander’s take on all this. Fascinatingly different approach (wrote a book on The Iliad, did a well-regarded translation now overshadowed by Wilson’s, kind of out of the fray since).

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This sounds like a cool late John Carpenter movie tying together themes from his other films.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Advantage over Baltimore is being an easy day trip destination for New Yorkers.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Sad that Philip Seymour Hoffman didn’t live to play Herbert Hoover in this one.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Queen (in a social-democratic way).

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Finger on the pulse of the electorate.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Charles Taylor in 1991 sounding a lot like @deepdishpapa.bsky.social in 2026:

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

All credit to @deepdishpapa.bsky.social for Bob mention that came out today shifting vibes for good concert.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

At the rainpocalypse Bob Dylan/Lucinda Williams concert that has turned into a lovely summer evening.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The secondary market in players and discs is…robust.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Find out why Barbara Hershey became Barbara Seagull! No longer required to record off TCM.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

AVERAGE NO KINGS ATTENDEE 72-year-old lifelong Democrat with a “Hate Has No Home Here” yard sign who says “I’m not sure I’m a socialist but I like that Mamdani guy” AVERAGE ATLANTIC COLUMNIST 60-year-old ex-Bush staffer who writes 15 columns a week entitled “The One Thing Worse Than Trump: DSA”

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Did a rewatch recently and resonated with Scorsese’s observation that it changes every decade for him. Was disturbed earlier by Scottie, had new questions about his relationship with Midge, less concerned with details like how “Madeleine” got out of the McKittrick Hotel.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Big weekend for elder millennials (me) who had DVDs of O Brother Where Art Thou and Memento in their dorm room.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Saw The Odyssey. My initial take is Jason and the Argonauts (episodic Ancient Greek Journey with fun effects) crossed with The Thin Red Line (meditation on the folly of war and humanity’s failure to live in harmony with itself and nature) with Nolan touch (yearning to run away with Anne Hathaway).

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Eric Rohmer Summer

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Quite notable that Thiel was in dialogue with Fukuyama. I’ve just been writing asection of a chapter that looks at Fukuyama and Judt as providing sympathetic critiques of liberalism whereas Deneen and Moyn…don’t.

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