Christiana Cameron

Wife. Mom. Friend. CFO. History Lover. Opinion Haver. Optimist. Hoya. Work in Progress. AMDG.

[Christiana Cameron @bonapropism]

@karol I have 3 in or about to enter post-secondary. 1 in poli sci, 1 in aerospace eng & 1 in civil eng. The world needs morally serious people to engage with AI and shape the way it’s implemented in our society and broader world. I’m counting on my kids to step up to that challenge.

[Christiana Cameron @bonapropism]

@PitBottomSuper @jiratickets Downside: very questionable cuisine.
Upside: super chill karaoke.

[Christiana Cameron @bonapropism]

@rpondiscio Same, but it was Foucault’s Pendulum in my case.

[Christiana Cameron @bonapropism]

@CaitlinPacific Maestra Hazan is my queen. Her bolognese is the glue that binds my much-loved and crazy family together.

[Christiana Cameron @bonapropism]

@_CLancellotti Was just joking with my family that the forecasters are in league with the grocers 😂

[Christiana Cameron @bonapropism]

Mama Mary earned her lie-in ❤️

[EthiopicManuscriptArt @ArtEthiopic]

The Lord and His Mother sleeping in 😴

Ethiopia, 18th c. #StMary #BabyJesus #joseph #salome #sleepingin #HappyNewYear2026 #africanart

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

This is going to be a Rorschach test for a lot of people. What I see when I look at this is the harm of a quasi-mystical idea of “hate” as a spectral, even demonic, force. It’s a superstition that allows you to turn off your critical faculties, ignore anything that might contradict a sacred belief on a particular topic or about a particular individual — as in this case — and act with impunity.

It has always been a profoundly anti-intellectual idea, developed by those who saw intellectuals as mere tools for often extremely simplistic partisan ends to allow them to win arguments by brute force rather than logic and proof.

It has spread into the rest of society and across the globe in a way that allows taboo to defeat reason and skepticism almost every time.

I hope it’s an idea — like “speech is violence” — that we can relegate to the dustbin of history. If you believe the world is divided into a simplistic binary of “good people” and those infected with hate, then maybe the post-Enlightenment world is not for you.

And for those of us who believe that human morality and nature is more complex and less flattering than the sacred warriors in this battle, it's time to remember that Enlightenment values are not easy. But they are absolutely worth fighting for because the world without them is a place that lets you excuse the most monstrous behavior and never lose your sense of moral superiority.

That's the trap of the binary.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Words are not bullets. If we blur that line, real violence becomes more likely. My latest for @TheFP

[Christiana Cameron @bonapropism]

@lyndseyfifield This gets under my skin every year!!

[Christiana Cameron @bonapropism]

@TPCarney @asymmetricinfo @RhythmDoc01 Same.

[Christiana Cameron @bonapropism]

@AdeleScalia It makes me wonder what other massive beasts are out there hiding in plain sight 😬

[Christiana Cameron @bonapropism]

@agonyhope1817 We have a dog food subscription through Chewy and are happy with the deliveries and pricing. We buy most other things elsewhere.

[DC Police Department @DCPoliceDept]

Critical #MissingPerson 61-year-old Anthony Smith who was last seen in the 1300 block of Maine Drive NW on July 7, 2025.

Have info? Call 202-727-9099 or text 5011.

[Christiana Cameron @bonapropism]

@emzanotti Likely telegraphing to you that there’s been an incident of some sort requiring immediate use of the washing machine. The question is: will you find out now, or in a week or two when the mystery item’s stench has permeated the air?

[Christiana Cameron @bonapropism]

Yes. Free speech is for everyone and any idea, no matter how abhorrent or offensive. A government that curtails the right to free speech will inevitably move on to curtailing other fundamental rights.

[Tom Slater @Tom_Slater_]

Free speech is for Lucy Connolly, Kneecap, hate marchers, very Brexity things, woke identitarians, fash identitarians, street preachers, drill rappers, Islamists, ‘Islamophobes’. Don’t be a hypocrite. Don’t be a ‘but’-head. Oppose *all* censorship, or expect more of it.

[Christiana Cameron @bonapropism]

@mattyglesias The relatability is why Austen’s writing has endured. I find new things to chuckle about each time I re-read her books.

[Tucker Barnes @TuckerFox5]

Fun Fact: Sunset in DC tonight 6:00PM! Next time the sun sets in DC before 6PM? Nov 2nd! ☀️

[Christiana Cameron @bonapropism]

We live in an historic neighborhood in Northern Virginia. Our roof was badly damaged in a storm. Replacing it with a hardier material required pre-approval from a county-run architectural board. During the long wait for that approval, both the fire marshal and code enforcement threatened us with action for not repairing our roof.

Same county, 8 years later… A county employee ran into our car with the biggest backhoe you can imagine. Absolutely crushed our car. The county admitted fault and then turned around and claimed sovereign immunity, forcing our insurer to foot the almost $20k in repair costs.

[Christiana Cameron @bonapropism]

@CoffeewClassics The correct answer is undeniably #5, but my heart wishes it were #1.

[Christiana Cameron @bonapropism]

@PaulSkallas Emily Dickinson would like a word.