Joey Phillips

Dan Snyder ruined my favorite football team

[Joey Phillips @wileyberry]

@SlowToWrite George W Bush, in 2003.

[Joey Phillips @wileyberry]

@jaycaspiankang Yes, of course. But the league is deeper now so it’s apples and oranges.

[Dr. Taraleigh Davis @tdunc17]

How often do courts actually cite Supreme Court emergency docket orders? Probably than you think. New piece over at In the Interim @SCOTUSblog
https://t.co/Zs37n2JNPE

[Joey Phillips @wileyberry]

@TheGreyManes @minakimes @BenjaminSolak @espn All stats are made up.

[Joey Phillips @wileyberry]

@jaycaspiankang Inexplicably you forgot about Wizards Celtics game 6, 2017.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

In Mere Christianity, CS Lewis has an awesome opening riff about how most people know the difference between right and wrong, but they justify acting immorally by appealing to "special exception." They know they shouldn't hit a friend, but what if that friend was being so mean? They know they shouldn't steal a seat a bus, but what if that person got up and created a moment's confusion and then the seat was up for grabs? Etc.

When I read this section, I thought a lot about contemporary politics and the way that people justify their politics, not by appealing to higher principles, but rather by appealing to "special exception" to argue that their admitted indecency is justifiable in context.

A lot of MAGA vice is justified by special exception. Trump's defenders rarely defend his crookedness directly. They don't say "it's wonderful to use trade policy to enrich the Oval Office, it's really awesome." They say: Well, look, it doesn't really matter, because the left is so dangerous, Biden maybe did something similar 3 years ago, Democrats would do the same in power, and so forth.

I heard something similar in that NYT conversation everybody's talking about. You even see it in the headline: ‘The Rich Don’t Play by the Rules. So Why Should I?’ Why, hello, special exception. When you start arguing that stealing food and French paintings is justifiable in the context of political protest in an age of prevailing distrust, you're similarly not arguing *for* any kind of a universal principle. Nobody actually wants 300 million people stealing fruit from the grocery store. Nobody actually wants every Louvre visitor trying to rip a Manet off the walls. These virtues don't scale. (Because they're not virtuous!)

Sap that I am, I want us to get to a place where politics is about fighting for what is right and decent, not about justifying what sort of indecent behavior might be somewhat understandable or technically justifiable given the other side's vice or the prevailing levels of indecency. The point is to build the kind of goodness that scales.

https://t.co/iPF65NuyeU

[Dr. Taraleigh Davis @tdunc17]

The New York Times asked why the justices "bypassed time-tested procedures" in 2016. They didn't. They used the same procedures they have for decades. New piece in @SCOTUSblog from my new monthly recurring series "In the Interim.”

https://t.co/8KQuP0YHhJ

[Joey Phillips @wileyberry]

@stephenfhayes @MichaelRWarren @michaelsobolik @mikenelson586 Is anyone at the Dispatch not named Michael?

[Joey Phillips @wileyberry]

Whelp

[Cousin Sal @TheCousinSal]

NO BUZZER BEATERS!!!

[Joey Phillips @wileyberry]

@JBLenfestey Yeah I haven’t followed it that close, because I’m not a Kansas fan. Mercurial would be the word that comes to mind, from what I’ve seen. Frustrating, but usually better to have that level of talent than not.

[Joey Phillips @wileyberry]

@jarvis_best https://t.co/yXJfKH1lPz - My great aunt is in this book. Marie Hilley, aka the Black Widow.

[Joey Phillips @wileyberry]

@charlescwcooke It’s a straw man response to a straw man. In other words, it’s a Twitter battle.

[Joey Phillips @wileyberry]

The last sentence is *chef’s kiss*

[Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD]

This is the harshest and most incisively accurate summary of Walter Benjamin's essential uselessness as a writer and thinker that I will ever read.

[Joey Phillips @wileyberry]

“The FBI has announced that after a wildly successful sting operation, they managed to arrest the two main leaders of the KKK, Jerome and Deshawn.”

[James Finn @rjamesfinn]

Oof

[Joey Phillips @wileyberry]

@jaredcwilson Charles. Or Calvin. Or Christopher.

[Joey Phillips @wileyberry]

@tdunc17!! On the shadow I mean emergency docket!

What the emergency docket actually looks like https://t.co/j1SMaGpb4c

[Joey Phillips @wileyberry]

This looks like it will be very good. But I once again implore university folk to refrain from insane dependence on linguistic shibboleths.

[Jacob Denhollander @JJ_Denhollander]

Everyone needs to read this article by Adam Johnson, who does excellent work on the topic of atonement.

As a bonus we get to blame 19th century German liberals for some of the confusion, which feels right at home as a conservative baptist.

[Tyler Parker @tylrparkr]

Wrote about UNTUCKit’s Belgrade location and Horse Man’s win at Duzijanac. https://t.co/mNkSxHOEdx

[Joey Phillips @wileyberry]

@DennyBurk @Heminator Michael B. Jordan is (a) under 40, (b) plays masculine leads, (c) his movies make gobs of money including (d) currently the highest grossing non cartoon of the year. In a serious article he would have merited discussion.