Andrew Ordover

Hannah Arendt laying it down clean and clear, decades ago.

South Philly understands the assignment.

Why did I grow up loving reading but loathing math? Was that inevitable? brokenhand.substack.com/p/whats-it-a... #edusky

Philly fall

Some thoughts on theatrical storytelling. brokenhand.substack.com/p/a-theater-...

Joyful

Endless lies and slander; no consequences.

Books matter brokenhand.substack.com/p/2026-re-po... #booksky

“Fortress America” is an absurd agenda, put forth by small, frightened, angry people who don’t know how to live in an open, boisterous, colorful world. It should be mocked and fought on all fronts.

Thank God no one was testing hopeful immigrants to meet some ludicrous, arbitrary, inevitably racist criteria for being "truly elite" when my family was fleeing pogroms and looking for a new home to work in and work for and love.

May it all come crashing down while he's alive to see it: all the power, all the money, all the fawning sycophants, all the adoring crowds. May it all turn to dust while he's still here to stand in the dust and wail.

I didn't ask to live in a goddamned fortress.

For real change to happen, we need to focus less on immediate behaviors and more on the incentive structures that encourage those behaviors. brokenhand.substack.com/p/2026-re-po... #edusky

Your children are much safer in the company of drag queens than: 1. Pastors or priests; 2. Republican men; 3. Billionares; and 3. Frat boys.

40 years on Team Malone... and counting. Love you, @michellemalone.bsky.social

Too goddamned prescient for words www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0HG...

Prices reduced on all my books (99 for the ebooks) as an October gift to anyone who might want to read something of mine. brokenhand.substack.com/p/my-birthda...

Unhesitating repetition of obvious absurdity is now the only test of fitness for Republican officials. And the mob boss ratchets up the level of absurdity required to keep the test sharp.

The things old myths still have to tell us. brokenhand.substack.com/p/listening-... #booksky

The whole point of having elected representatives is so that someone will speak up for us, so that insatiable appetites of capital aren't the only voices being heard in government. When will we have leaders and agencies that care about things like this again? www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1pX...

Right vs Left isn't as dangerous as "We must let people live the way they want to" vs "We must make people live the way we want them to." And too many people who start in the first camp switch, the minute they discover some group they disapprove of.

This was the world reacting to a slain leader and a morning nation. This is what Trump wants to demolish if he can't slap his name on it.

What the good kind of accountability means. brokenhand.substack.com/p/2026-re-po... #edusky

Those who are not unstable and insane are aggressively stupid. The ones who are neither insane nor stupid are viciously, deliberately cruel. That's our national government.

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...

Decided.

What the liberal arts gave me... brokenhand.substack.com/p/2026-re-po... #edusky

What the liberal arts have me... brokenhand.substack.com/p/2026-re-po... #edusky

"No political magazines made money. Not ever. It was an impossible dream." Thank you.

"She wants everyone to be okay. I am not like that. I have entire classes of people I would like to load onto a Falcon Heavy and launch straight into the sun. Not Sarah."

Hannah Arendt knew and thing or two

"Take as much money and provide as little service as you possibly can" is a bad model for things like healthcare, education, and public safety.

The only point of money is the good it can do and the things it can buy. If you have hoarded so much of it that most of it will never be used to do anyone any good or buy anyone anything they need for the next 100 years, what on earth is the point of it?

Theodore Roosevelt once said republics rise, flourish, and fall because their citizens turn the government into a tool primarily to benefit one class instead of benefiting the people as a whole, and I think about what he said quite a lot.

It's a major failure of the national imagination that when confronted with the idea of a president who is equal parts venal, ignorant, and insane, it never occurred to us that many people's response would be to shrug.

We are taking this country apart, piece by piece. We destroy our health, we destroy our wealth, we destroy our security, we destroy our sanity. Winner gets all the ashes.

Teaching is an act of faith and hope. We plant our seeds and we water our gardens, but what grows there is often beyond our control. brokenhand.substack.com/p/the-cause-... #edusky

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It shouldn't be that hard to build a society in which people are left alone to live their lives as they choose, as long as they don't infringe on other people's right to live their lives as they choose.

Dear Google; Grow a goddamn spine and provide factual information to your users. This is nonsense.

If you have more money than you could ever use in your lifetime, but insist of grabbing more, you're a greedy bastard. If you have more money than your family could ever use, unto 10 generations, but you insist if grabbing more, you're a sociopath.

The importance of owning the room. #edusky brokenhand.substack.com/p/2026-re-po...

Dolly was a better model of what a Christian and an American should be than Donald will ever be.

In a world full of the destructive kookiness of people like RFK Jr, strive to fill it with a little of the restorative kindness of Dolly Parton.

Donald Trump longs for the day-- and is working to achieve the day-- when he no longer has to worry about his approval ratings or what any court says is legal or illegal.

A little music-driven time travel... brokenhand.substack.com/p/mix-tape

@mrbrettgoldstein.bsky.social Thank you for the Pinter pause joke in today's new episode. One for the theater kids, with no explanation offered for anyone who didn't get it. Respect.

More Leaders Like Mayor Mamdani Please.......🙏

The shame of this age is our willingness to let Ukraine bleed and bleed and bleed, when we could have stood firmly and unequivocally with them, united with other countries, to force Russia to retreat.