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Jun 12
Have you ever thought about how much better Losing My Religion would be if it were a Smiths song?
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Jun 5
Whatever your judgment of the report, I hope we can agree that use of the term “whilst” is unAmerican.
Jun 5
Some notes in defense of the humanities and social sciences:
"By defending and investing in the humanistic disciplines, we affirm our commitment to a society that values critical inquiry, empathy, and the full spectrum of human potential..."
"Whilst there is no doubt that these disciplines in fact serve many positive social purposes, they serve these purposes best when they do not directly aim at shaping individuals or societies..."
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Jun 5
This is how the zombie epidemic begins
Jun 5
You will eat the mummy gut yeast bread.
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Jun 4
Funny story: years ago I went to a student production of Angels in America and the actors pronounced Koch with a hard K ending in the apparent belief that Ed was one of the Koch brothers.
Jun 4
Ed Koch was a beloved mayor who saved NYC from the brink of bankruptcy. A true New Yorker, he was known for standing at street corners and asking passersby, “How’m I doin’?”
Apparently not good enough for Mamdani, who ran a $12 billion deficit and wants to remove Koch’s name from the 59th Street Bridge.
That’s a bridge too far.
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Jun 4
6 yo has found a new way to torment her brother: she drew a picture of a boy that she carries around and addresses by his name.
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Jun 3
Oh no, not morals and virtues! Whatever will these fascists think of next?
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Jun 3
Much commentary on this. I read it as an admission that the UofC is throwing in the towel on liberal education. Will students still pay to hang around a research institute for natural and quantitative sciences that offers business degrees on the side? I truly don’t know.
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Jun 3
Harvard and maybe ten peers offer genuine status advantages. Other places are Fun. Yet others are cheap. A few “weirdo colleges” (@bradleybirzer) emphasize serious study. But it’s hard for me the understand why anyone would pay anything approaching full freight for AIU.
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Jun 2
Balfourite here
Jun 2
I'm just being beguiled again by late Victorian/Edwardian political history (a great era) and remember that I once made a Political Compass Quiz on this era! Are you a Die Hard? A Lloyd George Liberal? An effete Balfourite Tory? An ILP radical? Find out!
gotoquiz.com/political_compa…
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May 29
Autodads: what brand and model do you recommend for a three-row, non-luxury Family Truckster? Seems like Florida life is going to require a second car sooner rather than later.
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May 29
I think EP Thompson says or at least implies that nostalgia is ordinary people’s form of political imagination, while intellectuals are drawn to utopias.
May 29
I am second to no one in contending that nostalgia is an unproductive reaction to things, but wanting a good job, a house, and marriage isn't "turning the clock back". It is *the most normal, healthy set of aspirations for men there is.*
A party that tries to talk men out of wanting those things rather than figuring out how to deliver them is a party doomed to underperforming with male voters.
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May 29
Correct. The problem is less “they don’t teach this or that” than that they probably do in some class but it’s completely disconnected to other relevant subjects, authors, or works.
May 29
With a few exceptions the general education curriculum at US universities is so weak or nonexistent that people get through a humanities degree having read a random smattering of authors, so we could have this argument in circles forever
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May 29
The problem has gotten worse now that students come in with AP credits that let them avoid survey classes that provide a semblance of order.
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May 29
You can theoretically do a very traditional course of study at just about any large university. But you’d have to know what you were doing to piece it together across departments. Students almost by definition don’t, and even if they did there would be logistical hassles.
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May 28
This is part of the general collapse of civility. If there aren’t shared expectations for public behavior that you can count on others to observe, you need explicit rules and coercive enforcement. The specific case is pretty trivial, but the broader lesson isn’t.
No one wants a romantic dinner ruined by a screaming child at the next table.
According to a new survey, 75% of Americans say restaurants should offer some kind of adults-only dining experience to avoid unruly kids.
That includes child-free sections, restrictions during late-night hours, and quieter dining environments focused more on the experience than family-friendly chaos.
Community note
The 75% support figure for adults-only dining is from a multi-country consumer survey across the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, and Belgium—not US-only. lightspeedhq.com/news/75-of-con…
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May 28
“Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.”
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May 27
I always eat relishes and desserts so I'm not living like a pig.
Please let me know how reading Homer or Plato has changed your life, how it has improved you in a moral sense.
I am most interested in specific passages and specific behaviors.
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May 25
The true cosmopolitan has equally strong opinions on all these issues
May 25
Wine is just wine to most Americans, and Grana Padano is as good as parmesan is as good as pecorino. But just see what happens when you say that Coke Zero is the same as Diet Coke. Like Robert Conquest said, everyone is an Italian about what they know best.
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May 24
Headed to IKEA on a holiday weekend thoughts & prayers appreciated
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May 24
Having just spent an hour in the children’s section of a big bookstore, can confirm.
May 24
IT’S TIME FOR CONSERVATIVES TO PROMOTE EXCELLENCE IN CHILDREN’S PUBLISHING (THREAD)
The New York Times just published a story about popular children’s author Mac Barnett’s quasi-cancellation after he wrote that “94.7% of children’s books are crud.” Barnett isn’t just a random author; he’s the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, a post that comes with an office in the Library of Congress.
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