dad, prof, writer. director @stugreatbooks (say it like "dine in")
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I have an essay called "Kierkegaardian Individualism and the Political" in the new issue of Politics and Poetics ⬇️
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My career was derailed…. but then the train just started flying!
Children derail academic careers even in places with good social nets, like Denmark
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Who goes in the three portraits of the updated version?
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Jun 12
Crack open a Natty Light and start reading Natty Right
Jun 9
NEW @KnowYrEnemyPod! We talked to our friend @second_sailing about Leo Strauss's 1953 book, NATURAL RIGHT AND HISTORY. What does this strange, brilliant text have to do with American conservatism—and even our current political moment? Pull up a chair and find out (link below)
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With respect, we should be grateful that bad pedagogy and assessment is being rendered obsolete
Jun 11
Just gave an on-paper, in-person final exam. I just put my tests online last year, but for the first time in my career many students fully stopped attending class but got near-perfect test scores online. Massive LLM abuse has mostly cooked online tests. What a pain in the ass
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lol oh that feels terrible
Jun 12
“Exposure to respiratory viruses before a baby’s first birthday — when immune systems are immature and before most childhood vaccinations — consistently predicted reduced earnings, education and health decades later.”
ALT Screenshot of Washington Post headline: “Your birth order affects your future, but not for the reason you think Why birth order leaves an indelible mark has long eluded scientists. Now we have some answers that suggest what parents and policymakers can do about it.”
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Jun 12
"Discourses on Levy" would be a great title for a Noah Baumbach film
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10y/o to 8y/o: "he was gooning"
[Me: perks up, on high alert, ready to intervene]
10y/o to 8y/o: "he's such a joker!"
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Yeah, but the hamburger is good, and ChatGPT is bad
Jun 11
people share the "one chatgpt query = a bottle of water" stat like it's hiroshima. your hamburger was 660 gallons. not one person posting the water bottle stat has ever looked up what alfalfa is doing to the colorado river
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I love being 40. If someone says: "Your APSA panel is at 8:00am on Sunday," I just say: "No it isn't."
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My writing process: jotting down aphorisms, snippets, half-thoughts for months, then eventually forcing them into an essay, once I figure out how they're all related. Unfortunately, this approach does not lend itself to longer form work.
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Is that what you think it's about? lmao
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“I have tried reading this book maybe seven times so far, and each time I make it only 40 or so pages before I have this urge to do … anything but live inside upper middle-class concerns about who marries who among the 18th-century English gentry.”
—“Shelf Life: Ocean Vuong”
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Filed a piece I've been thinking about for three months AND finally filled out all of my expense reports from the last academic year. It is possible to finish things!
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I have to break my habit of ironically referring to "the woke Odyssey" before I teach it this fall.
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Ok everyone, please open Emily Wilson's Woke Odyssey to Book 5, Line 150
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They need to be passionate about their work. Most of them can read well-enough to improve themselves very quickly if you show them why the material is worth the pain of developing the skill.
Gen Z college students reportedly struggle to read a single sentence, per Fortune
Professors have begun adapting to students by reading aloud, discussing line by line, or adjusting assignments
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She really is the people’s princess
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Matt Dinan retweeted
Jun 9
NEW @KnowYrEnemyPod! We talked to our friend @second_sailing about Leo Strauss's 1953 book, NATURAL RIGHT AND HISTORY. What does this strange, brilliant text have to do with American conservatism—and even our current political moment? Pull up a chair and find out (link below)
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Thanks Melania. A great argument for ignoring hype, and remembering that the task of education never changes.
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The principal parts of φέρω, obvi.
Neuter plural "aliqua" not "aliquae".
Feminine genitive plural τούτων not ταύτων.
Nominative "iecur", genitive "iocineris".
What shocks you most in the world of Latin and Greek paradigm irregularities?
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Here's the link to my appearance on the new @KnowYrEnemyPod, with the unenviable task of helping navigate Natural Right and History. know-your-enemy-1682b684.sim…
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In short, NR&H is one of those books you need to read for yourself, and the only real response to it is to then study the books it itself interprets and think through the problem of natural right for yourself in our time and place.
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Also, in some ways, the short section on Socrates at the beginning of the Classical Natural Right chapter is the key section in the book, and I wish I had said a bit more about it, but we simply could not discuss everything there. Thanks to Sam & Matt who are smart, fun, generous
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