Also the NYT saying “return ticket”? Are we British now?

does your part of the political spectrum appreciate the humanities:

far left: no*
left: yes
center: maybe
right: no
far right: yes*

*unless explicitly discussing material conditions

this student at least knows Harvard has no undergrad business major. I've seen admitted students before who only learned this after enrolling.

at least I have a good slide to explain "hegemony" now

this is what the humanities are up against

I think it helped that Orban’s opponent was named the Hungarian equivalent of “Johnny America”

This is the funniest thing I have read in years

are we sure it's patient awareness and not physician awareness?

I don't even think I am against advertising drugs in principle. I just hate that all the ads are the same ad and it's a stupid ad.

Have come to the realization that my most deeply held political opinion by a considerable margin is banning pharmaceutical ads

I suppose if you had some sort of cap based on liquidity it would give would-be mortgage holders the chance to compete with cash buyers. I'm not sure how big of a problem that is though outside of a small handful of places.

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I appreciate the spirit of this piece, but a federal program to subsidize down payments would effectively just end up raising housing prices, no? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

she is more of an expert on Greece

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philosophy also in this category

Hey I'm the grandson of a classicist but I do think it is necessarily a more self-selecting group

I have certainly made this case to many of my own students

History departments need to be pressing the case that history is *the* best prep for a JD which is the best way to make a lot of money if you are not into the sciences

Our LG dryer has a problem, out of curiosity went to see what Consumer Reports likes these days, only to find that *every* electric dryer now recommended by CR is an LG

please, don't be shy, throw your colleagues under the bus here

I think we need an inverse thread where we talk about things that normal intelligent people universally agree upon that are for some reason hot takes within your profession

I shrug my shoulders at a lot of AI stuff but in this case, jeez louise man, it's only the country's most important book review asking you, a novelist, your opinion of another novel. Have some self-respect.

one might even say that this dynamic is inherent to the country's compromise around the status of Quebec

Constantly trying to find homes with less space closer to downtown

I thought these tweets were only scheduled for Fridays

respectfully, that is frankly a bizarre interpretation of how minority languages function in the US

yes, but that is rather beside the point, is it not

The president with the biggest gap between public opinion surveys and professional historian surveys has to be JFK. Not that historians think that poorly of him but he is the public’s favorite president by a country mile.

thesis: kings
antithesis: no kings
synthesis: occasional kings, as a treat

Subarus are the only cars left on the road where I regularly see visible exhaust coming from their tailpipes