i want liberal education, not classical education, and i want it called that

One of the most emotional Bible stories I remember from Sabbath school is the one where an artist name Jack and a debutante name Rose fell in love with each other while aboard a ship that hit an iceberg and sank.

I cried.

More generally: Trump’s economic policy makes more sense once you recognize it’s just an elaborate bribe-solicitation mechanism.

As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

Inside a Black Panther Family Album Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver’s family album depicts aspirational homemaking in diaspora, capturing the tension between rest and motion as they navigated exile with their children.

The family album of Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver, prominent leaders in the Black Panther Party during the late 1960s, depicts aspirational homemaking in diaspora, capturing the tension between rest and motion as they navigated exile with their children.

Read an excerpt from Leigh Raiford's new book "When Home Is a Photograph" in @hyperallergic.com:

membership.theonion.com/iw, at long last, Global Tetrahedron takes over IW

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Trump administration begins refunding more than $166bn in tariffs Claims system launches months after supreme court ruled Trump had no legal authority to impose tariffs

So you and I and everyone else are in effect now refunding American corporations for import tariffs, although we paid for most of them in the form of higher prices — which they won’t now lower because they have monopoly power to keep prices high.

The Art of the Deal.

Lindsay Boylan: "Jim Dolan’s MSG is surveilling fans and targeting trans women. A publicly subsidized arena in the heart of District 3 owes the public accountability. I’ll bring MSG leadership before the Council. We can’t allow this heinous discrimination. Time for answers"

@lindseyboylan.bsky.social is the third candidate for higher office to highlight our @wired.com reporting into Madison Square Garden's invasive surveillance program. She's the first, I believe, to propose specific action in response.

Faculty Council passes resolutions urging release of SCiLL report and increase in shared governance The second of two resolutions passed calls for the University to release a redacted version of the recent investigation into the School of Civic Life and Leadership, which was initiated after reports ...

“liberal arts engineering”

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www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

Delightful conversation with two priests about Julian of Norwich!

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Why are most university degrees still three years long? If we want to fix student finances, the academic calendar needs a rethink | LBC As MPs launch an inquiry into student loans in England, it’s clear that the debate around how undergraduate degrees are funded shows no sign of slowing down.

This is the most harrowing take on education I've yet heard. Absolutely no understanding of the formation side of education. Just a pure rational economic efficiency lens. Barbaric. www.lbc.co.uk/article/univ...

221. Chief Justice Roberts and the Clean Power Plan Remarkable reporting from the New York Times provides a peek behind the curtain of the February 2016 rulings that ushered in the modern emergency docket. And what it reveals is pretty discouraging.

"In the first major case in which the Court granted emergency relief as a means of shaping nationwide policy, it turns out that the justice who led the charge was the one who was doing quite a bit more than calling balls and strikes."

Me on Saturday's @nytimes.com scoop in today's "One First":

Pink dogwood blooms.

Wisteria against a blue sky.

Purple irises with raindrops.

Before I disappear into today’s writing session, I’m happy to report that magnolias and cherry blossoms have been replaced by dogwoods, wisteria and irises as spring continues to barrel along.

‘We Come Here Broken and Desperate’ Durham Rescue Mission takes in people with nowhere else to go, but some former guests say the nonprofit exploited them at their lowest point.

‘We Come Here Broken and Desperate’ www.theassemblync.com/news/culture...

I have a fancy PhD and teach Kierkegaard, and I don’t know where to begin with this Palantir manifesto. I’m resorting to silent prayer..

I’m thinking about how Margaret Atwood’s best known built worlds work. No one loves anyone for long. People are tortured and die. Hung on walls. In the Oryx and Crake trilogy barely hanging on and misanthropic. Her bestselling dystopias are akin to Game of Thrones. Anti-sex, miserable, barely human.

My happiest time in uni was sharing a tiny room with bunk bed with a roommate assigned to me at random, we couldn’t be more different but danced and studied together, she is the suavest driver I know, and I can’t believe that she is coming to visit me this summer so many decades later

Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired in controversy as academics allege obstruction

Harvard being Harvard. Read closely through to the end.

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The Pope is a Patriarch. Remember that when the Orange haired man is no longer the President. Consider other forms of power than the power of the giant megaphone.

Official and unofficial reparations requests from Antigua that emerged during and after Cellini's visit have included scholarship programs, providing funds to upkeep National Archives, requests for genealogical research support (to identify descendants of people enslaved on plantations), and requests to fund non-communicable diseases research. To date, the discounted business development courses are all that have been offered by the university. A Harvard spokesperson said that since 2019, the university had "pursued and expanded partnerships" with the University of West Indies at Five Islands and that in addition to the online courses, "faculty from both institutions have participated in conferences and programs hosted by each institution."

Pathetic. To the Antiguan people, Harvard is…offering a 10-20% discount on online business development classes.

Crucial reading.

“The word reparations, he said, was explicitly avoided.“

I’m guessing Harvard has plenty of studies on the other R word: “resilience.”

Let them eat resilience.

Why full-time faculty need to unionize now! - The New School Free Press The last few months have been a nightmare for students, faculty, and staff at The New School. The university’s top administrators are vandalizing this unique institution and destroying the lives of th...

Why full-time faculty need to unionize now!

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"We've ended DEI - but we need you to give $10 million to pay for conservative professors."

Thank you!!!

The cover of my second book -with @eerdmansbooks - and the cover of my fourth book - with @BloomsburyAcad - are each from a 1919 YMCA social health poster series available through the University Minnesota archives. Judge these two books by their covers, and thank archivists!

Fifty research lab shuttered. Countless decades-old experiments and scientific records lost. Thousands of forest scientists and experts essentially forced into retirement. The destruction of science on a massive scale.

@adamconover.net students years ago nicknamed me “Professor Amy Ruins Everything” and it was a moment of great pride I carry with me to this day.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Two former chocolate factory copper bowls, now a font, in Norwich cathedral. The west window is by George Hedgeland. #FontsOnFriday #StainedGlassSunday