max read this, saw the tim keller reference (whose books i consulted for marriage advice) and said, "man, tim keller is like the evangelical obama, isn't he?"

dope economist, dope book cover

I’m calling for a total and complete shutdown of the word “brilliant” until we figure out what the hell is going on

i did tell the students i talked to that i probably would have died before i showed up at a david brooks talk about love and marriage. i was too cynical and didn't want to be seen as a nerd lmao

nevertheless, the advice was pretty close to what i have learned since then

i talked to some students (kept anonymous to protect the rizzless) and they were honestly more relieved to hear that i was happily married than they were to hear that i am gainfully employed as a writer!

Does David Brooks Know the Secrets of Lasting Love? I Went to Yale to Find Out The former New York Times columnist knows it’s easy to make fun of him—but judging from the crowd that gathered to hear him explain love at Yale on Monday, at least some students are listening.

i went back to mother yale to see if david brooks had any good advice about love, and to see if he was drawing it from his own experience. the answer might surprise you!!! www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

Schools are choosing this in large part because many parents think reading novels amounts to “literary appreciation.”

After building the best public education system in the world brought us the Counterculture and the Anti-War Movement, conservatives in the US began a 50+ year assault to destroy public education.

The government was largely responsible for the crack epidemic the Black community. I’m agnostic as to how, I just know it DEFINITELY was them

Lots of Darren Aronfsky. Even the ones I like I hate

Ok this isn’t totally fair! For all its indignities, I’m very lucky to have a job where I write everyday. This is pretty much all I have ever wanted to do, Yale degree or no

They look so scared!!!! But it is also making me so nostalgic……maybe it’s finally time for me to go grad school 👿

My advice to all aspiring writers is to have a job right out of graduation so horrible that even the worst moments of your career from then on will feel like a reprieve

Now I’m walking down the route I used to drive home when I was a middle school teacher and at least I can tell that girl that It Gets Better

Enjoy it while you can, kids. In 2043, you’ll have a kinda shitty media job and wonder if they sold you a bill of goods!!!!!

I’m at Yale for a story and it’s admitted students week lol

I have literally never felt older in my life 😭

People didn’t use to see their workplaces as communities before the rise of unions!

Yeah, the idea obviously took off naturally because it has some clear advantages. But the idea that you might have some group where employees talk about their concerns in a corporation made no sense before white collar people started talking about unionizing, and bosses wanted to stop it

Totally! I guess I'm trying to capture the ideology that makes, say, every American teenager think it is logical to adopt the position of an anthropologist in the field, even if they wouldn't frame it that way. I guess it's just the immanent frame? Still, it is weirder than we give it for being!

Bruhhhh please why did these kids cook him like this?! 😭😭😭

my main "no one is talking about this" is the fact that Ezra Taft Benson was a Cabinet member during both Eisenhower administration! So ridiculous that someone that crazy has been so close to so much power

it's funny because i really am a "different strokes for different folks" person in most situations, but reading about that attitude in the context of moralistic therapeutic deism awakened a rage in me. you're allowed to say that good things are good and bad things are bad!!!!!!!!

i've been trying to write about this personally, but i think there is a real difference between exonerative, relativistic pluralism and the pluralism of actually appreciating multiple forms of the Good. the former is about constructing discourses where no one has to lose, including Nazis

yeah, if anything part of the issue with Democratic politicians rn is that they are VERY in touch with their primary voters, and left-abstention is just what people like, say, my mom really think happened in 2024

lmao i have spent time in the TRENCHES as a middle school teacher; i will be a comically uncool mom and i have come to terms with that

It was definitely eroding in my childhood years but it has been crazy to see people just give up on the idea that they are responsible for steering and even improving their boy children

From the minute Kyrie Irving became a flat earther, I predicted that this moment would come!!!!

I think corporations were just not prepared for how fucking weird teenagers have been for the last 15 years, and now their businesses depend on the charisma of dudes who cut their teeth on watching pewdiepie hurl racial slurs on a livestream

I’ve been thinking of it as “healthy/unhealthy communities” with childrearing practices up there with “can the minister get away with abusing congregants?”

It’s chicken or egg type thing—I wrote multiple stories that required talking/texting with sources and then there were layoffs which meant a lot of union steward communications. But still, it’s crazy to see my misery so precisely quantified like thay