every generation reinterprets tradition - the links of the shelshelet hakabbalah are fashioned anew - and yet the basic forms remains useful.

not everything benefits from novelty and innovation, and in the quarrel des anciens et des moderns, the anciens scored some good points.

I say this a lot, but I am morbidly fascinated by the ways senior faculty will reach for signs of things continuing - "the fire's not out completely" because of one or two people getting a job, or a student continuing to publish the occasional essay while working in consulting. It's peculiar.

I don't know if they still do this, but Deep Springs used to use an incredibly long series of essay questions to deter the marginally interested.

It's only gotten worse since 2 years ago!

maybe it's a function of my age, but I keep having this "didn't we deal with this already?" feeling.

Would wear

Cooking on this today

I just noticed this thread is from 2024 but it felt like it was from 2026. We have achieved timelessness via critique.

Meanwhile, a fair number of prominent and appropriately resourced scholars have decided it's just not worth it to do that kind of work anymore, because they want the marketing budget and potential earnings of a trade press or magazine.

I have not the skill! But I bet you know some one

[gestures in the direction of gefilte fish]

For my fellow Japanese learners!

suggestion: frontispiece to Leviathan, but you know, Gritty

THE HUMORS by Kimberly Quiogue Andrews 1.  Today I am thinking about the difference between illness and predisposition, or personality. Or rather the dissolution of difference, the becoming-illness of the disposition. If, as Aristo…

Good morning; I have a piece of writing up in Four Way Review today if you would care to have a look at the way I think about sadness

fourwayreview.com/the-humors-b...

this is, I think, part of a larger story in which art=entertainment=thing that a machine could just as well produce, art that cannot challenge or surprise us.

exactly - art is entertainment for them, so they can’t value the study of art.

Cruel self-preservation, as it were!

"taking the wooters" they call it.

Whom, I?

The Faculty Are the Problem, Apparently | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson Those who want to diminish the faculty’s decision-making authority, or who think universities should be run more like companies, should be careful what they wish for.

Pls read this editorial by @kirstenweld.bsky.social
about how our Provost's plan for "viewpoint diversity" hires further erodes faculty governance at my university. (And never mind "veritas"!)
8 hires--but humanities hiring generally has been frozen since 3/25.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

An historian of the work of Leo Strauss, I hereby volunteer to be one of the viewpoint diversity hires.

mazel tov Sheila!

You can't be serious? Both the Atlantic Current and the current Atlantic are in trouble?

woot!

Once again, I am merely _recirculating_ the pun

I hope you like paintings etaletc.com/elisabeth-ni...

They've done some really great fashion shows over the years; I remember catching the Alexander McQueen exhibit maybe in 2015.

I mean they have this in common with my doktorvater

It's a weird feature of covering higher education, that even today the editors and writers want to present the story as one of continuities and opportunities.