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Apr 16, 2021 • 17 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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what a peculiar, fascistic document
punchbowl.news/wp-content/upl…
"Est. 2021". This logo makes me think: tradition, continuity, free checking
"ideological flexibility" = mixing metaphors for the good of the nation

can't make an omelette without sacrificing some toes
to quote the National Review: fewer, but better, voters
time to take a stand against decadence, as President Trump would have wanted
it's conservatives vs terrorists and pedophiles. Gonna be hard to both-sides this one
this is the longest 14 words I've ever read
buildings can't have babies. Read some science
off topic, but this reads like a middle-school paper assignment done during a sleepover
speaking of the Sokal trio
I tend to think these bold diplomatic initiatives might involve tax dollars going abroad, but what do I know
"it's not a hoax, but maybe it is, and anyway China did it, so the CDC must stop locking down families"
damn you David Richardo

it's your fault the "Western Pacific" is drowning the "North Atlantic"
merchants are traitors, mobile wealth is not to be trusted
Blood and Soil... and Picnics
credit where it's due, education is indeed harmful to this worldview

can't tell whether "primary and secondary" means universities are being eliminated or whether they just forgot they exist
having laid into international trade and decried state tyranny, we now mourn the passing of post-Tiananmen, PNTR-status China

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Aug 3, 2024
Humanities advocates can’t defend the value of academic departments of specialized researchers without defending specialized research. Trying to make generalized critical skills do that work suggests a lack of conviction and, ironically, doesn’t say much for our critical skills.
Arguing that you need 20-30 full-time, permanent specialists in ancient religion, medieval poetry, early modern trade, and modern political history, because they all teach critical reading and writing skills is like arguing that you need a car so that you can listen to the radio.
Inevitably, if you are dealing with someone who is paying your arguments any attention — admittedly doubtful, in this case — the question will arise: why not just buy a radio? Or get an app? It’s cheaper, takes up less space than a car, and, apparently, does the exact same thing.
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Feb 29, 2024
As far as academic employment goes, a much, much, much bigger problem than senior faculty members not retiring is universities not replacing faculty when they retire.

The problem isn't that the pipeline to secure, senior status is blocked, it's that there is no pipeline.
What, do we think state schools are cutting programs and folding departments and casualizing teaching because Old People?
Also: allow me to point out that a 65-year-old tenured professor in a program of, say, 5-7 FT faculty in a mid-ranked public university of any size does not meaningfully have “power” either in the institution or the discipline and it is a weird fantasy to imagine otherwise
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Jan 29, 2024
This is something I wrote for my intro-level students in history, as a way to think about how to read the different kinds of text they will encounter. Image
1. Read actively. Write in the margin; don’t just underline, make notes. With practice you will learn to distinguish between ideas or arguments that authors emphasize, and details that you can look up again later. ...
... Rather than aiming to reproduce the contents of the reading or the lecture, focus your notes on main points and key ideas or examples.
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Aug 13, 2023
This is one reason why pundits confusing declining *majors* with empty *classrooms* is so irritating — and why the Father’s-Day “solutions” proposed (“why not teach cool classes like MOAR WAR?”) miss the point.

My classroom is full, it’s just more and more full of non-majors.
History majors make up about a third of my scheduled intro lecture this coming year. Last year it was closer to 50%. When I started they were the majority. The subject hasn’t changed, but perceptions about future employment, a lot of them driven more by media than by data, have.
It’s not that nobody takes history courses, but that increasingly universities are seeing the arts (and, I suspect, a lot of the sciences too) as at best essentially remedial/service/“skills” supplements for vocational and pre-professional programs. A view many have internalized.
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May 15, 2023
I think we’re slowly figuring out that students, parents, faculty, administrators all internalizing a vision of higher education as coercive workplace discipline rather than an opportunity to pursue intellectual interests brings out the worst in everybody and has no happy ending
“They should force me to think”

half your classes are taught by grad students and adjuncts making a fraction of what you will at McKinsey, you could choose to think about that
“Teachers must force me to think” is the B side to the antiwoke hit single “Students must sign up to be hurt”
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May 13, 2023
Curious about the model of learning that necessitates “hurting” students but only coddling their edgy professors
Next time a senior prof breaks down at the thought of a barista’s pronouns or a Black mermaid I’ll remind him it’s supposed to hurt
It’s called learning, Sir
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