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Mar 1 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The "15,000 words!!" thing is particularly laughable. There was one 11,000-word magazine feature, plus like three normal-length newspaper articles and a Douthat op-ed over the course of a year
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was wrong on this one, that figure is not including the times mag piece

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Mar 2
Anecdote on humanities—during my MA (I know), I took an intellectual history survey w/ a professor who'd been at Brown since the 70s. She said when she started, undergrads would arrive having already read Hegel, Nietzsche, and Marx, and she'd assign things like Fichte and Lukacs
By the mid-2000s, she'd had to drop Lukacs because not enough students were familiar with Marx and Hegel, and by the 2010s she'd stopped assigning Hegel because the average reading level had fallen so far that most students couldn't get anything out of it and just wouldn't read
By the time I got there, she'd cut the assigned page count in half from when she'd started, and was struggling to get Ivy League students to understand texts as basic as The Genealogy of Morals
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After the crying and the addiction, probably the most-mocked thing about Jordan Peterson is his complaining about how modern Disney movies subvert traditional mythological narratives, but I actually think it’s one of his more astute points
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