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We've had anti-intellectualism in the US forever, but our elites didn't back it up with serious policy. This assault on science and knowledge is unprecedented, and it's not really sinking in. This isn't a bureaucratic spat over contract details or DEI, it's war. The silence of universities is bad.

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typed "cal" into my app launcher to look at my calendar, but it decided I wanted "Classic Marathon" instead (which was lying around on my hard drive from who knows when). Anyway, it worked out; my agenda for the day is: "somewhere in the heavens...they are waiting"

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Remember John Ashcroft and “Freedom Fries”? https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iwjcgn5pt2krm2lmav2mdcyz/post/3lhvychmej22b

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Newfield explains: if universities want to save research, they'll have to stop pretending that those big federal grant numbers were $$$$ in the bank and start explaining that grants, F&A included, do not cover the full cost of research […]

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Just because you, an academic, have a self-loathing fascination with the putative "populist" hatred of "expertise" does not mean this actually explains why the ultraconservative corporate rich are now in a position to do what Grover Norquist told us all the plan was in 2001

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I'm not sure holding a big blood-sacrifice ritual involving one group standing for the indigenous inhabitants of the land and the other bearing the totem of the invading settlers is in the best taste just now

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nothing like reading letters of reference to convince you that most people in English studies have no idea what they mean when they say "close reading"

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Authoritarianism Explainers telling you to surveil your own habits of mind are like the White Privilege Scolds: in the midst of catastrophe, helping liberals identify which brand of moral hairshirt would look best.

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Where. the. hell. are. the. organizations. The AAU. The American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The National Academies of Medicine and of Sciences and of Engineering. The AAUP. Every living Nobel laureate in the sciences (including even the economic so-called). Eight years ago they managed instant […]

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Any government climate scientist who wants to go out in a blaze of glory by making one last damning hockey-stick-graph slide but is held up because they want to the plot to use high-quality system fonts in a dark-background-light-foreground theme generated through reproducible and literate […]

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using imagemagick's montage command really gives you an unreasonable feeling of accomplishment. Behold! Book history in action! All I did was download some ISFDB cover images!

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also me on bookwyrm: the best I could do for actual escapism was this marvelously clear and good-natured open online textbook on the "lexical sets" for English vowels https://bookwyrm.social/user/agoldst/review/6430597/s/good-foot-fun-strut#anchor-6430597

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me on bookwyrm: for some pure escapist fun, I read Hammett imagining that the only resolution to social decline is a limitless explosion of mutually destructive violence https://bookwyrm.social/user/agoldst/comment/6430349#anchor-6430349

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I thought that yesterday's Jacobin hot take on tariffs was a little over the top (fig. 1)...until I read today's NYT op-ed by everyone's favorite progressive regulator, Lina Khan (fig. 2)

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Hit the paywall, leaving me unable to enjoy drinking this bitter draught to the lees: "How the 'Tiger Mom' Convinced the Author of Hillbilly Elegy to Write His Story" (Atlantic, June 7, 2017)

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ah, the time of year when the tax forms come in, and I guiltily take account of the money (more than peanuts, less than a climate-change electric bill) my widely unread 2013 monograph brings me from libraries subscribing to OUP's big digital package

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But if you really want a laff, you can't go wrong with this list of the masterminds of the hashtag-resistance https://prospect.org/politics/2025-01-10-opening-dncs-black-box/

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"Marxist equity" and "green new deal" mentioned next to each other in federal policy--it's like the second coming of the Meidner Plan

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Bernie, we need to talk about making sure the plain-text equivalents attached to your HTML e-mails actually are equivalent and not just a copy of your message from five painful months ago

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Post on bookwyrm: I open the radical time-capsule and check out Bowles & Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America (1976) https://bookwyrm.social/user/agoldst/comment/6370509#anchor-6370509

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A. Gourevitch: "The most politically significant thing this time around is not the anticipated planning and steamrolling but the weakness and disorganization of the opposition... Many of the favored (as well as unpopular) tactics used by the Resistance against Trump have been discredited by […]

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Nothing more symptomatic than the deluge of "things are bad, send $ now" messages. Hashtag-resistance may have been lame but for a moment it took us beyond Click to Buy.

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exhaustions nominated peace (Heaney/Tacitus)

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current mood: resisting the desire to check in with the students who studied The Remains of the Day with me last spring to see if they feel well-prepared for the political era we have entered

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the more I think about it, the more this 1970 remark of Labov's about how to elicit speech from reluctant children explains about social-media posting

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François Furstenberg: "By concentrating power in the hands of trustees and administrators, transforming much of its labor force into gig work, reducing even stable employees to functionaries, and immiserating students under crushing debt loads, our universities have been hollowed out from the […]

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Suggested amusement as things circle the drain: find news story titles that could be horror movie taglines

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Well worth reading an entire Econ textbook (CORE, The Economy 1.0) to get to this table summarizing the "capstone" chapter about what economists "learned" from crises Great Depression: markets aren't self-correcting Stagflation: capitalists can't be relied […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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