lawrencerosenwald.bsky.social
Translator, pacifist, scholar, lay cantor, husband, writer and performer of theater verse, father, grandfather. Current large project is a study of pacifism and literature, current large task is finding what John Lewis called "good trouble."
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How?
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Yes. When I was Harper Fellow there in the late 70s, this was a fact much boasted of.
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Matthew Yglesias argued in a recent substack that the pardon power was, even more than other powers, the way a President could subvert the rule of law altogether.
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And then there's the aid to Israel . . .
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At a guess, _The Iceman Cometh_ would provide the greatest number of glasses . . .(do bottles count, by the way?)
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Wondering, selfishly, whether you’ve put your thoughts about changing assignments into writing anywhere - I’m sure I’d learn from them!
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I showed your admirable policy to a colleague, who wondered how it might be possible to get a copy of the policy with the links active. (They're not on Bluesky.) I'm at [email protected]. Thanks in advance for any help!
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Vu ahin?
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Any chance you could hold a zoom version of that meeting? I'd love to hear what ideas you all have.
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Though my all-time favorite dedication is John Cage’s, to _Silences_: “To whom it may concern.”
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They’re all three pretty great. Good for your class!
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I'm rooting for Ishmael and Queequeg.
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Is it so hard to make sense of, given Biden's support of Netanyahu's war in Gaza?
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I’m interested in that question too. But there’s a question that precedes it, namely, _will_ we refuse? And I can’t say I’m confident that we will.
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Burdick's for sheer quality. Zing Cafe (Mexican hot chocolate) for almost comparable quality without the cult.
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You either join the union, boys, or thug for J. H. Blair.
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Plausible enough, but in all honesty I can't entirely accept an explanation that doesn't take into account race and gender.
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Count me in!
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Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's . . . .
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Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy.
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For me, "cracking down" is a euphemism. Punishing, suppressing, criminalizing etc. all would be better.
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Agree on the whole. And I have to say that this denunciation of the academic left, like some others I've read, doesn't seem to have much to do with the circles of the academic left I live in; it's highly (and in my view distortingly) selective.
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Am already subscribing. Totally agree with you.
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A thing that drew me to my present congregation (Havurat Shalom, in Somerville MA) is that it did sanctuary work during the contra wars.
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Hadn't thought about it, but it's an attractive idea.
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I've always loved that first sentence - more, really, than I love the book itself . . .
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They are ready, and he will.