is there a good analysis anywhere about the AAUP abandoning Kalven last year?

guys, time to retire "enshittification" we're just complaining about stuff, same as everyone else

normally it feels like a hot-take to say that the *enormous* efforts and costs incurred to shift all university operations online was not only not worth it on net but actually not worth even *without* the costs today that take feels less hot

theory peeps: imagine the view described here. do you recognize this view? if so, what would you call it?

as someone writing seriously on smith for the first time, i have this to say about smith scholarship there is now too much of it

Adam Smith's famous "man of system" passage is routinely cited as a warning against central planning, but @janetbufton.ca argues that's a misreading. Smith wasn't condemning ambitious visions for society; he was insisting that liberals pursue them through persuasion, not force. hubs.la/Q04f2BXQ0

sasse's "candy crush" argument is about the increasing *opportunity* cost of kids--we have so much else to do, and so much else we PREFER to do. i don't know what the evidence for this is, but it's better than the evidence for "more parental leave" which is literally zero and maybe negative

truly cannot believe how violent the rhetoric has gotten from the party of Barack HUSSEIN Obama, traitor and closet jihadist trying to replace you

not sure i'll ever be able to jump wholeheartedly onto the romantic liberalism train. if riot gear is one face of liberalism, the other one is a clean shop and fidelity to abstract and impersonal rules

the trump-era national consciousness/media cycle loop will forget this by the end of the week

Pretty sure Hasan Piker is Chatterton's fault, yeah

These people demand the right to appoint faculty and prescribe the content of the curriculum at American universities.

Your annual reminder that William Shakespeare was born in what is now Turkey, never visited England and almost certainly could not read or write in English.

hierarchy is as close to a necessary condition of social organization as we've discovered. why one would cede the very concept of hierarchy to one's bitterest ideological enemies, i'm not sure

i'll take my anti-AI takes from someone who wasn't very recently and very publicly caught plagiarizing, thanks! does the earnest moralism extend to social media faves or not

I am too smart to get my Civil War history from Matt Walsh over on twitter I will get it from anime avatars on Bluesky

Immense depths of thought in expressions of common speech; holes dug by generations of ants. (Baudelaire, describing emergent order with characteristic disdain)

I'm convinced that the oldest branch of liberal thought remains its most emancipatory. It aims at freedom from harm, and it uses sympathy to interrogate power from below. Let's call it "critical liberalism". Early notes at link. Quick summary below: [1/6] uncanonical.net/26-4-on-crit...

the JSM/HTM debate is a long one. the authors of the stylometric analysis make relatively modest claims that can, without injustice, lead to attributing it to both of them. making wild and unsubstantiated claims about either one of them is just poasting

Political "reviews" of things at least aspiring to be art are just so tedious and dumb. They proliferate on here because they are so easy to perform!

"premature"!

I will miss Kristi Noem's inimitable constitutional insights, as when, asked by Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H. at a Senate hearing to define "habeas corpus," she replied, "Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."

🔥🔥🔥Bulwark headline guy🔥🔥🔥

It is one thing to conduct operations with 100x the firepower of your opponent--operations that kill little girls. It's another thing to brag about it. It's yet another thing to believe that in doing so you look *tough.*

that we've been at war with iran since 1979 or whatever is one of those views you'd encounter among rightwingers--usually after a few drinks, when the inner crank would emerge from otherwise polished "conservatives" webb hubbell, wherever you are: lay low my man

fwiw i think the best (of bad) outcomes is also the most likely: trump gets tired of this in a week, hopefully before any massive American or ally casualties necessitate doubling down he announces a "deal" that is likewise forgotten in a week's time we go back to regularly scheduled programming

Not including this person's handle because I don't want to start a big pile-on but there is such a deep media literacy problem on the left. "The New York Times" is not "supporting" any of the things linked; individual writers on their *opinion* pages are making the case for these positions.

if you are a professor and considering closing your skeet with "we don't have to live like this," just close the app and do something else

x.com/EricLDaugh/s... Prominent MAGA accounts claiming Scouts were allowing co-ed sleeping and *showering.* Very rarely do I consider rhetoric "dangerous," but this could get out of hand very easily.

Marx was right. Capitalism is amazing.

guys, lincoln and marx did not "correspond." they were not "mutual admirers." this is leftie fanfic meant to make marx seem friendlier somehow, but it remains, as ever, total and utter fantasy.

hello, today i am mad about hockey players

the contrast between the Twitter hard right of eg. "Raw Egg Nationalist," "Athenian Stranger," "Bronze Age Pervert"--disgruntled humanities grad students cosplaying as WARRIORS and "bloodless" figures like Rawls, Oakeshott, and Wittgenstein, who fought and survived the world wars

gorsuch and 6-3 majority signal the willingness to use major questions to rein in Trump and we're just gonna bitch and moan our way through the entire thing at some point, you really just like rubbing people's noses in shit

I would like to restrain executive authority but I would like to do it in a way that wouldn't mean I don't get the things I want in the future

"sapere aude!" "do your own research!" --kant

you should care about blueskyism because *it makes your arguments dumb and bad*

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

curling's dominance of NBC's Olympics coverage is bizarre bowling and darts should get in on this action

RFK bragging about snorting cocaine off of toilet seats brings to mind Clinton's famous "I didn't inhale" interview if you think lying is bad, wait til you experience people who don't have enough shame TO lie

"harris WAS a moderate" is just perplexing you can think tacking middle is bad; you can think that she tried to run a moderate campaign; you can think that the result was baked in in sum, you can continue to fight about if "moderate" is what Dems should do but Harris was not a moderate!

i'd be more sympathetic to the latest round of dumping on libertarians if i occasionally witnessed--in fact, if i ever once witnessed--a round of "maybe we libs got eg. executive power very, very, very wrong"

another sign of how easy things were pre-2016: we worried about guys who read too much David Foster Wallace we worried about *guys that read books*

/squints/

i understand that this lady has now quit--after being called vichy, etc. are we better off? i don't know, but i'm absolutely certain the answer isn't "100%, yes." someone (or some LLM) *will* replace her. there's a reason Hirschman's book wasn't called "Exit."

it is consistently shocking--probably for most normal people--to watch Trump talk like this to people and for literally not a single person to say anything about it or otherwise acknowledge it happened. i'm hoping this is a reporter's craft thing, otherwise it comes off as weird and craven

WaPo and Scouts of America are big and durable institutions with *huge* net positive externalities if your response to their being gutted is "fuck 'em, they were no angels," then you might be pure (all anonymous people are), but you're not bright

it's difficult to know how to react to something like this