Before RFK my phlegm was never the color of split pea soup

I don’t know what to say except that human beings deserve better than whatever this is

Outlook should allow me to clown react emails

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The spring semester is Looming. Instead of methodically knocking people’s hats off, join the Melville Society Communications Committee! Help us share this with folks who might be interested (this is a particularly great opportunity for grad students).

"Chrome River" has rebranded as "Emburse Enterprise"

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

In my day Rabbi Jack Spiro's "Death: Myth and Reality" was like the most popular class at Virginia Commonwealth University

they put Lenin on the commemorative coin lmao

the puritans were pioneers in subtle injectables and facial sculpting, many don’t know this

William Bradford's jaw wasn't that chiseled

I'm sick! Give me your best garlic soup recipes

this kinda stuff is prohibited in the EU thanks to all the "red tape" that's "slowing down innovation" that big tech constantly complains about

weird how much power mitch mcconnell had when he had no power

The only Gandalf for me is James Gandolfino

The rude hand gesture that accompanies "Virtue? A fig!" is the only thing I remember from my college Shakespeare class

Perfectly normal beginning to every great Dartmoor love story, in my experience.

If you haven't already, you really need to ask yourself, why do Amazon, JP Morgan Chase, Home Depot, and Wells Fargo have an interest in funding a police training facility? What possible corporate interest could that serve?

Not going to read all that, but upholding SAT scores as evidence of faculty merit effectively disregards any education that takes place after about age 16, so basically all higher ed

Growing up (changing my CV out of Garamond)

Artist supports art

okay I admit that I like this

Happy New Year! As of today, Stefan Schöberlein (Texas A&M–Central Texas) and Jessica Van Gilder (Georgia Tech) are the new co-chairs of the C19 Podcast!

andy cohen's "am i excited about 2026? [pregnant pause] yeah. i... yeah. i mean, what's the alternative?" is the realest thing i've seen all night

Also this feral dog has slept in the same spot in my yard for several nights in a row, ensuring that "So It Goes" by Tom Waits remains stuck in my head for the rest of my life

Only Wet Hot American Summer (2001) got academia right

If you're cold, they're cold

literally every commercial is for gambling or inflammatory bowel disease, prove me wrong

someone decided to market the Ann Lee / Shakers movie by lauding their invention of…potato peelers, when @ashleyrattner.bsky.social and I are available to write copy

Seems bad that every commercial is for gambling now

I'm in the market for some new ones if anyone hates me

If Bluesky is so funny then how come I didn't see a single Pop Tart Bowl mascot on here today

You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.

Need this to emerge as a storyline in the Bravo universe

The 2020s have sucked so much

“the only way to make American schooling as equal as possible is to make it as public as possible: Pool the taxes, the funding, the administration, the risks―and keep schools, teachers, and students far away from capture by private interests or discipline by private financial markets.” Hell yes.

The limited release of The Testament of Ann Lee is making it very challenging to force my family to watch it on Christmas Day

I wish we pushed for research on the political economy of academia more. It's what takes us beyond "oh why did this one person cite a fake journal article?" into "why do we have a system that rewards people who do not engage with prior research and simply churn out pubs?"

Sleeping in a room shaped like an irregular decagon

Shout out to the woman on my flight watching a TikTok of Iggy Pop combing his hair

This reminds me of one of my favorite events of 19th-century US history: a debate on the "evidences of Christianity" between Alexander Campbell (pro) and Robert Owen (con) that took place over nine days in Cincinnati in 1829 and was attended by thousands. Campbell won.

Bad for students. Bad for instructors. Bad for universities. Good for private equity.

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One game I like to play is to see how many consecutive years I can get rejected from the First Book Institute

Intertextuality

Did he write commentary on every president? Did he Google the other 44 men who fulfilled this office to write a little something about each one?

As always, we're happy to bring you a lit studies companion to our yearly history book/article lists. Assembled by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social and @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social