Seeing the former headquarters of the New England mafia being used as a modern Indian fusion fast casual restaurant and vape shop makes me proud to be an American.

I like to think that at one point in time I had a good chance of getting one of the zero jobs in my field.

fml

someone on X, the everything app, has accused me of using my extroverted personality hegemony to squeeze the living space of shy and introverted people

CVS cashier told me I did a good job. This is the most significant praise I’ve received in years.

A student was surprised by the number of podcasts I’ve been on, but I have to make use of my PhD somehow since I definitely don’t do that at my job.

I too am very interested in how I connect sound with human understanding, which is something that I am always doing.

I’m worried the student reading a book before class doesn’t know about TikTok.

Kant is first and foremost an influencer

it’s getting harder and harder to justify membership dues for all the professional organizations for academics as a contingent faculty member

they did the meme

today is the final day of my thirties

no way this can be an accident

my kid is a big fan of the watching soccer with dad exception to the no tv during the week rule

When I got to my office today several books had fallen off my bookshelf. I can only conclude that they were trying to escape.

thank you for letting me know

Here’s the link! I talked with @jonathanbfine.bsky.social about Lessing, the origins of the German Enlightenment and the early bourgeois public sphere, and Hannah Arendt’s reflections on both for “humanity in dark times.” Hope you enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

You can now listen to my conversation with @devingoure.bsky.social about Lessing, Arendt, and their respective places in the German intellectual tradition wherever you get your podcasts.

my kid just told me i went to grad school and that stole my life

I got my wife a tweet for our anniversary so maybe I should get her a skeet for Valentine’s Day.

everyone knows the humanities are full of postmodernism and gender ideology but none of that shit is in the great books

finally ironed my pile of clothes, so my students will get to see that i do in fact own more than just one gingham shirt

the fact that i can’t stream the match i want to watch but can stream matches i don’t want to watch is a human rights violation

the dino nuggets really bring out a similar earthiness in the wine’s terroir

Listen to me call Lessing, the paragon of the German Enlightenment, a dick

who could this be talking about?

ok, meme ready… thank you @jonathanbfine.bsky.social as always for your service

Wife: I don’t think the system of German Idealism qualifies you to diagnose health problems

it’s real

Attn: @jonathanbfine.bsky.social

it’s my tweet, but i don’t get this dopamine, and it’s so unfair

this makes no sense to me

knocked out a peer review of an article in under 24 hours. something must be wrong with me.

the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards fascism

my kid’s teachers know about my twitter account, which is neat

my wife’s instagram shows her puppies and mine shows me whatever the fuck this monster is

the effort to rebrand blood oranges as red velvet oranges or raspberry oranges angers me immensely

i posted an academic article i had written and someone got upset that it was too specialized to understand

7: you don’t look very good when you don’t have a beard

Volume 52 of the Lessing Yearbook edited by myself, Hannes Kerber, and Joe Haydt is now available for download and hardback preorders from @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social!

it’s really unfair that the account rage tweeting about perfidious brown professors hasn’t tweeted anything about me

this is the only thing i’ve achieved this year

Wife: You make me sound like such as ditz. Like I don’t even know critical theory. Me: Is that what it means to be a ditz? Wife: In your world.

Fascists: How dare you ridicule my favorite fascist! He’s a special boy!!

sometimes you read a text and you feel an overwhelming urge to do theory to it

one month until my wife’s birthday, which i like to think of as the start of the six week period when i get to tell her every day how much i love being with an older woman

Wife: You don’t do deep enough close readings of your own work

wife says i can be ceo of the family but she’s chair of the board

Will no one rid me of this meddlesome professor?