my kid made fun of me for buying another gingham shirt, and i shouldn’t have to tolerate such violence

checking in on my alter ego

feeling very violated right now

Do economists act the way they do because they studied economics or did they choose to study economics because they act the way they do?

excellent ad targeting

mentioned to an undergrad that i had a sixteen year old kid, and i don’t think he had realized i was old enough to be his father

7: Dad, do you know you don’t know anything? Me: Yes 7: No, you don’t.

double screening two academic talks right now

it’s always important to remain humble as an academic, but i do think i am deserving of a festschrift in my honor

my imposter

what sort of asshole would tweet an image like this?

my youngest inducted me into the demon hunters

it’s cute that he changed his profile photo after my quote tweet

dressed up today. i’m wearing my nice gingham shirt.

twenty year old student said he feels unc. thought about asking how I should feel at my age but opted not to.

My students didn’t know the German word for cocaine. I failed them.

my kid made a red card for half time of the City Arsenal game

I don’t know exactly what terrible thing led to me getting $90 via a class action lawsuit, but I definitely wouldn’t mind if it were to happen again.

lmao

thanks to STEM i know this is a trick question

i think “phony who's basically a quirk chungus male with a bit of academic affectation” might be the most accurate thing anyone has ever said about me

“faculty meeting after party” is a combination of words i never thought I’d hear

it’s always 2 dumb academics telling each other "exactlyyyyy"

I can’t actually read Spanish, but I certainly am not going to let something trivial like that stop me from citing a Spanish book.

always nice when one of the other dudes named Jonathan Fine gets the negative attention for a change

this picture my kid drew of me looks like the angel of history

I feel like a very serious scholar whenever I write recto and verso.

i certainly hope so

it me

From my conversation with @devingoure.bsky.social for the Moral Minority podcast, where I talk about Habermas’s “fairy tale of Enlightenment.”

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