Brown mass shooting and MIT professor murder may be linked: Sources - ABC News abcnews.go.com/US/brown-mas...

My psychedelic king: From Erkin Koray: With a wild wind- Seasons pass- Distances between us, Distances- Distances- Distances- Distances- www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQNP...

"First-gen programs, when done right, are not remedial. They are revolutionary. They teach institutions how to become more humane, equitable and responsive. They’re not just about tutoring or financial literacy; they’re about belonging." 👇🏾

I am profoundly sad to learn that Asad Haider has passed away. We had some limited interactions back on Twitter that were always wonderful, and he was, by far, among my favorite writers and thinkers of our generation. Our last conversation was back in 2021 >

thank you to everyone finding this essay in a brand new magazine - one that is trying to do something different in this time of media consolidation...

On December 14th @ 2pm (EST), the Verso Book Club will be hosting a conversation on John Berger's vital contributions to the worlds of art history, politics, translation and criticism in anticipation of his centenary in 2026. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/w...

How did Colorado Springs become the epicenter of evangelical capitalism? What's the link between the Air Force and Christian Conservatism? And how did Donald Trump become the Prayer Warrior In Chief? That's what Will Schultz and I are reckoning with this morning. Links below.

John Brown is absolutely up there as a contender for greatest American. Emerson relays a quote from Mattie Griffith that Brown’s execution would “make the gallows as glorious as the cross.”

I have very few good memories of my undergrad years, but one of them is listening to A Child’s Christmas in Wales for the first time performed by two brilliant Irish classmates. Thank you for the reminder @annelouiseavery.bsky.social. youtu.be/SDdEvkQf9ko?...

This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

For anyone in Chicago, I’m excited to be performing for the opening of Justin Lowe’s show Blaze at Drag City’s Soccer Club Club this Thursday. Excellent refreshments on hand and DJ set by Jenny Pulse. Probably my last show of this eventful year!

Religious studies, some combination of: “oh so you’re a minister?” Or “so what is your religion?”

Malcolm Gaskill's review of Susan Juster's A Common Grave: Being Catholic in English America is a great read (just look at the title: "Bejesuited"! 1/ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This piece brought me to tears. I still believe in this, and it is getting so much harder. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

I hope you're having a happy Thanksgiving. Here's a great piece from @kaliholloway.bsky.social on how Turkey Day was long opposed by white evangelicals as a holiday for woke Yankees www.thenation.com/article/soci...

"We followed everything we were supposed to do" Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

On Thanksgiving, a good thing you can do is watch We Shall Remain: www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...

The Return of The Durutti Column (1980) 45th Anniversary Edition so much to answer for ✨ boomkat.com/products/the...

With collaborators including Claire Rousay, Patrick Shiroishi and Maisie Stewart, the Chicago-based cellist and composer draws rich seams of resonance from snatches of everyday audio Lia Kohl - Various Small Whistles and a Song buff.ly/GOBpkZA

“…the “Orthodoxy as Masculinity” narrative is consistently rejected by Church leaders and scholars because it is so blatantly misaligned with the Church’s theology and history.” Great piece on the recent NYT article at @publicorthodoxy.bsky.social

Big Star - Thirteen wzbc.org

👏🏾⚖️ Beginning today, the @harvard.edu Law School Library is making available online the first complete, fully searchable, digitized collection of official evidentiary documents and trial transcripts in English from all 13 Nuremberg Trials, at nuremberg.law.harvard.edu.

RIP Mani. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Wondering what a developmental editor does? @katelynknox.bsky.social reviews @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social 's book "Make Your Manuscript Work" @princetonupress.bsky.social #feedingtheepphant networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

‘His role is to recruit’: the Sheffield-based propagandist for Sudan’s RSF militia

For anyone attending #AAR next weekend in Boston, there will be a panel discussion of my new book with some great scholars and friends Saturday at 5pm. Hope to see you there. #AAR/SBL.

I’ve asked this before but I’m genuinely curious if people have recommendations for newsletter software that is not SubStack. My main interest is something that I can use for essay writing. I’d rather it be a newsletter than a blog. And I’d rather not have to pay for anything. Recs?

AI is killing the college essay as more professors ditch robot-written papers for in-class exams. So now even fewer students are being taught to write well (an energy intensive task!). Students lose out, bc good writing = good thinking: a training of the brain towards structure, style & substance.

such exciting book mail!!! @curtisdozier.bsky.social

Accused of obscenity and sued by police and Tory MPs, Eve Libertine outraged the establishment as part of Crass. Now she’s back – and she hasn’t mellowed with age

My sister was just explaining all of this to me today. The literacy crisis has deep roots.

50th anniversary of this Great Lakes tragedy, the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Its fascinating, and adds to the lore, that there are still multiple freighters of the same type (some of which were with the Fitz on that night, and helped in the initial search) still plying the lakes. More below.

Really seeing once again, it seems, that the real divide in the Democratic coalition is not left/lib/moderate or anything like that. It's the fight/no-fight divide. And the 'fight' dems are the ones winning elections.

Mamdani embodies a pro-Palestinian politics that truly distinguishes between the state of Israel and the Jewish people, and truly takes antisemitism seriously as its own problem. That makes him a threat to those who want to absolutely conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism, whether the ADL or WoL.

Next week, Nov 13 at 7:00 pm EST, @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social welcomes @alybatt.bsky.social, author of Free Gifts! She will be in conversation with Nafis Hasan and Ajay Singh Chaudhar about why capitalism regards nature as free for the taking. RSVP for this free, in-person event: buff.ly/682aXCs

This is a wonderful article exploring home, democracy, faith/no faith, in a healthy, pluralistic way. Very helpful. h/t Grace Y. Kao religionnews.com/2025/11/03/w...

I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Having grown up in and around New York, Curtis Sliwa has been an absolutely insane person to have as a cultural staple your entire life. I’m glad we got to share him with everyone else, because it’s like “you guys see this right?”

So far election night USA seems to be a real referendum on “normal people are already sick of this shit”

A pretty damn good night all around. Of course New York is the big story, but really satisfied with the results in my home state of New Jersey.

My latest report: Baptist Pastor Shot in Leg by Officer During All Saints’ Day March Outside ICE Facility publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/baptist-pa...

FAR more ironic - and tragic - than "Murphy Brown's daughter" (Chloe Malle) knifing @teenvogue.com in the back is that she's also the daughter of Louis Malle, director of Au Revoir Les Enfants, a great film about children being disappeared from classrooms by a fascist state. "Never forget", Chloe.

Woke up with this one in my head for no reason: youtu.be/MGs2iLoDUYE?...

"'Ukrainian traditional singing is really connected with the earth and body,' explains Saienko, 'and this kind of physicality can be a really good expression for this way of praying, because of course, Hildegard is praying.'" Praying in Fire with Hildegard Von Bingen:

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