@jeffreyinsko.bsky.social just this afternoon took home an award the @sierraclub.org named for another Michigan environmentalist, Burton V. Barnes. If you haven’t read Insko’ relentless work on pipelines and especially @enbridge.bsky.social here’s your daily quota: open.substack.com/pub/thecurre...

“A foreigner of any nation, not in open war with us, becomes naturalized by removing to the state to reside, and taking an oath of fidelity: and thereupon acquires every right of a native citizen […]” Thomas Jefferson, Query 14, Notes in the State of Virginia

Eternally grateful for recommendations on texts to include!

From “The Times” forum on higher ed now in the current issue of The Dial, @jennifergreiman.bsky.social ‘s statement on the criminalization of student activism: muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

Now they’re going to get the sixties they wanted

Luminous, urgent issue of @thedial2024.bsky.social. Thinking this am about Stephanie Foote's challenge to us: "Now is the time for the unglamorous daily work of collective meaning-making, as difficult as that is for universities under threat." muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

I decided to write about the backlash against Emerson’s Divinity School Address as a controversy over college students receptive to radical moral independence. muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites participants in a panel on "Emerson and Power" at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy from March 12-14, 2026 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. More info: american-philosophy.org/saap2026/

The first query I made just over a year ago; the second, just this morning.

Two new very C19-oriented journals, _The Dial_ and _American Gothic Studies_, covering all things between the sunlight and the darkness.

Woman next to me on the train just asked if I’d watch her pockabook while she finds the toilet and I know I’m in Massachusetts

Like it says on the facade of the Boston Public Library: “THE COMMONWEALTH REQUIRES THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE AS THE SAFEGUARD OF ORDER AND LIBERTY”. 2003 all over again, it’s a Massachusetts court that says enough.

“Cleared of any wrongdoing “ my ass. news.gcu.edu/gcu-news/u-s...

I think I’m going to start penalizing student essays that exhibit perfect grammar.

Reading these papers makes me wonder how many lit faculty are reconsidering our long-standing commitment to essay writing as a primary means of assessment.

James! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Very sweet all these students wishing me well on my “recovery journey“

If ASU’s newest PR campaign is any indicator, we are moving into an exciting period of change, impact, and drone shots. youtu.be/9zFqplVV0fI?...

Um the Arizona Department of Public Safety estimates yesterday’s crowd at the Capitol at 3k? This video capture a small fraction, maybe 1/20th of the ebullient gathering I witnessed.

TODAY WE MOBILIZED OVER 3 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS THE NATION!!! This movement has entered the next chapter: the people will mobilize again, and again, until we make a difference. It only takes 3.5% of the population in a sustained resistance in order to make a difference. #50501movement

UVA Rotunda where Virginia students heckled and mocked an aging Emerson invited to speak in 1876.

You know these people bloviating about how we lost the election bc of “woke” “excesses on the left” would have totally turned in their Jewish neighbors if this was Kraków in 1942.

“relentless antisemitic eruptions” god the purple prose www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

Hey @lastweektonight.com as author of an LA Times piece on fake Emerson quotes, I have to step in. He isn’t talking about tipping as he writes: “I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, but it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.” He’s whining about charity.

Truly ashamed of my university today. www.statepress.com/article/2025...

I mean all this talk about the House of Windsor “bending the knee” the Trump; I’m sure they agree with him!

Economic boycott today on major companies that have followed Trump’s anti-DEI directives: bit.ly/boycottcentral

I love these NYTimes commentators saying that the Resistance last time around was pointless. What we did was to permafuck his administration back then.

Apple Maps v Google Maps:

Super Bowl booing TS a true Sophie’s choice for @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social

What could possibly go wrong

One of my former students from one of my woke courses wrote this and it couldn’t come at a better moment to remind me how lucky I am to get to work with students like this. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Having a sneaking suspicion not all of my online students are paying attention to my recorded lectures

As if drafted by some 22-yo frat bro who thinks he could ever fathom what motivates a career civil servant at the Justice Department.

This chart no longer available on the CDC website bc it offers guidelines regarding contraception and STIs. Doctors use this—or used to—to advise on contraception and major medical co-morbidities. Enjoying those cheaper eggs?

Working in this coffee shop overhearing the second affluent-appearing couple of the day discussing how the plane crash last night is in fact the result of a conspiracy.

So I realized today that Radiohead released “Creep” a bit more than 30 years ago, which was about 30 years after the Beatles released “Love Me Do,” which makes me feel closer to my parents.

I mean the truth is that Bob Seger’s songs are kind of masterful

Just now listening to some Beastie Boys for say another 30 min to four years

All this “high T,” “celebrate aggression” stuff is reminding me of Robert Bly and his “Zeus energy.”

I don’t know which is better: the brilliant work I heard today in New Orleans at #MLA25 or this Cajun shrimp i just ordered.