🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

I have debunked this map of global IQs, and the study it was based on, so many times, but it just won't die. Help me spread the word about how much this study sucks. For every 10 likes, I will tweet a ridiculous fact about how badly this study was conducted.

Do it *with* at least some of The Iliad! Miller—a great writer and generous person—knows and respects her classics; I suspect she’d want kids to read the original AND hers. (Her extension of The Odyssey, Circe, is an even better novel than TSoA.) Please don’t merely replace!

Best thing about EconTalk—its subtitle “Conversations for the Curious” is a more accurate designation—is Roberts’ respect for the humanities. (He certainly respects science and social science too.) Book/history/art folks: check out his archive to find the authors and artists etc.

I’m on my way outside into the midst of that “snow falling silently into the universe.”If you have a snow day today, as I do, be sure to take time to appreciate the snow part and the living part…along with some great literature! (#CanonChat)

The Jacobin writer should heed Solzhenitsyn. We’ve seen honesty, generosity, and honor sneered at by national figures (one in particular) as the concern of suckers and losers; that attitude should be shunned. Do right because it’s right. If you have a sound position, be accurate.

Yup. And to think that some people thought the 2024 election was a vote against cancel culture. Nope. It was a vote for an intolerant and threatening movement that has perfected cancel culture.

Uhhh…what?! As a teacher of ethics, I have to ask: what in the world is wrong with people like Dave Brat that they choose to misrepresent (in the most hideous way) a concept as straightforward as the Golden Rule?

Proud to be a three-year (so far) subscriber. In addition to its being a source for great journalism, it has an archive unparalleled for American voices that I share with my students: Frederick Douglass, Emerson, Thoreau, etc. etc.

This administration epitomizes the breed of postmodernism they claim to despise (which, at least in the literary context I’m most familiar with, seems like a strawman of postmodernism). Once again, every charge is a projection. Astonishing, disgusting, depressing.

Good for Harvard to show some courage. Maybe some big law firms and other universities will do the same. (Praise to those who made similar statements already.)

It’s interesting how good teachers need both humility & enough ego to say to themselves “I’m gon make them LOVE this book. Idc if it was written 100 years ago and I’m 3x their age and the only reason they’re here is the law and parents and the economy says they have to be here.”

I’m tired of the double standard where a lifetime of credibility gets destroyed for being factually wrong even once, while grifters and idiots get endless grace on the off chance they get something half-right by accident.

This teacher of a (high school) philosophy course refuses to gloat, but: I can’t say I’m entirely surprised. Critical thinking, persistent curiosity, and writing that relies on precise use of language, FTW!

If the end of Don Quixote doesn’t hit you in the guts, I don’t know what to say. #CanonChat