“In our study, working-class students were far more likely to be exhausted from part-time work, distracted by financial, health and family problems, and often lacking the confidence and self-esteem to be able to construct themselves as successful learners.”  (Reay 2017: 125)

You are lost in a prehistoric redwood forest at dawn. So faint you can barely hear it, a windchime in the distance. You follow its sound for hours, and just when you have nearly given up - he appears. He has been waiting for you, and his three riddles will not be easy.

I have now had three different friends tell me they want to hear me talk about Henry Ford on Behind The Bastards so there is clearly grassroots support for my continued ascension into the ranks of the 'recognizable voice' brigade!!!!!

This is the worst social media site to have a lot of followers on:
1 - people are kind of mildly evil to you all the time
2 - you can’t even channel it into getting free Ghia (call me)

Sorry to be that guy, but I cannot brag enough about how stellar my students this quarter are - we talked about sites/spaces of memory today and they were so insightful and engaged. Really just the best feeling

I read this to my (doctorate in religious studies) bf and he just said “well… everybody has ideas about religion” in the most world-weary voice you’ve ever heard

started talking about Arendt and the banality of evil in an undergrad essay, the prof just circled it and wrote 'DON'T'

a lot of historians' nitpicking about historical inaccuracy in media could be usefully answered by asking a much more interesting and generative follow-up question, 'what artistic aims and/or pragmatic concessions is this design choice serving' 👇👇👇

I’m teaching him about the Arendt/Cesarani Eichmann drama and he is riveted

I told my students this in class today (because it was relevant to lecture materials) and there were a few audible NOOOOs

student debt crisis is crisising