General Stanley McChrystal helped take down al-Zarqawi and hunt bin Laden. But he still called Bin laden an effective leader. Whiskey Tango, Ep. 1 with Garry Kasparov. Watch the first half free: 🎥👇

Matthew Yglesias drank the Catherine Project Kool-Aid! Welcome, and thank you for writing about us! Why I joined a weird Zoom book club, by Matthew Yglesias slowboring.com/p/why-i-joined…

Happy to see ⁦Matthew Yglesias⁩ has found the ⁦Catherine Project⁩. I have been leading groups of one kind or another with it for four years now and it has been one of the best things in my life over that time. slowboring.com/p/why-i-joined…

When Tony Judt praised the miracle of America's great state schools, he thought first of all of IU Bloomington, where humanities programs are currently being blown to shreds

As a first semester freshman, I took a course where we read the entirety of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. The class had a dozen students, and some weeks we read around 500 pages. There are still students who want college experiences like that but it’s fewer every year.

I can’t speak to administrators’ attitude toward liberal education; I’m just a lowly assistant professor. But what I know, because I saw it every day, is that students love reading excellent books and talking about them, and they themselves say it changes them

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down Kerry Flynn 🐶 axios.com/2025/08/01/cpb…

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