I wrote this for you (to share w/ students): “The program’s questions include the nature of justice, knowledge, love & the good life. ‘It’s not optional for us to confront those questions,’ Mr. Hadzi-Antich said. ‘We confront them because we’re human.’” nytimes.com/2023/09/04/opi…

.@jonmalesic "colleges & universities offer an alternative to the culture that values people solely for their labor. Yes, a college education will help someone earn more in a career. That’s a good thing. But life is much more than work" New York Times Opinion nytimes.com/2023/09/04/opi…

It’s probably my fault, because I said college is leisure :( nytimes.com/2023/09/05/mag…

Yes, obviously. For the love of God, academics: do not start defending AP exams just because Republican governors are attacking them. Argue that ALL AP exams should be abolished!

Attn: literature nerds! An exciting new title from Erin, one of the best conversationalists I know:

Before I log out of this app forever (i.e., for about five minutes), I invite you once again to read my recent ⁦New York Times Opinion⁩ essay on leisure and learning. Perhaps you can share it with a student whose life you want to ruin. nytimes.com/2023/09/04/opi…

To the few of you who’ll read this: I want to tell you, I have three essays coming out this fall that I think you’ll really enjoy. I’m so proud of this work. No one knows about this but you.

The last thing I published was 1200 words on a small topic I had been thinking about for ten years.

Edith Riches, 13, dropping the quote of the year in this story:

Lots of good work coming out of the Center for Catholic Studies St. Mary's University Our first lecture is next Wednesday at 7:00 PM, featuring Jonathan Malesic on burnout. It's part of our fall series on Human Flourishing and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition.

I wrote about Ed Park's delightful Pulitzer-finalist novel, "Same Bed Different Dreams," which features surely the best novelization of the history of the Buffalo Sabres: the Knoxes, Punch, Tim Horton, Taro, No Goal, etc. #LetsGoBuffalo #Sabres magazine.nd.edu/stories/what-i…

This is the Rosetta Stone to Balloon Mindstate: Pundits (not voters) decide the outcome of the election; because of this, any acknowledgement by the media that the race is competitive is effectively (and maybe intentionally) helping Trump. It's very, very stupid, but there it is.