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My latest cartoon for Boston Globe Ideas. On the 25th anniversary of her death, Iris Murdoch glides again.

AOC is what happens when you become a politician and realize how much real work is involved and that the performative activism is an easy hit of dopamine that accomplishes nothing

One of the most surprising lessons learned in my decade as department chair was that academics generally don’t know how to choose their battles

"The Waste Land" Revisited yalereview.org/article/vendle…

Dear Harvard University this is how it’s done.

New this morning, a report on demographic and disciplinary differences in career outcomes for college graduates from the humanities and other fields: bit.ly/4biYT6A

I thought I would write a short thread on Donald Trump’s proposal for making tips tax free, since the media are too busy telling people that Vice-President Harris is thin on policy to examine any proposals Trump puts forward.

Time was standing orders of university libraries for university press monographs gave the presses the financial backstop of guaranteed sales. The end of standing orders made sales potential far more important for UP decisions about publication.

The Nobel for Econsplaining on.ft.com/4eQ45Ba | opinion

Very grateful to have been given the opportunity to write about the wonderful James Longenbach for Raritan Quarterly raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/current-issue Raritan has also generously made available all Jim's pieces for the journal here: raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/all-listings/l…

Dude just cost himself 15 points.

Empson (1930) had the more incisive diagnosis.

James Merrill, on dying, and on living.

On the other hand, maybe the point of studying a subject is to learn and advance by engaging with the problems and challenges its materials present.

I rest my case: A “properly historicized” discipline figures out what to discard and how and why. Memory, somebody observed, is the shears you apply to cut away what you cannot use.

The current meltdown in California insurance market — which is one of the major factors behind the number of homes built in extreme high fire hazard zones — dates to 1988. That’s the year California voters passed Prop 103. A political 🧵

Okay so the Eaton fire and Palisades fires were in areas where State Farm declined to review fire coverage. ...what are the other areas in California where State Farm declined to renew fire coverage?

NEH announces a new grant program for research on the "State and Impact of the Humanities." Research designs may be quantitative, qualitative, or mixed. bit.ly/3WtsN2W