Catherine Project is legit great

Read The Clouds with Dr. Zena Hitz! We'll be discussing Aristophanes' The Clouds with the wonderful Zena Hitz on 7.8.25! Join us!

My full name is Matthew. A lot of people don’t know this but there was a Matthew in the Bible and we’re the same person.

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…

Okay, the day time stuff is kinda more wild than the night time stuff….goodness….

Yawara!

Despite my past differences with Matthew Yglesias, I say welcome to Catherine Project! Everybody else, even haters, should join. Zena Hitz and team have built a wonderful thing slowboring.com/p/why-i-joined…

Delaying a wedding…? Goodness.

Bit a theme maybe? I’m starting to feel a bit ragged, might need to consolidate things. Man who keeps his promises, but might need to stop making them.

Woah welcome to ⁦Catherine Project⁩ ⁦Matthew Yglesias⁩ slowboring.com/p/why-i-joined…

Sympathetic but I do wonder how feasible it is to provide higher educ to a large # of ppl w/o it being mass educ - to the extent you reject mass educ you might have to embrace a much smaller instit higher ed sector + Jonathan Rose/Catherine Project style groups for lifelong learning

Reading closely and slowly is one of the greatest, if not the greatest pleasures life can afford.

Weirdly enough most people don't know about the strange inscription found on the top of Buffalo City Hall that's viewable only from above by plane or satellite. Many wonder if it's a clue as to who really designed it.

"You say that Dasein which projects itself on its own potentiality-for-being has always already 'been,' but isn't that just thinking in circles?"

Many thanks to Daniel Fitzpatrick for giving a home to this Dantean poem that descends and ascends — in the new Joie de Vivre

Prepping for tonight’s Catherine Project reading group on Dante’s Divine Comedy (Cantos 8-10): Do Dante (and Virgil) somehow slightly succumb to the viciousness of the various circles of Hell as they descend? Does some of the stench linger?

Teenage me would never have believed I’d read this willingly… for me, transgression in literature was like training wheels… and now all I’m left with is… the literature!

“A culture ‘lived’ is one that draws for continuous, indispensable sustenance on the great works of the past, on the truths and beauties achieved in the tradition.” —George Steiner

Thinking about this poem from last night in Catherine Project group on Li Qingzhao. It ends with an admonition that we can often obscure the thing in front of us, by layering references, and hence obscuring our view. It’s okay to not know. It’s even okay to be wrong.