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Big Bird is like 3000 times the size of a bird. "Big" doesn't even begin to describe it. They should call him the yellow freak

Not enough Dune-head outrage over Tim Blake Nelson's Count Hasimir Fenring getting Tom Bombadil'd. (I just wanted to tweet that sentence.)

I always knew faculty self-governance had become a bit of a joke, but I don't think I had internalized just how big a joke it was. For all the talk about the "infantilism" of our students, the true case of self-imposed immaturity in the university must be the faculty.

In our defence, though, we surrendered the governance of our universities to a horde of professional administrative bureaucrats so we would have more time to write papers no one will read and edit an endless stream of handbooks, guides, companions, etc.

How I will be lured to my death.

A lot of events brought America to the political precipice it faces tonight, but I think we all know where it all started: with the nominalist metaphysics of thirteenth-century philosopher William of Ockham.

Such incredible erudition to trace the evolution of this drink through the ages

Re-writing my Hegel syllabus -- do I need to assign the e-girls?

nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked people will remember: - how you completed the system of German Idealism

If the election is getting you down and you really need some chicken soup for the soul, I highly recommend Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.

Students are sniffing glue. Some professors try to stop this. Others allow and even encourage it, believing that sniffing glue is here to stay and that it can be a powerful learning tool if used right.

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I wrote about the lack of administrative support for the liberal arts in The New York Times. The standard story we hear is that students don't want it. But a darker reality is that even when it wins big with students and donors it loses with those in power. nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opi…

I hear you, but we shouldn’t limit ourselves. There’s also blackboard & chalk