For the new @readliberties, I wrote about modernism, the humanities, and Ivy Compton-Burnett, whom I've been thinking about for a long time:

RT @chronicle: Opinion: Out with the old DEI — in with the new, right-wing DEI?

DEI as it has existed for the last decade or so will not survive the year. But what if another form of DEI — associated with the political right, rather than the left — comes to replace it?

RT @nybooks: Christopher Benfey on Emily Dickinson’s “extraordinary” letters

RT @nybooks: “The Uyghur language is banned in schools, hospitals, and government buildings. Uyghur mosques are being shut down, Uyghur cul…

RT @harikunzru: I liked this Sam Kriss essay about alt.lit. I feel like ‘I’m writing the raw personal nowness that the dull mainstream can’…

RT @irinibus: In the newest issue of the @nybooks, I have a long essay on Lea Ypi's Free, life under communism in Eastern Europe, and the q…

RT @EmmaJanePettit: Universities have "the most to lose and the least to gain from a robust, prompt, and publicly accessible look at the po…

RT @BaskinJon: Tomorrow at 11am is our first info session for the 2025 Point / Uchicago summer workshop in public thinking. Register here t…

@PsychRabble 🙏🙏

What does Trump's executive order providing "measures to combat anti-semitism" actually do?

RT @meghanor:

RT @EmmaJanePettit: New, from me and @meganzahneis: In 2023, Florida passed a law curtailing "identity politics" in the gen-ed curriculum.…

On Steven Brint on DEI and more:

RT @a_n_a_berg: So proud of @the_point_mag for publishing this brilliant and, from where I'm standing, not a little heartbreaking piece by…

RT @John_Attridge: You're in her DMs, I'm in her campus novel as a tiresome pedant

RT @drakemotel: Max (@elusivecorporal) with a tremendous survey of David Lynch's films and obsessions

RT @HarrisonQuinnO: they passed out cigarettes and said we were allowed to smoke in the theater just for one night

RT @regularaugust: Inland Empire is arguably the defining film of the digital era. The most effective work to utilize its specific kind of…

RT @holdengraber: 💔DAVID LYNCH, R. I. P. I will forever cherish this conversation with David Lynch .@BAM_Brooklyn I asked Lynch “Where…

RT @BrndnStrssng: There are few movies, if any, better than Inland Empire. I’ve thought of it almost every day of my life since seeing it.…