Mark Edmundson

Author:"Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals"; "The Heart of the Humanities: Reading, Writing, Teaching"; a dozen others. Presidential University Professor, UVA.

[Mark Edmundson @1mark6w]

@NewYorker Fine essay. Thank you.

[Mark Edmundson @1mark6w]

https://t.co/4Ba1WMP6dj

[Desiree Rugani @desireerugani]

Não parem de falar sobre o Irã

[Mark Edmundson @1mark6w]

The youth of ancient Athens grew up with a pantheon that included Apollo, Aphrodite, Ares, Hera, and Zeus. We greater Boston youth had our own panoply of gods. Below: Rex Trailer, Major Mudd, Bozo the Clown, Pablo, Miss Jean, Claribel (I think),Captain Bob, and Big Brother Bob Emery. May they live forever on high!

[Mark Edmundson @1mark6w]

@BillAckman Wonderful. May there be many more!

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

Interviewer asking Miles Davis if black musicians are genetically better than white musicians.

[Tahmineh Dehbozorgi @DeTahmineh]

I grew up in Iran at the height of oppression. My world was ruled by fear, censorship, and silence. @jk_rowling books showed me a universe where courage beat fear. That kind of storytelling saves minds and lives in ways people in free countries rarely understand.

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

What you don’t understand about these protests is this: Iranians of EVERY generation are risking it all for freedom.

Teenagers who have never known life outside the Islamic Regime.

Parents whose childhoods were violently stolen in 1979.

Grandparents who still remember the golden age of Iran before Islamofascism.

This isn’t a phase. This is a nation, rising up across generations, to reclaim itself.

Free Iran ☀️🦁

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

BREAKING: Thousands of BRAVE Iranians are taking to the streets on the 11th day of the uprising against the Islamic Republic's terrorist regime.

The mainstream media is IGNORING this.

Make it go viral. Share it everywhere.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Iranians Across Multiple Cities Join Nationwide Protests

Despite brutal repression and direct gunfire at civilians, the movement is growing stronger by the day. The message is clear:
Iranians reject this terrorist, criminal regime.

Marvdasht, Jan 1st, 2026

#Iran

[Mark Edmundson @1mark6w]

Giving Tuesday

By R.L. Dogg

Giving Tuesday comes after Cyber-Monday,

Following fast on the heels of Black Friday,

Which jumps at us after Giving Thanks Thursday.

By the power invested in me by no one whatever,

I hereby institute No-Way Wednesday,

When you are cordially invited to buy nothing, give nothing,

Do nothing and if you feel inclined: be nothing.

We shall, collectively or one at a time, turn our faces to the wall

And say, in the immortal words of Bartleby the Scrivener,

Patron Saint of No Way Wednesday: I would prefer not to.

And we won’t!

[Mark Edmundson @1mark6w]

@jasonwhitlock Tough call. Did coach feel the player was going to run into him? (Camera angle matters here.) Also it wasn't that hard a shove (as I saw it). Does the coach have a record of misbehavior? If not . . .

[Mark Edmundson @1mark6w]

@wil_da_beast630 As far as I know, it was standard in itself, but not for nine minutes duration. More than two minutes was forbidden, or so I recall. I think the coroner originally said that GF died from fentanyl overdose, but changed his mind.

[Mark Edmundson @1mark6w]

@RoryStewartUK "We are not hobbits!"

[Mark Edmundson @1mark6w]

@NJ_Timothy British friends: what's the PM scared of? Violence from British Muslims?

[Mark Edmundson @1mark6w]

@wesyang I think people feel these incidents are uncommon. How often does it happen in, say, America?

[Mark Edmundson @1mark6w]

@charlesmurray Try Ward 6--of value to you in particular, I dare say.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

This is the worst thing I've ever seen in my life

[Mark Edmundson @1mark6w]

@wil_da_beast630 Truth--and well put to boot.