"Yes, college education should help prepare students for the work force. But as many have pointed out, it must also prepare them for the task that can never be outsourced to technology: living."
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No order…
Underworld - DeLillo
Another Country - Baldwin
Sound and Fury/As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
Dog of South/ True Grit - Portis
Beloved – Morrison
honorable mention
Heart is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers
I'm seeing a lot of people sharing 5 American authors they admire. What about 5 American novels?
My choices would perhaps be:
- Moby-Dick (Melville)
- East of Eden (Steinbeck)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
- The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
- The House of the Seven Gables (Hawthorne)
- The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner)
Yes, I can count, but I couldn't leave Faulkner out of the list.
The most accurate prediction about where the American right was going to come from came from a leftist critic of neoliberalism: Wendy Brown
In 2014 she predicted a right nationalist politics demanding building a strong wall on the US border while doubling down on oligarchy.
I know it's pointless to point this stuff out anymore, but the graft in hiring a GEO Group executive to lead ICE is cartoonishly evil.
https://t.co/OGgK5C2TVp
I know "building power" means different things to different people but I think we've glossed over what the anti-ICE movement accomplished confronting the Trump admin. We'd be in a very very different situation rn.
For @thedrift_mag, I went long on the regime of images under Trump 2. In which I try to make sense of the penguin, Cowboy Kristi, the TPUSA halftime show, Sound of Freedom, Steve Lockjaw, and much more https://t.co/TjzTFbMOrV
If you’ll be at MPSA tomorrow, plz come through to hear this discussion on how political scientists can better support and do research with our community partners. We will have organizers/ Alderpersons who have been instrumental in defending Chicago against ICE/CBP occupation.
Many white leftists who begrudgingly tolerated racial justice politics over the last decade are now eager to reduce it to neoliberal identity politics and drop the pretense of solidarity. This of course has nothing to do with the relative merits of racial capitalism as a theory.
"Werner Herzog on the differences between LA and NYC: "Wherever you look i[n LA there's] an immense depth, a tumult that resonates with me. New York is more concerned with finance than anything else. It doesn't create culture, only consumes it; most of what you find in New York comes from elsewhere. Things actually get done in Los Angeles. Look beyond the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and a wild excitement of intense dreams opens up; it has more horizons than any other place. There is a great deal of industry in the city and a real working class; I also appreciate the vibrant presence of the Mexicans."
I love my remote job in Illinois! The FBI has been paying me $35/hr to like, repost, and tweet divisive opinions about a neighborhood in Chicago called Logan Square
I’ve been telling people this for years, many Arizonans know this guy is junk and too many politicos have been eating his stuff up bc they bit on his “anti-woke” schtick / he got a NYT profile.
@akoustov The problem here is you’re recognizing there’s space for conversation, but instead of asking for an open and imaginative conversation on the boundaries of belonging/citizenship in the country (what people live Trump/Vance do), you’re blaming the left and asking to go backwards.
In a moment where Americans are putting their bodies on the line and even dying to defend immigrant communities, this piece does a major disservice to the conversation. Notice how there isn’t a single actual voice from the ominous “left” included, nor any organizers whatsoever.
"I only oppose illegal immigration" was often insincere. But social norms don't have to be sincere to be useful.
My first piece in The Atlantic (not my title) on what we lost when that norm collapsed.
@akoustov But, your article makes it sound like you’re asking to return to the something more hard-lined than Obama era, starting to call people illegals to appease a small cohort of conservative libs through what exactly (you don’t specify other than distinguishing btw “illegals” V legal)
The overreach of the Trrump administration’s immigration cracked down has opened up space for a major shift in the conversation around immigration and democracy in America, but this article only asks for us to return to the same politics that got us here in the first place.