Dan Walden

Philologist, critic, choir geek, opera fiend. Formerly @UTulsa, now job-hunting. Opinions solely my own. Go Blue 〽️

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

For @the_point_mag I wrote one if the most personally important essays I’ve ever written. My experience teaching great books has been utterly transformative, and I think that if you’re on the left you should be all in on it. https://t.co/3ZAXbrA86u

[Matthew Cole @mattbencole]

It's so bogus that people who never care about equity in education have suddenly decided the most pressing question of social justice is whether students at one of the most expensive universities in the country will or will not have to pay $20/month to use a plagiarism machine.

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

All my elementary school teachers had graduate degrees and nobody ever asked about their kids because they were professionals and it was nobody’s business

[chicagotechmom @chicagotechmom]

Teachers used to be moms who wanted to earn an income while spending time with their kids. Their primary identity was: mom. Now teachers are childless alphabet soup people or liberal single women and their primary identity is: “educator”. The shift produces shit like this.

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

@second_sailing Unfortunately she has discovered that sometimes Thrasymachus is correct

[Mary Townsend @chezaristote]

when I come across a paper from a hundred years ago or fifty, where the person researched and thought about and argued over what they most wanted to know, brilliantly, carefully, and just because, it feels like meeting another soul in the desert; here too is a human being

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

@vcunningham My man you are one of the best in the business

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

@fxxfy Joey I am serious if you ever feel like getting rid of this I know somebody who would be so thrilled with this that they'd orbit Jupiter

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

@noahpasaran This is it, this is what finally drives me to log off

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

@mcmansionhell Oh I remember that corner lmao

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

@theo_nash And even Livy is a profoundly ironic writer! Right in book 1 he says “you found a city by gathering a bunch of outcasts and criminals from nearby and then making up a lie about how they’ve always lived in this place”

[pete wolfendale @deontologistics]

There’s a point @piercepenniless made many years ago that really stuck with me, which is that two different theoretical tendencies got awkwardly fused in practice: political ideas about systemic oppression, and the epistemological ideas about standpoint/lived experience.

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

Next RFK press conference

[hope hopes hoping @hopes_revenge]

invented a new kind of factory farming where the animal suffers even more . we are using ai also

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

@ianmhwalling Yes, you’re right; I’m too readily tempted toward viciousness by my current circumstances.

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

@kisstheblade_ Imagine telling this to Vladimir Nabokov

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

@WB_Baskerville Yeah exactly, sorry I’m gonna enjoy my pasta cinghiale and a bottle of Orvieto Classico

[Hidden in Frame @HiddenFrame_]

In "The Odyssey" (2026), Odysseus speaks with a Boston accent, despite being from Ithaca, which is in New York.

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

@dieworkwear @badgayspod There are, as you might imagine, several episodes about fashion designers

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

@dieworkwear Highly recommend the @badgayspod episode about him: https://t.co/aZW3ZPoQmL

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

You're right to push back on that. The unexamined life *can* be worth living. Here's why it's probably right for you

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

Your average student’s gen-eds are dictated entirely by their major courses and their extracurriculars. There is no coherent curriculum. The courses are generally fine on their own but have no relationship to one another. The only agenda is “upset the fewest people.”

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

Yes exactly. “They’re teaching the kids woke! They’re teaching them gender theory!” No, they’re teaching them whatever satisfies the Writing requirement and meets between 10 am and noon Mondays and Wednesdays.

[Nick Burns @NickBurns]

With a few exceptions the general education curriculum at US universities is so weak or nonexistent that people get through a humanities degree having read a random smattering of authors, so we could have this argument in circles forever