Robert Watson

Rob Watson is Distinguished Professor of English at UCLA, working on Shakespeare, poetry, environmentalism, and cultural evolution. He loves soccer and dogs.

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With the Oscars coming up in a few days, here's my piece on "Hamnet" that was published today: https://t.co/m3Mg2rEJIF

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@profrhodrilewis Buddenbrooks? But Mann wasn't yet living in the U.S. when he wrote it.

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@KirkegaardEmil Important topic!
First page of my "Cultural Evolution and its Discontents" book proposed to explore "What alliances helped neoliberalism out-compete Communism, and what alliances might enable environmentalism to overcome consumerism?"

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My review of a controversial new book about US politics over the past 5 years is now up on the Los Angeles Review of Books site. Please have a look at:
https://t.co/306hoBKCcX

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@becimay The "brother" and "pa" middle verses of 1965's "Maggie's Farm" feel awfully apt 60 years later in the U.S.

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@JacobCWatson Well, Jacob, it said that right on the box: no grounds for complaint!

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@chrisbuckley888 Congratulations, Chris -- looks illuminating and fascinating!

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@nybooks @JamesGleick Please take a look at this related argument: https://t.co/90U5TPiD19

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@GlbGPT "Insane advantage" is more apt then intended . The sane people aren't diving in. See https://t.co/90U5TPiD19

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@profrhodrilewis Frank Kermode was worth a dozen of them, in my opinion.

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My piece on why to fire your AI ghostwriters is up on Slate at https://t.co/90U5TPiD19

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@_theBrownprint_ What a wonderful talk, Professor Sterling Brown -- thank you!

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@bradley08 Yeah :to think I used to root for that guy, when it seemed unfair his impressive performances as our Cups keeper didn't get him more Prem games.

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@Evolving_Moloch That paradox of revolutionary movements is explored in my "Cultural Evolution and its Discontents" book, which also points out how well it fits the Protestant Reformation. Here are a couple of clips from my Intro

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@becimay I feel so seen.

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From my 2019 book: "The tradition of academic freedom in the United States, which confers far greater liberty from government control than in most other countries, seems to have made US universities by far the best in the world": more than 3/4 of the top 20.

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@bradley08 But why was Timber still out there to aggravate his earlier knee injury, with a 2-0 lead late in a game that has really zero chance of affecting the Prem race or CL qualification, with a CL quarter-final against Real Madrid imminent?

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@becimay Out of the pantheist Frye, into....

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From my 2019 book on "Cultural Evolution and its Discontents," a perspective on the current attack on US universities:

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Careful, Fleance!