Michael Riggins

PhD Candidate in English at Baylor University. Poetry lover.

[Michael Riggins @Michaelrigg789]

@AE_Robbert https://t.co/udMm7Hr1Kk

This is an older article but it’s an excellent articulation of a lot of the insights I’ve been seeing come up in these discussions

[Michael Riggins @Michaelrigg789]

This is like listening to a Letterkenny cold open. (I mean this in the best possible way.)

[Magnus Pharao @MagnusPharao]

I think we should all resolve to make our own personal translations at this point.

[Joshua Alfaro @alfarojoshua3]

The Letter to the Hebrews begins using polytropos, the same word at the beginning of Homer's Odyssey: Πολυμερῶς καὶ πολυτρόπως πάλαι ὁ θεὸς λαλήσας τοῖς πατράσιν ἐν τοῖς προφήταις, "In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets."

[Michael Riggins @Michaelrigg789]

@OliveDrabGreen @WPezeMed @medievaldaniel And I sincerely doubt the plan here is to replace these language classes with additional studies of these texts (even in translation) anyway

[Michael Riggins @Michaelrigg789]

@OliveDrabGreen @WPezeMed @medievaldaniel Language study is a very important part of the curriculum at St. John’s. Very few of us ever got fluent enough to just read texts in the original language, but thinking about the act of translation as part of thinking about the act of interpretation is a big part of it

[Susannah Black Roberts @suzania]

This is really wonderful for the honor of Christ, the honor of Mary, and the unity of the Body.

[Michael Riggins @Michaelrigg789]

@DanielGullotta Anselm’s Proslogion, either Bonaventure’s Itinerary or his Reductiom of the Arts to Theology, Julian of Norwich’s Showings, T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, Ps. Dionysius’s Mystical Theology

[Michael Riggins @Michaelrigg789]

Everyone should own this. Hyped for Petrarch to make a comeback in 2026

[joe coward @josephcoward]

no, i'm reading them because i'm a phd candidate, which i'm doing for attention

[Adam Robbert @AE_Robbert]

“There is no perception which is not full of memories. With the immediate and present data of our senses, we mingle a thousand details out of our past experience.”

— Henri Bergson

[Zena Hitz @zenahitz]

Did you want evidence that universities are run by complete bozos? Here is a nice, clear, dramatic example. Shame on the morons who run Tulsa.

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

"critical thinking" was always cope from people who would rather compete for favor from metrics-obsessed bean-counters than take collective labor action to defend the humanities entirely on their own terms, as human goods to which students have a right

[Patrick J. Casey @PhiloCasey]

Talk of AI being "useful" makes me feel like there's a disconnect somewhere. First, AI can't help me with the questions I have because I'm trying to find out things that *aren't* known yet. Just ran through a paper I'm working on with it- it's like: "uh... I dunno." Right! 1/3

[𝕮𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖇 𝕯𝖎𝖝𝖔𝖓 𝕾𝖒𝖎𝖙𝖍 @CalebDixonSmith]

Having spent half the week with all sorts of @DavenantInst friends and associates, I'm reminded how cool they generally are and how radically superior IRL conversation can be for so many things.

[Zena Hitz @zenahitz]

<shhhhhh> <quiet part> go to @stjohnscollege

[Michael Riggins @Michaelrigg789]

@MHHuisman I think it depends on what your goals are ultimately, though it seems like it’s easier to do historically-minded philosophy scholarship than it is to do philosophically minded historical scholarship in today’s intellectual environment. You might also consider literature programs?

[Michael Riggins @Michaelrigg789]

@BretVDB If you’d like to review it for @AdFontesJournal, I can send you a review copy

[Michael Riggins @Michaelrigg789]

@BretVDB That’s a good endorsement. I’ll try and order a copy soon and check it out

[Michael Riggins @Michaelrigg789]

@BretVDB My advisor starts every first day of a class by asking “which one of the transcendentals motivates you as a scholar the most?” He gives the disclaimer that he knows they are One, but everybody is motivated by one the most.