Prof Postell

Assistant Director of Lyceum @snowinstitute. Teacher @clemsonuniv. Father. Henry Clay defender. Literature understander. Sartorial σπουδαῖος.

[Prof Postell @SamuelPostell1]

Run, don't walk, people.

I am very honored to be a part of putting together Dr. Alvis' unpublished writings for @stguspress

This book is going to change the way that you understand American literature and the American literary tradition.

[Prof Postell @SamuelPostell1]

@NickAllmaier @BernieKosarQB You're welcome for the Superbowl winning team.

[Prof Postell @SamuelPostell1]

Lane kiffin came on gameday today so I threw on some @BernieKosarQB and Jim Brown film so my son wouldn't be corrupted. Go Browns!

[Prof Postell @SamuelPostell1]

If I coached college football I would run the option out of the wishbone directly at the opponents smallest corner. No mercy.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Year: 1899
8th Grade Graduation Exam
Oak Glen Schoolhouse (a one-room school house in California)

[Prof Postell @SamuelPostell1]

“Years ago we in the South made our women into ladies. Then the War came and made the ladies into ghosts. So what else can we do, being gentlemen, but listen to them being ghosts?”

Absolutely beautiful. Come join us! @HertogFDN

[Prof Postell @SamuelPostell1]

"Out of quiet thunderclap he would abrupt (man-horse-demon) upon a scene peaceful and decorous... out of the soundless Nothing and clap them down like cards upon a table beneath the up-palm immobile and pontific, creating the Sutpen’s Hundred, the Be Sutpen’s Hundred..."

[Hertog Foundation @HertogFDN]

"Demon" or "American Adam"? Hear @ClemsonUniv & @SnowInstitute Prof. Samuel Postell raise some themes students will consider in his seminar on #Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! The "epic of the American South."

6 days remain to apply for our Fall 2026 #HumanitiesAtHertog seminars!

[Prof Postell @SamuelPostell1]

@drantbradley @JeremyTate41 We have a reading group on Augustine's Confessions (just finished the City of God last semester). I don't think Augustine was an objectivist, but I could be wrong.

My favorite to teach is Dostoevsky. Russian, but I don't think an objectivist.

[Prof Postell @SamuelPostell1]

@drantbradley @JeremyTate41 I teach in the program and I don't teach radical objectivism and moral debauchery (at least I don't think I do).

We are reading Plato's Apology right now. I understand that Socrates often seems very impious.

I'm teaching Ben Franklin on virtue today. Also quite scandalous.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

While many colleges are facing an enrollment crisis, merging, closing, and often desperate for students, the Snow Institute for the Study of Capitalism at Clemson University has become even more selective than Harvard at a 2% acceptance rate.

Welcome to the new normal.

[Hertog Foundation @HertogFDN]

"Demon" or "American Adam"? Hear @ClemsonUniv & @SnowInstitute Prof. Samuel Postell raise some themes students will consider in his seminar on #Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! The "epic of the American South."

6 days remain to apply for our Fall 2026 #HumanitiesAtHertog seminars!

[Prof Postell @SamuelPostell1]

This fellowship was one of my favorite things I have done in my academic career. Apply, my friends!

[American Revolution Institute @AmRevInstitute]

Applications are open for our 2027 #researchfellowships ! Each year our library offers numerous fellowship opportunities to provide support to scholars studying the #RevWar era. Learn more about the different opportunities and apply. https://t.co/2bfqts7usM

[Prof Postell @SamuelPostell1]

#ootd suit by @drakesoflondon shirt by @TOMFORD 200th anniversary tie by brooks brothers.

Some of my favorites!

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@CBradleyThomps1 Indeed!

[Prof Postell @SamuelPostell1]

@ben_2_long Thanks Ben!

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It's happening.

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@IVMiles Here's mine.

[Prof Postell @SamuelPostell1]

#ootd I don't have anything interesting to post on here. I read books. I wear clothes.

[Prof Postell @SamuelPostell1]

@IVMiles THE GREAT PACIFICATOR! "my beau ideal"!

[Prof Postell @SamuelPostell1]

Lots of great feedback on the official @ciceroniansoc tie today.