Valerie Pavilonis

catholic. friendly neighborhood ideas editor @thedispatch. previous @nytopinion. Novak fellow via @TFASorg.

[The Ball Is Orange @theballisorange]

Whoever gave Wemby their Gramercy Park key is a traitor to New York City

[Valerie Pavilonis @valerificent]

Has anyone been brainwashed by the WeWork lofi yet? No?

[Valerie Pavilonis @valerificent]

@MichaelRWear @BartschKayla Me too! Thanks!

[Ivana Greco @IvanaDGreco]

I'm happy to have a new piece over @thedispatch, talking about how academia's issues with motherhood interact with their problems with "viewpoint diversity."

It's been an open secret for a long time that the Ivory Tower struggles to retain moms through the PhD and early academic career track.

Less often acknowledged, however, is that the impact of this is often felt disproportionately by conservative and/or religious moms, who are statistically more likely to have children young, and to have multiple children. (Liberal women are impacted too, of course, but statistically less likely to have kids or have kids early in life).

Even if they make it through the PhD process, these women then sometimes get screened out of jobs and/or opposed at the hiring level based on views disfavored in universities, such being pro-life.

Right-of-center women therefore often face a one-two punch when they try to make it as academics at secular institutions. First, more likely to become moms, they are more likely to feel the impact of the Ivory Tower's difficulties retaining mothers. Second -- just like conservative men -- they sometimes face hostility on campus due to their political and/or religious beliefs.

[Valerie Pavilonis @valerificent]

@default_friend @sophiefkemp 'the last original wife'

[Valerie Pavilonis @valerificent]

@brad_schwartz2 @wemby invite him to residency

[da fuq dude @alledegedly_me]

I don’t like the new subway car displays telling you which car/ side of the station you are closest to. Eliminates the knowledge gap between ball knowers and non-ball knowers

[Valerie Pavilonis @valerificent]

Beautiful piece by @McCormackJohn about Mr. Sasse.

[The Dispatch @thedispatch]

Six months ago, doctors gave @BenSasse three to four months to live. He’s still here.

Ben Sasse sat down with Dispatch senior editor @McCormackJohn to talk about faith, suffering, family, and death. Here's what he had to say: ⬇️ (1/6)

[Brian Olson @acunabatflip]

Catching him up on what he missed before Game 7 tonight #GoSpursGo

[Valerie Pavilonis @valerificent]

This is part of our "Where I'm From" series. If you want to submit, do so here: https://t.co/hk5KOTh2Zv

[Valerie Pavilonis @valerificent]

“Go back the way y’came, son, and turn left where the Shell Station used ter be.” From an AMAZING essay for @thedispatch on Bowling Green, Kentucky. By Amelia Christmas Gramling!

[Valerie Pavilonis @valerificent]

Link here! This essay awed me. https://t.co/rgxoLYxM7y

[Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco]

Please pray for friends of mine whose baby is in medical distress and will be delivered prematurely today.

She has a very low chance of making it, so pray for miraculous healing and that, no matter what, her parents can hold her while she is living.

[victoria holmes @VicAntHol]

Should we do more live Remnants with @JonahDispatch 🤔

[Valerie Pavilonis @valerificent]

@suzania does that mean making a wheelchair out of milk foam

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

Miller Lite is the thinking man’s beverage of choice

[Valerie Pavilonis @valerificent]

@emmma_camp_ https://t.co/CKtF2UslQb

[Mary Harrington @moveincircles]

man, if I were still in my 20s "Art Hoes and Orthobros" would be such a good fancy-dress party theme

[Susannah Black Roberts @suzania]

A major reason that it didn’t make sense to use AI to write an essay about a substantive topic is that until you write the essay you don’t actually know what you want to say or what you think. You think you do, but it is the writing itself that actually gets the thinking done.

[Patrick T. Brown @PTBwrites]

Heartbreaking: The Worst Congressional Candidate You Know Just Made a Great Policy Proposal