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On Willa Cather’s birthday
On Willa Cather’s birthday
Now will you be my Santa Claus? I want them to have a good Christmas dinner. I know they won’t buy prunes or dried apricots, they felt too poor to get them last year.
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On Willa Cather’s birthday
Speech and conduct
Speech and conduct
It’s specious to draw a line that divides speech from conduct. As speech-act theory reminds us, there are many contexts in which to speak is to act. (Think of a former president’s pre-January 6 tweets.) And conduct need not constitute harassment to be out of bounds on a college campus.
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Speech and conduct
Chock!
Chock!
Chock — O! — late.
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Chock!
Investing in reading
Investing in reading
“A new study found that California schools got positive results from a targeted investment in the science of reading": from The New York Times.
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Investing in reading
Fish and Florida
Fish and Florida
The New York Times reports that academics — at least those who can — are fleeing Florida (gift link). But guess who’s signed up to teach at Florida’s New College: Stanley Fish.
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Fish and Florida
Harvard, Meta, and veritas
Harvard, Meta, and veritas
From The Washington Post: “A prominent disinformation scholar has accused Harvard University of dismissing her to curry favor with Facebook and its current and former executives in violation of her right to free speech.”
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Harvard, Meta, and veritas
Munger mega-dorm nixed?
Munger mega-dorm nixed?
The dream of a U Cal Santa Barbara mega-dorm, built to the specifications of a billionaire donor. with thousands of students living in single-occupancy windowless rooms, appears to have died with the donor, Charlie Munger.
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Munger mega-dorm nixed?
The Santos vote
The Santos vote
Did my member of Congress vote to expel George Santos from Congress? Of course she didn’t!
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The Santos vote
A 2024 calendar
A 2024 calendar
Free: a 2024 calendar, in large legible Gill Sans, three months per page.
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A 2024 calendar
Costa, Guerriero, and Sued
Costa, Guerriero, and Sued
Yamandu Costa, Brazilian guitar; Luís Guerreiro, Portuguese guitar; Martín Sued, bandoneon. July 3, 2021.
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Costa, Guerriero, and Sued
Cogito
Cogito
I overthink, or at least I think I do; therefore, I am.
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Cogito
Evaluations
Evaluations
This is the twenty-seventh teaching dream I’ve had since retiring in 2015. In all but one, something has goes wrong.
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Evaluations
At another rest stop
At another rest stop
CAUTION WET FLOOR. They weren’t kidding. But there wasn’t a mop in sight.
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At another rest stop
The doctor is in
The doctor is in
Peter Lorre makes his American debut as Dr. Gogol.
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The doctor is in