Writer, journalist, historian. Managing editor @HdxAcademy but all opinions here just my own. Bylines NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Boston Globe, WIRED, The Atlantic, CHE...
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This is a quote from my book, Galileo's Middle Finger. Today I got a call from someone who works for Google who was upset because her area doesn't have sustainable local news. I explained her employer and Meta are largely responsible for that.
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I run an academic lab, and the service contracts on instruments are absolutely killing our budget. Anyone know of a better solution? I would appreciate suggestions.
People sometime ask me how I can stand living in a neighborhood that has student rentals. It's the little things like this. (The boys throw things to try and hit it.)
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One of my most "conservative" takes is that no American kid should graduate high school without having read Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman, because of their articulation of a distinctively American vision of self-reinvention, and a refusal to be defined by the past.
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My university has informed us that we are moving to a “customer service” model. Not a joke.
"Google skims off the most valuable part of the news without sharing the monetary benefits with news outlets. And imagine how much less useful your daily Facebook feed would be with no journalist-produced news content at all." It's corporate theft. latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
My spouse publishes a weekly update to his college. This week, I wrote the update: humanmedicine.msu.edu/news/d…
OUTSIDE today and Sunday in Hyde Park - a show by Courtney Jolliff of new works, several celebrating The Point. More info at the-art-of-courtney-jolliff.…
It's my privilege to be working (voluntarily) as a patron of Courtney's. This year, he lost his home and works to a total-loss house fire. His current works are in a way a documentation of recovery and return. the-art-of-courtney-jolliff.…
Riva Lehrer's "The Monster Studio," open through Oct. 12. Riva's art, unlike any other, always startles me into the familiar
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Riva Lehrer's portrait of the Disability Studies great Rosemarie Garland Thomson. Rosemary is here holding a jar with the fetus that was herself. The piece represents an incredibly deep rumbling about anatomy museums, subjectivity, power. Thru Oct. 12 at zollaliebermangallery.com/ri…
I came to Chicago this week to go to two terrific art shows, one inside with live drawing, one outside by an artist who frequently does live painting....
My weekly column got personal this time heterodoxacademy.substack.co…
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Farmers are wild because they will be like “I’m fine Doc, it’s just a little scrape, my wife made me come in,” and their X-Ray will look like this
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Think only a GOP partisan could like the “End Woke Higher Education Act”? Look deeper. The bill features ideological and speech protections for faculty and students.
Pleased to have served as editor on this great, clear, thoughtful, useful deep dive by @JoeCohnHxA of @HdxAcademy: heterodoxacademy.substack.co…
Pleased to have served as editor on this great, clear, thoughtful, useful deep dive by @JoeCohnHxA of @HdxAcademy: heterodoxacademy.substack.co…
