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SamuelGoldman retweeted
I also take on @SWGoldman's argument that the Great Books approach doesn't have to be great, just better (for almsot all undergrads, it isn't better, because it misunderstands the place of college in the process of education).
I answer @lukeburgis's question about the limits of the Great Books approach
jamesgmartin.center/2026/08/…
SamuelGoldman retweeted
A great opportunity. Also, apparently one of the few chances grad students will get to see @SWGoldman in the wild without a jacket.
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITY🙋♀️ 📖👨🎓@tikvahfund invites applicants for its 2026-27 Academic Fellowship. Doctoral candidates & recent PhDs pursuing research in Jewish texts/ideas/history, etc. are encouraged to apply. The application deadline is September 1. buff.ly/0JeS0MH
SamuelGoldman retweeted
Once you've been a dean and you go back and watch Jurassic Park all you can think of is: who processed Alan Grant's travel vouchers? Was this paid leave? Did Ellie Sattler sign the appropriate waivers as a grad student? Who logged her work hours into the system?
SamuelGoldman retweeted
We never needed blackboard or canva.
And we could just stop using them and everything would be fine.
SamuelGoldman retweeted
America cannot be great again until the epidemic of men in suits wearing white-soled casual shoes is extirpated.
SamuelGoldman retweeted
If you so choose, you can read the same works as the founding fathers.
What better way is there to understand the way they thought than to read the books that shaped them?
First off is, The Father of our Country, George Washington.
These titles, among many others, were in his Mount Vernon library.
Reading list below🧵
SamuelGoldman retweeted
What a great chance. Cassirer's lectures on Plato, Aristotle and the others, availably in English, online. Do not miss the opportunity.
Ernst Cassirer's Lectures on Ancient Philosophy academia.edu/165377279/Ernst…
SamuelGoldman retweeted
1. Jewish
2. From the Midwest
3. Took a non-Jewish sounding name
4. Hobnobbed with the elite but was never one of them
5. Used his outsider status to both thrill and critique that same elite
Jay Gatsby is Bob Dylan
Really important literary detective work from David Samuels, who compared various manuscript versions of The Great Gatsby in the Princeton library's Fitzgerald archive and found abundent proof of the title character's Judaism tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…
SamuelGoldman retweeted
America is already great.
Buffalo Wild Wings unveils wing-flavored protein espresso martini usatoday.com/story/money/foo…
SamuelGoldman retweeted
This year, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, brings many important milestones. But don't forget that today is the 150th anniversary of the Kentucky meat shower:
SamuelGoldman retweeted
The NBA oddly chose a map of France that corresponds to the old Capetian realm. Why does the NBA reject French annexation of Burgundy? Are they disputing the outcome of the Battle of Nancy? Will the NBA pledge loyalty to the Valois dukes?
SamuelGoldman retweeted
It remains a shame and a crime against history that Americans no longer observe the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln as national holidays.
SamuelGoldman retweeted
Given all the controversy about Bad Bunny doing the halftime musical show at #SuperBowlLX, let me suggest an option for next year’s Super Bowl that would make everyone happy: a Bauhaus reunion show.
SamuelGoldman retweeted
Superb @SWGoldman review of Harvey Mansfield's "The Rise and Fall of Rational Control" in @WSJBooks.
Self-recommending!
wsj.com/arts-culture/books/t…
SamuelGoldman retweeted
"Because resentment uses grievance as a justification, the resentful have an extraordinary motive to find grievance. Resentment’s imagination for wrongs is a distorted reflection of introspection."
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