Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?
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To hear him speak was to feel how literature can still shape a life; how beauty, thought, and feeling can move us forward together.
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“Were people in the past like me, did they feel like they were in some historic maelstrom? If they did, how did they scrape by?”
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Repackaging Wuthering Heights as a Valentine’s Day date movie is a perverse distortion of a text where the only union is found in the dirt of a shared grave.
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Can a film that was never finished reveal the possibility of an alternative social system?
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Contemporary trans literature is thriving in a highly freewheeling manner… How revealing, then, that David Brooks recently suggested that literary fiction has been declining in quality.
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“The progressive and leftist organizers that I knew before think about three things: educate, organize and agitate. And that could apply to the public health students and public health people.”
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“What would it look like for faculty unions and graduate student unions to collaborate or work together with K-12 teachers’ unions to push back against anti-DEI legislation or book bans?”
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