Fascinatingly moronic take here from the big guy

You know your war on woke is going well when you’ve got the billionaire CEO of the worlds largest asset management company running scared

Think While It’s Still Legal T-Shirt order here

i think i can explain them.

The scandalization on thin grounds of actions on university campuses is a near-repeat of the late 60s. Then as now, Marcuse was at least half right: students (of a certain shrinking class) are dangerous because they are not yet bound to a workplace and can associate freely.

The Odyssey

The legacy of the New Atheists is basically negligible, unless you count damaging the reputations of the people involved in it who had reputations to damage, and stoking the fire of Islamophobia that was already doing pretty nicely to begin with

The life of the mind

always something with this mfer

If you were traumatized in the Edward Said Reading Room, please come to the Audre Lorde Community Center, enjoy free Pepsi Co. products, and discuss the regrettable mass arrests on Blackwater Square.

Sincerely,

The East India Company Dean of Culture and Corporate Synergy.

Thomas Kinsella on how to read a poem: 'The right reading of a poem, as you say, is demanding, but it is not an ordeal. It requires the kind of care needed to cross the street.'

For the record, here's the text of a letter I sent to PEN outlining my reasons for withdrawing from World Voices. [alt text cuts out half way so I'll post it twice with the second half in the second alt text]

We have been seen.

This is up there with the most deranged things I’ve ever seen in print

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One of the most depressing things about the whole “the wokes are at it again” front of the culture war is the way it weaponises plain old incuriosity