You're so right. I literally only have been able to survive in NYC for a decade because my standards were so much lower in terms of safety/apartment quality than most of my, say, college classmates and coworkers who moved into nicer buildings because they could afford it. it really matters!!!
I'm just about to finish Who Is a True Christian? (which I am LOVING, thanks for writing something so productively provocative) and immediately wondered what you might say about the Carter essay, so I'm really glad you wrote this!!!
yeah, the second i started watching the prequels with enough knowledge of world history that i could fill these woefully omitted details in, i was blown away by how sophisticated the ideas behind the fall of the galactic republic were
but, like, actually though, my main goal in life is turning central Brooklyn into the nation's center of nerdy, queer Christians raising children and reading philosophical texts
Look so this isn't really OP's the point, but one of the weirdest things about the prequels *even at the time* was the disconnect between their /relatively/ astute politics & big-picture work on the one hand and their clunky writing & scene-work on the other
it's just really funny that "Christian" is associated with "uneducated" now because it was a truly nerdy pursuit for such a long time in the US. i think it should be that again!!!
my only contribution to the Historical Jesus conversation is that even at the peak of Christian affiliation in America (1958, 2/3rd of the pop), only about half of those people were church members. I think that's interesting insofar as it is a reminder that we've always been having this conversation
the only debate is if it's going to be kinda bad or, like, flagrantly terrible
man every day this week has started with me feeling vague, implacable doom. can't tell if the world is ending or if i'm, like, gonna start my period soon
conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity
If memory serves, his 2024 opponent was Iranian American!!! This is *not* an all-white district
This is a WILD thing for any congressperson to post, but like, Ogles reps a huge part of Greater Nashville! Does he not have anyone being like…..ok there are limits to the rank racism even that crowd will take
It's so scary!!!
i actually taught this LITERAL lesson in 2013, and there was a whole "engage the student" day with background on the book/time period (One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia, actually pretty good) before you send them home to read the first chapter by themselves. Reviewing it is this second lesson
yep, Connecticut 2013!
It's cheaper to keep them new! and if you're not trying to teach them anything with intrinsic value, just "skills," it's actually worse to have someone who knows what they're doing. then they might demand a curriculum that makes sense
not particularly fun! it definitely makes classroom management much easier to assert in the beginning because the students are trained to respond to this stuff as maximally engaging. but there's very little intrinsic interest left when you're drilling into everything like this.
I did my summer training at an Uncommon Schools site, and we had to spend so much time working on these insane lesson plans
College grads with little experience in education!!! wooo Teach for America!!!
“Ricki don’t lose that number”
I agree, but i think it is notable that their ideas about the future are totally unrealistic and symptomatically deranged. Visions of a future so dumb that they might as well not actually be having a vision at all
though about halfway through Bowling Alone he does just kinda admit "it's TV" and that goes a long way towards making up for the pages he spent talking about the decline of bridge
i am obsessed with making this point about the Putnam and want to write about it at some point because it feels very important
really depressing that this is going to just keep happening, and in a about 8 to 10 years, there's going to be a huge spike of these deaths. the anti-vax movement is such a curse on our society
I know this is defeatist, but it really does seem like people with money and power have totally given up on the future. That's a bummer!
Honestly, progressives have pretty much given up on the idea that education or cultural transmission of any kind is actually valuable as a political project. and I don't blame them(/us) for it after the last 30 years, either, though it is depressing
very excited for this to be out in the world: i wrote about repressed queerness in Elio, child surveillance in Inside Out 2, the post-Lasseter crisis, and the figure of the child in Pixar for The Baffler
thebaffler.com/latest/probl...
Seeing all the adverts for young sherlock on the buses and trying to come to terms with the fact we are probably only one hype cycle away from Teen Marple.
this is just such a weird thing to be a right wing meme! at least it's a sign that they are going to move on eventually
glad that my insane year corresponding with LVH has been elevated into beautiful prose here
