PaulS on Broken PromiseDecember 20, 2025
One of the justifications for apartheid was the old colonial need to maintain white prestige. Since post colonial Africa has…
Clarissa on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
Excellent suggestions.
Clarissa on Broken PromiseDecember 20, 2025
This was a very early promise that was already absent from the very first civil rights legislation. There's no way…
Physpostdoc on Let Conspiracies BeginDecember 20, 2025
STEM research is particularly brutal and goal-driven. The pressures to get grants, meet deadlines and deliver on milestones keep the…
Clarissa on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
My husband is obsessed with Fenimore Cooper. It's definitely a boy thing because I fail to get the point of…
Anonymous on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
Scarlet Letter is far from the only thing Hawthorne wrote. No reason you couldn't go with House of Seven Gables…
Anonymous on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
I second John Muir-- the Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf is magnificent. -ethyl
Anonymous on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
Jack Frost! :D That is like including Laura Ingalls Wilder in Florida lit because they tried briefly to move to....…
PaulS on Spousal HiresDecember 20, 2025
The Trump Organization is a family business. He's certainly rich, but his wealth is still peanuts compared to Blackrock. I'm…
Anonymous on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
"My First Summer in the Sierra", John Muir; "Victory", Joseph Conrad; "Undaunted Courage", Stephen Ambrose, "This House of Sky", Ivan…
PaulS on Broken PromiseDecember 20, 2025
The promise of civil rights was that people were to be judged by the content of their character. Instead of…
Mitch4 on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
I grew up in Miami (and unincorporated Dade) in the 1950s and 60s, and we also had Florida history in…
Clarissa on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
Definitely Mark Twain. And definitely not Zora Neale Hurston. For people who are newish here, I suggest my post about…
Clarissa on Let Conspiracies BeginDecember 20, 2025
Thank you so much for the link! Nobody talks about the psychological wounds of graduate students who are supposed to…
Physpostdoc on Let Conspiracies BeginDecember 20, 2025
This WSJ article paints a picture of a disgruntled man, angry at academia and potentially jealous of those who thrive…
Anonymous on Q&A about the Literature CurriculumDecember 20, 2025
Mark Twain is the Americanest American writer. We've done Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as read-alouds at least twice, as…
Clarissa on Serious or Pretending?December 20, 2025
Exactly. They think people are interchangeable widgets. That temperament, IQ and physiology don't exist.
Clarissa on Readiness TestDecember 20, 2025
If the question is harder, some students might fail it and then attach negative feelings to the author. Which would…
Avi on Serious or Pretending?December 20, 2025
@Demotrash Exactly. Many people seem to think that the fact that the United States was founded by White, English-speaking Protestants…
cliff arroyo on Readiness TestDecember 20, 2025
“I did feel scared, but also excited.” What gets me is the question uses the exact same words... this is…
Avi on Serious or Pretending?December 20, 2025
Joel Berry should be told in no uncertain terms that Western Civilization and White European Civilization are one and the…
mitchellporter on Serious or Pretending?December 20, 2025
Realizing this is the editor of The Babylon Bee
Demotrash on Serious or Pretending?December 19, 2025
Having some kind of insane, unamerican freakout seems to be becoming a yearly Christmas tradition for Vivek. I wonder what…
Demotrash on Serious or Pretending?December 19, 2025
I believe he also fired someone from his publication for rude tweets
Clarissa on Serious or Pretending?December 19, 2025
Thank you, this is a great way to summarize this dude of whom I never heard before. I almost threw…
Clarissa on Serious or Pretending?December 19, 2025
That this even has to be explained is deeply bizarre. Everybody understood this kind of thing forever but all of…
Stringer Bell on Serious or Pretending?December 19, 2025
This congolese is just like any other american. All he needs to do is swear an oath to the constitution…
Anonymous on Readiness TestDecember 19, 2025
We give them the most stultifyingly boring material. I am reading Marryat's *Mr. Midshipman Easy* to my kids. The vocabulary…
Stringer Bell on Let Conspiracies BeginDecember 19, 2025
How's this for conspiracy? https://twitter.com/Mrgunsngear/status/2002059982989373717?s=20 https://twitter.com/GeneralMCNews/status/2002040364060815627?s=20
Demotrash on Serious or Pretending?December 19, 2025
A country of Christian, conservative, law abiding Nigerians would be pretty great! But it wouldn't be America. Americans (actual Americans)…