Professor @Georgetown | secularism, Philip Roth, higher ed, comedy, etc. Render complexity with clarity... and be damned!
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It may be easy to lose sight of how weird this all is. A comedian is assuming the leader of the free world is monitoring her jokes. And her surmise is not necessarily unwarranted!
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Jacques Berlinerblau retweeted
I am sorry but we are going to have to deny your request for an electric shock glove for teaching 101.
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"She even provides discussion prompts. No word limits were stipulated — as a seasoned professor, I say rookie mistake there, Linda — and the paper is to be posted 'prominently on institutional websites.' The deadline is 'before the end of 2026.'”
"In their gowns and tuxedos [the White House Correspondents] looked like runway models in a Stockholm syndrome-themed fashion show."
@Acosta
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Louis C.K.’s new Netflix special is a master class in surviving so-called ‘cancellation’ ms.now/opinion/netflix-comed…
"Could it be that MAGA, or at least a certain rarefied sector of MAGA, is suddenly embracing soccer? In some ways the answer is yes — but certainly not for the reasons we would think. And certainly not for love of the game."
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Jacques Berlinerblau retweeted
The faculty senate president has no concerns about our new PTR system — she’s a renewable-term instructor.
"Talarico says he believes God is non-binary — a claim that his conservative critics gleefully quote and re-quote. Only a license to frack the earth under every research university in America could make them happier."
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Jacques Berlinerblau retweeted
3/ Berlinerblau in the @chronicle this week sharpens the labor problem. First-mile defense (redesigning assessment, refusing AI completion, holding the line) requires people with tenure protection or its equivalent. NTFTs running departments often can't push back.
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Five predictions about the doomed professoriate
"One source of hope might be our students. Perhaps I’m deluding myself, but lately I’ve noticed a change in my Gen Z charges. They’re giving us a (bewildered) second look . . .1/2
Raised on screens and influencers and slop, they crave something different. They abhor distance learning — maybe because they’ve all endured some sort of social-media trauma? Am I wrong in assuming they sense the absurdity of today’s digital normalcy?"
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