Wow.
I’m essentially an outsider here, but I’m not sure this is a great outcome. No literary outlet is going to be able to turtle up as regards this issue, and preemptively dismantling community apparatus isn’t a great thing either.
"On April 2, 2025, #DOGE terminated the final year of funding from a three-year National Endowment for the Humanities grant to the Willa Cather Archive, a loss of about $100,000."
"There’s no explanation. There was no justification […] It was just a kind of destruction." #NEH
i for one have full confidence in the trump administration's ability to adequately refit a plane donated by a foreign government into a highly secure mobile command center for the united states executive, following their unquestionably successful renovation of A Large Pool of Water
stopping research will not, in fact, do anything at all for "the classroom"
creating tenure-line faculty positions, reducing class sizes, and funding libraries will each do a lot, though
tldr; It’s a flying nuclear reactor that spews radiation as it goes. (At last some good news!)
Last thing:
A rare “I don’t know who needs to hear this but . . .“
from me.
Anyone else I know going to FUTURE OF REALITIES tomorrow in DC? futurerealities.org/FOR2026/
If, as a speaker, you choose to violate the trust such an invitation depends on, that’s rarely a reflection of anyone other than yourself—especially if there’s nothing in your past work that would have reasonably lead anyone to expect such a violation. +
