Humanities Prof @CSUF. Rootless cosmopolitan. Literature | Social and Political Philosophy | Religious Studies. Schubert and Sibelius stan.
‐ plugging away at that novel, same as everyone -
Saul Tobias
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"There is however a second and more overwhelming emotion running through redundancy after redundancy – it’s sadness."
Excellent essay that brings out the historical and contemporary stakes of pluralistic liberalism vs ethnonationalism.
Just bought tickets for the LA Master Chorale performance of Brahms and Bruckner. They haven't announced the Bruckner pieces so I'm putting this out into the ether and hoping
youtu.be/udZCjXbwkzk?...
Gordon Wood's defense of the US as a creedal nation and opposition to rising ethno- nationalism is something I refer to a lot and use in class.
www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
Saul Tobias
Saul Tobias
Saul Tobias
The distinguished historian says the U.S. isn’t like other nations and never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state.
Why is the universities crisis being ignored?
Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away
I think this is the greatest 'bad poem in a paper' I've ever seen, and I've looked out for these on social media for years. It defies all your expectations of what can be done in a poem. It's made my day.
A woman on the till in Tesco thanked me for choosing her and not the self serve option.
It landed hard.
Never really gave it much thought.
A simple choice I'm free to make.
We can change things for the better in easy, peaceful ways sometimes.
