Excellent essay that brings out the historical and contemporary stakes of pluralistic liberalism vs ethnonationalism.
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-...
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?...
"There is however a second and more overwhelming emotion running through redundancy after redundancy – it’s sadness."
One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away
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-...
"nearly 75% of instructional staff in American higher education now work outside the tenure system. Contingency no longer exists at the edges of academic life; it increasingly defines the structure through which the university teaches, adapts, + reproduces itself."
working-mass.com/2026/06/04/i...
Saul Tobias
Saul Tobias
Saul Tobias
George Eaton
What awful news. 🗃️
What's it actually feel like to live through the decline and fall of mass Higher Education in Britain? Today I've written about this from the inside here... Hope you like it, and hope you find it useful.
isrf.org/blog/what-do...
I thought last week about e-mailing this to Gordon Wood along w a note about his video w J Greene in the same series. He'd have disagreed w it at least in part. But it bears the influence of what I learned from him about the end of classical politics & the post-Revolutionary liberal transformation.
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.
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.
