#Essays

Our Lady of Operads

Category_Fury

So, you wanna get into Scott Walker? Here is a short guide with one song from every relevant album. (1/12) To begin we have the song Montague Terrace (In Blue).

Liminal Warmth ❤️

liminal_warmth

1/ Today on Patreon @joespurpleshirt asked me how to start building a following for Twitter or a blog when you're starting from scratch.This is something I've had to do many

Khadijah *a centered voice*

UpFromTheCracks

Kurt Mundorff wrote one of the best essays ever on #ChildWelfare Children as Chattel: Invoking the Thirteenth Amendment to Reform Child Welfare following his time as an ACS caseworker, his

Roderic Day

RodericDay

Absolutely fascinating Foreign Policy article about China, Xinjiang, and Uyghurs from May 2014!Before Obama's "pivot to Asia" got going, propaganda was still wall-to-wall "Muslim Terrorism", so people wrote about Chi

Ida Bae Wells

nhannahjones

Sen. @TomCottonAR has introduced a bill prohibiting the use of federal funds to teach the 1619 Project because apparently “The Federal Government has a strong interest in promoting an accurate

Vector Of Basis

VectorOfBasis

Some scattered thoughts about character development 1. Different people have different characters. I think some are more virtuous by accident of their nature / biology. Upbringing and life history in

Bella Lara Blondeau 🔔

vivarockbella

a lot of people ask me, on the reg, how to get into gaming journalism, or advance their career in gaming. there's not good advice that fits across the board,

Nathan Kalmoe

NathanKalmoe

Lots of ordinary Republicans are endorsing violence. We'd like that number to drop, but the precipitating causes deserve our focus even more than trying to persuade that violence is inappropriate.

Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

CafeEconomics

1. Today is the 125th death anniversary of Gopal Ganesh Agarkar — liberal, rationalist, social reformer, crusader for individual rights, fearless writer. This bilingual thread is on his battles on

Hua Cheng's Rapunzel Hair 🦋

mekinot

Ok, since this discourse has come back again thanks to a certain fandom account, I'm gonna reiterate here what I've said in my main many times already: yes, fiction affects

Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

KHayhoe

Why this effect? Not because @GretaThunberg ate less meat or encouraged her family not to fly: if that's all she'd done, we'd never know her name. No, it's because she

Prof Sarah Churchwell, PhD

sarahchurchwell

A few days ago @mrjamesob asked me if I felt vindicated bc I’ve been saying for years that they’re fascists. And I realized when I woke up this morning the

Roxani Krystalli

rkrystalli

As end-of-year book-buying approaches for ourselves and our loved ones, here is a thread of books I loved this year: 2020 started with @Kapka_Kassabova's *stunning* To the Lake. Like all

Baldaccio d'Anghiari

Autiauto

THREAD on Strauss’ Epilogue: I promised awhile ago a thread on why one should read Leo Strauss. I’ll probably make a more general thread on that, but 1st, here is

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

janeclarejones

So let's just take stock of what's happened.The government undertakes a consultation on changing the GRA, which if passed, would effectively change the meaning of sex in law to gender

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

What if neither or develop the #COVID19 vaccine? What if it's another country?It will illustrate a how "Middle Powers" are often the "glue" of global order[THREAD] While @Dereklowe

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