Oz is lying because he knows that people will believe him. Or worse, they will not know who or what to believe. This is how autocracy works, says Hannah Arendt.
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Lit prof at San Diego State University; author of "Early Modern Others: Resisting Bias in Renaissance Literature"; words @newsweek, @Salon, Inside Higher Ed, Public Humanities, Times of San Diego
Oz is lying because he knows that people will believe him. Or worse, they will not know who or what to believe. This is how autocracy works, says Hannah Arendt.
30.10.2025 15:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pad see ew! π½οΈ #ettp
29.10.2025 01:54 β π 56 π 5 π¬ 4 π 0Not so "shadow." I think it's a secret all over the block that Vought and Miller are really running the government.
24.10.2025 17:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Browned butter sage sauce with TJβs pumpkin ravioli! π½οΈ #ettp
14.10.2025 02:06 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0My new outdoor wok burner and the result. Serious wok hei! π½οΈ #ettp
06.10.2025 02:02 β π 36 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Another reason why kids hate Shakespeare.
20.08.2025 15:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Years ago, I was put in such a terrible classroom that a student came in a little late, looked around, looked at me, and said "who did you piss off?"
20.08.2025 15:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Very grateful to Patrick J. McGrath for his review of Early Modern Others in Milton Quarterly. "his is a valuable and timely work, one that offers a perspective on early modern literature and society rarely discussed..." doi.org/10.1111/milt...
09.08.2025 20:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Very grateful to Patrick J. McGrath for his review of Early Modern Others in Milton Quarterly. "his is a valuable and timely work, one that offers a perspective on early modern literature and society rarely discussed..." onlinelibrary-wiley-com.libproxy.sdsu.edu/doi/10.1111/...
09.08.2025 19:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Good point. My guess is that Trump has in mind only the top-tier schools. From what I can tell, there's very little interest in colleges and universities farther down the academic ladder.
08.08.2025 15:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0How is the Department of Education supposed to examine admissions if it's supposed to be dissolved?
08.08.2025 00:17 β π 30 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Exactly right. We're not sliding into autocracy; we're there.
05.08.2025 13:16 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0On AI and the imminent end of higher (and lower) education: timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2025...
03.08.2025 22:30 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Conservatives say all profs mindlessly parrot "settler colonialism" slogans. That's not true. My book that shows how early modern authors challenged the biases and prejudices of their age. www.amazon.com/Early-Modern...
21.07.2025 17:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Was Shakespeare racist? or anti-racist? Was he an antisemite? Or did he criticize antisemitism? Early Modern Others answers those questions, and shows how early modern authors challenged the biases and prejudices of their age. www.amazon.com/Early-Modern...
17.07.2025 23:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I wrote about this last May: timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2025...
08.07.2025 02:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0my sympathies. Let's hope the AC works.
21.06.2025 23:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Chickpea flour?
30.05.2025 14:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Porcini Ragu: π½οΈ #ettp
09.05.2025 14:15 β π 22 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0On Trump crossing the legal Rubicon into tyranny: timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2025...
05.05.2025 17:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Poppy seed tea cake! π½οΈ #ettp
22.04.2025 13:57 β π 26 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh? how so?
12.04.2025 15:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"Notice and comment is unnecessary because I am ordering the repeal." From Trump's Executive Order on Showerheads.
With this sentence, we have crossed the Rubicon. We are now an authoritarian country where Trump's word is law.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Signs from today's "Hands Off!" rally in San Diego
05.04.2025 22:32 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Grateful for this review of Early Modern Others!
"an ambitious book that makes us conscious of the perils of a univocal reading of literature, . . . provides a very different voice [on] racism, identity, prejudice, and discrimination."https://spenserreview.org/article/id/121/