Caitlin Smith

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

12.03.2025 14:50 — 👍 67777    🔁 9619    💬 1167    📌 894

None of this had to be this way.

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list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Luigi Mangione in a white whale tie

Luigi Mangione’s white whale tie in close up

[everybody:] “Nate, please don’t try to make this about Moby-Dick. Not everything is about Moby-Dick!”

[vengeance-fueled antihero on obsessive doomed quest:]

11.12.2024 14:05 — 👍 2017    🔁 386    💬 31    📌 39

Shoutout to the troll student who used direct quotes from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" in their close reading essay of Dimmesdale's final scaffold scene.

11.12.2024 13:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I just wrapped up two upper-level sections of "The American Novel to 1865." The final quiz asked students what they'll take away from the course.

Student: "I can now say that I read Moby-Dick and didn't understand it."

04.12.2024 21:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I learned a little bit ago that my research won the 2024 Society of Early Americanists Essay Award. The competition is in memory of my late colleague, Sarah Schuetze, a friend and generous reader of the work when we were fellows in Philly years ago. #c18 #c19 #NativeAmericanHistory #VastEarlyAmerica

13.11.2024 23:59 — 👍 66    🔁 8    💬 9    📌 3

[every american institution:] yes?

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