The most radicalizing aspect of my life was participating in the game of Mutually Assured Destruction during the later Cold War.

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In all of my many academic (mis)adventures, I never met a professor who tried to radicalize me. I’ve had profs who wanted to make me into a Shakespearean, an Applied Mathematician, a Narrative Theorist. Perhaps the most radical prof I had was the one who headed the faculty senate. He ‘read’ Shelley.

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as others have pointed out, this is how a good teacher handles a(n intentionally) difficult student -- you take them seriously, then dismantle the premise of their point

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I feel like @bradvivian.bsky.social has said a lot of this too, if somewhat more stylistically savvy than I tend to be in social media (or in print for that matter). Curious to see how you and people who read us both see our versions of this coinciding.

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I earned my PhD at @utaustin.bsky.social. As an alum, I’m embarrassed by this effort to control which texts faculty may choose to teach. And it’s not like I don’t teach many of these myself! But teaching is not simply assigning students texts.

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