My 12-year-old was lamenting yesterday that "crush" culture is consuming her classmates. She told me she doesn't do crushes yet, because, in her words, "I think I need to figure out who I am before I think about anything like that." And man, I wish I had that kind of self-awareness at her age.

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Seconding Profs with Pints! Did this at Lapop in Adams Morgan some years back and it was a total blast (and great folks managing the whole thing).

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So apparently there’s a company that runs events where profs (mostly STEM) do “fun” topical lectures in bars and it’s a way of enticing burnt out gen-Z folks who want to escape brainrot and I love this and feel like we humanists could significantly undercut them…

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… imagine going out on a Friday night and learning about where the story of Aladdin comes from for an hour. Or about the origins of Islam. Or why the Abbasids are said to have initiated a “Golden Age.“ Or how Cairo became Cairo. I can do that for you. Pay me.

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The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

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