Vivek Ramaswamy has been a horrible person in public for so long that until a friend reminded me, I totally forgot that I wrote a letter to the editor blasting his opposition to a living wage for campus workers more than *two decades ago*

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It seems to me that the major divide is between people who see scholarship (or writing more generally) as an enriching conversation between humans and people who see scholarship (or writing more generally) as just another consumer product to acquire and accumulate for some industrial purpose.

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I know America. I know that, in America, we believe in a country big enough for all of us. So, JD Vance, don't you dare come from Ohio to lecture me. You don't know a damn thing about America.

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My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

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Episode 2 is now out, covering the middle decades of the twentieth century and into the 1970s and 80s...

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