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Monday, March 17, 2025

1880s: 'Noon and Eternity' is a phrase of Nietzsche's

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In 1881, the phrase "noon and eternity" appears in Nietzsche's notebook , related to Zarathustra. In 1882, Nietzsche was scr...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Faith that the internet would be a force for good

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In 2011, around the time of the Arab Spring, Maria Ressa believed that social media would aid grassroots movements and revolutions. A decade...
Saturday, January 11, 2025

'Origin of the Brunists': Monday morning and grace

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Celebrating this paragraph by Robert Coover (1932–2024) in The Origin of the Brunists (1966). Differently enchanting: He always beli...
Wednesday, December 25, 2024

A book on Panama Canal history

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Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal by Marixa Lasso is about the legacies of a U.S. view of the world “in terms of tropicality, We...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Sleep: Three quotes

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It's a purposeful irony of life, I suppose, that we never get to see ourselves in that state. We can only pay witness to our waking ...
Friday, December 13, 2024

Two thoughts on activism

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How persecution affects consciousness "Any temptation I had at age twenty-three to categorize oppressed people in binaries, as either...
Saturday, November 9, 2024

We keep hoping that if we look harder, we'll find the answer

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Today's trans teaching: "What I want to suggest is not that accounts of the archive’s absences are misguided per se but rather th...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Self-immolations

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There is a personal reason I take note of this phenomenon. "[Journalist Samuel] Mena, of Phoenix, ignited his left arm — becoming th...
Monday, October 7, 2024

Genocide names what to prevent, not what to commemorate

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"Parallels between Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and early America’s treatment of indigenous peoples are stark. Once you know the ...
Friday, October 4, 2024

Modes of language: Sparking good work together

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Once you persuade your students to read, do they think critically about what they read? Cameron Summers has written " What We Talk Ab...
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Tucker Lieberman is the author of Most Famous Short Film of All Time — Enkidu — 12:10 — Fire — Dragons.
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