"Pineal express" podcast

interview with Charles Goodman here:

https://soundcloud.com/user-222473875/episode-12-charles-goodman-on-buddhism-compassion-and-ethics


interview with Eric Dietrich here:

https://soundcloud.com/user-222473875/episode-10-eric-dietrich-on-the-paradoxes-that-undergird-reality

why I stopped subscribing to the NYT

this tweetstorm sums it up pretty well:

The main ideological project of @nytopinion since the election has been to make it respectable for white elites to talk about defending America as a majority-white country.

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) January 28, 2018

From Mark Lilla on "identity politics" to Ross Douthat on immigration bargaining, the throughline is an argument about the necessity of securing the existence of white people and a future for white children.

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) January 28, 2018

The political context, which Stephen Miller understands, is that the Republicans had almost exhausted the political power of white resentment.

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) January 28, 2018

There weren't enough voters for a whites-only party to win a popular majority in a presidential election, and the trend line was getting even more unfavorable.

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) January 28, 2018

Republicans either had to stop practicing whites-only politics or they had to take power without popular majorities and then change the demographic trends.

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) January 28, 2018

They went with the second option: racial gerrymandering and a freakishly narrow electoral win, and now a program of voter suppression and ethnic cleansing.

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) January 28, 2018

The ICE rampage and the assault on DACA are designed to show how ugly they're willing to be in defense of a white nation.

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) January 28, 2018

And this inspires respectable white pundits to try to appease them by offering them what they really want: cutbacks on legal nonwhite immigration, to save the all-white political bloc from melting away.

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) January 28, 2018

When Ross Douthat talks about bargaining with Stephen Miller, he's talking about making room for white retrenchment to be a policy goal.

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) January 28, 2018

Historically, giving racists what they want has not been an effective way of reducing the political power of racism.

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) January 28, 2018

It may, however, reduce the visible ugliness and the discomfort that people like Douthat and Lilla feel when the conflict is in the open.

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) January 28, 2018

signed by philosophers et al.

We need a feminism for the 99%. That's why women will strike this year

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/27/we-need-a-feminism-for-the-99-thats-why-women-will-strike-this-year

perfectionism?

ok, I guess.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/well/family/more-college-students-seem-to-be-majoring-in-perfectionism.html

weird list

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/25/sunday-review/opinion-pell-table.html

We're at #45.

We have the 2nd lowest endowment per student in the top 100 -- Princeton has about 450x more.

Somehow our net cost for middle income students ($17k) is surprisingly high, considering that a "middle income student" from in state would pay zero tuition. I guess those new dorms are fancy.

classes started

yay!

Center for Learning and Teaching events

not on their website yet, but maybe worth attending?


Fri 2 Feb, noon to 1:30:
Scholarly teaching: collecting data to monitor and improve teaching

Mon 12 Feb, 2pm to 3pm:
Creating a rubric for a writing assignment

Fri 9 Mar, noon to 1:30:
Effective group work

Wed 14 mar, noon to 1:30:
Debate across the curriculm

Like a bacillus

Steven Pinker: Alt-right ideologues are highly literate & intelligent people who join the movement because alt-right offers "true statements that have never been voiced in college campuses, NY Times or respectable media." pic.twitter.com/OyELyuvKIo

— Sacha Saeen (@S_Saeen) January 9, 2018