Joyce Carol Oates Have many of her books. She made her academic research so entertaining and informative with her wonderfully accessible writing. I really enjoy her work.

Joyce Carol Oates Congratulations to her! She changed my world view regarding religion years ago with the Gnostic Gospels. I hope she enjoys herself.

you don't need armed officers on a campus. surely security guards could be trained & prepared for such situations. there are always exceptions of course when local police are needed, but these should be exceptions.

police officers are trained to (over)react like this in order to protect themselves. that's why they should not be summoned onto campuses where 'crimes' in the usual sense of the term are not being committed. security guards without guns would be preferable.
police are trained to…

Peter has brought to Princeton any number of philosophers & theorists with whom he (probably) does not agree at all, yet all are presented courteously & graciously. so many who speak of 'free speech' don't actually mean it--not 100%. there is a difference between disagreement &…

of all controversial philosophers, writers, ethicists Peter Singer is the one most likely to be misunderstood. when people have assailed him it will invariably turn out that they had not read his reasoned, thoughtful prose but only read about him, or quickly skimmed material…

when they won, they lost. the more they won, the more they were hurt, & so winning was a way of insuring that they would be hurt worse than those who'd failed to win their first bouts. ask Ali.

'check's in the mail'

goodness! this is just a spontaneous photo, not a formal occasion. the young woman of whom you speak so disrespectfully & ignorantly had not the slightest idea who might have been standing behind her. #WorstTweetsOfSunday

isn't Cornel West on the faculty at Harvard? no one could be more activist & unmuzzled than Brother West. (but of course, Cornel has tenure, or had tenure, which makes a difference.)

this is painfully true & would be true today.
however, media framed student protests in such a way to inflame readers/viewers. Republican leaders spoke of 'bloodbaths' to come & encouraged violence. the more you learn of people, the more you see how impressionable they/we are.…

Joyce Carol Oates Soros must have paid you to do that!!!

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across the way is a sign 'COSTLY SPEECH AREA'

I haven't read the letter & just scanned the signatures. worst feature of Twitter is dredging up old tweets or remarks in order to (hypocritically) judge others. no idea how any of these people feel in May 2024, did anyone ask them? remarks of many made immediately before &…

wild old days of May 2011 when we marched in Harvard Yard at commencement fearless to confront Cambridge law enforcement. (photo: outlaw poet Henri Cole)

So nice to have one more glimpse of Peter Schjeldahl's writing, even on the sad occasion of Frank Stella's death: newyorker.com/culture/postsc…

With Princeton colleague & friend Peter Singer, recipient of a Behrman award in the humanities. Peter came to Princeton in 1999, is retiring this spring. Will be terribly missed!

True that.
Anyway, here’s a link to an hour plus interview Howard Stern just did with Joe Biden.
Very humanizing, instead of demonizing, which is the norm.

youtu.be/Fz45sMb4js8?si…

this is very touching but--is something missing from the narrative? is the lion disabled, elderly, ill? certainly the lion is well-fed.
it isn't 100% safe to 'massage' even a domestic house kitty who loves you but whose claws & teeth may have an instinct of their own if you…

this is a letter from 2020 introduced as if it were of May 2024. of course opinions, sentiments, allegiances change over time & circumstances. we are human beings not robots. 'against the campus protests' is certainly misleading. anything that Salman Rushdie has signed (as he'd…