Anyone in Higher Education feeling the fear right now. I get you. This is the first time in 22 years I'm not facing the September dread. I've been writing about the transition: dariollinares.substack.com/p/1-the-day-af… "A questioning of my own desires and motivations as I wade through a familiar

It is my deepest belief that it’s your duty as an American to just like Go To Stuff. Any stuff. Art fair. Food truck festival. Weird one woman show. Ice cream store. Minor league baseball. Movies. Community is an action! It’s something you have to do! Give it a whirl!

The Cinematologists Podcast is back for a 20th season. A decade of film podcasting I can hardly believe it. This season we are intending to release video episodes of the show early for our patreon subscribers. The main show will drop for free on Thursday but now you can watch as

#6 After Academia: Should you "follow your passion" or "assume you're not Jay-Z"? dariollinares.substack.com/p/6-after-acad… "This raises a fundamental paradox: how do you reconcile the possibility of rarefied (or even just adequate) success if the best option is being pragmatic and going into

The Cinematologists Podcast is back for a 20th season. A decade of film podcasting I can hardly believe it. It was so good to rejoin Neil for our first conversation on the podcast in what promises to be a huge season for us. We are intending to release video episodes of the show

The Cinematologists Podcast - Doing Academia Differently? #cinema #highe... youtu.be/Ddi5DdFWY-s?fe… via YouTube

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Twitter hive mind, need your help. With the academic year starting I'm writing a piece on ways in which universities do a disservice to students. The angle is that they set up policies which are articulated as if they will help students, but actually they don't. If anyone's got

All the feels here:

The algorithmic overlords—through some kind of psycho-digital surveillance of my cognitive dissonance (or maybe it was just coincidence)—seem to have taken pleasure in providing a diet of contradictory content about that old chestnut: “following your passion.” Intentional or not,

The new season of The Cinematologists podcast has started. Amazing, and somewhat surreal to think this is our 10th season. We are in reflective mood for this one. Big love and appreciation to those of you who are regulars listeners and support the show by sharing and commenting -

Welcoming the returning students today. Well done for enduring one or even two years of my historic pop culture references.

James O'Brien has just delivered one of the knockout blows of the century. Nigel Farage was leaving the LBC studios after his phone-in with Nick Ferrari when he did this 👇

open.substack.com/pub/dariollina… On one side, there is what I’m calling the romantic idealist perspective. From this point of view, you should “follow your passion,” “build a career doing something you love,” and then “you’ll never work a day in your life.” American philosopher John

The sunlit uplands of freedom.