This will be happening! On a date TBD next fall for those in the Triangle!

Houston finally gets a snow day too. Palm trees not happy.

"A meritless claim premised upon a dubious legal theory" 😂 ed.gov/about/news/pre…

The national vibeshift continues with this excellent new issue of the Point, which already had the right vibes anyway. Especially noteworthy: "Last Boys at the Beginning of History" and "Among the Post-Feminists." thepointmag.com/politics/last-… thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

Re-upping this because now it's nominated for an Oscar because it is *excellent.*

Now unpaywalled The Hedgehog Review, my reconsideration of Saul Bellow's Ravelstein. Twenty-five years later, can we see Ravelstein and Chick instead of Bloom and Bellow? ⬇️

"The Grimms were never entirely honest about how middle-class the whole venture was." lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

19th C student rebellion, from Neem/Democratic Schools

The Spring 2025 issue of APT is out now, featuring pieces by Miller Fellows Timothy Brennan (University of Austin (UATX)), Nora Hanagan (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Charles Zug (Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy), and Rita Koganzon (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Read it now at the link below! journals.uchicago.edu/toc/apt/2025/1…

I interviewed Boss Ross Ross Douthat for the new New Left Review, talking decadence, Trump, his evolution and role at New York Times Opinion and more. Link in next tweet

On the academic job market this year? 🎓💼🖊️ The Jack Miller Center’s curated jobs board features opportunities across political theory, history, constitutional studies, and related fields—ranging from tenure-track roles to academic leadership. View current openings here:

Brilliant and surprising essay by SamuelGoldman compactmag.com/article/the-me…

Noble attempt to do this book justice, maybe more than it deserves.

Classic ratio, just like in the old days.

Big news from UNC SCiLL! We're thrilled to welcome 7 impressive full-time faculty members to campus next year — plus 2 visiting research professors! 🧵 Meet the newest faculty members joining our community:

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Have been thinking a lot in recent days about this Rita Koganzon essay on former UChicago president Hanna Gray

Strong rebuttal to claims that AI requires converting all writing into Blue Book exams. Having spent a decade reading such exams, this is a pretty accurate picture of what they're like. They have real value, but not as substitutes for the long-form essay. thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/…

Capping off our "America at 250" event series, American Enterprise Institute partnered with Monticello last month for a spectacular symposium on "The American Revolution in American History," featuring Jane Kamensky, Allen Guelzo, Rita Koganzon, Wilfred McClay, and Richard Brookhiser (1/3)

New online: Robert Pippin, Agnes Callard, Jonny Thakkar, Jon Baskin, Rory O'Connell, Ben Jeffery, Thomas Bartscherer, Laura Baudot, Leon Wieseltier and J.M. Coetzee remember Jonathan Lear. thepointmag.com/examined-life/…