Kristine Haglund

Especially university administrators

It’s almost like he’s a millionaire who hasn’t done his own grocery shopping for decades…

Yup—LLMs work on the mistaken idea that the essay is the product schools want. But the words on the page are only a byproduct.

How scary for all of you—I hope they’re ok!

It didn’t require extraordinary reading skill to recognize that these were composite characters made to convey reporting of medical information.

My 20-something child, who literally kicked and screamed every time I tried to take him to a museum, got up at 4:30 am to fly to NYC and take advantage of the membership to the Met he recently bought himself.

Parenting is confusing.

This sounds pathologically well-adjusted. Are you sure you’re an academic?

Did they just need an excuse to watch it several times without feeling guilty for hating Kid Rock?

This. All day long.

And a gift to syllabi on US Empire for the next decade!

Hey, if high school cafeteria smell doesn’t make you too anxious to write, you clearly did not suffer enough in high school to explain why you became an academic. So what the hell happened to you?

I haven’t found a dud yet, so you could probably start anywhere, but I especially liked Josh Garrett-Davis, Sarah Keyes (also Sarah Deutsch and Sara Humphreys—all the Sara(h)s!), Sherry Smith, Cameron Blevins, and Anne Hyde. (Hyde would be great on Reunions, too!) And of course Steve Peck!

I’m doing an American West comps list, and your podcast has been absolutely invaluable! It helps so much to connect arguments with a human voice as well as the words on the page. Thank you for all of your work!!

As long as she’s not canning fruit, it’s probably ok 😂

Loved this episode!

(NB: he was the one who called three times in a row on a Sunday morning in August to ask about Milton!)

I recently had a long argument with my physics professor dad about the “ninefold harmony” in Milton’s Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity and whether there could be something “true” about the musica universalis even if Kepler’s math didn’t work. As one does.

I feel so seen. When I was in hs, a friend said, “do you want to go to Prom?” I said, “I guess that would be fun, but I don’t think anyone will ask me.”

Stealing! (with citations, of course!)

Levi is correct. It is the funniest thing!

It’s probably a medical condition called spasmodic dysphonia. We should just make fun of his arguments instead.

Do you say, “who is dead” after each name?

Yeah. My youngest child, who was 16 the first time Trump was elected, has no way to understand why I think politics shouldn’t and doesn’t have to be like this.

Ah, yes, the yearly autumnal Storrowing!

It never ceases to amaze me how many academics are secretly longing to be copyeditors!

Back atcha!

She’s magnificent.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Brooks *really* needs to read some Bordieu.