Dan Walden
@dwaldenwrites
Philologist, critic, choir geek, opera queen. Professor @UTulsaHonors. Bylines in various places. Opinions solely my own. Go Blue 〽️ ☧ 🌹 🏳️🌈 hē/ille/ὁ/स:
hello to everyone who now follows me thanks to my recent hiring. i don’t especially police my follower list, so everybody’s welcome. i’m not much of a debate person online; it’s just not how i use twitter. tweets are, obviously, my opinions alone, not my employer’s
Reed college vindicated against all odd for refusing to ever open a “CS Department” and forcing every major to read the illiad
I am genuinely amazed at how quickly computer science has gone from being the generic major on campuses to something that pretty much no incoming student has any interest in majoring in.
soft launching a pardon of a convicted child sex trafficker
Reporter: Would you consider a pardon or commutation for Ghislaine Maxwell? Trump: I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I haven’t thought about
Thatcher came to power and the British immediately started to lose faith in God
Professor Harold Hill could summarize emails but microsoft copilot could never sell instruments to unsuspecting small towns while seducing the local music teacher
Trump is a convenient excuse here, but the actual cause is that university trustees and administrators across the country have simply decided that the project of civilization is no longer worth the money
The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.
To be very clear, this is sola scriptura deployed as a justification for American Christians abandoning their brothers and sisters in the Middle East
American Protestants don’t need to turn to “ancient communities” for their faith. They only need the Bible. That is enough. It’s all there is, in fact. All the other garbage by cosplaying latter-day Fr. Coughlins and Third World accounts is an anti-American, sectarian op.
I premiered a composition by Ms. Rachel and her husband back in 2019 and now she is 1) insanely famous and 2) one of the only insanely famous media people with any moral courage at all
Ms. Rachel said billionaires should not exist. ❤️
This is true, but during my early dissertation phase I had a meeting with one of my committee members and he said “you know, it would probably be a good idea for you to learn Serbian-Croatian.”
"...any serious classical scholar has to read a great deal of German..." (p. 190).
Two major crashes in 24 hours in the same place. Two fatalities, on major injury. They’ll never print this in the Post because car fatalities are regular weekly occurrences, but somebody feeling bad vibes on the subway needs a front page write up. nbcnewyork.com/news/local/cyc…
No Antonio Salieri? You don’t know ball
Mount Rushmore of haters
Absolutely nuts to think that in less than 48 hours I’ll be on a plane to Rome
I was pretty infamously the worst student in my family all through high school
First born children have higher IQ than their siblings.
“i asked grok” “i asked chat gp t” well i asked my daimon and he said “No”
University of Tulsa students have started a petition to save their Honors College and have asked me to share with my followers here. If you are inclined to support these students in their goal to recover what was lost, you can sign here: change.org/Protect_UTulsa…