Matthew H. Young
@matthenryyoung
Asst professor of pol theory at @elonuniversity. Husband & father thinking about toleration and the apocalypse. What to do? Stay green. Never mind the machine
Yeah I teach STEM Socrates Thucydides Epictetus Machiavelli
Help, friends! I have a journal article/chapter that reads Wendell Berry alongside Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture to generate a critique of the market society inasmuch as it leads to the loss of cultural distinctiveness. Where should I send it? Open to journals…
If I were a shrimp I would want nothing more than to fulfil my telos in both life and death. I would wish to be gently cooked and laid atop a funerary bed of cheesy grits. so i would pass this life with honor and win the respect of my ancestors.
arrest this person immediately
please enjoy my shelf where i store my unfinished books
"I am a rationalist going about clarifying my rational position. Now imagine if there were enough shrimp to blot out the sun. Enough shrimp to consume all mass in the baryonic light cone, even. now Merriam-Webster defines torture as-"
Okay let's clarify some things. Link below
Ten books I've read five or more times (no author repeats): The Iliad Antigone Gorgias Inferno Second Discourse Leviathan Pilgrim's Progress East of Eden That Hideous Strength Hannah Coulter
Ten books I've read five or more times (no author repeats): The Hobbit The Iliad Antigone The Republic Nicomachean Ethics The Prince Abolition of Man Cat's Cradle After Virtue Technology and Justice
Every time a student asks for a recommendation it's either an outstanding student falling over themselves to apologize for the inconvenience of asking for a recommendation due 3 months from now or a student who barely attended my class who wants it by Friday.
“I asked chatgpt” “I asked grok” well I asked the oracle at Delphi and she said Socrates is the wisest man in all of Athens
Completed two peer reviews this week, both within a week of the request.
The neighbor is putting up a building that will (unfortunately) mess up the view from my front porch, but at least my kids are enjoying the show.
"baby shoes for sale, never worn" has competition.
One of the saddest phrases in the English language
This belongs in some sort of museum. Inflated housing costs are a nationwide problem and the NYT thinks we should feel bad because fewer Canadians are buying vacation homes in the US?
I live a half a mile from the Haw ((thankfully much higher in elevation), and this is the normally spring-fed trickle at our mailbox. The rain gauge says we've had 8 inches of rain since noon.
🚨 955 pm: The Haw River at Bynum in Chatham County is now forecast to crest near 21.2 feet at around 8 am Monday morning. The river had surged up more than 4 feet during the past hour. This crest is just below the all time flood of record of 21.8 feet set during Hurricane Fran.
Really wish my kids would stop referring to blood as "meat milk"
Working in the sun, sweating, listening to Willie Nelson. Good things.
