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"I have never spent years in an institution, like, Firestone did, but I have been inside a dozen times, for days, or weeks; voluntarily and by 72-hour hold." Interesting piece in @the_point_mag by Emmett Rensin. thepointmag.com/criticism/haza…
“Education is a very intricate and complicated and subtle thing, but there’s something about it that’s also incredibly simple. It’s giving students an opportunity to read a text they might otherwise not do.” thepointmag.substack.com/p/the-cognitiv…
Any purported use or alleged benefit of AI in a university needs to be carefully weighed against what is already the undeniable cost: rendering our students subcognitive. @a_n_a_berg’s case against AI in higher ed: thepointmag.substack.com/p/the-cognitiv…
Here's a debate hosted by @interintellect_ where @a_n_a_berg offers a rebuttal to various proposals for (moderate) adoption of AI in general education substack.com/home/post/p-16…
“Any purported use or alleged benefit of the introduction of AI into university,” says @a_n_a_berg, “needs to be carefully weighed against what is already the undeniable cost of AI use, especially by students.” A simple case against AI in higher ed: thepointmag.substack.com/p/the-cognitiv…
A new episode of Selected Novels, featuring Bruce Holsinger on John Williams’s “Stoner” and his new novel, “Culpability”: thepointmag.buzzsprout.com/1791285/episod…
Read Martin’s essay about the fiction of a living, breathing—dare we say thriving?—Straight White Male Novelist here: thepointmag.com/criticism/real…
My essay “Real Men” got a shoutout in today’s NY Times
“I’m definitely in its cult,” Bruce Holsinger tells Jess Swoboda and Zach Fine of “Stoner,” discussed in the newest episode of Selected Novels: buzzsprout.com/1791285/episod…
On today’s new episode of Selected Novels, Jess Swoboda and Zach Fine talk to Bruce Holsinger about the @nyrbclassics cult classic “Stoner”: buzzsprout.com/1791285/episod…
"There’s no self, and this is tragedy; there’s no self, and this is comedy." thepointmag.com/examined-life/…
“A candidate who stands for something rather than against everything was so refreshing that sometimes that was all we needed to overcome the average person’s disinterest or suspicion of politicians.” thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/…
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Some uplifting stories from the New York streets in this @storyshaped dispatch about canvassing for Mamdani
"When sovereignty itself becomes a commodity, no different than a mine or an oil field, how long until the nation-state system begins to appear like a nineteenth-century wrapper on a new world?" thepointmag.com/politics/turbo…
Canvassing is not glamorous. It doesn’t inspire viral videos and the photo ops are minimal. Therein lies its importance, writes @storyshaped: thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/…
A dispatch from @storyshaped on the exhausting, demoralizing, and immensely rewarding experience of canvassing for Zohran Mamdani: thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/…
Apoorva Tadepalli on @ZohranKMamdani I have to say I do love @thepointmag thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/…
“Approaching voters, rather than waiting for them to show interest on their own, is the definition of canvassing. It requires actually wanting your candidate to win.” thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/…
“Many nights while canvassing I came home in tears exhausted, demotivated or humiliated, but not once did I feel the evening was wasted.” thepointmag.com/forms-of-life/…