#Essay

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

They don't think they look pathetic. They think they look strong and determined, willing to do what they must to save America from the "enemy" (liberals and Democrats) who they

Matthew Ball

ballmatthew

A thread on my most-read essays of 2020 and my thoughts 3-11 months later. Thank you everyone for the reads, feedback, support, follows, notes, edits, gripes, responses, more! #1: 7

Joe Wells

josephcwells

Write of Passage - @david_perell's course - is the best place to go if you want to start writing online. I finished 1 year ago and have been honing my

PeteFromPhuket

PeteFromPhuket

I think what annoys me about this kind of essay is that the main charge, hypocrisy, sort of lands flush. As if privately educating your child, rather than throwing them

calvin and hobsbawm

titusandrgynous

I'm re-reading "What Must Change in the Party," a 1978 essay by Louis Althusser, and I still think it's one of the best documents ever produced about socialist organization. The

Dr. E Zje ✨🌘

Emmy_Zje

JK Rowling is partly responsible for this ban on blockers for trans kids in the UK. Her rhetoric moved the needle just enough with the essay and threads; a form

Ian Derk

IanDerk

@helpfulsnowman I've been struggling to respond to this through a tweet thread because I'm oldhttps://www.helpfulsnowman.com/?p=9858 I have a unique perspective as a long-time Harpers reader, but I've also found other

C.L. Polk

clpolk

someone in a writing discord asked if said/says is distracting. i announced that i had an answer, but it was a long one.so. dialogue attribution. HOW DOin this essay i

Discursive anomalies, esq

sargoth

Foucault asserted that knowledge is power. This has been interpreted that those in the know have the power to affect things. However, it can also be read as those aspiring

Lauren Hough

laurenthehough

I worked 10 goddamn yrs for a company that demanded 100% efficiency and didn’t understand people have to pee. Wrote a whole essay about it. I promise you they’re fucking

BDM

bdmcclay

ok i will do a one like = one @nyrbclassics recommendation thread until i get bored with this post being the like collectorhttps://twitter.com/bdmcclay/status/1329820460431925251 my personal opinion is that the most

Justin Feldman

jfeldman_epi

I wrote about this in my Jacobin essay, but I keep seeing the strong parallels between 19th century anti-contagionism and the public health people who are opposed to suppressing covid

Joshua Yang

joshiunn

Visited the Wanchin Church, a 150-yo Spanish-Filipino style Basilica, & its surrounding Catholic areas in Pingtung over the weekend. The establishment of Catholicism in this area is interestingly intertwined w/

Nicolette D'Angelo

nicohhhlette

For the eighth and final (!) Queer and the Classical seminar, we have 'After Callimachus: Reading and Conversation' with Stephanie Burt (@accommodatingly) and Mark Payne. We are of course reading

Zito

_Zeets

It's interesting to me how the conversations around certain things never seem to change? This was the same argument about femininity and athleticism that was being had about Simone Biles,

Piyush Banerjee

PiyushBanerje15

"We don't want high prices for our bread, we don't want low prices for our bread, we want National Socialist prices for our bread.."A German peasant as quoted by Peter

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