Bonnie Honig
PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic. 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind), and 2025 International Fellow, British Academy
- Definitely worth a listen. This teacher tries to be a snitch and is expecting a thank you for your service but gets instead a simple humanism she doesn’t understand, until she does…
- And then she tries to snitch on the humanist!!
- Food was destroyed by industrialization,de-nutrified, cheapened, turned into slop, Now same thing could happen, unless it’s resisted, to knowledge & meaning-making: de-nutrified, cheapened and turned into slop…Only in the latter case there may be no preservation for elites of the nearly lost way
- Slow food, slow knowledge, slow reading!
- This, by David Lay Williams, is excellent on many fronts! Here is one: “when we struggle with problems today that resemble those of the past…it strikes me as foolish simply to discount the treasure of long-cherished wisdom.” Yes! And new wisdom surely comes of struggling with theirs.
- “We want the power of the state” — I’ve been saying this for years in a political theory register. So glad to see it boldly said here by a writer I have come to admire. A timely inspiration for anyone seeking office, too.
- That’s what I just said! :)
- This is a brilliant idea $$$$$💡
- That said, I’m not a fan of things going to highest bidders. There will be so much to take down, so there should be plenty of chances to recognize organizers and visionaries, teachers, and librarians. Everybody gets a letter!
- Can’t reply for some reason so I repost here to say Thanks for posting! So interesting to watch this account of Streisand’s career, focused mostly on her efforts to get Yentl made. The conflict with I.B Singer I hadn’t known about and it says so much about gender, origins, and American Jewishness.
- 🧨WSJ: before inauguration, “men working for an Abu Dhabi royal signed a secret deal with Trump family to buy 49% of their brand-new cryptocurrency venture World Liberty Financial..sending $187 million to entities held by the Trump family & at least $31 million to entities held by Steve Witkoff” HCR
- Why not? He loves slapping his name on things
- Exactly. From the margins moving in. In our language and in our practices, it is important to recognize this and refuse it.
