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Daniel Wyche
@danielwyche.bsky.social
Professor of religious studies, Musician, Curator, and other stuff. Mostly here to talk about records.
Academics: https://danielwyche.weebly.com/
Arts: www.wyche.org
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A lot of hard things going on personally, professionally, and politically, but one thing I am happy about is that my book will be out with Columbia University Press on May 20th.

cup.columbia.edu/book/the-car...
The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other | Columbia University Press
What is the relationship between the ethical transformation of the self and the political transformation of the world? This book explores the ways several tw... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
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"We followed everything we were supposed to do"

Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
On Thanksgiving, a good thing you can do is watch We Shall Remain: www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
We Shall Remain | American Experience | PBS
From the award-winning PBS series American Experience comes We Shall Remain, a provocative multi-media project that establishes Native history as an essential part of American history.
www.pbs.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The Return of The Durutti Column (1980)
45th Anniversary Edition

so much to answer for ✨

boomkat.com/products/the...
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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With collaborators including Claire Rousay, Patrick Shiroishi and Maisie Stewart, the Chicago-based cellist and composer draws rich seams of resonance from snatches of everyday audio

Lia Kohl - Various Small Whistles and a Song

buff.ly/GOBpkZA
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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“…the “Orthodoxy as Masculinity” narrative is consistently rejected by Church leaders and scholars because it is so blatantly misaligned with the Church’s theology and history.”

Great piece on the recent NYT article at @publicorthodoxy.bsky.social
The "Orthodoxy as Masculinity" Narrative
According to the New York Times, young, conservative men are flocking to the Orthodox Church because it provides an all-too-rare space that celebrates masculinity. This “Orthodoxy as Masculinity” narr...
publicorthodoxy.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Big Star - Thirteen

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November 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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👏🏾⚖️ Beginning today, the @harvard.edu Law School Library is making available online the first complete, fully searchable, digitized collection of official evidentiary documents and trial transcripts in English from all 13 Nuremberg Trials, at nuremberg.law.harvard.edu.
Nuremberg - Explore the Nuremberg Trials!
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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‘His role is to recruit’: the Sheffield-based propagandist for Sudan’s RSF militia
‘His role is to recruit’: the Sheffield-based propagandist for Sudan’s RSF militia
Abdalmonim Alrabea has appeared in hundreds of videos in which he expresses support for paramilitary group accused of committing genocide
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
For anyone attending #AAR next weekend in Boston, there will be a panel discussion of my new book with some great scholars and friends Saturday at 5pm. Hope to see you there. #AAR/SBL.
November 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I’ve asked this before but I’m genuinely curious if people have recommendations for newsletter software that is not SubStack. My main interest is something that I can use for essay writing. I’d rather it be a newsletter than a blog. And I’d rather not have to pay for anything. Recs?
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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AI is killing the college essay as more professors ditch robot-written papers for in-class exams. So now even fewer students are being taught to write well (an energy intensive task!).

Students lose out, bc good writing = good thinking: a training of the brain towards structure, style & substance.
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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such exciting book mail!!! @curtisdozier.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Accused of obscenity and sued by police and Tory MPs, Eve Libertine outraged the establishment as part of Crass. Now she’s back – and she hasn’t mellowed with age
‘We never had much fun – we were angry’: Eve Libertine on life with anarcho-punk pioneers Crass
Accused of obscenity and sued by police and Tory MPs, Libertine outraged the establishment as part of Crass. Now she’s back – and she hasn’t mellowed with age
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My sister was just explaining all of this to me today. The literacy crisis has deep roots.
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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50th anniversary of this Great Lakes tragedy, the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Its fascinating, and adds to the lore, that there are still multiple freighters of the same type (some of which were with the Fitz on that night, and helped in the initial search) still plying the lakes. More below.
Folks around the Great Lakes: today is the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
“…That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early…”
youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A?...
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot (HD w/ Lyrics)
YouTube video by Zeezy
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November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Really seeing once again, it seems, that the real divide in the Democratic coalition is not left/lib/moderate or anything like that.

It's the fight/no-fight divide. And the 'fight' dems are the ones winning elections.
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Mamdani embodies a pro-Palestinian politics that truly distinguishes between the state of Israel and the Jewish people, and truly takes antisemitism seriously as its own problem. That makes him a threat to those who want to absolutely conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism, whether the ADL or WoL.
The pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime has already decided that Zohran Mamdani has sold out the pro-Palestine cause... by condemning swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn. forward.com/culture/7822...
Mamdani's first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
After someone spraypainted a swastika on a yeshiva, Zohran Mamdani condemned antisemitism. Somehow, this generated conspiracy theories.
forward.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Next week, Nov 13 at 7:00 pm EST, @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social welcomes @alybatt.bsky.social, author of Free Gifts! She will be in conversation with Nafis Hasan and Ajay Singh Chaudhar about why capitalism regards nature as free for the taking.

RSVP for this free, in-person event: buff.ly/682aXCs
November 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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This is a wonderful article exploring home, democracy, faith/no faith, in a healthy, pluralistic way. Very helpful. h/t Grace Y. Kao

religionnews.com/2025/11/03/w...
Why 'I hope she converts' is bad for Usha Vance, for love and for America
(RNS) — The skills that sustain interfaith marriages require the same virtues that sustain a pluralistic society.
religionnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future
When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…
lithub.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM