more and more I have less patience for arguing the validity of art because they want that argument, they win when you debate why art is worthwhile and you forget the conversation is art is how many people pay rent and groceries

MIT also created a course teaching French via classic novel 'La Princesse de Clèves' by Madame de Lafayette.

Site was created after Nicolas Sarkozy suggested that the study of this text was useless, causing a great uproar in France in defense of literature.

#OpenAccess #Lit #LanguageLearning

I think it is good to speak of the oppression that women endured throughout history in times when it was treated as "normal". However, the way those other thumbnails treat it is very silly and disrespectful to people's regular lives....

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Don't have anything long/narrative quite made RN (though I would like to change that...) but saluting my troops! 💜🫡

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It would also be a mistake to conflate religious institutions with non-profit institutions:

“Despite their stated missions of serving the poor, Catholic hospitals as a group serve a lower percentage of Medicaid-insured patients than do other hospitals and provide slightly less charity care.”

I found this excellent report on the hidden costs of ceding control of community health systems to religiously-run institutions with maps showing communities where they are the only option. It also lays out how this can facilitate discrimination.

communitycatalyst.org/wp-content/u...