Next semester, I'm posting my syllabus on the LMS--we're required to--but everything else is getting photocopied and handed out in class.

Dogtooth is the winner of this category for me.

Outside of philosophy, I'm mosty a fiction person; but the one bit of non-fiction that's really stuck with me is Anne Fadiman's Ex Libris. It's an utterly lovely collection of essays on a life of reading.

Imo most SLACs have lost or given up the comparative advantages they had over bigger schools:
- you don't really get more attention from a professor if they have a 4/3 load. Because all the time they "save" from a lower research load is going to other students.
- upper level classes aren't smaller

Even if we would stipulate that the *only* purpose of college is vocational training (ugh) if you think you, at 18 years old, not only know for sure what your future career will be but also know better than all the professors at a college what skills you will need for that career, why bother?

That’s absolutely gorgeous.

To be clear, my own view, for what it's worth, is that people should be supported to do whatever works best for them and the kid, taking into account all relevant considerations, not just some studies that don't take into account the realities of people's lives.

Byrne and Gorin are notorious trans-phobes.

Ah, you just haven’t read enough Alex Byrne.

That whole essay is beautiful.

Oh, I love Fan Ho! And this is my favorite!

All of the houses in the neighborhood I grew up in are getting sold to big Somali families and I think that’s so cool. I hope they get to ride their bikes around like I did.