Viktor Mendes
viktor-mendes.bsky.social
Viktor Mendes
@viktor-mendes.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Reposted by Viktor Mendes
Universities are the reason that America has been able to attract talent, chase breakthroughs, and respond to sudden change. Will they survive increased pressure from donors and Washington?
Will Harvard Bend or Break?
Free-speech battles and pressure from Washington threaten America’s oldest university—and the soul of higher education.
www.newyorker.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Lying in Portuguese: Fiction, Facts, and Games. Spring 2025.
December 9, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Ricardo Araújo Pereira’s critiques of identity politics—in the ‘Programa’—come from a panel that could itself be described as practicing identity politics. They are all white Portuguese men in their 50s and 60s, Benfica fans, and share a certain cultural and generational perspective.
November 24, 2024 at 5:23 PM
🌊 Who’s afraid of Ambush at Still Lake, the book and the eponymous poem? 🌊

Ambush at Still Lake

They didn’t catch us in Burnt Spoon.
They didn’t catch us in Catgut Valley,
Bigsip, Missionary Wharf, Trad Beach,
Cornice Creek, Keelova …

Caroline Bird, Ambush at Still Lake, Carcanet, 2024
November 23, 2024 at 6:22 PM