Jacob Romanow
@jakeromanow.bsky.social
ars longa, vita brevis
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/english/faculty/jr75399
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/english/faculty/jr75399
A giant
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
A giant
Nonsense from Castro. Clearly having well-funded candidates across statewide races is a good idea, but JC could obviously run for AG in any case! The idea that having a high-profile Lieutenant Governor candidate is make-or-break for an AG race is bizarre and self-serving.
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said Friday that he wanted to team up with Allred, Talarico, O’Rourke to divide up 2026 statewide races, but that they hit an impasse over the U.S. Senate seat. bit.ly/3WWRrsU
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Nonsense from Castro. Clearly having well-funded candidates across statewide races is a good idea, but JC could obviously run for AG in any case! The idea that having a high-profile Lieutenant Governor candidate is make-or-break for an AG race is bizarre and self-serving.
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🚨🚨 Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting next week and set to approve a new policy requiring pre-approval of courses on race and gender. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom.
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
🚨🚨 Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting next week and set to approve a new policy requiring pre-approval of courses on race and gender. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom.
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It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today)
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today)
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
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In contemporary authoritarian regimes, they don’t ban dissenting voices—they have regime affiliated oligarchs buy up the big outlets and force out opposition voices.
Anyway:
Anyway:
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
In contemporary authoritarian regimes, they don’t ban dissenting voices—they have regime affiliated oligarchs buy up the big outlets and force out opposition voices.
Anyway:
Anyway:
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The attack on transgender people is not made to solve a problem.
It is fomenting bigotry to take power. Concessions are encouragement to do more attacking.
It is fomenting bigotry to take power. Concessions are encouragement to do more attacking.
November 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The attack on transgender people is not made to solve a problem.
It is fomenting bigotry to take power. Concessions are encouragement to do more attacking.
It is fomenting bigotry to take power. Concessions are encouragement to do more attacking.
In real ways I think a film better understood as an adaptation/remake of Oppenheimer than of Mary Shelley
I know you were waiting to hear my opinion on it: Frankenstein is good and you should see it.
November 1, 2025 at 3:34 AM
In real ways I think a film better understood as an adaptation/remake of Oppenheimer than of Mary Shelley
October 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Two "ideas" about universities are gaining stature today:
*universities should declare institutional neutrality.
*professors' speech is government speech (not neutral, partisan) if publicly funded.
Some individuals endorse both principles, which is logically incoherent.
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*universities should declare institutional neutrality.
*professors' speech is government speech (not neutral, partisan) if publicly funded.
Some individuals endorse both principles, which is logically incoherent.
1/
October 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Two "ideas" about universities are gaining stature today:
*universities should declare institutional neutrality.
*professors' speech is government speech (not neutral, partisan) if publicly funded.
Some individuals endorse both principles, which is logically incoherent.
1/
*universities should declare institutional neutrality.
*professors' speech is government speech (not neutral, partisan) if publicly funded.
Some individuals endorse both principles, which is logically incoherent.
1/
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There are still people who tell me Biden couldn't have done anything differently— here is something that happened over a year and a half before Oct 2023 that the Biden administration could have done differently.
U.S Army officer Col. Steve Gabavics has gone public on his participation in the Biden Administration's "investigation" into the Israeli assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh, alleging that the USG softened its conclusions about the murder of the Palestinian American journalist to please Israel.
U.S. Assessment of Israeli Shooting of Journalist Divided American Officials
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
There are still people who tell me Biden couldn't have done anything differently— here is something that happened over a year and a half before Oct 2023 that the Biden administration could have done differently.
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So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
October 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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So excited for "A Study in Empire: How We Read Now" with brilliant colleagues Olivia Lingyi Xu, Jacob Romanow, Nasser Mufti, & Meghna Sapui at #NAVSA2025
October 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
So excited for "A Study in Empire: How We Read Now" with brilliant colleagues Olivia Lingyi Xu, Jacob Romanow, Nasser Mufti, & Meghna Sapui at #NAVSA2025
Wentworth fails to catch Louisa because, in his secret heart, he wants her to die
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Wentworth fails to catch Louisa because, in his secret heart, he wants her to die
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Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
September 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
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Rooted cosmopolitanism vs rootless nationalism.
September 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Rooted cosmopolitanism vs rootless nationalism.
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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Northrop Frye: “Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is a remarkable document, but as a piece of Wordsworthian criticism nobody would give it more than about a B plus.”
September 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Northrop Frye: “Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is a remarkable document, but as a piece of Wordsworthian criticism nobody would give it more than about a B plus.”
Victorian Network's special issue "Victorian Pedagogy" is out today, including my article "The Moralist Critic and the Student Activist: A Reconsideration"!
www.victoriannetwork.org/index.php/vn...
www.victoriannetwork.org/index.php/vn...
September 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Victorian Network's special issue "Victorian Pedagogy" is out today, including my article "The Moralist Critic and the Student Activist: A Reconsideration"!
www.victoriannetwork.org/index.php/vn...
www.victoriannetwork.org/index.php/vn...
Exceptionally clear-eyed about the stakes and future of literary studies as a practical shared enterprise—as the BWWA so often has been. Worth a read.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/artic...
Project MUSE - Interview with Donelle Ruwe and Roxanne Eberle: Reflections on Thirty Years with the British Women Writers Association and the Future of Conference Organizing
muse.jhu.edu
September 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Exceptionally clear-eyed about the stakes and future of literary studies as a practical shared enterprise—as the BWWA so often has been. Worth a read.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/artic...
"The indigenization of language and culture…is irreducibly a colonial process, a radical innovation in the name of return to the origin." (Aamir Mufti)
For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?
For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...
For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...
September 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"The indigenization of language and culture…is irreducibly a colonial process, a radical innovation in the name of return to the origin." (Aamir Mufti)
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in