yes, and this includes realizing that we don’t need to take seriously the work of people who are mainly working out their exvangelical daddy issues in public rather than doing serious theology for the benefit of God’s people

this happens to all artists, but it's more intense for women. people want them to be tragic geniuses without real intellectual command of their artistic resources. calls worked like a dog and the idea that she wouldn't know at all times what her voice was capable of is absurd

makes perfect sense to me! jews and christians construct the problem of god very differently, so there’s no reason why this abstracted category of solutions that we call “atheism” would look remotely similar between those two frames of reference

“george mason econ gay” is a recipe for the absolute worst takes you have ever seen in your life

chapter 1 is just potshot after potshot at the hated swiss pervert (rousseau)

i’m fond of it for the gay stuff and also for his perfect grasp of the geography of my prep school

marketing copy: we teach the great ideas and inculcate virtue through study of the classics

syllabus design: i am hunting for the walter benjamin essay that will have the best chance of inducing a fugue state

in retrospect asking my (female) best friend to homecoming with a stunt involving a red rose and the Phantom soundtrack was perhaps a sign that i would very shortly no longer be asking girls on dates

it's a glimpse of the primordial early 2000s when millennials roamed the land unchallenged. a time lost to memory when we chatted with FBI agents without fear

(the reading in question was Ovid, so the student has excellent taste)