Jonathan Strassfeld
@jonathanstrassfeld.bsky.social
Historian, author of Inventing Philosophy's Other: Phenomenology in America, science fiction reader, birder.
https://www.jonathanstrassfeld.com
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https://www.jonathanstrassfeld.com
https://www.instagram.com/strasstrix/
Philosophy is like a box of slop chocolates
November 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Philosophy is like a box of slop chocolates
Always a good day when I can post the Hopkins monkey story
(Washington Post, 10/6/1913)
(Washington Post, 10/6/1913)
October 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Always a good day when I can post the Hopkins monkey story
(Washington Post, 10/6/1913)
(Washington Post, 10/6/1913)
Excuse you. Middlemarch is one of the funniest novels ever written, and it holds up incredibly well. Stuff like this slaps:
October 14, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Excuse you. Middlemarch is one of the funniest novels ever written, and it holds up incredibly well. Stuff like this slaps:
Hey - the world is dark, but here's a white-headed woodpecker!
October 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Hey - the world is dark, but here's a white-headed woodpecker!
Always been a dream to get a photo of one eating from one of these
June 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Always been a dream to get a photo of one eating from one of these
Revised 2nd Edition
March 22, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Revised 2nd Edition
Revised 2nd edition
March 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Revised 2nd edition
March 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Is anyone working on the Oscars-style in memorium for the rule of law yet?
March 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Is anyone working on the Oscars-style in memorium for the rule of law yet?
If you go to the Washington Post website and your browser isn't maximized, it now redirects you to their AI search tool. In fairness to the AI, I also have no good answer to this question.
March 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
If you go to the Washington Post website and your browser isn't maximized, it now redirects you to their AI search tool. In fairness to the AI, I also have no good answer to this question.
The Times: No one ever talks about the upsides to ethnic cleansing
February 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The Times: No one ever talks about the upsides to ethnic cleansing
Daily Planet "Mayor Luthor" vibes
February 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Daily Planet "Mayor Luthor" vibes
The only solution to the crisis in Humanities hiring is creating more jobs, but this hist the bullseye on the abusive demand for bespoke, multi-volume applications (90% of which will never be read) so committees down on their own work by offloading it to applicants
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
January 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The only solution to the crisis in Humanities hiring is creating more jobs, but this hist the bullseye on the abusive demand for bespoke, multi-volume applications (90% of which will never be read) so committees down on their own work by offloading it to applicants
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
Went to the beach today
December 21, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Went to the beach today
Posting another bird so I can delay my departure for the gym by a few more minutes.
December 19, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Posting another bird so I can delay my departure for the gym by a few more minutes.
Hi everyone! Here is another bird (I should be writing... shhhh)
December 18, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Hi everyone! Here is another bird (I should be writing... shhhh)
Well this is a pleasant surprise - Audubon Society just shared one of my photos!
www.instagram.com/p/DDf66LnR3-k/
www.instagram.com/p/DDf66LnR3-k/
December 13, 2024 at 6:27 AM
Well this is a pleasant surprise - Audubon Society just shared one of my photos!
www.instagram.com/p/DDf66LnR3-k/
www.instagram.com/p/DDf66LnR3-k/