Assistant Professor (Poli Sci) @CovenantCollege; @UWMadison & @patrickhenrycol alum. Grumpy about technology and writing about why
Chattanooga, TN
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I was going for a particular aesthetic for this part of my office and I think I’ve largely achieved it. The corgi was the key detail.
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When I had a chance to ask Martin McDonagh a question, I told him that students at my tiny conservative Christian school (Patrick Henry college) were obsessed with in Bruges, and I wondered if he could explain why. He said he had no earthly idea and we were weird. True, tbh.
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My kids aren’t super early readers despite our book-heavy/reading-heavy home. 5yo is getting comfortable sounding out words, 3yo knows the alphabet. But like… what would it mean for that not to be “developmentally appropriate”? Are they gonna be broken by knowing too much??
It's not developmentally appropriate for a child to learn individual letters at 2½ or 3, says Susan Neuman, a professor of childhood and literacy education at New York University
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Professor Bunn, soon to be brought up before the faculty council on charges of impiety and corrupting the youth.
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Ordinarily I love visiting students and their parents sitting in on my class, but Aristophanes isn't exactly the best recruitment material.
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ideal rate my professor review: "Professor Young left us satisfied and stupified."
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21, with my then-girlfriend (now wife) going to see Martin McDonagh speak in Asheville, NC.
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Like Vonnegut, I aspire to be a “cultivated eccentric.” I’ve got the eccentric part mostly down. Cultivation will take a few more decades.
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Maybe I should just make this the final exam in my American government course. (I'm joking, they should learn a lot more)
Could you pass the US citizenship test? Apparently, I can but not that well. It's a random 20 questions from a larger pool. Some of them are hard. I'm not even sure which ones I got wrong.
taketest.xyz/us-citizenship-…
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So there's correspondence between Vonnegut and William F. Buckley in the Yale Buckley papers, but "Access to the collection requires the written permission of Christopher T. Buckley during his lifetime, after which access is unrestricted." Uh... anyone got an email address?
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I'm starting a GoFundMe
We are pleased to announce our limited edition of Child of God by Cormac McCarthy, featuring twelve woodcuts by Barry Moser and a new afterword by John Banville.
All copies are printed letterpress.
To pre-order, visit: suntup.press/child-of-god
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Very bleak!
Wow: Of 11-12,000 undergraduate degrees at UT, only 300 were in any humanities program. That includes History and English: thedailytexan.com/2026/09/22…
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Halfway through my American Constitution class, plowing through the Life of Aemilius Paulus, our tenth Life. Student, timidly: Professor, when are we going to study America? Me, sagely: don't you understand? We ARE studying America.
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That many of the people receiving "MAID" are old or ill is absolutely not relevant to the arguments made against it, Richard. Even the "slippery slope" style arguments are still supported by the evidence. The category of "people who qualify for MAID" has expanded.
Don't believe the propaganda on MAID.
In 2021, the average recipient was 76.3 years old. Almost two-thirds had cancer, 19% had cardiovascular conditions, 12% had neurological conditions and 8% had organ failure.
This is a humane, rational program that is working about as well as any government program can possibly work.
People hate it for religious reasons, and want to force others to suffer indefinitely for no good reason.
Opposition to MAID is evil. richardhanania.com/p/canadia…
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Anyone hired to teach the American founding ought to be able to, and in fact must actively be, teaching the western tradition. I start my political thought of the American founding class with Plutarch’s life of Lycurgus.
I'm seeing job opening after job opening at university civics centers for political scientists to teach the American founding, American govt etc. No jobs at all to teach the Western tradition. Do you guys really think you can make sense of American government and civic traditions without the study of Greece, Rome, Christendom and Europe? Where do you think America came from? Mars? Alien spaceships? "Global civilization"? @MadisonProgram @UNCSCILL @osuchasecenter @CivitasInst @BradleyFdn @CivicEducation
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Tim LaHaye is best known for Left Behind, but his superior "co-authors" wrote for the Babylon Rising series, where a South African assassin with a trained killer hawk fights a college professor on Noah's Ark over a magic antediluvian age-extending box. Actually riveting stuff.
'Darwinism will be dismantled': Core drilling at the suspected site of Noah's ark has begun dlvr.it/TVcZgv
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ACADEMIC JOB ALERT ⏰ 🏫 📙@ufhamilton @UF invites applications for tenure-track and tenured faculty positions in American Government, History, Literature, and Law (AGHLL) to begin August 2027. Applicants are welcome from all relevant disciplines, including but not limited to political science, jurisprudence, constitutional studies, history, literature, religion and art history. buff.ly/d46ZdSy
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