Every weekday, I post–on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn–an essay (sometimes more than one) from my archive, along with new work published that week. I realised it might make sense to compile these links at the end of every week, so that readers who missed them at the time can catch up. Here’s an archive of these posts.
You’re welcome to follow me on any of those social media platforms, but please note that I’m no longer accepting new friend requests on FB unless I’ve met you and know you personally. You can, however, still follow me there without us directly “friending” each other.
I’ve been working on a Very Big Essay that also requires me to do the kind of research I’m not used to, and I’m enjoying the process a great deal. But it has taken up more time than I thought it would and I do need to get this out the door. I’ll make it up with a couple of essays next week.
Here are links to what I posted April May 29-April 3.
Given all the discussion about campus politics and academic radicals, it seemed a good time to post this classic, “The Radical Academic Is an Extinct Species,” from 2017, in Current Affairs.
I had a lot of fun writing “Toronto: Raccoon City” in February.
There are, or were, or will be again, plans afoot to build a giant Bears stadium on Chicago’s lakefront and it is, as always, an expensive project that will cost taxpayers too much money and prove useless for the city at large (it has been stalled but I suspect they’ll try again). I was reminded, of course, of Barack Obama’s Not-A-Presidential Libray, the biggest grift from our Gentrifier in Chief. I wrote about the connections between his landgrab and the kind we see in Florida, for Current Affairs in 2022. Here’s Of Towers and Toilets: A Tale of Two Developments.
And I can’t help but keep thinking about the state of education today. Here’s “On Race, Class, and Education,” from 2022.
Here’s “On Palestine, Israel and the Failure of Liberalism, and a Quick Update.”
And for more on that subject, here’s my newer essay, “On Palestine and Liberalism.”
One of my very favourite essays, on one of my favourite cities: “New York: The Invention of an Imaginary City,” in Current Affairs.
I’ve been rewatching Schitt’s Creek as I get this work done: the episodes are mercifully short (one of the worst developments in media is the never-ending loooonnnng television episode), and beautifully and tightly written. Among my favourite scenes are the two renditions of Tina Turner’s “The Best.” The first one, where Patrick serenades David, is here and the second, where David does the same to Patrick, is here.
Happy Weekend, to all who celebrate. I’ll see you next week.
Image: Hannah Höch, Untitled, 1946.
