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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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By far the best thing about America is its universities. Not Harvard, Yale, e tutti quanti: though marvelous, they are not distinctively American-their roots reach across the ocean to Oxford, Heidelberg, and beyond. Nowhere else in the world, however, can boast such public universities. You drive for miles across a godforsaken midwestern scrubscape, pockmarked by billboards, Motel 6s, and a military parade of food chains, when-like some pedagogical mirage dreamed up by nineteenth-century English gentlemen-there appears...a library! And not just any library: at Bloomington, the University of Indiana boasts a 7.8-million-volume collection in more than nine hundred languages, housed in a magnificent double-towered mausoleum of Indiana limestone.

Nick Kapur@nickkapur.bsky.social

It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:

Unfunky In 5/4 @inunfunky5.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

"Ill Fares The Land" was sadly prophetic...