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Dan Walden

@dwaldenwrites.bsky.social
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Philologist, critic, insufferable theatre queen. Assistant Prof. at the University of Tulsa

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
"It is precisely the world, understood as the social and economic structures into which we are born, through which we secure the necessities of survival and which hedge the boundaries of our social worlds, that an educational community must shut out..." damn, @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social!
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
For all the left’s reputation as a haven for intellectuals, it has failed to advance a vision of education that matches its egalitarian politics. Our essay of the week advances a more liberatory vision of education. By @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social in @thepointmag.bsky.social buff.ly/BuThbqV
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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
For @thepointmag.bsky.social I wrote one of the most personally important essays I’ve ever written. Please give it a read if you’re someone who cares about education. thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
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The Left Case for Great Books | The Point Magazine
A great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually ...
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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I was delighted to be part of this forum in The Point, writing about education and great books not only as part of the good life that those of us on the left are trying to make possible for everyone but as an invaluable way to help us become free enough to live that life.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Just so you know, this is what 13-10 felt like.
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The Wolvere was a stout carl for the nones; Ful thyc he was with adamantine bones. “The best ther is, bubb,” he wuld oft advyse, “Bot that I do, hit ys nout verry nyce.”
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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
there are people who suffered permanent brain damage from reading Wonkette in 2012
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
It’s because a lot of liberals are homophobic. Their “support” of gay and trans people is theoretical / transactional and subject to change at any time
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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
incisive, funny, and much-needed. callas could not have become spectacle were she not, first and foremost, a consummate and dedicated artist. i wish directors were interested in her artistry, but unfortunately they probably don't like how she shows them up
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Martyn Wendell Jones @martynwendell.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Will be worth making some time today or this weekend to read @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social's lovely review of David Bentley Hart's big book on mind, All Things Are Full of Gods. www.thebulwark.com/p/god-talk-d...
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God Talk
David Bentley Hart’s exploration of our deepest and oldest questions rehabilitates a form that modern thinkers typically avoid: the philosophical dialogue.
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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
yes, the miraculous is not part of the logic of history. by trying to make it such you foreclose the miraculous entirely and also abandon your ethical duties. god redeems and raises up failure, but failure means having actually really tried to do something
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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
optimist: the cup is half full pessimist: the cup is half empty philologist: Νεστορος : ε[ιμ?]ι : ευποτ[ον] : ποτεριον : ͱος δ'α<ν> τοδε π[ιε]σι : ποτερι[ο] : αυτικα κενον ͱιμερ[ος ͱαιρ]εσει : καλλιστε[φα]νο : Αφροδιτες
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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
actually a crime that jerry hadley never got to do West Side Story for real because holy shit he sings the best "Maria" i have ever heard www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_AA...
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Jerry Hadley - Maria - West Side Story
YouTube video by Virginia Abrahamse
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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
rereading mary wollstonecraft, the OG feminist killjoy, and remembering why she's so much fun. "hmm what if instead of relegating women to innocence and idiocy we allowed them to cultivate intelligence and actual virtue?"
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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
one of the perils of teaching in a great books program is that you start designing syllabi around the question "how can i make my students as insane as possible?" but you have to come up with a professional-sounding reason as well
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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
ERIC GARLAND AS NATHAN DETROIT IN “GUYS & DOLLS:” time for some dame theory
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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse(or pockets)/backpack at any given moment: 1) novel 2) book i assigned to my students 3) airpods 4) latest book by a friend 5) writing tablet
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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
absolutely no feeling of refreshment quite like having slogged through a reading, barely keeping up with what i assigned to my students amid my other responsibilities, and then hearing a student say "this was my favorite reading of the term." fountain-of-youth-level stuff
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
please don't upend your curriculum this week in order to have your students be your free therapists
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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
one of the stupidest things that we continue to do as a society is equate public disgrace with legal punishment. the fact that somebody shouldn’t be jailed or shot doesn’t mean they should keep their job or social position. social censure is not “carceral”
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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
gonna say this over and over: there is no such thing as an “AI checker.” they do not work. you are asking a machine to make a philological judgment, a thing it cannot do. you can read the essays yourself, devise better prompts, or do blue book essays. those are the choices
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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
it's also very funny because you've got all these very dour and restrictive evangelical colleges and then St. Olaf, the shining mecca of midwestern choir gays where the (insanely good) choir enjoys the kind of budget normally reserved for revenue varsity sports
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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
the ever-evolving diet and training technologies of hollywood mean that basically nobody has a realistic idea of what eating at maintenance calories looks like. no athlete looks like a movie star because movie stars on set are literally not eating enough food to live
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 23/08/2023
The Myth of "Consensual" Sex
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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 09/08/2023
i promise to be exactly as annoying on here as i was on twitter, but you gotta give me time to work back up to it
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