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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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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Absolutely I do. For all three parts of the Commedia the editions by Robert and Jean Hollander are far and away my favorites.

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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 · 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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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

My philological bias is showing, but absolutely the fake Hebrew one

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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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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

yes, and this includes realizing that we don’t need to take seriously the work of people who are mainly working out their exvangelical daddy issues in public rather than doing serious theology for the benefit of God’s people

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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

this happens to all artists, but it's more intense for women. people want them to be tragic geniuses without real intellectual command of their artistic resources. calls worked like a dog and the idea that she wouldn't know at all times what her voice was capable of is absurd

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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 · 23/12/2024

makes perfect sense to me! jews and christians construct the problem of god very differently, so there’s no reason why this abstracted category of solutions that we call “atheism” would look remotely similar between those two frames of reference

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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 · 23/11/2024

“george mason econ gay” is a recipe for the absolute worst takes you have ever seen in your life

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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

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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

chapter 1 is just potshot after potshot at the hated swiss pervert (rousseau)

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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 · 19/11/2024

i’m fond of it for the gay stuff and also for his perfect grasp of the geography of my prep school

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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

marketing copy: we teach the great ideas and inculcate virtue through study of the classics syllabus design: i am hunting for the walter benjamin essay that will have the best chance of inducing a fugue state

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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 · 16/11/2024

in retrospect asking my (female) best friend to homecoming with a stunt involving a red rose and the Phantom soundtrack was perhaps a sign that i would very shortly no longer be asking girls on dates

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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

it's a glimpse of the primordial early 2000s when millennials roamed the land unchallenged. a time lost to memory when we chatted with FBI agents without fear

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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

(the reading in question was Ovid, so the student has excellent taste)

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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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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

the gay irish mafia is, however, a real contributing factor

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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 · 03/11/2024

i have several theologian friends who agree completely, likely for very similar reasons

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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

pamela you gotta stop. your prose too smooth, your characters too layered, your faeries too wicked. they’ll kill you

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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

people don’t believe me when i tell them that the twin cities area is in fact a wonderful place to raise a family, especially in winter. good municipal ploughing means most of the bad parts of winter are taken care of!

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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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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

have you ever read Alan Helms's "Young Man from the Provinces"? i'm sure @adriandaub.bsky.social probably has a copy somewhere; it's the memoir of a gay guy who was a kept man for years in postwar NYC and (shock!) discovered that it sucked and made him depressed and crazy!

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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

one of my theories is that queer poly people are mostly just annoying but straight poly people are unfailingly satanic

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Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

lol my response to CBT was…poor, to put it lightly. like yes, i am aware that depression causes irrational thoughts, but what is being offered here is not in any way alleviating these thoughts!

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 23/08/2023

The Myth of "Consensual" Sex

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