Stone carving by the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop for Clare College, Cambridge.
TIL (from John McWhorter) that long ago the opposite of business or busyness was busiless.
And little by little I began to wake up to the fact that I am, like everyone else in the academic humanities, really just scraping by in a ghost-career, a vestige of an older order that no one has yet worked up the courage to put out of its misery, but that really cannot continue to fulfill its purported function of shaping well-rounded citizens, when it is so fully subordinated to the primary function of the 21st-century university, which is, namely, fundraising.
“Content Creator” is a title that inadvertently tells on itself. It’s a tacit admission that the nature of the “content“ is meaningless and it exists to fill space. Might as well call yourself “Stuff Maker” or “Thing Doer.”
Two consecutive stories in my RSS feed. Turns out that if culture is being lost it’s also being found.
Another fascinating report on trends in American religion by Ruth Graham, the best religion reporter around. (Did I mention that she was my student? Only about a hundred times.)