David B Hobbs

The soaring costs of public universities is a political decision. When these schools predominantly served white students, they tended to be free (UC, CCNY, etc.) But as the number of students of color has increased, funding for the public universities has decreased. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/b...

He's Not The One You Kill

have you heard the good news?

Wonder who the last Tottenham player was to appear in two Spurs wins at Stamford Bridge? Reminder, Ben Davies slander is never tolerated on this page

Tough day for Chelsea but also they deserve it for being on the forefront of basically ever single evil of modern football, the world would be better if they never existed

he’s starring in Luca Guadagnino’s gender swapped remake of Marnie

Jensen captures the joys of this palm-sized documentary, especially Mull's conscious direction of his talents to sustain a "painting career"; who else has managed to accomplish that, let alone all the other things he did so well?

2) Reminder to scholars out there who want to continue this conversation about contemporary lit in person, @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social and I are running a keyword seminar on "Depletion" at the Society of Novel Studies. CFP deadline is Nov. 15. Come join us! snsnovelgeographies.arts.ubc.ca/cfp/

lol, lmao

pretty obvious that a province that messed up an election this badly is not just ill-equipped to separate but needs an awful lot more federal intervention

OMAR

Eight years after the famous mandarin duck—or "Hot Duck"—captured the hearts and headlines of New York City in 2018, a new member of the world's most dazzling duck family has waddled onto the scene: hellgatenyc.com/theres-a-new...

MADDERS!!!

New review of *Making World Literature* out in Journal of American Studies! Such a thrill to be reviewed alongside @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @manshel.bsky.social by @groenbot.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1017/S002...

Not that I am suggesting you forego the computer telling you which animals are hard to see, but if you’d like to skip it, you can grab ANIMALS I NEVER SAW right here: flumepress.com/authors/anim...

(fitting that there’s no pic of this easily googleable) Bill Camp in Honey, Don’t

[Cameron Winter voice] I'm not gonna pay any attention during this,, faculty meeting I got more important shit to do like, check my fantasy football team out

it's true: to my great surprise I'm just now finishing the first draft of a book about my weird attachment to Sylvia Plath's Ariel (in dream series edited by dream editors). Stay tuned for more tomato soup cake

you can call anything “trendy” in Calgary

I wrote a long piece about the new Sylvia Plath books and the fantasies that still swirl around her, for the new @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/you...

Skeptical that this policy was motivated by equity. When I teach 1st-year, I always get students who are functionally illiterate, mostly Christian white kids who were homeschooled — some of this is regional, but national homeschooling rates have 2x since COVID, now representing 6% of all kids

gabbed about gabbing, Oakland's wild peacock, and my research with Berkeley English! english.berkeley.edu/news/graduat...

If you live in NYC and decide you want to join DSA just to vote for me for delegate to City Convention, please use this link: act.dsausa.org/s/5706.kmWkIW Also DM me so I can add you to my list of supporters.

I got proofs for my book NO PLACE FOR HOME: TERROR AND RACE IN LITERATURE AFTER 9/11 from @uminnpress.bsky.social! The press has also offered a 30% discount for those who pre-order before January 1st! To order, click the link in my bio.

Above all I respect the unelected and mostly undereducated members of the board of Land Grant FanDuel University to know what I need to do in my classroom

attn @sladkow.bsky.social

Lacan is back baby

I'm hoping this will lead to a massive Streisand Effect for @sethrockman.bsky.social (who wrote Scraping By).

too late, I have already depicted myself as the poised and articulate El-Sayed and you as the stunned and tilting Rogers

great episode + thorough treatment of an emergent moral panic that feels pretty easy to diagnose

“(According to unconfirmed reports, Carson is currently in discussion with New Directions about the feasibility of packaging a new prose poem in a wooden box that will contain authentic wind from Hvannadalshnúkur.)”

this “Short Talk” by Carson sums up my childhood and my entire life actually

🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.

a more honest job post would just say “we want to hire a rich person, so rich they would never really need a job”

Forgive the self-indulgence but I just got a draft of the index for my New York School book and I need to share some excerpts

very very pleased that Prime’s Reacher is filmed in Southern Ontario standing in for Georgia

Always thinking about Tobi Haslett: "certain kinds of critics [...] are invested in displaying their exhaustion with politically inflected art. And I think: What are you exhausted with? Your closest experience to agitprop is Sesame Street. Your fatigue is so unearned, I can’t stand it."

rewatching the X-Files and obv Anderson and Duchovny have ridiculous chemistry but I’m now really enjoying just how much they’re on screen — the streaming version of a show like this would pad out the cast to make up for only getting them for two days per week

Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.

This thread is inspired by a University of Utah alum who reached out after the New York Post wrote they had the highest reporting rate in the country. In Utah’s case, some crucial context is that there have been multiple high-profile murders of students in the past decade.