I am embarrassed, as someone who has also written for the Dispatch, that this was published at the same place and at the same time annoyed that, it being the start of the semester, I simply don't have time to write a full response. /end
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aug 13, 2025, 6:06 pm • 5 0 • view
I think right now to answer the question he asks in that paragraph is a resounding "Yes, and also fuck you." Speaking as someone who does cancer research for a living, it's not hard to see the societal value of the humanities, especially for the price tag. You just have to get off your high horse.
aug 13, 2025, 6:13 pm • 26 1 • view
Also without a decent humanities foundation for ugrads and grads you end up with all of STEM looking like computer science is now: almost no one understanding how to run a study, especially with human subjects, and mostly in the service of private industry instead of science
aug 14, 2025, 11:51 am • 11 1 • view
You end up with the kind of soulless dipshits like the DOGE boys, who hubristicly destroy all that is good in the world. Wholly incapable of understanding what the purpose is of technological progress. And millions will suffer death and despair because of them. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...
aug 14, 2025, 12:53 pm • 8 1 • view
I understand. There was a time when I subscribed to both The Bulwark and the The Dispatch and, uh, now I only subscribe to one.
aug 13, 2025, 5:58 pm • 4 0 • view