Henceforth, any politician who asks “how will we pay for it” shall be placed in stocks and pelted with rotten fruit.
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Henceforth, any politician who asks “how will we pay for it” shall be placed in stocks and pelted with rotten fruit.
I remember thinking 20 some years ago during the Bush administration that it could never get dumber than this. I was wrong.
I haven’t followed the Maine primary very closely, but from what I have read/heard from people supporting him the issue seems to be less of excuses for him than skepticism of the Democratic Party establishment. They think it’s a hit job in support of the party-favored geriatric candidate.
Check out this interview by Kit Brooks with Akiko Walley and me on the nature of replicas and the Shōsōin. journals.publishing.umich.edu/ars/article/...
Every democrat should be campaigning on this issue.
The latest Mac OS also sucks. Windows and Mac users are finally united in their hatred of their computers.
Excited to attend a conference in North America while continuing to avoid entering the US.
Children should never be killed.
Leaving the US is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life. Never going back.
INBOX: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social dropped a 90s sitcom-themed video endorsement of @bradlander.bsky.social, specifically calling out AIPAC's influence:
“An enjoyable enough read about the era, the writers and (of course) the townsmen themselves.” — Tony’s Reading List on THE TEXTUAL TOWNSMAN buff.ly/XiDqCRQ #BookReview #JapaneseLiterature #HistoryBooks #JLit
Why not send Koizumi to Yonaguni Island? By 2030 he will have served in every government post and need a new job title.
I try to explain this point to my students using sports analogies: the purpose of tennis practice is not that a racket gets swung X times a day. The purpose is to improve your tennis game. They nod in agreement, then have ChatGPT write their essays.
So WHERE in the world can you still do a fully funded PhD in Japan Studies?....
...oh yeah, right here! 👇
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Some interesting points here. Glad to see the author dismiss the religious difference” argument and focus on the political moment. I’d add that the anxiety about depopulation in Japan makes people more inclined to see the practical benefits of AI and less likely to see it as a threat to their jobs.
And democrats would have won the election.
To add more detail, applicants should specialize in theology or the study of Christianity. This is a tenured or tenure-track position.
One of the many cool journal covers of the Japanese Alpine Club, this one from issue 2, 1914
I've signed a contract with Princeton University Press for my next book! Tentatively "Ascendance: Mountain Climbing and Spirituality in Modern Japan," I'll look at the passage of mountaineering from England to Japan in the early 20th c, esp. on various modern spiritualities that emerged through it.
To grasp the magnitude of this plan, Auschwitz II-Birkenau was built to hold 97000 people.
Job alert!
We are looking for talented PhD researchers to write a dissertation on Benzaiten worship in modern Japan or Mazu pilgrimages in Taiwan, as part of the ERC project "Maritime Goddesses: Transnational Connections, Blue Environments, and Ritual Care in East- and Southeast Asia" (MARGO).
The theologian and historian Gary Dorrien has made it his mission to chronicle and revive the tradition of Christian democratic socialism.
His work reminds the American left of our project’s spiritual dimensions.
Congrats on the book
Come see me speak on the “Mining Pasts of the Nintendo Game Boy” at Harvard on Monday, February 23rd! Grateful to my hosts @eastasiascitech.bsky.social and @harvardusjapan.bsky.social.
During an interview at the private university where I now work, I was asked why would I (a foreigner with a degree from foreign university) apply to work in Japan. Private universities in Japan have no future, he said. It’ll be closed by the time you retire.
I think about those words often.
These are literally nazi policies.
I'd like at add a few things to this. (1) humanists have not been able to convince any political party that curiosity-driven humanities research is a public good that should be funded using tax dollars. Republicans don't believe this, but neither do Democrats.
Cardi 2028. Sign me up.
He did nazi that question coming.
