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I am extremely excited to share that my book Make Your Own Job received the 2026 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians. It is a real honor. oah.org/2026/03/26/oah…
Madeleine Baker
@madeleineebaker
Historian of science, capitalism, culture at Harvard. Senior editor @thedrift_mag, contributing writer @JewishCurrents. Author of MAKE YOUR OWN JOB. she/her
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I'm in the new issue of @commonwealmag with an essay adapting the lecture I gave at @stjohnscollege last year on Alasdair MacIntyre, Dorothy Day, Wendell Berry, 90s lo-fi music, and working with obsolete technology.
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www.commonwealmagazine.org Obsolescence as a Way of Life For Dorothy Day, Wendell Berry, and 90s lo-fi musicians, living virtuously entailed deliberately embracing obsolete technology. "If a perfectly rational lion could do game theory, we would not understand the result" - Wittgenstein
How would you answer this common Goldman Sachs interview question?View quoted post on X
Bracket the pay issue entirely and the point remains that HGSU and HAW are *both* also fighting an open shop which no private-sector union in America would accept without exhausting its strike power!! This is not difficult
The thing about the Harvard grad student strike debate is both sides are pretty unsympathetic.View quoted post on X
On the one hand, Harvard grad students are paid more than every other grad student in the US + they get to go to Harvard on top of that.
On the other hand, Harvard has $68 billion.
.@SECWAR “The philosophical doctrines of the Frankfurt School – critical theory and the corrosive apparatus of ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ – are fundamentally INCOMPATIBLE with military service and antithetical to the Constitution of the United States.”View quoted post on X
