Courtesy | Wikimedia In modern social media parlance, the fashionable way to say “you’re wrong” is the recycled 2010 putdown “you don’t know ball.” If you can’t understand the “knowing ball” phenomenon, you probably don’t understand the draw of fantasy football to the average fan. To say it another way, if you don’t “know ball,”...
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced earlier this month that he will work with Gov. Ron DeSantis to remove all vaccine requirements for school-age children and adults. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,” Ladapo said. “Who am I as a government — or anyone else — to tell...
Robert Alt. Courtesy | Minnesota Sun Robert Alt almost died on the way down from the summit of Mount Everest in May, he told students in his lecture on Sept. 11. Many back home feared he would join the hundreds of frozen corpses scattered over the top of the mountain, Alt said. After beginning their...
Perhaps the most popular among the scores of newly viral Charlie Kirk clips is his answer when asked what he’d tell a wounded man with 30 seconds to live. “In 30 seconds you are going to meet eternal judgment, and there’s only one way that you can get bailed out of that. It’s not all...
Blum in elementary school. Courtesy | Peter Blum In this Quick Hits, Peter Blum, professor of philosophy and culture and director of sociology and social thought, talks about Stephen King, his stuffed sloth, and folklore. How do you describe what you teach? I tend to emphasize reading difficult texts published in the last two to three...