Jeff Guhin
Evelyn's dad, Ms. Sheena's husband. Asst Prof @SociologyUCLA: Theory, Religion, Schools, Culture, Ethnography. Former high school English teacher. Jesuitical.
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Bear breaks into Colorado house, plays the piano but not very well
A Colorado woman called police when she came home to find her house trashed. Then they watched the surveillance tape.
Jeff Guhin
I'm suing this bear for copyright infringement.
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Misreading Harold Bloom
Bloom, who died on Monday, at the age of eighty-nine, imagined literature as a quarrelling family, with the critic serving as a Freudian analyst who might sort out the mutilated patterns of stress and resistance.
Jeff Guhin
Thanks to Ethan Levy for drawing my attention to this measured and thoughtful reading of Bloom's work and influence.
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Trump’s Doral G-7 Self-Deal Is Worthy of Impeachment All on Its Own
It’s a brazen violation of the Constitution, and lawmakers have a duty to act.
Report: Students Who Take Latin Have Better Chance Of Summoning Demon Later In Life
CHICAGO—Saying the classical language was a practical choice for anyone interested in awakening the dead, a new report released Thursday by the University of Chicago found that students who take Latin have a better chance of summoning a demon later...
Zion Williamson Is Breathing Fire and Leveling Entire Cities
Who cares if it's only the preseason?
Jeff Guhin
.@NickGreene writing about Zion Williamson at @slate proves again why he's become one of my favorite sports writers. He's smart and hilarious and he's apparently going to jail, which kinda sucks, but at least he got in a funny joke about Zion on a jet ski.
23h
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Jeff Guhin
Give to wikipedia y'all. Then you can feel good about your rabbit hole while watching The Crown.
33h
Elijah Cummings: a righteous man who believed in a better America, a better Baltimore
With death of Cummings, Baltimore and the nation lose a big, passionate voice, a man who kept insisting, 'We are better than this.'
Jeff Guhin
Elijah Cummings: a righteous man who believed in a better America, a better Baltimore
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Elijah E. Cummings, Powerful Democrat Who Investigated Trump, Dies at 68
A son of sharecroppers, he fought tirelessly for his hometown of Baltimore and became a key figure in the impeachment investigation of President Trump.
Jeff Guhin
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
35h
How Unpredictable Work Hours Turn Families Upside Down
Shifts added or subtracted at short notice play havoc with budgets and lives, and disproportionately hurt black and Hispanic women.
Trump’s ‘China Muse’ Has an Imaginary Friend
Who is Ron Vara? He seems to exist only in the books of Peter Navarro.
The return of the repressed. On Robert N. Bellah, Norman O. Brown, and religion in human evolution
As much as Robert Bellah’s final work, Religion in Human Evolution, has been studied and dissected, no critic underlined the importance of psychoanalysis for its main argument and its theoretical fra...
Jeff Guhin
This looks great Matteo Bortolini: "The return of the repressed. On Robert N. Bellah, Norman O. Brown, and religion in human evolution"
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Catholic Social Activism
A history of Catholic social thought Many Americans assume that the Catholic Church is inherently conservative, based on its stances on abortion, contracep...
Jeff Guhin
I just discovered this really cool book by @NepstadSharon: Catholic Social Activism: Progressive Movements in the United States. It has a great chapter on Catholic environmentalism that is tapping into questions not nearly enough academic are looking at.
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An Academic Take on Sports Rivalries
Which rivalries are most intense? Can a team have more than one rival? What if the hatred isn’t returned? Two professors wanted answers.
Jeff Guhin
“The study rates the most unbalanced rivalry as Boston College-Notre Dame. It is famous enough to have earned a nickname, the Holy War. But the war is fairly one-sided, at least in terms of antipathy.”
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LeBron: Morey 'misinformed' before China tweet
LeBron James said he believes Daryl Morey "wasn't educated" before sending out a tweet in support of antigovernment protesters in Hong Kong that damaged relations between China and the NBA.
Hobby Lobby Scandal Widens as Museum of the Bible Admits Oxford Prof Sold Illicit Papyri to Green Family
The Museum of the Bible revealed today that at least 13 Biblical fragments in its collection were illicitly sold by a Oxford professor to Hobby Lobby's Green family.
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Will Yale Finally Listen to Naomi Wolf?
Thirteen years after she claimed she had been "sexually encroached" upon by Harold Bloom, a professor at Yale, the feminist author tries again. Will #MeToo help her cause?
Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89
A prolific author, he contended that literary giants like Shakespeare, Chaucer and Kafka stood above writers admired by feminists, Marxists, “multiculturalists” and others.
Jeff Guhin
I get why many hate Bloom esp. his cruel and glib dismissals of writers of color and women. Today, I found myself grateful for his many incisive readings and the effect Anxiety of Influence had on my own work. And I'm sad Bloom's heart was not bigger.
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Beyond the Calculus of Power and Position: Relationships and Theorizing in Ethnography - Iddo Tavory, 2019
Ethnography is made of relationships. Even when the observations the ethnographer writes of take place between others in the field, it is through the developmen...
Jeff Guhin
Finally getting around to Iddo Tavory's "Beyond the Calculus of Power and Position: Relationships and Theorizing in Ethnography". As usual, this is great and a must-read for making reflections on positionality more...
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Jeff Guhin
Finally getting around to Iddo Tavory's "Beyond the Calculus of Power and Position: Relationships and Theorizing in Ethnography". As usual, this is great and a must-read for making reflections on positionality more robust and theoretically generative.
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