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📝 Writer. Rebuilding literary taste one book at a time. 🎨 Essays on literature, beauty, art, culture: https://t.co/XahKAlR9rK

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What happens when the SAT stops asking students to read great literature? Classrooms stop teaching it. That’s why a new test is in order. I sat down with Classic Learning Test founder Jeremy Wayne Tate to discuss the collapse of the Western canon, why elite universities have abandoned academic excellence, and whether a standardized test could be our last hope to bring great books back to the classroom.

What happens when the SAT stops asking students to read great literature? Classrooms stop teaching it. That’s why a new test is in order. I sat down with Classic Learning Test founder Jeremy Wayne Tate to discuss the collapse of the Western canon, why elite universities have abandoned academic excellence, and whether a standardized test could be our last hope to bring great books back to the classroom.

22,655 views • 3 days ago

The best grade I ever got at Columbia was for a paper arguing that Shakespeare was secretly writing about transgenderism. I wish I were kidding.

The best grade I ever got at Columbia was for a paper arguing that Shakespeare was secretly writing about transgenderism. I wish I were kidding.

210,791 views • 2 months ago

If you’ve only read Emily Wilson’s Odyssey, you’ve read one interpretation of Homer rather than Homer himself. Translation is never neutral and often inserts a translator’s own worldview into the story.

If you’ve only read Emily Wilson’s Odyssey, you’ve read one interpretation of Homer rather than Homer himself. Translation is never neutral and often inserts a translator’s own worldview into the story.

53,277 views • 26 days ago

I don’t hate Lupita as Helen of Troy for the reasons that everyone else does, but I do think she could at least do a better job of pretending that she cares about the source material.

I don’t hate Lupita as Helen of Troy for the reasons that everyone else does, but I do think she could at least do a better job of pretending that she cares about the source material.

36,091 views • 26 days ago

The easiest way to become a bestselling novelist in three easy steps: 1) Write a caricature of a conservative Christian with absolutely no depth. 2) Make sure every reader agrees with your politics. 3) Call it “literary fiction.” Congratulations!

The easiest way to become a bestselling novelist in three easy steps: 1) Write a caricature of a conservative Christian with absolutely no depth. 2) Make sure every reader agrees with your politics. 3) Call it “literary fiction.” Congratulations!

19,255 views • 1 month ago

Nolan may have gotten one of the most important aspects of Odysseus completely wrong—and it’s all because he read Emily Wilson’s terrible translation.

Nolan may have gotten one of the most important aspects of Odysseus completely wrong—and it’s all because he read Emily Wilson’s terrible translation.

16,265 views • 27 days ago

When students use ChatGPT to “translate” novels written in modern English, the problem is no longer AI itself. The problem is that they’ve been taught that reading is just an act of retrieving information rather than a transformative intellectual experience.

When students use ChatGPT to “translate” novels written in modern English, the problem is no longer AI itself. The problem is that they’ve been taught that reading is just an act of retrieving information rather than a transformative intellectual experience.

18,156 views • 1 month ago

Have you ever noticed that contemporary novels feel strangely empty? It’s because publishers stopped publishing books for readers and started publishing books for MFA students.

Have you ever noticed that contemporary novels feel strangely empty? It’s because publishers stopped publishing books for readers and started publishing books for MFA students.

33,222 views • 2 months ago

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