Tara McMullin

@taramcmullin

Writer, podcaster, and producer baffled by the absurdity of neoliberal capitalism. Autistic feminist. Aspiring independent scholar. Amateur baker. Host of the What Works podcast and author of a book of the same name.

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Executive Pay Is the Skeleton Key

Hamilton Nolan hamiltonnolan.com

Labor Under Capitalism

so we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter. 11 It’s a technology that will never become obsolete.

Andrew Delbanco • What Is College For?

Higher Ed Under Capitalism

And an American college is only true to itself when it opens its doors to all—rich, middling, and poor—who have the capacity to embrace the precious chance to think and reflect before life engulfs them. If we are serious about democracy, that means everyone.

Andrew Delbanco • What Is College For?

Higher Ed Under Capitalism

100 ways to share your work + life that aren’t social media — Amelia Hruby

Amelia Hruby ameliahruby.com

The Creator Economy

When metaphor invades decolonization, it kills the v ery possibility of decolonization; it recenters whiteness, it resettles theory, it extends innocence to the settler, it entertains a settler future. Decolonize (a verb) and decolonization (a noun) cannot easily be grafted onto pre -existing discourses/frame works, even if they are critical, even... See more

Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang • "Decolonization is not a metaphor"

Higher Ed Under Capitalism and Indigenous Perspectives

From “Decolonization is not a metaphor” by Eve Turk and K. Wayne Yang

Stolen Glory

Kate Manne katemanne.substack.com

Feminist Philosophy and Gaslighting

Empathy depends on a cool head as much as a warm heart | Aeon Essays

Maria Konnikova aeon.co

On Empathy

If you’ve used all of your creative powers to come up with a cure for cancer and you want to follow a playbook for the FDA approval process, by all means, do that.

But it seems as if too often, people are going through the FDA approval process in hopes that it will lead them to the cure, metaphorically speaking.

Packy McCormick • Burn the Playbooks

Disillusioned

No Redemption Arcs in Hell

Brandon blgtylr.substack.com

the art of writing

"Redemption comes from a character who has incurred a moral debt through their actions then making good on that moral debt by performing some deed or service or act of heroism that will ameliorate the bad. That seems simple enough. But in the arid secular plains of modernity and its accompanying moral relativism, what is even good? What is even bad? How can there be redemption in the absence of a functioning moral schema?"