In two areas (capitulation to Trump, and wholesale embrace of AI edtech intrusions), too many US campus leaders are failing their institutions. Now is the time for the many other stakeholders at campuses across the land to assess whether their own leaders will meet the moment, and act accordingly.

I don't mean this in a self-congratulatory way because I had nothing to do with it, but other universities and the press are deliberately ignoring the fact that our union already won a permanent injunction against terminating funds this way. "Critics" here includes federal judicial precedent.

Damn it's almost like the leadership class of elite universities likes Trump's policies

Martin MacInnes, IN ASCENSION

the Amok publications were encylopedias of extreme cultural phenomenon. peeled my eyes open

Does an #18thc messianic cult in Eastern Europe/ the Levant count as a subculture?
If so, my choice has to be Olga Tokarczuk's _The Books of Jacob_.

I bought this on publication. Still reads well, fifty years on.

Halldór Laxness, Independent People
Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Daniil Kharms, The Old Lady
Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

I could easily have chosen a dozen other equally majestic #BQT threads, but I think it’s fair to say that by the time you get through the ones linked above, your holiday shopping and your own TBR pile for 2026 will already be fully sorted. Enjoy!