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Howell Jenkins's Collarbones
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Borsht Boi. Anti-anti-Esperantist. Gay. Bread and roses!
איך האָב מיטגעבראַכט מיט מיר דעם חבֿר, װאָס רעדט נור ענגליש און טעלוגו, אָבער װײַל איך רעד אים אויף ייִדיש אַזוי אָפֿט אין דער הײם, האָט ער פֿאַרשטאַנען אַ פּאָר װערטער :)
November 18, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Many happy returns!
November 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It is bad when anyone of any ethnicity punishes anyone for solidarity with Palestine, but this particular genre displays such a lack of humility and self-awareness
November 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM
(The original):
אינװאַזיע
אַפֿאַזיע
אָקאַזיע
בורזשואַזיע
גימנאַזיע
פֿאַנטאַזיע
אַזיע
November 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
it's such a joy! both to read the rhyming words in Yiddish and then to translate them into whimsical nonsense :)
November 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
HCN is such a great magazine
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
invasion, aphasia, occasion, the bourgeoisie, high school, fantasy, Asia
November 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Many happy returns!
November 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
That's great, and I think very much speaks to the (relative) wealth of the student body! I haven't been able to find the data myself, but according to the undergraduate student paper, only 41% of undergrads are newly eligible for free tuition

www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2025...
Hopkins will offer free tuition to undergraduates from families earning up to $200,000
On Thursday, Nov. 13, the University sent out a school-wide email announcing that Hopkins will be tuition-free for all Homewood undergraduates whose families earn up to $200,000, offering free tuition...
www.jhunewsletter.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
IDK if there's more recent data, but in 2016, fully 72% of undergrads were from the top quintile

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Economic diversity and student outcomes at Johns Hopkins
See how Johns Hopkins compares to more than 2,000 American colleges.
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM