If this is something the community needs, I am happy to host it on the CaMP anthropology blog (of course, it would have to be blogposts).

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u...

I would happily be a guest speaker in your class if you wanted to add a bit of anthropological spice to such a great mix

I might teach Caitrin Lynch's short piece alongside Akrich's article: anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/anthro-a...

or maybe something from Caitrin's Retirement on the Line book -- aging and workplaces might be interesting

I have been wondering where all the claims of election fraud went. Why does fraud only exist when you lose?

Someone already mentioned it, but What's Now with Trevor Noah is pretty great. And I also like Jon Stewart's podcast

That is so right! I even wrote an article about how it is a bullshit genre machine, really good at producing the bullshit genres that make so many of our jobs into bullshit jobs

Our mouths are filled with other people's words. (and even this is a paraphrase of Bauman paraphrasing Bakhtin)

But do you think that our ideas are always also other people's ideas?

I do not create extra credit!
I do not create them on Canvas.
I do not create them in Kansas.
I do not create them here or there.
I do not create them anywhere.

I am darkly fascinated by the ways in which people seem to long for a Protestant reformation in relationship to scientific expertise (scientists are very much treated as Catholic priests were during Reformation)