- “The almost dreamlike movement of the story is at times closer to Ishiguro or even Kafka than your standard spy thriller. The trick is to give up trying to make too much sense of what’s going on and enjoy the ride – the sentences, the wisecracks, the atmosphere,” from LRB on Len Deighton’s spy novels.
- Harvey Mansfield’s grading: award an “ironic” grade reported to the university and a “real” grade, usually much lower, reported privately to the student.
- The moral emptiness of celebrity, via Unherd: “The [Met Gala] further reifies the hold that celebrity has over the American psyche, while conflating fashion as craft or art with fashion as spectacle.”
- A survey of Stanford students: “Conservatives [12% of respondents], ironically, are more interested in changing institutions than any other group, even so-called progressive ones.”
- Linguistic sloppiness may soon be stigmatized? Via Joshua Katz.
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