“I love the Chanel suit she always wears to her events, like it is the superhero costume she puts on to go and be Joan Didion.”
—Alexander Chee, associate professor of English and creative writingin Longreads
April 23, 2018
“I have been told by some Anishinaabe collaborators that every plant and animal is useful to us in some way or multiple ways. It is our responsibility to figure out how they are useful.”
—Nicholas Reo, assistant professor of environmental studies and Native American studiesin CBC Radio
April 20, 2018
“Ensconced in the theologies, liturgies, and paeans of praise inherited by Christian communities over the centuries was a portrait of God who was, among many things, a conquering economist and savvy resource manager.”
“We have rushed headfirst into all of these technologies and only years later do we start thinking about the implications.”
—Hany Farid, the Albert Bradley 1915 Third Century Professor of Computer Sciencein ABC News
April 18, 2018
“You may think you are protecting yourself by keeping yourself from writing, but that’s really not protection at all. That’s just another story trying to talk you out of being yourself.”
—Alexander Chee, associate professor of English and creative writingin Poets & Writers
April 17, 2018
“Why are nerve agents so toxic? These incredibly lethal chemicals affect—essentially kill—the nerve-associated enzyme acetylcholinesterase, causing respiratory failure and death.”
—Gordon Gribble, professor of chemistryin Valley News
April 16, 2018
“First time I ever water skied with dust in my face.”
“As we learn from nature and its grand cycles of creation and destruction that extend from atoms to life to galaxies, from the old comes the new, re-energized.”
—Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophyin NPR
April 12, 2018
“All firms that use steel and don’t get a break from foreign competition in what they’re making—they’ll be worse off.”
—Emily Blanchard, associate professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Businessin Marketplace
April 11, 2018
“The advantage of the ice cores is that they show us just how unusual it is for Greenland to be melting this fast.”
—Erich Osterberg, assistant professor of earth sciencesin Truthdig
April 10, 2018
“We can study Twitter all day, but only about 12 percent of Americans are on it. It’s important for journalists and academics, but it’s not how most people get their news.”
—Brendan Nyhan, professor of governmentin The Atlantic
April 9, 2018
“I think Williams is a disastrous appointment. He was rejected by Trump as vice chair of the board and his academic work suggests he doesn’t believe there was a recession.”
—David Blanchflower, the Bruce V. Rauner 1978 Professor of Economics in Business Insider
April 6, 2018
“Governments should manage opioids the way they manage medical marijuana so all providers can get back to caring for patients.”
—Julie Kim, associate professor of pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicinein The Huffington Post
April 5, 2018
“Does it really matter to Amazon what President Trump thinks about them? Is it Amazon who has more power or is it Trump? It’s not completely clear.”
—Paul Argenti, professor of corporate communication at the Tuck School of Businessin The Washington Post
April 4, 2018
“The problem with picking a longtime Fed insider is it just amplifies the risk of groupthink, and I think groupthink has been proven to be a very serious threat at the Fed.”
“In general, scientists have not seen it as their responsibility to have a public presence, and are now paying the price.”
—Jeremy DeSilva, associate professor of anthropologyin Medium
April 2, 2018
“Effectively, it’s factory North America, and the administration is threatening to build a wall in the middle of the factory.”
—Emily Blanchard, associate professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Businessin The New York Times
March 30, 2018
“Globally, life expectancy is on the rise and both child and maternal mortality have been halved. Yet climate change threatens to undermine these gains.”
—Chelsey Kivland, assistant professor of anthropologyin WAMC
March 29, 2018
“While the Chinese would prefer that North Korea not have nuclear weapons, their greatest fear is regime collapse.”