I think I should spam your timelines with my fav Christmas songs

Let's start with my all time

Growing up every Christmas my father always played Jim Reeves. He did so yesterday night too. Old is gold as they say...

https://t.co/N4Byr9tXFZ
I only heard this version recently
Till this my fav was the Kenny Rogers version
But these guys just blew me away

https://t.co/NFcOI0EcPq
NGL
I have always had a crush on the violinist

https://t.co/KFqNAOqH3b
Another one of my dad's favourite
Bing

https://t.co/fUnjiz3QZ6
My mom's favourite is Boney M
So this is obviously the best version of jingle bells 😜

https://t.co/Zo7zksAClp
Martina McBride has a beautiful playlist of Christmas songs on youtube
So I am sharing the playlist

https://t.co/jD5Kno1ojK
Andrea Bocelli

Enough said

https://t.co/DI6K823x44
Another Boney M classic

https://t.co/wZxAon05lh
Susan Boyle

https://t.co/9TowQuB56O
Celine Dion

https://t.co/WC3ibr1kNm
Charlotte Church

https://t.co/7iTf4gUT2r

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I just finished Eric Adler's The Battle of the Classics, and wanted to say something about Joel Christiansen's review linked below. I am not sure what motivates the review (I speculate a bit below), but it gives a very misleading impression of the book. 1/x


The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x

Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x

The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x

It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x

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The article is, at heart, deeply weird, even essentialist. Here, for example, is the claim that proposing climate engineering is a "man" thing. Also a "man" thing: attempting to get distance from a topic, approaching it in a disinterested fashion.


Also a "man" thing—physical courage. (I guess, not quite: physical courage "co-constitutes" masculinist glaciology along with nationalism and colonialism.)


There's criticism of a New York Times article that talks about glaciology adventures, which makes a similar point.


At the heart of this chunk is the claim that glaciology excludes women because of a narrative of scientific objectivity and physical adventure. This is a strong claim! It's not enough to say, hey, sure, sounds good. Is it true?