lucky to live in Maine; reared in RVA, Charm City, Ore., Cville & NYC. Eldest of 3 sisters, 2 sons w/ @d_f_stone. Love newspapers, mags, radio & local food.
Brunswick, ME
Joined October 2008
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Laura McCandlish retweeted
The @nytimes raves: “Tess Chakkalakal’s 'A Matter of Complexion' makes an urgent case for the importance of Black artistry during racially reactive and violent times." Full review here: nytimes.com/2025/02/03/books…
Laura McCandlish retweeted
You know how you get a feeling that someone doesn’t approve of you? No matter what you do, they’re just not having it? Save yourself the hassle, some people will just never ‘get’ you, don’t let it bother you. Let them stew in their own juice.😉
Laura McCandlish retweeted
A co-taught course called The Politics of Israel and Palestine serves as a miniature academic peace process, suggesting how a university might organize for difficult subjects. nyer.cm/RY18UKS
Laura McCandlish retweeted
The number of Americans studying in China fell from nearly 15,000 a decade ago to just a few hundred. Now China wants to woo them back. Can study abroad in China bounce back? I dug into this issue in my latest newsletter chronicle.com/newsletter/lat…
Join us on 1/11/24 at 7pm ET for a productive and timely discussion on US-China student exchange. Register and learn more through the link in our bio! @IIEglobal @NAFSA
Laura McCandlish retweeted
The number of Americans studying in China fell from nearly 15,000 a decade ago to just a few hundred. Can study abroad in China come back? chronicle.com/newsletter/lat…
Laura McCandlish retweeted
Hey folks,
I’m holding an event on Monday, I thought it might interest the people that follow my online sessions, Carpet Time and the like
The idea is to get together and talk about how to be happier, to share ideas about how we deal with low mood, anxiety, disappointment etc.
Laura McCandlish retweeted
National Parks, public restrooms, even places of worship are now game for digital connection. My wife and I wanted at least one space in our lives that would be set apart, @moody writes. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
Laura McCandlish retweeted
Excellent piece by friend @SuzanneNossel in @WSJ on how campuses can center both free speech and pluralism. Similar to piece @nytdavidbrooks wrote a few days back. wsj.com/us-news/education/a-…
Laura McCandlish retweeted
If you shop at @Hannaford check out this Harvesting Good broccoli. Harvesting Good is a Good Shepherd Food Bank spin-off where the profits go to local food pantries. Broccoli is grown in Caribou, processed in Orland, & packaged in Milbridge. It’s about as Maine as it comes! 🥦
Laura McCandlish retweeted
Everyone has to do what they think is right, but to me helping Republicans win as a gesture of solidarity with Palestine does not seem like a great idea.
Republicans introduce bill to expel Palestinians from the United States zinke.house.gov/media/press-…
Laura McCandlish retweeted
Whenever I have hot chocolate I wonder why I don’t have it all the time. And it’s particularly good made with oat milk in case you are wondering. And that’s all I have to say.
Laura McCandlish retweeted
Students/profs at Columbia, Dartmouth, Stanford, Northwestern or other elite schools please share whatever institutional statements administrators issued
1. On Ukraine, mass shootings, or other tragedies
2. On recent events in Israel
Confidentiality guaranteed, email in bio
Laura McCandlish retweeted
Ibn Khaldun explaining, more than 600 years ago, how partisanship increases our likelihood to accept falsehoods (Muqaddimah, 1377).
Laura McCandlish retweeted
On the HxA Blog: "Evidence implies that Americans have overly negative misperceptions about the other side: We think they are more extreme, more hostile toward us, more supportive of violence, and more self-serving than they really are."
heterodoxacademy.org/blog/un… @d_f_stone
Laura McCandlish retweeted
PEN America responds to Elizabeth Gilbert delaying new novel: "We hope Gilbert might reconsider and we urge others to rally around the on-time publication of her book... literature and creativity must not become a casualty of war," says @SuzanneNossel. pen.org/press-release/pen-am…
Laura McCandlish retweeted
Are our political rivals as bad as we think they are?
@d_f_stone, member of our Scholar's Council, and author of Undue Hate, joins @DerateTheHate to talk about the mistakes we make about our political opponents and how they exacerbate our polarization. deratethehate.com/2023/05/17…
Laura McCandlish retweeted
"the YIMBY movement ... may be one of the most important movements in American politics today"
I agree!
nytimes.com/2023/05/16/brief…
