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Kevin Kilroy

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Meaning matters

People on the edges of my corner of the internet are trumpeting this poll at the moment, from the Civics and Health Institutions Project…

Jul 10

Meaning matters

Jul 10

Trust and faith in higher education

Inside Higher Ed reports today that recent pro-Palestine protests on college campuses have “further undermined public trust in higher…

Jun 27

Students in tents occupying the lawn of Vassar College in solidarity with Palestinians.

Jun 27

I’m not sure why Stewart is backing off here, but I suspect it’s because a lot of these older…

The only explanation, I think, is that Stewart, after having just defended Chappelle, doesn’t want to be lumped in with critics of Rowling…

Jan 6, 2022

Jan 6, 2022

I wonder why people use ad-blockers

I’ve been using Opera for a little while, which has a built-in ad-blocker. I recently switched to Firefox because I discovered that…

Sep 13, 2021

I wonder why people use ad-blockers

Sep 13, 2021

I’m loathe to defend anti-vaxxers, and indeed, strictly speaking, I am not going to defend those…

Of course, as the articles do point out, this isn’t what happens in I Am Legend, either — the zombies were created by a virus, not a…

Aug 10, 2021

Aug 10, 2021

Nailed it

Jul 4, 2021

Image of a Scholarcy summary that does not, in fact, nail it

Jul 4, 2021

The UK, where millions live in poverty

The BBC has an account today of the Lazarus heist, the 2018 hack of the Bangladesh bank reserve by North Korea. It’s largely worth skipping…

Jun 26, 2021

An image of the BBC News app on a cell phone

Jun 26, 2021

New issue of Barzakh Magazine out

I basically act as support staff so I periodically forget that I co-edit a literary magazine, but our most recent issue of Barzakh Magazine…

Jun 17, 2021

painting of a person rowing into a surreal distance

Jun 17, 2021

The fuck is The Daily on about

And meantime, nobody is talking about how to tax this growing wealth, how to capture the value of these huge piles of assets. Nobody is…

Jun 16, 2021

“eat the rich” written on a yellow wall

Jun 16, 2021

Back to school, back to school

I don’t disagree that we’d be better off with kids (and college students, for that matter) back in the classroom this fall, but it bothers…

Jun 11, 2021

Vials of an unspecified COVID vaccine

Jun 11, 2021

Kevin Kilroy

Kevin Kilroy

he/him/they

Poet and doctoral candidate in rhetoric and writing studies. Erstwhile drummer. Papa to two kitties.

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