Jack Hanson

@jackhanson.bsky.social

Associate editor at The Yale Review and lecturer at Yale. Writing about religion, literature, and culture.

A common refrain of mine: "performative" is a useful term that means nearly the opposite of how its used on social media. Hanson here does a really excellent run down of both what that looks like and why that matters. Some very choice quotes in there too for anybody who loves freedom.

Jack Hanson@jackhanson.bsky.social · 11mo ago

One of my students said “performative” the other day and I got a little wound up. phantomheresy.substack.com/p/performati...

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