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James Matthew Wilson
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James Matthew Wilson
@JMWSPT
TFPPMA. Director of the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Saint Thomas
stthom.edu/MFA
Joined July 2015
- Replying to @christopherhaleYour own campaign video shows you wearing a mask outside. Sir, I do not think you are any of the things you say you are.
- I literally do this for a living.if conservatives care so much about returning to tradition they should be encouraging lonely and alienated young men to write hundreds of sonnets about unrequited love
- Idiocracy: a regime where the mere teaching of beautiful things is said to be in violation of the harm principle.Replying to @youdoingtoomuch and @NastiaTrixieI’m a former English major, and I strongly disagree. Shakespeare is inaccessible and alienating to the vast majority of children and, frankly, to many adults. Lit teachers have a romantic attachment to it that’s deeply detrimental to the learning of contemporary students.
- This little beauty just arrived. After fourteen (?) years of waiting, finally in print.
- I am pleased to announce the founding of a new journal of arts and letters: The Colosseum. We are open for submissions with our first semiannual issue going to press Fall 2025. colosseuminstitute.com/the-colosseum.…
- Headline: Papal biographer trolls the one bishop who has effectively followed John Paul II's call to evangelize through new media. Insists he will not be happy until all churches are empty.And the fruits? Evangelization is measured not in corporate statistics but by an increase in faith, hope and charity.
- This must be the guy all the Hillsdale graduates who convert to Catholicism talk about, when explaining why they converted.
- There's some truly bad news in academe today, so I'm just going to remind everyone that @stthomashouston started the only richly Catholic MFA program in creative writing in 2021 -- and only two hundred people showed up. It is possible to cultivate a genuine culture. It is not
- Oldest daughter's Pre-Raphaelite in sidewalk chalk . . . with rain in the forecast late tonight.
- Doctrine is nice, but could this be the moment when the Hillbilly Thomists are finally invited to play at the Vatican?Leo XIV and the future Prefect of the DDF
- Replying to @sfmcguire79I wish I had the agility to move from grift to grift like this. It is positively acrobatic.
- I've noticed journalists can't refer to Hillsdale without calling it a "conservative college." But nearly every other institution is overrun with cultural Marxism. Why don't authors feel obliged to say, "the Maoist U-M", "the Gramscian Harvard," the "Trotskyite OSU"?
