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Thomas Williams

New York

Staff Writer at The Atlantic

Staff writer: @TheAtlantic. Faculty: @BardCollege. Trustee: @AmericanAcademy. Fellow: @GuggFellows, @AEI. Representation: @APBspeakers, Wylie. Next 📖: @AAKnopf

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Articles

  • Harvard Literally Can’t Comply

    1 week ago | theatlantic.com | Thomas Williams

    On Friday, the Trump administration insisted that Harvard comply with an updated litany of demands or risk losing billions in federal funding and grants. Ostensibly, the administration is trying to force the university to uphold civil-rights law, but it is obviously attempting to bring Harvard to heel as part of an ongoing effort to subdue institutions that could, in some shape or form, oppose President Donald Trump’s agenda.

  • Deteriorating Jewel

    1 month ago | independent.com | Thomas Williams

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  • Meet the Strictest Headmistress in Britain

    1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Thomas Williams

    The main attraction in the Wembley neighborhood of northwest London is the eponymous football stadium where the England national team hosts its matches. But just half a mile away, situated in an almost aggressively unbeautified six-story office block, you’ll find an even more impressive repository of human excellence. The Michaela Community School is a “free school.” Like charters in America, these schools aim to provide more pedagogical options to poor and marginalized communities.

  • Virtue Signaling Is Out. Vice Signaling Is In.

    2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Thomas Williams

    Over the weekend, the artist and entrepreneur Kanye West, now known as Ye, let loose a blitzkrieg of appalling screeds to his 33 million followers on X. “IM A NAZI,” he proclaimed.

  • The Unintentionally Hilarious Files of England’s Royal Theater Censors

    2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Thomas Williams

    Listen1.0x0:0018:10Listen to more stories on harkSeveral stories below the British Library’s Magna Carta room, alongside a rumbling line of the London Underground, is a brightly lit labyrinth of rare and historic items. Past a series of antique rifles chained to a wall, past an intricate system of conveyor belts whisking books to the surface, the library stores an enormous collection of plays, manuscripts, and letters.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams
Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill
11 Apr 25

People on here will disagree about anything 🤣

PepeMimi
PepeMimi @PepeMimi5

@thomaschattwill What does spending money have to do with dog ears? People who highlight/underline books are the worst.

Thomas Chatterton Williams
Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill
11 Apr 25

Some of the best advice I ever received was to underline books promiscuously but to exercise extreme parsimoniousness when it comes to dog-earing pages.

Thomas Chatterton Williams
Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill
11 Apr 25

RT @CaitlinPacific: @thomaschattwill 2 lbs scallops 8 T butter 2 cloves garlic Fifth of gin Pour martinis into guests until they're cross…