In the mail

Two things: in my e-mail, the list of the members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the 2026 class, including two linguists and two scholars of LGBTQ+ matters (I might have missed others); then through the USPS, the information booklet for this June’s California direct primary elections, with its massive list of candidates for governor (61 of them). AmAcad. The linguists are brought to you by the letter A: — Adele Goldberg (elected in Psychological Science), from Princeton — Alice Harris (elected in Literature and Language Sciences), emerita at UMass Amherst The Q+ scholars are even more varied: — George Chauncey (elected in History), from Columbia (the author, most notably of the history Gay New York) — Don Kulick (honorary membership in Anthropology and Archaeology), at Uppsala, Sweden (notable for his work on language and sexuality) California officials. For governor, the 61 primary candidates include 12 running as Republicans, 23 as Democrats (though Democrat…