Centered in his speeches, sidelined in his actions.
10.03.2026 21:58
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Centered in his speeches, sidelined in his actions.
Opinion | By killing schoolchildren en masse, we are giving Iranians the freedom and liberty that Americans have enjoyed in Littleton, Newtown, Parkland, and Uvalde.
One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
There was a documentary about putting out oil fires after the 1991 Gulf War. I don't know how much has changed in 35 years. youtu.be/XoXcgEZq8gY?...
In case you curious why the US has not been welcomed into Tehran as liberators.
Just finished @adamconover.net conversation with Reza Aslan. Really good breakdown of the US-Israeli war on Iran, its causes and likely outcomes. Give it a listen.
I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.
Last but not least is a comparative grad seminar called Barbarians, Bandits, and Other Pests: History from the Margins
Academic history colleagues, list all the different courses you teach...
Here's mine:
World to 1500
Middle East (600-1700)
Global Middle Ages
History of Iran
Intro to Historical Thought & Methods
Crusades
Central Asia & Afghanistan
History of Punk
"Golden Age" of Islamic Civ
Digital Methods
This is where @repgreglandsman.bsky.social bipartisanship leads to.
This is the type of bipartisanship one can expect from @repgreglandsman.bsky.social
New #OpenAccess book from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social:
Slavery and the Shaping of the Premodern Muslim Family
Whoever let @repgreglandsman.bsky.social do this interview must be working for @damon4congress.bsky.social. Landsman comes off as such an empty suit with no understanding of what's going on. An embarrassment.
When isn't @repgreglandsman.bsky.social joining the GOP to defend horrible policies? He loves to talk about bipartisanship, but at this point the most bipartisan thing he could do is start supporting Democratic priorities.
A LATE-BREAKING TT JOB.....
Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Toronto
Archaeology of the Levant (from south-central Türkiye to northwestern Saudi Arabia) during the Bronze and Iron Ages (3,000 to 500 BCE),
universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
This will be filling a spot that used to include the writings of Usama bin Laden.
I'll be in touch.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
I'm scheduled to teach my Crusades course in the Fall and I'm planning to start the whole thing with reading a selection of Hegseth's speeches and maybe the introduction to his book, American Crusade.
Don't forget their funding of the RSF in Sudan.
Job Announcement: Assistant Teaching Professor, Persian Studies at Georgetown
The Persian Studies Program at Georgetown University invites applications for a three-year, full-time, non-tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Teaching Professor to begin August 2026.
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It worked so well for Mohammad Zahir Shah.
To preempt the rewriting of history that will predictably happen in mainstream US media in the coming weeks, here are some key facts:
1. Israel and the United States unilaterally attacked Iran, a sovereign nation, without provocation or other lawful basis under international law. (1/11)
1/9. In 2020 Iran did try to interfere with the presidential election.
This this this! Though I'd argue the Maduro regime is still the Maduro regime, too.
He defended the murder of a lot more school children in Gaza.
"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"
Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.
In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” “Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.
When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.
