Wow the stuff that’s going to come out in journalists’ books five years from now instead of when we really needed to hear it is gonna be nuts
11.03.2026 16:05
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Wow the stuff that’s going to come out in journalists’ books five years from now instead of when we really needed to hear it is gonna be nuts
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But wait 🤔 if sudden obsolescence is the Zeitgeist I … am trendy again
But maybe there’s 2 of us who care about obscure socialisms & so there we are, back in the 1880s status quo ante
I spent yesterday walking around the WTC site & meditating on how much time has passed —25 years?? Shockingly after years of futile turmoil the resulting space to me looks like a coherent mix of memorial, futuristic commerce, and public art. So some things become possible/erased/rebuilt, with time 😓
Part of this year’s grueling mental realignment has been accepting that one’s scholarship is just a lonely road that might not change the world
I might be the only Gen Xer to care about obscure late 19th socialisms & that’s just the way it’s going to be. Step DOWN from those dreams of “going viral”
Oh good gravy. Burke had thoughts on a lot of things, and they were mostly, at the end of the day, about boobs. Signed, an actual eighteenth-century scholar.
The last book my Dad read before he passed away 😭😭
Just the fact that this website doesn’t suppress links makes it the best one. No matter how annoying anyone is. It’s an information powerhouse this here nerdy little website.
A collection of armed, feuding medieval city-states
Marie’s Crisis Cafe in Greenwich Village NY
Death plaque for Thomas Paine on Grove St in Greenwich Village
We like Thomas Paine on this app so here’s some Paine Content
We are governed by idiots; please enjoy some footage I took of small-clawed otters eating fish on a raft
Maybe me??
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
After 2024 we were so worried about 18-25-year old men going right wing, instead they're going to be Sandinistas
The Sirens’ Call by Chris Hayes, snatched off the top of a stack in the Barnes & Noble
This book by @chrislhayes.bsky.social is now available in paperback! 🛫
However you feel about the College Board and Accreditors, I think it’s worth observing that Heritage and the Claremont crew are going after them now. I wouldn’t say they’ve moved beyond institutions, but they’re also looking points of leverage to control the whole system.
I gave a talk about left acceleration at Durham U in 2016 😐 good times
"Even an effort to catalog and digitize the papers of Thomas Gage, a British general in the American Revolution, was guilty of “promoting inclusivity and diversity in historical research.”
+ Important update on the lawsuit fr AHA, MLA, ACLS etc. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
Get them!!!
Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh
Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,
Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below
Iran’s lack of a free media + the US press desperately self-censoring = no one knows anything, as our leaders intended
“One of the great weaknesses of our era is we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort, more like caregiving than it is like war.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
Annual petition for your thoughts & prayers, Bluesky: please send them to the senior English majors here, whose theses are due on Monday, & who will have just figured out that they will be losing an hour to the time change this weekend.
Pretty sure there's a connection between that poll where the majority of Americans say most people around them are bad people and the fact that nine out of 10 phone calls in this country are from predatory scammers
This was released during Trump I and its depiction of intelligent care was desperately appreciated
Politics Virginia moves to forbid schools from teaching that Jan. 6 was peaceful The measure appears to be the first of its kind but raises complicated questions about how far government should go in dictating how certain events are taught. Yesterday at 5:00 a.m. CT • 7 min
Happy to see this and laughing at the neutered WaPo clutching its pearls. “Oh heavens, what will ‘the government’ do next?”
Some Victorianists think Benedict is irredeemably stupid not to have remembered that kiss
