Bill Girard

Farewell to William E. Connolly We are very sad to learn of the death of William E. Connolly earlier this week at the age of 88. Connolly was the author of six books with Duke University Press, the subject on an edited collection…

We were very sorry to learn of the death of political theorist William E. Connolly this week. He published six books with us. Here is our appreciation.

The Handbasket 100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.

Off the top of my head:

www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email

Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology is looking for a new Editorial Team. You can apply here: docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Could you please share this call? @anthroencyclo.bsky.social @aaas.org @anthrofuentes.bsky.social @appliedanthro.bsky.social @histanthro.org @polar-journal.bsky.social

From your lips to God’s ears.

Secularism The anthropology of secularism studies how nation-states actively shape ‘religion’ as a category, institutional structure, and lived experience. It does not cast secularism as an impersonal process…

🔥🔥🔥 Hot hot hot off the press: an OEA entry on SECULARISM, written by William Girard.
🤓🤓🤓 "The anthropology of secularism explores how modern nation-states construct and manage religion."
🔎🔎🔎 Find it here: anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/secula...
#openaccess #anthropology #secularism

Secularism The anthropology of secularism studies how nation-states actively shape ‘religion’ as a category, institutional structure, and lived experience. It does not cast secularism as an impersonal process th...

The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology just published my entry on Secularism. Check it out!

Big oil spent $445m in last election cycle to influence Trump and Congress, report says Investments ‘likely to pay dividends’, analysis says, as Trump unleashes dozens of pro-fossil fuel executive actions

Just going to leave this here...

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

my sense is this: not only are trump and rubio and hegseth lying to the public about the purposes, impact, planning, etc of the attack on venezuela. they are lying to each other. they have no idea what they're doing or where this ends.

Somebody needs to write an article about the work the word “serious” does in right wing rhetoric.

A Shopkeeper's Millennium A quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millennium remains a landmark work--brilliant both as a new interpretation of the intimate conn...

If you're interested in questions of industry and labor relations, I think this is the go to book (although, a bit dated).

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This give a good "on the ground" view of the first awakening.

This is supposed to be good.

I think the sections in here are a good overview.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

looking for a good book or two on the Great Awakening(s), if anyone’s got recommendations

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Have loved your work for years. Many wonderful insights. But you’ve never been more dead on than you are here.

You’ve done such wonderful work. Will be watching to see what’s next.

Description of Larry Summer's claim that it would be "economically sound" to ship toxic waste to "Third World" countries.

In the midst of all the discussion about what a loathsome human being Larry Summers is, wanted to make sure this dimension of his loathsomeness didn't get lost.

From James Ferguson, Global Shadows, 70.

A screengrab from the NY Times, under the category "N.Y.C. Mayor's Race": What Zohran Mamdani Learned as an Africana Studies Major at Bowdoin The Democratic candidate has said his education was formative. But critics say that his degree exemplifies how colleges steep students in leftist dogma.

I honestly don't think the NY Times has been this bad in my lifetime, it's deeply shameful.

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

The huge No Kings protests, an estimated 7 million people addressing America's worst crisis since the Civil War, get a tiny headline on the New York Times homepage, with no photo.
Why does NYT think change happens only when politicians hold news conferences and not when everyday people take action?

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970

The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside

Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23

They constantly let America down

Rarely have I felt so seen. Thank you.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

The Democrats struggles to elect culturally conservative white working class voters has been an issue for at least 50 years. And yet so much of the current commentary treats it as a recent phenomenon, a matter of a few election cycles.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

Absolutely brutal.

YES! You don’t need to have A message. It’s isn’t a philosophical debate. You need messageS.

another odd piece to all this is that many people are remembering a wave of "cancel culture" firings over insufficient wokeness that never happened.