Sam Brody

:::scenes from a reality show about academia, the only genre that makes sense since apparently no one in Hollywood knows how to write fiction about academia:::

KIMBERLEY: I put caffeine pills in his drink. That’s why he messed up the interview. I’ve hated him ever since he wouldn’t shut up about “Judith Butler’s bad writing.” Who sucks now, Tim?

HENRY LOUIS GATES: we don’t condone drugging rival contestants on this show. But academia is a cutthroat place.

JASON STANLEY: I told myself last year, “don’t go back to the U.S. until the regime is over.” But when Skip called and asked me to do Tim’s interview, how could I say no?

TIM: I was so nervous. I’m pretty sure I messed up a few of the questions about my teaching statement. I didn’t get the job.

TIM, TO THE CAMERA: yeah, so, today was interview day and I did *not* expect SPECIAL GUESTS at my JOB INTERVIEW. I mean, JASON STANLEY? He’s like, my idol! I would have never thought he would be there!

HENRY LOUIS GATES: When it was time for Tim’s interview, we knew we had to get Jason Stanley.

Fact Check: Ben-Gvir Was NOT Killed In An Iranian Missile Strike Or In A 'Car Crash' | Lead Stories Was Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir killed in an Iranian missile strike, despite Israeli media reports that say he...

yeah I assume it’s this and I hold no hope although I always as usual hope that everyone always gets exactly what they deserve as determined by heaven and not by me

whaaaaaat

I too am out of this loop

I guess it’s encouraging that no one cares what they think anymore

I would be even happier about that if they weren’t being replaced by TikTok influencer of the week, NoticingGuy1488

that is indeed a bigger problem overall but here i'm more worried about the left being divided against itself.

Important point. Do not assume you have an obligation to Discourse when the “person” pissing you off might be a bot.

I will try to avoid smearing whole groups of “people who hold position X” based only on posts I scroll past, which seems like a best practice even if they’re NOT bots

the problem in America is that one of our two parties is full Nazi and the other one is anti-antifa

also we are about eight months away from this actually happening, I will lay odds on which new member elected in November will say it

That’s right. When we got there they would persecute us, then they would try to make our children into fascists by telling the story of how we were expelled from the Great Liberal United States and their ungrateful parents rejected the gracious hospitality of their ancestral homeland, etc.

It’s like they’re TRYING to make us targets. I think we have to assume they are, insofar as that would align with their geopolitical goals.

the truth about fascist education is that it will inevitably backfire. every single course they say they want is a poison pill. like, “the american presidency?” you sure you really want the youth to actually know what van buren got up to?

Love that Ryan from the OC is a god-tier crypto hater now. Thank you for your service sir

what will be over first: this criminal war or a full tank of gas in a 2014 Prius

a lot of us imagine that if a person like this experienced real suffering - like if they were in one of the situations they write about themselves - they would have an epiphany, and be brought to reality.

I’m not sure that’s true. I think this level of shallowness could survive a bombing

He pops up in Mejcher-Atassi’s account! The scene at the King David hotel before it was bombed was apparently very cosmopolitan, in an imperial outpost sort of way

Every single person in the picture is interesting.

Left to right: Walid Khalidi, Sally Kassab, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Rasha Salam, and Jabra Ibrahim Jabra in the garden of the Khalidis’ house on the premises of the Arab College, Jerusalem, c. 1945.

RIP Walid Khalidi, who died today at the age of 100. Founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies and author of a number of essential works in the field. Here he is in 1945 with a group of friends the historian Sonja Mejcher-Atassi has dubbed “the ecumenical circle.”

Washington Post notification: “Video of ICE shooting of Texas man raises questions about government claim”

“raises questions” is 2026 for “they lied again”

just like the old Vietnam days

It’s time to put that ‘k’ back in ‘Amerika’ folks

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

Passage cited from this story: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

“Asked about any personal connections with Tikvah, Mr. Wolfson said his wife had previously been involved with a program there, and is currently the managing director of a separate foundation established by a former Tikvah Fund chair.”

Remember last year when they canceled all the NEH grants?

The Jewish studies angle on that story was that they took all the money from actual scholars and gave it to the far-right Tikvah (who hadn’t applied).

Turns out, that was political AND corrupt! At the same time! A Trump admin specialty

‘Dirty Work’ | Nathan Thrall The Israeli writer S. Yizhar’s 1949 novella Khirbet Khizeh portrays the violent reality of the Nakba. For decades it was part of the canon of Hebrew literature. That has changed.

"After the expulsion of the inhabitants of Khirbet Khizeh, he agonizes over Zionism’s greatest contradiction—the notion that Jews have a right to return to a homeland after two thousand years, while Palestinians cannot return to actual homes after two or twenty..."

John Connelly’s book on Nostra Aetate really shows how contingent it was and how dependent on the specific individuals who worked on it.

No American need be dissuaded from disgust because we killed 175 schoolgirls in a wartime airstrike gone awry. But this isn't our worst in Iran. For those who don't remember, google Flight 655 and July 3, 1988. That was 290 innocent people. There was no war. And our president refused to apologize.

And it wasn’t even a good gotcha! The argument was bad even when it could have been based on a true fact