@colinwoodard
Director, Nationhood Lab, @PellCenter.bsky.social - Salve Regina University. Author, American Nations, American Character, Union, Republic of Pirates, and others. www.colinwoodard.com and www.nationhoodlab.org
Oh, absolutely. End game is: we all die with an unnecessarily nuclear exchange that makes the planet uninhabitable for us. (Mutually Assured Destruction theorists assumed rational actors.)
According to DOGE flunky, a documentary about the experiences of Jewish women's slave labor during the Holocaust is "inherently discriminatory." Come ON.
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
This.
Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)
This is an atrocity.
The “Jeffries” part isn’t as exciting.
The diversion tactics are kicking into very high gear.
Technically we elected him, then elected someone else, he staged a coup, the coup failed, he faced no consequences, then we elected him again after he vowed revenge on us.
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
The family and subsistence farms that still exist, all over the place. I grew up in one, surrounded by others.
2/ A pardoned terrorist and the Secretary of State walk into a bar... bsky.app/profile/domi...
The people who stole my books and those of tens of thousands of others? Yeah, they’re very principled.
Yeah, but it's not ultimately a chicken and egg problem. Farms and attendant food surpluses came first. Cities - which couldn't feed themselves - were only possible thereafter.
Okey-dokey, then.
Speaking as a historian who dabbles in geography: in the really big picture, cities are downstream from rural. If we’re bombed back to the stone (or bronze) age or, heck, even the Early US Republic, we’ll be living as rural people.
I think he's crossed this particular line several dozen times.
Damn.
Added to the growing list of institutions that will never receive a tuition check from my family.
Coming soon to a You near You.
DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."
But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."
They will just make stuff up. The bot won’t care.
The Dumb Bro Doctrine.
Midcoast Maine: someone snuck into the Barnes & Noble in Brunswick and signed these books. Might have been me. Maybe I wasn’t sneaking. They’re here, though.
As Vance is, for some reason, part of today’s discourse, I’d add his explicit blood-and-soil ethnonationalism, as I wrote about in @nytimesoped.bsky.social (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
Rhode Islanders: get your American politics and history fix in convenient, portable, fashionable book form, signed by the author no less, at your Warwick B&N:
Metro Boston West-ish: these fine, newly signed works of staggering genius await you at the B&N in Burlington. And Lobster Coasts too (not pictured.)
Hey Seacoast, NH: these signed books await you at the Newington B&N. Be the envy of your friends,
co-workers, and enemies alike.
The Antebellum South’s public intellectuals VERY MUCH gave them credit in their championing of a slaveholder’s republic.
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Idaho — a deeply Republican state — has become the latest to refuse the Trump Justice Department’s demand for unredacted statewide voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...