Spent a long time in grad school reading *Les ouvriers en grève* books.openedition.org/editionsehes...

Overdue recognition. 🗃️

@yalebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves with the cover of my new book. Out in January for anyone interested.

Has anyone taught what they felt was a successful "Intro to European Intellectual History" course recently? Curious about approaches taken. 🗃️

🗃️ So very excited to host Laura Edwards for the annual Brose Lectures at the @richardscenter.bsky.social this year! The lectures, are free and open to the public. Please join us: Thursday, October 23 at 5:30pm Friday, October 24 at 5:30pm Saturday, October 25 at 11:30am

Lorenzo de' Medici, tho wounded in the assassination attempt, managed to escape & survive, and went on to fame as politician & patron of the arts Anonymous bust - in the 1961 Horizon Book of the Renaissance - today, restored to its more vibrant original appearance 4/6

One Lincoln statue to rule them all

"The Élysée is using memory politics to muffle dissent from Africans and their descendants in France." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Feast of St. Martin — Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1515

The first chapters of *Doctor Thorne* are rough going, neither lively nor interesting. And now I think Trollope did it on purpose so that the very first time Miss Thorne speaks it's like the sun breaking through the clouds, like seeing a friend's face, like life itself starting back up.

Let's be real, in a rap battle Keats has Byron hosed

Did the pursuit of racial and other forms of equity starting circa 2010 actually generate the animosity that is currently aimed at higher education? I just am not convinced that's the case. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"Being much trobled to thinck how he should get out of this dismall place, he looked about to find a way out, but could fiend none"

A fever dream from 1687.

even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites

Of course, the first Mertonian norm is communism, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ #OASPA2025 I was reading an interesting paper adjacent to Merton recently, and can't remember it now, of course, but I *am* delighted by the abstract for this paper and DECAY as an acronym: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

If you drive west and south in Kansas, at a certain point you cross a line and the roadkill goes from mainly possum to mainly armadillo.

And it has been this way for decades

for the record they also deleted the defenestration one lol

One of the all-time great films about being a spiritually broken loser

beale’s affective outburst ultimately doesn’t do anything but help the network sell ads. far from liberating anyone, his performative, reactionary anger just helps the rich get richer.

Elephant, 1637 Rembrandt Van Rijn (Albertina, Vienna)

"Soon enough, ecclesiastical practice became secular sport." harpers.org/archive/2025... via www.washingreview.com

“No greater desire exists than a wounded person’s need for another wound.” – Georges Bataille, “Guilty”

Having a wonderful time at Hopkins at the “Oratory and Rhetoric in the Generation before Cicero” conference. And met this very cool Etruscan duck decanter.

It's nice to know that he didn't just paint people like that, he really looked like that

Wordsworth: welcome to the meeting of Romantic Poets. We need to set our agenda, and I am recommending clouds, flowers, or possibly clouds shaped like flowers Percy Shelley: or the severed head of a tyrant William Blake: or thicc Satan Wordsworth: or what??? Blake: I have produced a sketch-

It appears Instructure has removed the capacity to delete old courses in Canvas. In many cases (depending on institutional settings) those course are also uneditable. But they definitely aren't stealing our IP and using it to train algorithms.

Is there anyone who would like to write an up to date piece on all the assaults on freedom of speech and the press specifically that the Trump administration has engaged in this year so far? Feels important to keep pushing these. Pitch us at writers at liberalcurrents dot com if you want to write it

This editorial is "an eructation from a bilious stomach, the vaporings of a narrow mind of a hollow-chested, shad-bellied, New England bigot."

The Board of Regents approves $11 for a speaking tube, $600 for one year of secretarial work, and the sale of a bull for $500.

Number cubes.

France delays Bayeux Tapestry transfer to UK due to strikes

The history of a place belongs to the public, it is owed to the people. This sort of shuttering is, as Nate says, one more form of dispossession.

hey bluesky, I'd be grateful if you'd read this thing I wrote lawcha.org/2025/09/15/s...

Today is La fête de la vertu the 1st of Sansculottides in the year 233. Sansculottides is the month of complementary days. Today we celebrate virtue.#JacobinDay More information on virtue

Bingham, George Caleb, 1811-1879. Jolly Flatboatmen. 1846. www.jstor.org/stable/commu...

"The university is also an institution of the people...the people must remember that...whenever effort is made to dislodge an officer or a professor because the political sentiment of the majority has undergone a change, at that moment the institution has ceased to be a university."

"My voice is the wife's voice, the screech by the rail of the stairs, They fetch my man's body up dripping and drown'd."

Stern all! the White Whale spouts thick blood!

a great show

Went to a symphony-on-the-lawn thing yesterday and am not ashamed to say that the Vivaldi summer was fun.

But I would like to hear a good reason it's "Belle epoque" beyond making Renoir an enemy.

Expedition 33 is a game about games

Thinking about the Iron Giant and then the possibility of a Ffangs the Vampire Bat movie

Panic! At the Rothko

When I try to drown my thoughts in gin I find my worst ideas know how to swim

a house down the block puts theirs up on sept 1st and leaves it up through valentine's day, changing decorations as the holiday requires. pillars of the community they are.