I truly do not understand what the American legal academy is about these days.

sigh

You're gonna hear a lot from the right-wing echo chamber about this and several other recent books "debunking" FDR'S greatness. Read this review by @rauchway.bsky.social to gird yourself with reality!

reupping this as possible lunchtime reading for the West Coast people

why not read this essay if you're on the East Coast and need something to peruse over lunch

"As a program for business recovery only, the New Deal is wanting," seems like an odd thesis to me; you're saying "why didn't this popular Democratic program do a better job of achieving Republican aims" but people do write stuff like that 🗃️

A brief remembrance of Dan Howe as a colleague 🗃️

But the Treaty of Versailles are ALREADY the Treaty of Versailles for white people.

A brief remembrance of Dan Howe as a colleague 🗃️

Just putting this here #HATM

'“I want someone to remind me”, Zadie Smith says in a nice lecture for her creative writing students, “that my consciousness has a right not to take its marching orders from Elon Musk.”'

I'll go farther: making art and theater accessible to children creates art and theater-loving adults who, in turn, support art and theater. It's so freaking healthy for a society to do this!

It’s June 30, 1954. Let’s spend the evening listening to records with Audrey Hepburn in her Manhattan apartment. 📷 Bud Fraker

Never mind, just my friend @unlawfulentries.bsky.social getting a shoutout in today's @jamellebouie.net newsletter: messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

RIP Dan Howe, a great historian of the antebellum United States 🗃️

I.F. Stone re reports on the Kent State killings: "The destructive potential of the reports comes from the fact that they have honestly and thoroughly shown that the killings were unjustified and unnecessary. . . . And yet there is not the slightest chance that anything will be done about it."

OMG. The Rector of the University of Ghent used ChatGPT for her opening speech this academic year. Journalists pointed out the hallucinated quotes (including Einstein). Now she's doesn't dare to go and get an honorary PhD in Amsterdam. There's A LOT in there. But still some *shame*, which is great.

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“endless lying about what happened from the regime and its stooges…filled me, if not quite with despair, then at least with a strong sense of depression. I suppose it has something to do with my vocation as a historian”

Hello new friends (courtesy of the ever magnanimous @themerl.bsky.social) We are the Merchant Adventurers' Hall - a medieval guild hall in York. What we lack in serious museum content we make up for in big roof energy. 👇

beware the detail-knowers

“he prefers to dance, deflect, and obfuscate, so as to better conceal the savageries of actually existing conservatism. He is much more likely to billow forth a fog of counterfactual thought experiments and seen-it-all Weltschmerz, or to press the case against the case against whatever he is for.”

mayonnaise is a delicious condiment

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but guess what for: ‘“These people should all be prosecuted someday,” Kammen says, portraying the administration’s assault on the environment as a crime against humanity. “I’m not joking. These people should be prosecuted.”’

Ask them why Falklands and British West Indies never fell under the Monroe remit

"The Monroe Doctrine was a policy born of US weakness and discarded as soon as the US became a world power" should be something that all journalists know

surely US officials conducting a law enforcement action would Mirandize an arrestee

when things are definitely fine

It’s easy in these moments to get exasperated by the UN, but the Charter does two key things that have helped define the post-1945 world: it outlaws the use of aggressive warfare as a tool for remaking international order, and it underwrites postcolonial sovereignty. US actions this week breach both

season 1 Star Trek: TOS is just too fuckin’ good

I read every post this Thor Benson guy writes. I think he's onto something

"The offer has been on the table for the last 10 days, the person said" seems like it should be higher up in the story

did he say “it’s not a blockade, it’s a quarantine”

You could have read that "This is what Trump’s “America First” means: a white America…living behind higher walls and screens, lashing out to prove its strength and then retreating again" if only you read an obscure publication like The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/posteverythi...

lol come on now

"The Monroe Doctrine was basically a justification by the United States to exercise force in Latin America. And that was renounced by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of a shift away from the idea that states could use force whenever they wanted to." 🗃️

History is just Big Globe trying to take your money.

first as tragedy then as farce. then as farce again. then farce one more time. a little more farce after that. then some farce. and then another farce and more farce after

“Rein in.” You mean “rein in.”

perils of the unqualified "this"

I bet Doug Feith is available

me, to all my early Republic historian friends on the occasion of the 250th: happy for you or, sorry that happened

people writing about the (Theodore) Roosevelt Corollary as if nothing happened to the Monroe Doctrine after that, smh

Yeah because we are still in the long 17th century 😂

Did you know? By replacing your coffee with green tea, you can lose up to 92% of what little joy you still have left in your life.

If “the GOP’s biggest donor ever built an international child porn machine” is a little too on the nose for you, let me propose that we are on history’s nose.

According to the new rules, if you and a few friends go to a defense contractor’s testing facility and you say “where are the missiles” and they don’t let you in then all federal funds for defense contractors will be frozen