NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social about the life and legacy of Margaret Thatcher. What is the meaning of Thatcherism in the twenty-first century? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?” this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️

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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s ep in our occasional series about momentous political anniversaries with historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social looks at the life & legacy of Margaret Thatcher 100 years on from her birth. What made Thatcher such a distinctive politician? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:

But is there a mouse worthy enough to wear it?

"Prime Minister Carney announces new measures to protect and transform Canada’s steel and lumber industries" One item on the list: "Canada will impose a global 25% tariff on targeted imported steel-derivative products such as wind towers, prefabricated buildings, fasteners, and wires."

For those who enjoy ebooks on Kindle, it seems that 'Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire' is *massively* discounted today down to $1.99 in the US and £7.99 in the UK. Which feels like a pretty good deal really. US: www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Ri... UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Wars-Ri...

Pro Publica: Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts www.propublica.org/article/kris...

I joined the IMF podcast to discuss trade’s complex historical relationship to globalization, economic crisis, imperialism, and war. www.imf.org/en/news/podc... @princetonupress.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social @shgape.bsky.social

"If business-as-usual policies worked, America would not be reliant on foreign countries for critical minerals, semiconductors and other products that are key for our national and economic security." @anaswanson.bsky.social goes deep on the new state capitalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...

Thank you to @carloscorrochano.xyz for the great questions in this interview for @eldiario.es about Pax Economica @princetonupress.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social

Thank you to @carloscorrochano.xyz for the great questions in this interview for @eldiario.es about Pax Economica @princetonupress.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social

"El libre comercio era una pieza esencial en su cosmovisión feminista de un mundo sin guerras ni escasez: había alimentos suficientes para todos, siempre que se distribuyeran libre y equitativamente."

Entrevisto en @eldiario.es a @mwpalen.bsky.social, cuyo libro «Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World» (@princetonupress.bsky.social), reconstruye cómo las izquierdas han lidiado históricamente con el libre comercio, con todos sus límites y tensiones. www.eldiario.es/internaciona...

Judge rules Trump’s DC National Guard deployment was illegal

Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols. The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”

On this important anniversary, see also Adam Smith's powerful article on Gettysburg and American history. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... As ever, we'd love to hear from authors with planned research articles on 19th C American History. Drop us a line!

"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn." #HigherEd www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Just dropped off copies of my book to all the East Berlin Kita teachers I thanked in the Acknowledgements and I’ve never been so stressed out about peer review in my life.

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!? Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.

Inspired by and grateful for the brilliant colleagues who have been fighting this case

What happens when Trump’s trade wars hit a family-owned North Carolina sawmill. I took a roadtrip recently for @davidgura.bsky.social’s @bloomberg.com Big Take podcast. www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2...

Congratulations to Dr Marc Palen @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social, following the award of the Elise M. Boulding Prize in Peace History to his book, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World (Princeton University Press, 2024). peacehistorysociety.org/phs2025/awards.php

This is bad. Some thoughts from a TAMU faculty member. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Really unnerving point from Nicole Hemmer, historian of the right: Trump's Epstein fiasco could drive MAGA to push him to go even fuller authoritarian, because the whole project is now in such serious doubt. She's so good on MAGA's future. Check out this exchange: newrepublic.com/article/2031...

Canadians are keeping up their efforts to boycott travel to the U.S. The ongoing decline in air and car travel is part of a broader shift in Canadians’ attitudes toward the U.S. amid tensions over President Trump’s tariffs and the rhetoric that many Canadians feel is condescending.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

“After the gringa left, the guards came in to beat us,” said one detainee of what occurred after a visit from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

So grateful to have received the Elise M. Boulding Prize from the Peace History Society for Pax Economica. What a tremendous honor! @princetonupress.bsky.social

Important CFP! Peace in the Age of Forever Wars @ Temple University, April 3-4, 2026. I will be there. challengingwar.com/spring-2025/

📚 News from the world of peace and economic history ☮️ Dr Marc-William Palen’s Pax 'Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World' has just received the Elise M. Boulding Prize in Peace History🏆 for groundbreaking work that rethinks how free trade once carried hopes for ending empire and war🌍

So grateful to have received the Elise M. Boulding Prize from the Peace History Society for Pax Economica. What a tremendous honor! @princetonupress.bsky.social

Our new series of short videos showcases the work of our interdisciplinary experts in HaSS Cornwall at @exeter.ac.uk . The latest features Emma Kluge on how our Environmental Humanities research and teaching reorients our historical and political narratives from the perspective of the ocean.

How Ronald Reagan is Reigniting the Canada-US Trade Conflict imperialglobalexeter.com/2025/11/10/h...

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s episode is the 1st of two on the extraordinary trial of Marshal Pétain in summer 1945 that ended up putting wartime France in the dock. David talks to historian Julian Jackson about how Pétain found himself so quickly charged with treason. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.

I’d underline: these are just members of the public blamelessly going about their working day. This could be you, if these horrible people decided to switch their focus to something else. This could be your wife, your brother, your daughter, if they decided it was in their interest to fuck with you.

our only dick cheney episode is also the only dick cheney episode you need podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Kavanaugh kidnapping.

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

(striking) #economics A new #book “Pax Economica” – Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World by @mwpalen.bsky.social Marc-William Palen @princetonupress.bsky.social Oct 28, 2025 press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

GREG IP: The Solicitor General said the tariffs are not revenue-raising. “.. Excuse me? Of course they are. .. So why was Sauer arguing otherwise? Because the Constitution assigns authority to raise revenue via tariffs and taxes to Congress ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

🧵 I discussed the tariffs oral argument with June Grasso of @bloomberglaw.com. Today on the blog, I suggest that if the Court is concerned about excessive delegation, it should hold that the emergency declarations are insufficient to support Trump's tariffs even under a deferential standard.

They're not parodies of themselves, there's no self to parody.

Pax Economica is now out in paperback! Now with a shiny new back cover. Big thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social for making this happen.

Famine has now been declared in regions of Sudan. What does it take for such a declaration to be issued?