news.ufl.edu/2025/05/anno... Who announces to the world that they’re a finalist for a job?! Seems rushed. As if somehow he wanted to get ahead of some other announcement. But maybe he actually believes his own comms team when it has him say that he’s going to “the nation’s most important state.”

Google is alerting “me” that “I” am giving a talk today. Phew.

The new administration's policies are designed to overwhelm by sheer quantity, but also to compound. E.g. “Extreme vetting" from Trump 1.0, but on reduced staffing. The slowdowns will be exponential, the kneecapping intentional, the underlying world view callous and self-defeating.

The American Friends of Marbach are organizing a GSA panel on free speech and the federal sponsorship of culture in Germany. Germanists: please help circulate widely and consider submitting and abstract!

PhD students and postdocs: here's a great funding opportunity to do research at the German Literary Archives. Apply by Feb 15 – and please share widely! afdlam.org/fellowships/

I was there for half of the year, and these few, searing entries aren't even the half of it.

In Germany in 1930, it was called “Präsidialkabinette,” and it was the beginning of the end.

Excited for this to be out now