📜 CFP | Tyranny in Political Thought, Legal Culture & Image in the Renaissance World, ca. 1300–1700. Multiple panels at #RSA2027, sponsored by the RSA Discipline Representative for Legal & Political Thought. Selected papers will be invited to contribute to a co-edited volume.

📜 CFP | Anti-Tyranny in Political Thought, Legal Culture & Image in the Renaissance World, ca. 1300–1700. Multiple panels at #RSA2027, sponsored by the RSA Discipline Representative for Legal & Political Thought. Selected papers will be invited to contribute to a co-edited volume.

Call for Papers: Renaissance Society of America 2027. Please share widely! Abstracts are invited from all disciplines and career stages. Tyranny in Political Thought, Legal Culture, and Image in the Renaissance World, ca. 1300–1700 www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

Call for Papers: Renaissance Society of America 2027. Please share widely! Abstracts are invited from all disciplines and career stages. Anti-Tyranny in Political Thought, Legal Culture, and Image in the Renaissance World, ca. 1300–1700: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

Our special issue #30.1-2, "Reflections on the Global Early Modern," is now available online! It opens with an introduction by Zoltán Biedermann, Giancarlo Casale, and Molly Warsh, "How Early? How Modern? Reflections on the Global Early Modern (Part 1)." brill.com/view/journal...

It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. (1984/4)

The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. (1984/3)

Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. (1984;2)

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Check this amazing collection of essays, especially by my brilliant co-editor! There’s one the state of nature in there worth checking out, too. 🙂

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

#booksky #writingcommunity

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings

CFP for ⚡ Lightning Talk Panel: The Rights of War and Peace 📍 2026 RSA Annual Meeting (Feb 19–21, 2026). From the revival of just war theory to the evolution of diplomatic norms, Renaissance thinkers and institutions engaged deeply with the question of how conflict could be managed...

📢 CFP: The Intersections & Influences of Legal and Political Authority in the European Renaissance Seeking papers on the dynamic interplay between legal & political authority during the Renaissance (1300-1700) @ the 2026 RSA Annual Meeting!

As a member of the International Advisory Board of LUCK, Lund's Centre for the History of Knowledge, I recommend this job offer: an Assistant Professor at the Department of History devoted to work within a Global History of Knowledge. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #skystorians #histknow

Coming soon! www.routledge.com/Framing-Devi...

Consumer sentiment is now lower than it was during the Great Recession and the second lowest reading since 1952. The guy who inherited hundreds of millions from his father and squandered it now inherited an economy that was the envy of the world and squandered it.

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

This may be the most important thing he's said if only because it's very hard for people to admit they were wrong and seeing someone else do it makes it so much easier

Karoline Leavitt has the boundless self-confidence of someone unaware of and disinterested in reality.

I'm sorry to be a broken record, but this is exactly what we warned about during the 23 years (so far) of rights violations at Guantanamo Bay.

Protesters are out in Budapest, Hungary today demanding the resignation of pro-Putin Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Love it!

A little bit of Cicero for the weekend.

A very happy Ides of March to all the dictators and would-be dictators out there.

Woman next to me at Hamlet: ‘There’s a LOT of famous quotes in this, aren’t there?!’

Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.

Years ago I argued that the Research Excellence Framework (RAE then) does more harm than good and should be replaced (at least in the humanities) with equal research funding for everyone who meets a threshold for being research active. Have not changed my mind. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

With an uptick in workplace surveillance, here’s what U.S. federal employees should know to keep their comms safe, write @hypervisible.bsky.social and @bostonjoan.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/108295/us-fe...

Fixed it.

An apt moment for a remarkable piece of journalism, documenting Russia’s seemingly systematic murder of Ukrainian PoWs. (By @christopherjm.ft.com @joesinft.ft.com & the visual investigations team) on.ft.com/4gLNn61

Reminder: Anyone who enabled Trump's lies about his ties to Putin should take that shame to their grave

The last time I remember someone being called the king of New York it was John Gotti and he died in prison, so, you know, fingers crossed.

Breaking: The Federalist Society quickly reboots as the Royalist Society.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS BY WOMEN HISTORIANS: Political Nostalgias Volume 2 - the modern and contemporary world. 🗃️ Please share with your networks. Any questions - email me!

The message: collaborators are either fools or cowards.

I spoke with @npr.org at length today in an honest conversation about the dangers of our current crisis. If you missed it live you can listen here the1a.org/segments/the...

The 8th grader who led this protest and her classmates are patriots and role models for the rest of us. Hegseth’s visit to U.S. base in Germany met with student walkout www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I couldn’t make it to Columbus for today’s hearing - ironically, we were covering free speech in universities in Con Law at the same time - but here’s my written testimony on why I believe SB1 would be a dangerous blow to academic freedom and higher education in Ohio.

This was a great project to participate in. So happy to see the fully open access book published!

If you want to know how much money your state gets from the #NIH, here you go. Of course, the money for red states comes from blue states' taxes. #academicsky #stem #medicine #science #cancer #Alzheimers #diabetes #highered #universities www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

RIP. Always begin my seminar on Conspiracy Theories with The Formation of a Persecuting Society.

“Inventing the Renaissance” is a history of histories of this (not so) golden age. Much of making history is simply adding new POVs to the braid as historians ask new & more diverse questions w/ each generation. I hope you’ll enjoy my effort to show the process at work! 25/25 https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS