People from all over the country have been seeking ways to support Mr. Guerrero’s family, immigration groups and the community. There are a number of verified ways to do so. 🧵

I would love for any major news outlet to put real money into an actual critical piece on how life really works on campus. There's a real news story underneath all this real estate glamor. Heck, if you need an alum to write it, like nymag apparently did, there are dozens of us.

There is a small section that mentions how none of the neutrality stuff is real but this feels like an ad. Uncritically touts rankings while also ignoring when ol boy publicly broke down over how low they were because us news pretended to care about the poor for a moment. nymag.com/intelligence...

5. Homeric Greek is syntactically quite straightforward, which contributes to the propulsive narrative excitement and vividness of the poetry. It's clear and takes you into the heart of the action and the emotions. The ancient word ἐνάργεια conveys Homer's extraordinary immersiveness and clarity.

On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.

What kind of a society do we live in where the grading policies of Duke, Harvard, and Yale are the focus of the *New York Times* but the crumbling buildings of CUNY - literally the public university of the city of the paper - merits barely any attention from the NYT? ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

during my months working with a private coach from the OpEd project I sent the NYT several Rome pieces which analyzed the suppression & dismantling of civil freedoms by political forces we’d do well to remember. But they really like publishing Glory of Rome wistful stuff like this & David Brooks.

What I will say about Gibbon is that he definitely set the stage for the amazing Victorian pop culture of wanting to show the burning of Nero’s Rome & his decadent embrace of ‘the east’ AND have that be the fall of the empire simultaneously (shhh it’s a good story blah blah centuries more blah blah)

This was already the plot of the Battlestar Galactics prequel series, Caprica. It didn’t go great.

I just spent this morning sorting through 200+ photos of my father, from birth to death, for his memorial service this coming weekend. Many feels. Here’s a photo i really like.

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

It's also available here. Please share and spread this report. Trans folks in the UK can't for fear of lawsuits by gender critical groups. drive.google.com/file/d/1UggI...

I got back on the writing horse rather than wallow in despair over the laptop’s loss. The only way out is through.

I gotta say, the summer where I’m planning my father’s memorial & simultaneously scared my editor/press is going to cancel my book contract for being so overdue was not also an ideal time for my laptop to die mid frantic write-all-the-time week and funeral-slideshow creation week. This is not great.

A really important read.

WANT

In my own work, I’ve interviewed quite a few college-educated perpetrators. They justify their violence with a lot of the phrases we’ve heard floating around this week like, “It wasn’t rape—it was just nonconsensual,” or, “Yeah, it was bad, but should it ruin a guy’s life?”

Here’s the study link. This study upended the idea that campus rape is perpetrated by a small group of sociopaths. In all reality, most rapists are just ordinary men who hold sexist views, hang out with other men who hold sexist views, and seek power and status.

According to the most rigorous studies, 10.8% of college men perpetrate at least one rape before graduation. This statistic always comes to mind when I see men in power reacting with disgust to the idea that one of their peers could face even a shred of accountability.

ELIZABETH WARREN calls on Platner to drop out: “There can be no tolerance for sexual assault… With so much at stake, the best path forward is for Graham Platner to step aside as the Democratic nominee and address these serious allegations outside this Senate race.”

And there's one system that won't let you register if your email is already in the system... for having registered to get an honorarium at a different university. Somehow universities chose a vendor for *honoraria* that can't handle people who have given a talk elsewhere. Incredible, really.

I wish people who point to timing would think about: 1) the incredible cost to the victims who speak out. They will often never escape this shadow - not least over a politician of their party whom ppl loved /1

These women who came forward are going to spend the rest of their lives being called whores and records and will be very very lucky if they can continue to find work, that's how SA survivors get treated in this country, I don't blame them for praying they never needed to talk about it

Hatred of women masquerading as “blue collar sensibilities” has massive cross-factional appeal in American politics

Do any of my Classics contacts have access to the original version of Pauly-Wissowa in print? I’m trying to track down an incomplete citation: all I have is “Lanciani RE, 131.” Should be about the casa Romuli. If you could just see if this even refers to the Real Encyclopädie I’d appreciate it!

The thing about raping someone when you were blackout drunk is that, in fact, you raped them. Your memory is irrelevant to that fact. The thing about raping someone who used to have sex with you is that, in fact, you raped them. Past consent is irrelevant to that fact.

Before Rush’s presentation, child sexual abuse cases were often dismissed or attributed to the child’s provocation or mental state. Rush’s work, alongside the feminist movement, helped society recognize the power imbalance in child-adult interactions and the lasting trauma of sexual abuse. /end

“POLITICO also spoke with a man Racicot confided in the years after the incident, & reviewed documents, including emails btw Racicot & her therapist & messages btw Racicot & an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved w Platner years before he ran for office.”

Graham Platner has been accused of sexual assault. He needs to drop out. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

She’s here! Today is the start of this Couch to 5k for reading I’ve put together! Come and join us :-D open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

A message for the class of 2026: We need more friction!

I agree! #BookSky

Every time you say “I can’t believe we are halfway through the summer already,” an academic hides under their desk in fear. Please take that comment elsewhere. Thank you 🙏

Every single publisher getting an AI payout from the LLM lawsuits should be paying it to their authors & making that author’s book open access—regardless of who own the rights. Most academic authors (ca. 80%) do not own their own publishing rights (especially first authors) & wont get checks at all.

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

So Musk sics his DOGE boys on the NEH to eviscerate humanities funding on the pretext of it incubating woke mind virus while contributing to the ongoing tilt in humanities funding toward technologically oriented projects. These are not separate incidents. They are a coherent plan. 11/n

Re: public excitement abt these papyri (on which ink deposits were revealed by means of advanced imaging & AI was used to determine probabilistically = such-and-such letters), consider what the excitement is about. How many people who circulated the news know or care about what those texts are? 9/n

jJust a side note to reveal how these fundamental skills are now sidelined to interstitial instruction. I spent several extracurricular hours with a grad student this year aiding them w paleography because they wanted to transcribe & translate (they taught themselves Latin) an unpublished text. 8/n

The whole thread but especially THIS.

Part of my long photo series titled ‘But I Never Asked for a Sibling’

Confidently ignorant is a great way to phrase it.

Nothing tells historians that someone is not a historian more than their belief that manuscripts should be handled with gloved hands.

🥂 "With a sharply critical eye through a historical lens, DATA EMPIRE brings to light the power data holds above humanity while also giving us hope to imagine what resistance against it looks like." electricliterature.com/the-most-ant...

Having a library card increases a person's attractiveness by at least 63%

💡📜 A scorched 5th-century AD copy of the Book of Genesis, one of the world’s oldest surviving illuminated Bibles, badly damaged in the 18th-century Cotton library fire, can now be read in greater detail than in living memory, thanks to new imaging techniques. open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

A note that today is the anniversary of the passing of Title IX in 1972. I am thankful for it as a former high school athlete, but also because it opened up huge doors to prosecuting sexual misconduct.

this thread. read it twice.

My neighbor made me this carrot cake with caramelized pecans and cream cheese frosting. It was incredible. Not a morsel survived the party. www.thepancakeprincess.com/carrot-cake-...

New curse tablet from Roman Lower Germania—in Greek, dating to the 2ndC CE. “Below the symbols appear the names of four enslaved people, two men with Latin names and two women with Greek names.” archaeologymag.com/2026/06/roma...