SCENE: [A doctor’s office exam room. Milton Friedman sits, in a gown, on top of the exam table, swinging his feet and squinting at a prescription slip] Friedman: Sudafed?! That’s what I’ve been saying!

Mamdani referred to a friend as 'bro' but a Free Press investigation has determined that this man is not his sibling.

Any of the homies tryna put together a @shafrhistorians.bsky.social panel for June? Ideally on MENA and/or 1970s/80s?

Y’know, when I suggested in 2021 that, among other things, maybe we needed to cut PhD lines to solve the jobs crisis, this is not what I had in mind… www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

…you know what? He’s right.

For more on the history of federal government shutdowns (8 in Reagan's two terms alone! and 14 total since 1981), their duration, and government control by party, see this excellent graphic and @cnn.com article🗃️ www.cnn.com/politics/lon...

Ahmed Jibril on the Islamic Revolution in Iran: "... we recognized its victory was a gift from heaven. Our tranquil gift and compensation for Egypt which Sadat took into the Israeli and American embrace." Jibril, Muthakaraat, 288.

…my Lenten break was longer than anticipated

Blessed Lent. See y’all later.

How I source my dissertation on relations between the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Steadfastness and Confrontation Front.

My latest appearance on LiveNOW from FOX, discussing the ceasefire in Gaza.

My latest appearance on LiveNOW from FOX, discussing the ceasefire in Gaza.

Re-upping for obvious reasons @lawfare.bsky.social

My first live TV interview!

My thoughts on Jimmy Carter’s complex legacies in the Middle East, for @time.com

My thoughts on Jimmy Carter’s complex legacies in the Middle East, for @time.com

Gonna be at @aseees.bsky.social on Thursday? Come to this panel on the USSR and the Middle East, featuring @radchenko.bsky.social, Robert Freedman, Margaret Peacock, Dmitry Asinovskiy, and me!* * our final panelist, Vassily Klimentov, unfortunately can’t be with us this week

This may be overly-optimistic, but it seems entirely possible that Trump is torching all of his political capital before he even enters office. This could hamstring him moving forward.

So uh… didn’t realize I owned Zbigniew Brzezinski’s copy of this book.

I regret to inform y’all that I am back.

While many people have rushed to assign blame for the recent assassination attempts targeting Trump, the perpetrators’ ideologies defy easy categorization. That’s not uncommon, writes @benvallison.bsky.social in this week’s Foreign Policy Essay.

It is nearly impossible to overstate how dependent on one another we are as scholars. No wo/man is an island, shoulders of giants, it takes a village, and other such platitudes exist for good reason.

Look I just wanna know if anyone ever actually saw Sa'dun Hammadi and Neil Peart in the same room.

If I looked as much like Saddam as Maduro does I would simply not invite comparison in any other respect.

Hezbollah’s increasingly advanced arsenal of precision-guided weapons could pose a severe risk to Israel if the current conflict escalates, writes @benvallison.bsky.social in this week’s Foreign Policy Essay.

Submitted proof corrections today!

This place is like the oops all nerds social network and yet so many people on here apparently never learned the distinction bw jus ad bellum and jus in bello

My latest for Inkstick! I'm somewhat skeptical of arguments for shrinking the defense budget, so I devised what I think is an argument for it that can attract folks from across the political spectrum.

When you suspect a student is playing a video game in class.