On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇

There are a lotttt of people here for a frigid late notice protest. CPD bike cops hanging out across the street for now.

Scholars Fired/Suspended for Opposing Genocide in Palestine Featuring: Eric Cheyfitz (suspended, Cornell), Jodi Dean (reinstated, Hobart & William Smith), Maura Finkelstein (formerly, Muhlenberg), Sang Hea Kil (formerly, San Jose State), Ramsi Woodcock (suspended, U Kentucky) zoom.us/webinar/regi...

sliwa correctly understanding that mamdani ran a very traditional campaign and thus surpassing the analytical ability of 80% if people who comment on politics for a living

New Year Korean rice cake soup. Now my mom is napping, my dad is watching Zohran’s inauguration, and I’m in denial about working again by catching up on Selling Sunset. Happy new year to all except ICE, etc.

Closing out the year with this early novel by Jane Gardam, a favorite novelist, who died in April.

"Tokyo 68" mentioned in Le Monde! www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti...

RIP to an absolute legend. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Very recently stood next to Kerry Condon on a British Airways bus taking us from the gate to our plane going from Heathrow to Seattle (was told I should have asked how she got through filming F1). Had the same experience with Bill Hader at LAX, but that bus only took us to a satellite terminal.

campuses have learning opportunities, social space, entertainment, and universities ARE healthcare. multigenerational access is net social good.

Hope to commission about a dozen reviews/essays for Modern Intellectual History in 2026–especially interested in new books/essay ideas focusing on Asia, Africa and South America but open to all ideas. Do reach out if you have one: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A very incompetent selfie with Santa sitting at the Laternre restaurant in Baden Baden earlier this month. 🎄🎅🏻🎄🎅🏻

“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller) more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living” worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

Hi all: reupping my perennial call for indexing and editing clients for Spring / Summer 2026. It might be my last year doing this work, so get it while it's hot! Email at [email protected] for rate and availability. Feel free to share!

Already filled a large tote bag with novelty British Christmas potato “crisp” flavors to stun, delight, and horrify people back in the US. I found myself slight taken with turkey and stuffing flavored ones (And shill for the very lovely Pages of Hackney bookstore.)

Attention scholars: to mark the 20th anniversary of Patrick Wolfe's "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native," SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES is soliciting reflections/ critiques for a special issue on Wolfe and his influence. Details below. Please circulate widely!

Hey historians! How many of you have published something with the help of a literary agent? If you have, what did you think of the process? 🗃️

My last day on campus until next year immortalized with a bathroom selfie. Subconsciously celebrating as I realized I’m wearing Christmas colors (I promise the cardigan is green). My unruly hair is getting a haircut for the first time in 9 months next week!

At the same time, USC is paying a presumably large sum of money to OpenAI to give students access to ChatGPT we-are.usc.edu/2025/12/03/a...

tomorrow Regents gather to act on the Chancellor’s proposed devastating budget cuts It is not too late to call or email to President Gold (402-472-8636 or [email protected]) and the Board of Regents ([email protected] or 402-472-3906) to tell them to OPPOSE these cuts

Thinking of the student Mary Young who 106 years ago today 'said "shan't" under [her] breath when told to repeat poor work'.

Article title: The NYT wrote more about Harvard last year than all community colleges combined I posted three main figure from the article below www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...

In grad school a professor who had our seminar for over dinner told us about calling their child who was at Harvard early in the mornings to remind them to finish papers and study for exams, at the child's request. Only one of a number of times I made pointed eye contact with friends that night.

My mom upon seeing my first royalty check: "You know, I think it's more important that you wrote a book than whether or not you sell any copies."

Next Thursday come join us for a talk from @andrewseaton.bsky.social about his new research on coal! Comment from @dannydorling.bsky.social .

Truly a rookie mistake to not write out a plan for today and now wandering aimlessly around the house thinking seriously about adding 3 more items (scones, braised celery, and oatmeal cookies) to the menu.

Someone told me this week they were reading my now-six month old book’s intro and happy that I lived the politics of it by not being a homeowner thus bringing a bit of Zohran’s NYC to Champaign, Illinois. Anyway it is 30% off right now at Chicago’s site. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The energy I bring to Thanksgiving. Really do recommend the shawarma cauliflower though!

I'm looking for readings for well prepared first year university students on international socialism and/or anarchism before 1914. Please and thank you!

🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History. 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students! See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word... 👇👇👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...

Sharing our zine here, since we promptly ran out at #AAA2025! It's yours to print, fold, and distribute as much or as little as you like! Very proud of the collective behind this work. #anthrosky drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fold….

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

Ladies, you do not need to get pregnant or become a tradwife. You need to unionize your workplace.

Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...

As a lady cyclist I must answer the affirmative.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

The Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in U.S. Labor and Working-Class History is now open for submissions! Full details here: go.illinois.edu/UIPGutmanPrize cc: @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social

fully 50% of the most recent People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive (TM) were humanities majors (and the others didn't go to college). Which points to an ongoing crisis in higher education: why are STEM programs taking our tax dollars yet failing to give our young men critical Sexiness skills?!

CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️

The cover of this morning’s New York Post was truly the main content I was waiting for.

Excellent morning for the socialist, immigrant, naturalized US citizen who grew up around universities and are erstwhile residents of Astoria, Queens demographic. Namely, well, me.

I’m enormously proud of what the socialist left in the United States has accomplished over the past decade. We’ve gone from nowhere to everywhere, working to build a majority coalition that can defeat fascist authoritarianism by transforming everyday people’s material conditions.

Standing on a stoop in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn doing shots of Serbian plum brandy before going out for Georgian food is a top tier experience in Zohran Mamdani’s New York.

sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively

Standing on a stoop in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn doing shots of Serbian plum brandy before going out for Georgian food is a top tier experience in Zohran Mamdani’s New York.

Last month (I have no idea where time goes) this short piece I wrote about Kansas, wheatgrass, and what it might be to life a life of abundance in the face of climate change came out. Many thanks to all at @carsoncenter.bsky.social!

Yale University Press London (@yalebooks.bsky.social) are having a 50% off sale for the month of November, which is ideal for early Christmas shopping (and enables you to purchase OUR NHS for £5.99 - or 1.61 pence per page): yalebooks.co.uk