you are literally the one guy who isn't allowed to complain about this

Should Canada have won? Nah. This gold will motivate the next generations of American hockey players. It's amazing. And this stupid conservative cultural moment will die. Hockey will continue.

I was born in MI, hockey is a religion in my house. Myself and another member of my family played Hockey at a high level. The fact that a US Olympic squad, made up largely of Michiganders from the Detroit suburbs, partied with Kash Patel is as heartbreaking as it is unsurprising.

my new piece in FP: The US keeps telling people to rise up against their regimes, then leaving them to die. Hungary, Iraq, Syria...now Iran? I try to offer an explanation for this very consistent pattern. (gift link) foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/16/t...

We have a new, excellent post up by @donnie-m.bsky.social on Estonia as a space of economic experimentation in the late Soviet period www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...

Are you a graduate student? Check out the 2026 McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference Call for Papers! Abstracts are due November 28!

A little something I wrote on the role of Estonia as a "laboratory" space for experimenting with new forms of economic management in the Soviet Union, particularly in regards to the food system. Thank you @peripheralhist.bsky.social! www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...

Deadline for submissions is Nov 15, 2025. We are keen on a range of presentation, panel, workshop and art formats and welcome new ideas. In regard to panels, we prioritise transregional and global debates and dialogues For more details, see the full call ruta-association.org/conference/r...

Despite all the negative things about academia/grad school (dealing with AI, funding cuts, some people being snobs), I do think being able to travel and look at old documents in archives, museums, and libraries (and then write about it) is a pretty rad job

Are you a PhD student/ECR working on contemporary European history? If so, consider submitting to the @conteurohistory.bsky.social article prize. Deadline 12 September. I strongly encourage submissions from those working on Central/Eastern Europe & the USSR! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans. We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.

Love how this book describes Ottawa: what if like Moscow, but without all the interesting stuff?

We're tracking the number of international students whose visas have been revoked by the State Department. We've confirmed over 300 so far and there are likely many more. Get in touch if you've got information you'd like to share with us www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

insanity. but insane people create global orders too open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

Somebody could defuse this whole Greenland obsession by explaining the Mercator projection to Trump.

I am finally free from the bird app