…we’re an anarchy-syndicalist commune!

I wish Douthat had followed up and asked Andrews what "areas of inquiry" have been "ruled out of bounds in history" because they are "too controversial" and lead historians away from "truth seeking."

Writers with more publishing chops than I have: When do you let yourself give in to the crazy-making wait for your first round of publications to get back to you and start submitting to your lower tiers of possible pubs?

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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Metaphor is not only merely dead, it’s really most sincerely dead. www.themirror.com/news/politic...

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

Oh. Wow. Look, I know ppl say dumb stuff in college, and we have to give ppl room to grow. But: 1. There's "dumb stuff" and there's <but what's 3000 executions? Stop whining>, w the latter far harder to write off as youthful indiscretion. 2. I'm not sure Douthat HAS shown signs of changing much.

Checked Threads randomly the other day and it seems as if they’ve reached the seventh circle of hell in terms of discourse

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published February)

Bookmarking to read later — haven’t read yet.

It’s deranged *and* it’s a product of buying into the maga delusion of an executive who is the law.

“It speaks well to our country,” Mr. Ellison said, “because at a moment when arguably the president won election by appealing to people’s desire to exclude, Americans are trying still to include.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...

#Incredible ! There is good evidence that Greek literacy was relatively widespread among the ancient Arabs east of Ḥawrān. Here, our #Safaitic author partially writes out the Safaitic letters in the Greek order, omitting vowels! Find more on #OCIANA: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions...

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When is Cuomo leaving for Florida?

Honestly, folks. Today's electoral results are a referendum on fascism. Take heart, peeps. It's fuel to step up and keep going!

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I'm not constantly refreshing the mayoral election returns, *you're* constantly refreshing the mayoral election returns.

Extremely niche news for medievalists: Big Bird’s given name is Abelard?!

Two weeks! Preorder issue one: amzn.to/4nTBI9h #comics #indiecomics @alexcormack.bsky.social @sarahstarlitt.bsky.social @comixology.bsky.social

This is ridiculous. “Trailing parents”—moms and dads who follow their kids to college—have become more common in the past few years, Russell Shaw writes. But they risk depriving their kids the "gift of separation” and independence. www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...

So pleased to get my book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War". @HurstPublishers publishers have done a wonderful job in producing it. Advanced copies available thru www.hurstpublishers.com/book/travels... with 25% off with code TRAVELS25. Otherwise 20 November in UK/Europe and 5 Jan for US, etc

Another reason to study Sībawayh: Not only are his linguistic descriptions completely alien to a western paradigm, but *also* what he actually describes as Arabic is extremely worth actually studying. It's much broader than the strict norms of Classical Arabic western scholars usually assume.

Trump and Musk, literally the two worst people in the country, just endorsed Cuomo. Just waiting for Stephen Miller to chime in.

If you’re registered to vote in NYC, and didn’t have an opportunity to participate in early voting, I encourage you to take the time to cast a ballot for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social tomorrow. Molly has a great explanation for why you should, so I’m just gonna point you to her.

They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue. The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point. They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.

Ah the Thiel Fecklessness Fellowship raises its head: Palantir and Thiel want employees that don’t know anything about how the world works, autocracy, or billionaires. So they hire high schoolers.

Extremely niche #medievalistproblems: Celestina seems an extremely weird name for a little girl mouse in a children’s book.

stop caring about what chuck schumer does and ask your neighbor if they need a ride to the polls tuesday my god

I remember reading a pundit’s suggestion that Trump keeps harping on insane asylums because he doesn’t know the difference between those and the act of seeking political asylum. I don’t know if that’s true but I think about it a lot.

We're delighted to hear that Body, History, Myth by Anna Lise Seastrand has been named the Winner of the @aarweb.bsky.social's Religion and the Arts Book Award! The jury calls her work a "serious, solid, significant academic achievement." Learn more about it here: hubs.ly/Q03QN0gs0

Why is the supercopa de España being played in Jeddah?

Apropos. www.whitehousehistory.org/the-lincoln-...

If I’m following the train of thought here (admittedly a big if…), there are marble statues of Lincoln, therefore the Lincoln bathroom must be marble.

My annual sharing of the 95 theses rap. m.youtube.com/watch?v=dt5A...

Dressing up as a catalogue ghost, that product of a 19th c typo that drains the time of researchers and librarians and which—after initial banishment—reappears unexpectedly elsewhere. For extra horror: the ghost entry seems to describe a source which will solve all your research problems, but alas.

Mostafa Hussein, #Hebrew #Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with #AraboIslamic Culture in Late #Ottoman and British Palestine, forthcoming in December: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... h/t @homophonous.bsky.social

This is an article that is, in all earnestness, arguing that Trump could legally have a third term if he weren’t elected to it. There’s a word that starts with D for systems where that happens and it isn’t “democracy.”

I know evangelicals don't like to hear this but evangelicizing people is harassing them. and this really underlines that.

this is an incredibly cruel and awful thing to say about your own wife in public.

The Jewish right discovering in real time that the Trumpist right, and the open bigotries it has unleashed upon the US body politic, is not in fact going to spare Jews, is quite a trip.

Want to make sure this letter arrives at the right place.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

My latest for @nytimes.com! For 40 years, paleontologists have grappled over whether a small tyrannosaur — named Nanotyrannus — was its own animal, or simply a teenage T.rex. The debate has been ... contentious. Which is why it's so fun to finally be able to say this: Folks? Nanotyrannus is real.