Commemorating two hundred and fifty years to the day since....Capt. Nathaniel Smith inventoried the cannons at Fort Whetstone and Fells Point

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family friend joked that Thomas Jefferson must be smiling down on the fireworks tonight and I immediately retorted that he's in hell

queued a special edition of the newsletter for tomorrow on this very subject; add your email to get it bright and early in the morning buttondown.com/anotherway

Take a book like Edda Fields-Black's Combee, a Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Harriet Tubman's Civil War heroism. This goes in the "glory" column, right? Oh it doesn't? And that's about all you need to know about this bad-faith dichotomy

to mark the 250th i wrote about the ways that black americans did vital work to invest the declaration of independence with the universalism and egalitarianism that we now see as its core promise. (gift link)

It’s July 1st, which means that THE CENTRAL FIRE OF THE IROQUOIS, is available for preorder from Yale University Press. Publication date is September 29.

to reduce xenophobia to an unconquerable and acceptable feature of "human psychology" is a total capitulation. I don't know what Vivek Chibber is thinking, but "until I saw what's unfolding" reads to me as falling for right-wing propaganda

moving my chibber critique timeline from eventually to soon

wondering if my great great grandfather's offer of the governorship of Alaska is still open (he declined, too cold)

one of the original sins of The Founders™ is not believing enough in democracy. from the electoral college to the Senate, the constitutional mechanisms meant to protect against a tyranny of the majority have enabled a tyranny of the minority

prewrote my newsletter issue for the fourth of July, I sure hope nothing happens in the next six days that's relevant

Ruling against TPS for Haitians, the Trump justices on the Supreme Court have set a new impossible standard for proving discrimination against non-whites: if there is any other reason *in addition* to the racism, the racism doesn’t count www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"Congestion pricing already exists in Boston. We just pay it in hours, not dollars." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/25/o...

On tomorrow! Go register if you want to talk about the real nature of money with co-author @jwmason.bsky.social + me and @70sbotchan.bsky.social and other readers

???? you can do that ????

"Yes, and"-ing: This fan also couldn't watch in Vancouver or Toronto bc Canada suspended (w/o notice) travel docs for people in/from the DRC, South Sudan, and Uganda. This has led to issues for people travelling to Canada, and has (reasonably!) stressed people in Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

getting reddit ads for a short SpaceX ETF

with a Democratic governor and legislature, UConn’s “revenue from state block grants has dropped by half over the past decade.” it will not shock you that the workloads of faculty are going up! www.chronicle.com/liveblog/her...

the time has come buttondown.com/anotherway/a...

I don't have a clever thing to say here I just find this upsetting. not more than all the actually substantive horrible things so much as an encapsulation of them, somehow

going to a friend's rehearsal dinner and our outfits do not match. my wife's outfit is kind of 1970s and mine is roughly "third-class passenger who died on the Titanic"

lol! knocking doors rocks. it sucks at first but then you realize it's just an RPG. you're grinding for XP. you're exploring new areas. you're leveling up. sometimes you even find treasure.

the time has come buttondown.com/anotherway/a...

There are people who support a two-state solution the way that Frederick Douglas, Thaddeus Stevens, and William H. Seward supported ending slavery, and then there are people who support a two-state solution in the sense that Thomas Jefferson believed in ending slavery.

The amount of human suffering, injury, and illness that has been avoided by the advent of hormonal contraception is staggering; the amount of human potential, talent, and innovation that it has unleashed should make you weep with gratitude.

they are onto us, this has all been the world's most elaborate plot to make tenure-track employment real again

-Best summer books of 2026, Financial Times -one of Lit Hubs top 10 nonfiction reads for May -"helps to show us another way" - the Spectator -features numerous weird guys -beautiful cover that will look great on your shelf

it is done, and it won't be too long before you can all read ENEMIES OF ORDER: LABOR AND POWER AT THE ATLANTIC DOCKSIDE

jonathan mayhew would have done great in the era of podcasts and newsletters

Good post IMO, for most commentators "academic" describes not just a type of work and workplace but also a specific career path from PhD to TT A residual or at least an umbrella category, "alt-ac" has never been able to mean anything comparably specific, so its use alongside "ac" tends to mislead

John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."

reflecting with gratitude on the fact that teacher's union health insurance has covered me for the vast majority of my life

I beg of you: please read @uncivilcollective.bsky.social's new report on the "civility industrial complex" that is pushing a right-wing version of the humanities into public higher ed while defunding actual humanistic teaching & research. www.uncivilcollective.org

www.versobooks.com/products/312... for those interested there's some stuff on this in chapter 8 here

just checking in on the whole Trotskyist crusade against the 1619 project thing. they are indeed still mad. apparently the Democrats ordered the NYT to abruptly shift to talking about racism to "divide the working class." also Russia did nothing wrong, which is apparently relevant somehow

I'm pretty critical of the Luddites but with critiques like these I see why we've gotten less-than-thoughtful defenses. The Luddites did not have a position on whether machines in general produced long term aggregate job growth, but whether they made their lives immediately worse

Sotomayor, dissenting, cuts to the chase: "Today’s decision marks yet another low point in this Court’s esteem for its precedents." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Can the ECB stop chasing oil price spikes, please? This is the message of this important study in a nutshell. Inflation is all about fossilflation. So, we need a way to stabilize our economies that does not undermine the green transition we need, which is exactly what rate hikes end up doing.

In a new privacy policy, Anthropic says Claude will soon require you to upload your driver's license or passport for a variety of reasons. The ID checker is Persona, a firm funded by Trump ally Peter Thiel. As a U.S. company, Persona is also subject to gov't demands for people's verification data. 👀

one look at this and you can see why i write about these guys

did you guys get your frog suit checks yet? i didn't know they were paying for us to get alternate colors now too, sick

I am about to start freelance developmental editing (monographs, primarily) and I'll have a site up for it soon: for reasonable rates you can get help developing a compelling narrative across your whole book, starting at any stage in the process!

So called liberal Yesh Atid MK says to Isaac Chotiner that he supports "most Israeli military actions" in Gaza and claims that Israel is in fact the most moral army in the world today. This is a member of the "leftmost" Zionist party in the Knesset.

i am phonebanking for Claire Valdez tomorrow and you should too act.clairevaldezforcongress.com/phonebank-fo...

safe food can only ever be a collective project, and trying to retreat only into individual better-consumption projects-- even if they weren't tainted by deranged RFK Jr. wellness stuff!-- is futile and antisocial

it's a shame that what is still the definitive history of the stamp act crisis was written in 1962. it's a pretty good book but it still refers to a random sailor as a "monster" for threatening... property damage...

I am about to start freelance developmental editing (monographs, primarily) and I'll have a site up for it soon: for reasonable rates you can get help developing a compelling narrative across your whole book, starting at any stage in the process!

The mayor of Fenwick Island, a tiny DE beach enclave where corporations, trusts, & LLCs vote in local elections, says *astonishing* things in this article. -22% of the town’s voters are non-human entities -restricting the vote to human beings would erode “home rule” -property deserves a vote