Eric McHenry
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https://theamericanscholar.org/the-baddest-man-in-town/
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News!
5 months ago
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This essay was years in the researching/writing, and Iām thrilled that it landed in such a beautiful magazine.
5 days ago
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This is my sonās joke, btw.
10 days ago
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I found a picture of the real Stagger Lee, and it was not what I expected:
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A Picture of Stack Lee | North American Review
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14 days ago
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Trump is going to make that little boy give him the Grammy.
28 days ago
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Hell yeah thatās Nick Offerman raving about my wifeās podcast. Because itās the best one.
about 1 month ago
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Aaron Rodgers in the postgame press conference complaining about āTwitter expertsā ruining football. Heās so close to getting it.
about 2 months ago
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Tim Carvell
3 months ago
āYes, you in the back, I see you have your hand up.ā āWhy was it āone thingā all those other times? I mean, I know why, we all do, I just think itād be good to acknowledge it.ā
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My son is funny.
3 months ago
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Nothings Monstered
3 months ago
"I keep thinking that evil would like nothing better than to have us feel awful about who we are."
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Gutted to lose Todd Snider so early.
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Working on a Song
YouTube video by Todd Snider - Topic
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4 months ago
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As long as Iāve got my laptop and summer breaks, no urban legend is safe.
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Gone Fishinā - The American Scholar
Could two famous rivermen really have met their end while grappling giant fish in a Kansas river?
https://theamericanscholar.org/gone-fishin/
4 months ago
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I gotta say it was a good day
4 months ago
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The London Magazine
4 months ago
āSelfieā, a poem by Eric McHenry, from our October / November issue. Order the latest issue here:
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Sonnet in The London Magazine!
5 months ago
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Attention versiverse: Gretchen McCulloch writes double dactyls.
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5 months ago
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News!
5 months ago
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Bill McKibben
6 months ago
Not at all surprising that the notoriously nimble Democratic political machine planned ahead 23 years to plant a fake Trump drawing in Epstein's birthday book. That Chuck Schumer sees around corners!
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This is a good joke and also my son wrote it
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6 months ago
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Talking levee-camp hollers on the Smarty Pants podcast. When the work is peonage, the work songs become protests.
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What Lies Beneath the Levee Camp Holler - The American Scholar
Eric McHenry investigates a century-old crime preserved in music
https://theamericanscholar.org/what-lies-beneath-the-levee-camp-holler/
6 months ago
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Tom Bradley Jr. šš
6 months ago
Who killed the Mercy Man? If levee bosses were just a bunch of interchangeable Mr. Charlies, then they all did.
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#Music
#History
by Eric McHenry via The American Scholar
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Who Killed the Mercy Man? - The American Scholar
An obscure murder keeps resurfacing in Black story and song
https://theamericanscholar.org/who-killed-the-mercy-man/?src=longreads
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The Sunday Long Read
7 months ago
Don't miss this week's SLR featuring
@henrymceric.bsky.social
,
@harleyrustad.com
ā¬,
@kevinmaurer.bsky.social
,
@tomjunod.bsky.social
& more!
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The Sunday Long Read: Football Tragedy, Crabs, Mercy Man
The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.
https://mailchi.mp/sundaylongread.com/aug23-4764353?e=d38334bdf0
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So people are using AI to dump people in order to pursue relationships with AI.
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7 months ago
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Longreads
7 months ago
In our Weekly Top 5: * The legend of the levee boss
@theamscho.bsky.social
* Identity in the age of AI
@harpers.bsky.social
* The rules of Rave Club
@thefence.bsky.social
* Studying philosophy in prison
@aeon.co
* French fry why
@torontolifemag.bsky.social
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads
Showcasing stories from Eric McHenry, Michael W. Clune, Patrick Galbraith, Jay Miller, and Harley Rustad.
https://longreads.com/2025/08/22/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-576/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Michelle Wu å³å¼
7 months ago
Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on
@bpl.boston.gov
ās 1782 edition Aitken Bibleāalso known as the Bible of the Revolution.
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Jack El-Hai
7 months ago
Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of
#popularhistory
. Congrats to
@henrymceric.bsky.social
&
@theamscho.bsky.social
! Read/subscribe to Damn History:
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Who Killed the Mercy Man? - The American Scholar
An obscure murder keeps resurfacing in Black story and song
https://theamericanscholar.org/who-killed-the-mercy-man/
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And the worldās richest man giddily posted about feeding this program āinto a wood chipper.ā What have we become?
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7 months ago
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Hereās my latest piece for The American Scholar, about a 1909 murder and the song tradition that refused to forget it. Gratitude to Mike Mattison of the Tedeschi Trucks Band for all the help and inspiration.
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Who Killed the Mercy Man? - The American Scholar
An obscure murder keeps resurfacing in Black story and song
https://theamericanscholar.org/who-killed-the-mercy-man/
7 months ago
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The final word on prescriptivism.
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7 months ago
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The Onion
7 months ago
Moment Of Silence Followed By Hot Dog Race
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Evan McHenry has a headline in the Onion!
7 months ago
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Four Loko Folklore
8 months ago
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Adam Sternbergh
9 months ago
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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Good lord Iāve outlived Jerry Garcia. I need to stop looking these up.
10 months ago
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He should have spoken up sooner. Iām sure Trump would have pardoned him.
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10 months ago
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Poetry prof: Itās called a caesura.
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10 months ago
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I am not afraid of you.
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10 months ago
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Mark Copelovitch
11 months ago
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties & those who choose to debase themselves in their service
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60 Minutes
11 months ago
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. Weāll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
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Ian Duhig
11 months ago
via Anthony Abdool
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We get so focused on the corruption and the cruelty of this administration. Sometimes I think we fail to appreciate the incompetence.
11 months ago
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Bill McKibben
11 months ago
Itās hard to think of a single act by a single human that instantly damaged as many plans, careers, dreams in as many places around the globe For a supreme (and cruel) narcissist, the rush must be exquisite The whole world has no choice but to watch this wretched man
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Thanks!
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11 months ago
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I am no longer interested in other news stories.
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12 months ago
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If they had leaked war plans to Newsmax or Fox News, we never wouldāve heard about it. So thatās another thing that has probably happened.
12 months ago
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In Walks A Woman
12 months ago
Great 10th Episode of Season 1 drops TODAY!https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ptCyOdEEVpANHHW9RZ9yI?si=995801bab1884f14
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quinn
12 months ago
plugging my favorite account on this site
@iambic.bot
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Dahlia Lithwick
12 months ago
Props to Ruth Marcus
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Why I Left the Washington Post
Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that moveāit appears here in fullāI decided...
https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/why-ruth-marcus-left-the-washington-post
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Remember when the HHS secretary had to resign because the Obamacare website was buggy on day 1.
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12 months ago
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V. Penelope Pelizzon
12 months ago
Tomorrow night! DC area poetry fans! Come on down! I'm kvelling for Julia Thacker's fantastic TO WILDNESS, hot off the press from The Waywiser Press!
www.folger.edu/whats-on/202...
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2025 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize with Paul Muldoon and Julia Thacker | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/2025-anthony-hecht-poetry-prize-with-paul-muldoon/
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Or how their lives would all contain this hour
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