There better be fucking justice for this my god

Rarely does a story so perfectly encapsulate authoritarianism, crony capitalism, Trump’s greed and garishness, destruction of cultural heritage and calls for national rebirth after collective victimhood. Definitive article on this is by @filipejdus.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Employment lawyer here: the number of male employers who genuinely believe they should be able to sleep with their female employees and pay working mothers less than working fathers is most of them. They genuinely believe that it is an injustice against them that they might face repercussions.

Delightfully weird painting. [Wolfgang Heimbach, Breakfast table with Kitchen Maid behind Window, 1670, 69.5 cm (27.3 in) x 84.5 cm (33.2 in) (Kassel, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel)]

the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from

I would like to call on all available Jewish space lasers to get ready for defense.

The media is rushing 300 “New York Jews worried about Mamdani antisemitism” fetch essays based on nothing but Mamdani being a Muslim meanwhile the Republican Party from top to toe has the confidence to wear nazi makeup every day knowing the press looks at it like the westworld bots seeing a polaroid

This is what they did at one of my mother's dementia facilities, so that residents are less likely to get lost.

yes, this, yes

This is a fantastic article, and I'm really impressed with @jelenasubotic.bsky.social in her contributions to it as an interviewee haaretz.com/israel-news/...

If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore

gotta give it to the post's cover game, like obviously it's anti but they also know half of brooklyn is getting this framed

oh yeah, that's the stuff

I read Mamdani’s dad’s books when I studied for my comprehensive exams 20 years ago I’m just saying I was ready for this

So far election night USA seems to be a real referendum on “normal people are already sick of this shit”

I spoke to @haaretzcom.bsky.social about how Serbia never accepted responsibility for crimes it committed and I am afraid Israel will be the same.

shoot this straight into my veins

Love to see the news come out about the very topic I just published a whole book about! There is *so much* looted art still in world's museums! This story is wild. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I spoke to @haaretzcom.bsky.social about what Israel can learn from Serbia about dealing with responsibility for mass atrocity and I have some bad news for Israel. In Hebrew only, for now www.haaretz.co.il/news/world/e...

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

This is so incredibly dumb and a waste of everyone’s time and money.

Because all of it just fucking sucks

Really the only question that matters

Every time I watch any Pete Hegseth speech, it's clear the main audience for said speech is his own insecurities.

I have an earnest post (sorry!) My son lost his grandma this week and when he came back to his dorm after the funeral he found a sympathy card signed by his roommates and a bunch of other kids from the dorm. This kind of thing simply did not happen in my generation. The kids are really alright.

Too soon

My book is up and about in the world or, at least, in Vancouver.

You need to read the alt text

please don't make me explain groypers to the normal people in my life

I regret to inform you that my son is busy annoying his college professors by promoting both @gsqjournal.bsky.social AND my war against AI. Good boy.

In this great conversation with Natasha Roth-Rowland and Valentina Pisanty, I talk about the weaponization of antisemitism by Trump, Netanyahu, and other autocratic populists who feed on conspiratorial frameworks, and the danger this poses to the fight against actual, rampant antisemitism.

In this episode of Lifting the Curtain, guest host Natasha Roth-Rowland talks to scholars Valentina Pisanty and @jelenasubotic.bsky.social about the anatomy and function of conspiracy theories and the role of antisemitism within them. Tune in now at bit.ly/47v3Bj6.

If only there was a new book that helped explain all this. Oh wait! It's my book!

More book📚talk! Today I get to my favorite chapter in the book, where I did a lot of detective sleuthing to figure out how, exactly, a collection of valuable art looted by the Nazis throughout Europe ended up as prized possessions of the National Museum of Serbia in Belgrade. Mini thread 👇

Hello everyone, more book talk! Today, I'll tell you about Benin Bronzes, a collection of objects looted from Benin (today's Nigeria) in the 19th century, and today dispersed across the world. Through this case I talk both about the international competition to get them, and today to return them.

Hi everyone, when I talked about my new book on looted art yesterday, I left you with Napoleon. Today, let me tell you about another hero of the book, Lord Thomas Elgin. He did a lot of stealing. A bit of a thread 👇

Good morning, everyone. After introducing my book about looted art yesterday, let me tell you more about what's in there. Today is about Napoleon. Napoleon stole a lot of shit, no really, it was insane. In fact, the era of systematic state-sponsored looting on mass scale began with Napoleon. thread👇

So over the next few days I want to tell you a little bit about my new @oxfordacademic.bsky.social book about looted art. The book is about art so there are many great pictures! A very short, mini-thread 👇

Guess what, my new book "The Art of Status" is out with @oxfordacademic.bsky.social 📚💃🎉 It's about looted art and international status competition - why some states decide to return and some don't. I explore in detail Parthenon Marbles, Benin Bronzes, and Nazi-looted art. More info/pics soon.

First time in my office since April and I find this on my desk. Things have really deteriorated quickly.

And just like that my son is off to college 🎉😫😭How do you people do it I have no idea. It sucks. But hey at least he’s wearing @gsqjournal.bsky.social sister ISA journal tshirt! @fpa-isa.bsky.social @sibeloktay.bsky.social @bariskesgin.bsky.social

🚨 New contribution to our co-edited @risjnl.bsky.social special issue on politics of cultural heritage just dropped! And I linked all the other contributions below, so you don't have to go hunting for them. @jelenasubotic.bsky.social 1/6

I am a senior officer in this army.

anyone want to tell her what happened to him or should we just let her find out

And if all that has you feeling down re. heritage politics, here's a contribution from Matthew Weinert about the possibilities that open up with heritage destruction becoming part of ICC's mandate: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

But wait! There's more. @filipejdus.bsky.social and Marina Vulovic explore how a proposed land swap between Serbia and Kosovo resulted in the recovery of Helen of Anjou's heritage to construct Northern Kosovo as a space of Serbian heritage and attachment www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Next up we have @debfrombrazil.bsky.social and Guilherme Casarões illustrating how Bolsonaro stitched together a socially conservative heritage narrative to build both domestic power and international alliances www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I wrote about the work that "humanity" does in the construction of a distinctly international form of cultural prestige via UNESCO's world heritage: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

@jelenasubotic.bsky.social turned to the 'antiquities rush' of the 19th century to show the long entanglement of heritage with international status competition www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So, @jelenasubotic.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue on heritage politics for @risjnl.bsky.social, and the contributions are starting to drop on first view! Stay tuned for our co-authored introductory essay and more contributions but here is what we have so far: