28.02.2026 20:18 —
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I don't think anything else has accomplished this. Some of the other things that have been tried ("fascist" etc) don't even do any of those 3 things well, much less all of them
14.06.2025 22:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This "no kings" branding is excellent propaganda and I hope it becomes ubiquitous and sustaining. Finally an incredibly simple phrase that simultaneously a) identifies the threat, b) locates it inside the American tradition, and c) intuitively places the protestors on the side of patriotism.
14.06.2025 22:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm sure US military people are paying attention to the drone revolution but I can't help but think that if/when the US is in a major war there will be some early "British battleships off Malaya" scenarios.
02.06.2025 02:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's new book week for my colleague Lucas Kelley -- check it out! A fascinating study of how Native nations used borders to maintain sovereignty and resist white encroachment. Ask your local library to get it!
29.05.2025 18:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is in the running for the most unconscious statement I've ever seen in my life. An astonishingly ironic and cutting conclusion to this article, and the reporters didn't have to say a thing.
18.04.2025 14:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cheesy patriotism is good. And so is applied theology.
05.04.2025 19:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm looking for a home for a review essay of Timothy Egan's Fever in the Heartland, put in the context of the relevance of the 1920s Klan today, and popular history interacting with academic history. I'd rather not just put it on my substack. Any ideas?
12.03.2025 13:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I've showed two freshman classes the speech that got Eugene Debs arrested during WW1 and overall a majority of students thought it was right for him to go to prison for his speech! 😬 (seems relevant right now).
12.03.2025 02:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I may not be interested in the evangelical definition wars, but the evangelical definition wars are interested in me. I accept my fate.
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