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Orphrey (Germany, c. 1400s)

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06.03.2026 11:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Moment When I (a Historian) Lost My Mind All the best Gothic novels feature diary entries about a descent into madness and horror. They are claustrophobic, unsettling, and unreliable, but if we are honest with ourselves, also pretty relatabl...

New blog post up: "The Moment When I (a Historian) Lost My Mind." More thoughts on the role of irrationality and horror in writing history.

open.substack.com/pub/campbell...

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#education

05.03.2026 15:40 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

America Is Weary of School Shootings. Can Prosecuting Parents Help?

This is more like it...
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

05.03.2026 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

An Assertive Supreme Court Turns to Curbing State Courts

I often defend the Roberts Court against overheated accusations, but (although I otherwise agree with the reasoning in "Mirabelli") the use of the shadow docket, overruling state leg's/courts, preempting circuit courts, are major problems.
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#law
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

05.03.2026 19:52 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Charles Ethan Porter, "Sunflowers" (c. 1880s)

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05.03.2026 09:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

America Is Weary of School Shootings. Can Prosecuting Parents Help?

This is more like it...
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

05.03.2026 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

An Assertive Supreme Court Turns to Curbing State Courts

I often defend the Roberts Court against overheated accusations, but (although I otherwise agree with the reasoning in "Mirabelli") the use of the shadow docket, overruling state leg's/courts, preempting circuit courts, are major problems.
#education
#law
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

05.03.2026 19:52 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Romanticism and the Soul of Learning - Front Porch Republic Conservatives should reconsider the lessons of Romanticism.

www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/01/roma...

05.03.2026 17:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Moment When I (a Historian) Lost My Mind All the best Gothic novels feature diary entries about a descent into madness and horror. They are claustrophobic, unsettling, and unreliable, but if we are honest with ourselves, also pretty relatabl...

New blog post up: "The Moment When I (a Historian) Lost My Mind." More thoughts on the role of irrationality and horror in writing history.

open.substack.com/pub/campbell...

#history
#art
#education

05.03.2026 15:40 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Charles Ethan Porter, "Sunflowers" (c. 1880s)

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05.03.2026 09:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Please, Supreme Court, don't double down on "Mahmoud." Please.

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www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

04.03.2026 18:17 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Of Ice and Men. And Frogs. And Cats. And Minions.

Democratize art!

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/a...

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05.03.2026 09:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations! Look forward to reading!

04.03.2026 23:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please, Supreme Court, don't double down on "Mahmoud." Please.

#education
#law

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

04.03.2026 18:17 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Pizza Pizza Daddy-O | Folkstreams PIZZA PIZZA DADDY-O (1967) looks at continuity and change in girl's playground games at a Los Angeles school.

I had never heard of this documentary, but I *love* this stuff! Children's playground rhymes as folk culture:

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www.folkstreams.net/films/pizza-...

04.03.2026 12:50 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Father’s Murder Conviction in School Attack Puts New Onus on Parents

Curious what others think of this, but the author should explain the legal principles beyond, "not as complicated as it might seem." Issues of vicarious liability/accessory/negligence w/ kids seem pretty complicated to me...

#education #law #edpolicy

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

04.03.2026 11:59 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0