This is the way.

(Although, as someone who lives in a solidly red state, it doesn't matter who I vote for in the 2028 general, a fact often lost in these conversations.)

Me before seeing one in person: We're all having a laugh here about these ugly trucks, but, let's be honest, they can't really be that bad.

Me after seeing one in person: Burn it with fire.

I just got back from Sam's and am going to have to amend my statement to include non-elites as well. Those t-shirts!

Not to make the obvious point, but most of the free speech defenders don't actually believe in free speech.

Elites uncertain in their masculinity are going to destroy us.

And there were a lot of people like this, especially in the late antebellum period!

Not a big fan of that post calling enslavers "degenerate gamblers." Some sweeping claims about elite southerners that are both inaccurate and, frankly, miss what makes slavery so evil.

It's even bad if you're a "godly" enslaver who doesn't rape, gamble, or physically abuse the people you enslave.

Plantation weddings and pre-civil war fashion: the film that critiques the historical fantasy of Natchez A documentary about Mississippi examines competing forces: the nostalgic celebration of the old south and the refusal to sanitize the brutal history of enslavement

When I taught at LSU, I got some gasps when I said plantation weddings were like getting married at a Nazi concentration camp, and I got nods from a lot of other students who understood it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I wrote a whole book on slavery, and it made me think my initial, very negative, assessment was too generous.

slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur

My dissertation supervisor always said that the Union army was a great educational institution for many Northerners.

And of course, we have the letters where they tried to educate friends and family back home.

This is stupid!

Sure, man.

To be clear, I certainly don't hold this against my students, but to have someone published in one of our most preeminent magazines write it....

This reminds me of stuff my undergraduates say when presented with some historical atrocity. Sure, it was awful, but how people resisted was inspiring, how we overcame it was inspiring, and it was necessary for us to have such a great country today.

When people ask for a definition of "reactionary centrist" I just point them at any Thomas Chatterton Williams article. The most uncharitable caricature could not compete with his actual writing

The man's entire position seems to be that the right has no ideology or preferences and can only react to liberal overreach.

This may not be the biggest sin of this framing, but it's extremely condescending towards the right.

My god is TCW dim.

I'm having feelings about my patreon subscription to "5-4" and "If Books Could Kill."

I haven't really kept up with anyone from my past. But I'm a weirdo introvert w/ social anxiety.

Succession....

I have a whole talk about this towards the end of my US history to 1865 course.

Always strikes me as something of a category error in these arguments, in that what people are asking is "What emotional relationship with the Democratic Party should I have?", which is not an interesting or useful way to think about politics, in my opinion.

Words Colliding <p><b>The long history and lasting impact of the rhetoric of Black exclusion in American politics and culture</b><br/><br/>In 1787, Thomas Jefferson d

A very good book that, I think, does a good job of showing the importance of the colonization movement to the 19th c. US and clarifies some points that have been muddled and confused in past scholarship.

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10143/

Honestly, the most generous interpretation is that he's kind of a dumbass with bad judgment.

I would be a lot more sympathetic had he not gotten this tattoo 20 years ago, clearly learned what it was in the meantime, did nothing about it, lied about it and covered it up, and only finally came clean and did something about it when forced to.

Doesn't seem like he's on the up-and-up!

One of the most fascinating aspects of the America Crisis is how under Trump much of the US Homeland security apparatus seems to understand places like Minnesota or Maine as little as the US National security apparatus under Bush understood places like Anbar or Herat

“I’ve spent the last year working on a story about how the Claremont Institute should spend more money in Nazis in the humanities so hopefully I can get some”

My point being since most humanities professors essentially never get outside funding, how could an outside funder really have that much influence?

I'm kind of morbidly curious now b/c I can't even really figure out what the argument could be other than some weird conspiracy theory.

I mean, as is true for most humanities faculty, the monopoly on my funding is my employer.

Frankly I don't give a shit, but it is amazing how effective these magazines are at producing goobers like this.