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Honored to receive a State History Award from the Historical Society of Michigan for my book Freedom Enterprise!

Welcome to the resistance, director of the Eisenhower library in Kansas who would not let the president steal a historic sword

Hegseth’s Unusual, Partisan, and Dangerous Convening of Military Leaders If the defense secretary’s event allayed concerns of DEI in the military for some, it aggravated concerns of a politicized military for all.

@kschake.bsky.social reflects on yesterday's address by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Trump at a gathering of the country's top military officials. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/hegs...

The ultimate aim here is that people will no longer expect the military to serve the public at large, but that its goal and purpose is to advance the interest of one faction or party in politics. 10/

Report to Congress on Navy's Columbia-class Submarine Program - USNI News The following is the Sept. 25, 2025, Congressional Research Service report to Congress, Navy Columbia (SSBN-826) Class Ballistic Missile Submarine Program: Background and Issues for Congress.  From th...

Report to Congress on Navy’s Columbia-class Submarine Program — USNI News
news.usni.org/2025/09/30/r...

Lockheed, Pentagon finalize deal for 296 F-35s The $24.3 billion deal covers 148 aircraft each in production lots 18 and 19, closing out negotiations that have stretched since 2023.

Lockheed, Pentagon finalize deal for 296 F-35s
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/09/lockheed-pentagon-finalize-deal-for-296-f-35s/

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.

My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.

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AFT, AAUP Launch Nationwide Campaign, ‘Higher Education: Saving Lives, Building Futures, Powering the Economy’ WASHINGTON—The AFT and the American Association of University Professors, together representing the country’s largest and most powerful force of higher education workers, launched a major national cam...

Once again, if you teach or conduct research in higher ed, please join @aaup.org

How Today’s America Came About Two different accounts from two of the Prospect’s co-founders

Paul Starr @starrprospect.bsky.social reflects on the ways in which his new book differs from the history served up in the latest Robert Reich memoir. prospect.org/culture/book...

The “War Department” thing was one of Hegseth’s hobbyhorses well before his nomination.

“The professional soldier” by Morris janowitz

“The paradoxes of professionalism in International security by @risabrooks12.bsky.social

“The right to be right” by Peter Feaver (anything by him is good)

“Supreme command” by Eliot cohen

These are all good primers I think

In case you missed it, here is "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume XLIV, Part 1, National Security Policy, 1985–1988" history.state.gov/historicaldo...

Episode 1: The Hand Behind Unmanned – America’s Quest For Autonomous War What are unmanned weapons and where did America’s quest for autonomy begin?

Mine and Julia Macdonald's new podcast on autonomy--from mines to missiles to drones--is now available! Follow the people behind America's unmanned arsenal from the revolutionary war to Afghanistan, Ukraine, and looking to the future.
www.hoover.org/research/epi...

MIT Political Science is hiring this fall, with junior lines in both American Politics (members.apsanet.org/CAREERS/eJob...) and IR. Please share widely!

Reading this recent Economist story on defense industry, dismayed to see the claim that in WWII, B-24s were built “in a Ford car factory in Detroit.” Let’s recall please that Willow Run and other big WWII plants were new ones.
The war in Ukraine shows the West can re-arm without re-industrialising

This is absolutely appalling.

Steven Spierer Show « TalkRadioOne Husband, Father, Real Estate and Business Attorney, Entrepreneur, Investor and Business Advisor, Steven Spierer offers advice, opinions and interviews authors and experts on a variety of subjects every Saturday at 10:00 AM Pacific/1:00 PM Eastern on TalkRadioOne.com.

Enjoyed talking with Steve Spierer for an hour on his radio show today about my book Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II www.talkradioone.com/steven-spier...

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

If I were a college professor, it would be oral exams and in-class essays only from now on.
nymag.com/intelligence...

HUGE ruling—by a conservative judge—that is almost certain to be affirmed by the 4th Circuit and is unlikely to be disturbed by SCOTUS. Justice Riggs’ final victory draws much closer.

@pulitzerprizes.bsky.social

The 1973 Congressional Hearings That Reshaped Tax Privacy Protections | Tax Notes Joseph J. Thorndike concludes his examination of how President Richard Nixon’s executive orders permitting the Agriculture Department to access farmers’ tax returns — which were ultimately revoked — l...

If you like keeping your tax returns private, you can thank these hearings

Trump's Pick for a Top Army Job Works at a Weapons Company — And Won't Give Up His Stock Mike Obadal’s plan to keep his stock in Anduril if nominated as under secretary of the Army is a blatant conflict of interest, experts say.

NEW: Trump's nominee for Under Secretary of the Army, an executive at the weapons firm Anduril, says he's going to hold onto his stock in the company despite its billions of dollars in contracts with the Army, according to a recently filed ethics statement

theintercept.com/2025/05/01/t...

ICYMI: DESTRUCTIVE CREATION by @profmarkwilson.bsky.social gets a shout-out from @saikatc.bsky.social on the latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show! nyti.ms/4lVnCEa

I’ve been honored to serve as the @apsa.bsky.social rep on the committee (a role mandated by Congress) since 2020 + to have chaired the committee since 2021. Congress understood in creating its 1991 statute governing our work the importance of “thorough, accurate, and reliable” accounts of the past

Tim Naftali's tweet on the termination of the HAC members without cause.

Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/

Interesting conversation here with plenty of attention to today’s situation but also some deep history on the New Deal and World War II. Many thanks to @saikatc.bsky.social for the unexpected shout-out to my book *Destructive Creation*.

Post Trump, we need a detailed plan—an anti-Project 2025—& a dose of civics. We must explain there's no return to the 1950s economy, when World War 2 had blighted much of the world. That the 1890s show we need federal agencies, not tariffs; equality, not segregation; immigrants, not xenophobia.

Agree with much of this thread but need to remind folks this was not an either/or. The USA did indeed invest in national labs, as well as partner with universities, nonprofits, and for-profit contractors.