Matthew Petti

It's not about "ancient hatreds" The different trajectories of the Ukrainian-Polish and Azerbaijani-Armenian conflicts show how politics affect historical memory and ethnic conflict.

Why has Azerbaijanis and Armenians continued to wage war over historical trauma, while Ukrainians and Poles buried their (very bloody) hatchet?

More than "ancient hatreds," it's political circumstances that drive ethnic conflict.

There’s a big elephant in the room in Republican politics: the tension between pro-Israel hawks and “America First” nationalists. Vivek Ramaswamy may have accidentally pointed it out.
www.pettimatthew.com/p/the-coming...

How so?

Trevian Kutti, the Kanye West publicist who tried to rig the election for Trump, surrendered at Fulton County Jail today

now this is how you do a mugshot. just chaotic i’m the Joker energy emanating off of this one.

puts Trump’s to shame

Foreign languages are more useful than some of the popular “practical” degrees. Business administration and accounting majors are a dime a dozen. An American who speaks two or three languages fluently stands above the crowd and can work in many different fields.

It starts with “gender studies and underwater basket weaving are a waste of time” and turns into “studying math or Chinese is a luxury you can’t afford.”

I'd love to read something like that! But what I'd really be interested in is a historiography on ancient Greek sources — treating what was objectively a frontier backwater as the center of the civilized world.