Hilde Løvdal Stephens

Image of a woman dragging Uncle Sam along. Text: “It’s up to the women.” Ladies Home Journal, February 1932.

I am pretty happy with the new artwork for my office. Purchased at a suburban antique mall in Kansas this summer. I just love the artwork in magazines from back then.

Document: The Symbolism Survey by Sarah Funke Butler December 5, 2011 – In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors of

Fun piece about a teen trying to disprove his English teacher. The Paris Review, Dec. 2011 shorturl.at/xsL5z

(+) «Det er en ukontroversielt å påpeke hennes støtte til tvangssterilisering» KVINNEPIONER: Ja, Sangers virke bør diskuteres kritisk. Men Saugstads måte å fremstille historien på, gjør en slik diskusjon vanskeligere å gjennomføre konstruktivt.

My latest piece about Sanger in an exchange with a medical doctor who has offered some now so nuanced takes on her legacy with little evidence to back up his claims. (I’ve also read the footnotes in his book, and I am not so convinced he has read up on things.) www.vl.no/meninger/uli...

(+) «Sanger var absolutt ingen engel. Men hun var heller ikke den djevelen Saugstad gjør henne til» BØKER: Nylig omtalte Vårt Land hvordan Ola Didrik Saugstad reagerte på Marta Breens Kvinner i kamp og dens fremstilling av Margaret Sanger, grunnleggeren av det som i dag heter Planned Parenthood. Sau...

The feeling of getting ready for a long flight and then see that the piece you wrote last week about exaggetated claims (read: conspiracy theory) made by a prominent public intellectual about Margaret Sanger is finally up… www.vl.no/meninger/sau...

Blumenfeld, the receiver of this letter, tied eugenics to progressive education and argued that he and other right-wingers were the true anti-racists.

From a letter to Sam Blumenfeld: "Are you familiar with THE MANKIND QUARTERLY? This is a journal of physical anthropology, published by The Clivedon Press, Suite Comm 2, 1133 13th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005. The old eugenics view was continued in this journal. Ten years ago, it was much criticized as racist, but now there is less of that, and a slow acceptance of its position in some quarters. Thus, we may have a revival of eugenics if this continues. In the Spring, 1984 number, vol. XXIV, no. 3, there is a long article by Ralph Scott, Director, Educational Clinic, University of Northern Iowa, entitled 'Productive Factors for Increased Levels of Learning.' It has echoes of the old eugenics position, although somewhat modified, in its approach and conclusions."

In a 1984 letter, R. J. Rushdoony commented on the dangers of eugenics and how Mankind Quarterly mainstreamed such ideas in academic circles. At least R. was right about this stuff. From: blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/Other/Rev%20...

Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025

We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist

Description of a donkey (with "candidates" written on its behind) on their knees, bowing to a cow (with "organized labor" on its side). The cartoon is titled "Sacred Cow" and was drawn by Bob Palmer.

Random find: how conservatives in 1960 viewed trade unions. The Springfield (Missouri) Leader and Press, March 30, 1960, 16.

“Billy Graham was almost eaten by a crocodile.” I think I have found a way to start this article I’ve been battling with this spring.

UP TO 7 PhD POSITIONS (282483) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology Job title: UP TO 7 PhD POSITIONS (282483), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Up to 7 fully-funded, salaried PhD positions in the humanities open for proposals by 15 Oct. #academicsky #phdsky I'm especially keen to hear from applicants interested in the nexus media-data-museums: www.ntnu.edu/ikm/research...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Jeg var jentespeider i KFUK, så jeg går klar!

Det er en av dem, ja.

Hjelpes.

Og dokumentaren The Family om den evangelikale gruppa danna av en norsk-amerikaner? Hva gjør den der?

‘He stole a piece of our souls’: Christian music star Michael Tait accused of sexual assault by three men Tait posted on Instagram days ago that for 20 years he lived a ‘double life’ but is working on ‘repentance and healing’

This is so ugly. Can’t believe it could go on for so long.

Michael Tait posted a confession on Instagram today, admitting that the accusations were mostly true.

Cartoon of warship with the name Harvey Milk struck out and Bone Spurs written below instead. In the right-hand corner, Pete Hegseth is drawn saluting the ship while saying “Re-establishing warrior culture.”

Bill Bramhall in today’s Dallas Morning News.

TW: sexual assault. Tait is one of the biggest name in Christian music and MAGA-evangelicalism.

WHISTLEBLOWER REPORT ON SEAN FEUCHT

This is wild! A full-blown website written & sourced from ex-employees & ex-leaders in Sean Feucht's various ministries detailing his abuses, financial misconduct, & general scumball-ery.

Let me detail why this is important... 1/

truthandfreedomstories.com

A story to follow.

I can’t believe I’m saying this but I’ve never respected a Harvard student more than right now www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

My transatlantic take on the postwar pentecostal healing movement is now available from American Studies in Scandinavia. It started as a Covid-era project and fell through the cracks, but it is finally done and published!

Our Missionaries Need Prayer Billy Graham's message from Victoria Falls, ZIMBABWE - 1960

Here's the broadcast (which he probably recorded in a studio, not in front of the statue above):

I can’t get over this picture of Billy Graham in shorts and black socks in front of a statue of David Livingstone near Victoria Falls, recording an episode of The Hour of Decision in 1960. From Tom McMahan’s Safari for Souls (1960), which narrated Graham’s 1960 tour of Africa.

Illustration of "The dynamic system of situated text production (Perrin, 2013)." It can't be described in a way that does it justice.

A memory from another life in another job. I still can't quite figure out what was going on in this model.

Picture of a Norwegian flag.

Hipp hipp hooray for the division of powers, rule of law, and habeas corpus! Happy Constitution Day!

The National Parks and their mascots are killing the social media game over on TikTok.

I have no clue what it was about.

Curt Rice slår alarm om Fulbright: — Programmet kan bryte sammen Trump-administrasjonen sa nei til forskning på klima, mangfold — og søljer. Washington stoppet i vår over 40 prosent av Fulbright-søknadene fra amerikanske forskere som ville forske i Norge.

Director of Fulbright Norway: “We have recently been informed that over 40 percent of the applications from American researchers we had recommended to receive Fulbright grants have been stopped for political reasons...” www.khrono.no/curt-rice-sl...

Alright, I've read it. The piece itself is much more reasonable. They got my point, though they still disagree with my comparison with positive eugenics.