Bearistotle

The myth of the carnivore caveman You are not going to like where our ancestors got their protein.

Myths about our ancestors' meaty diets animate modern politics and culture wars about food and identity. But the history of human diets tells a different story about food's past and lets us be more rational about its future.

@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I for @vox.com

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We have a cover!

Feel free to pre-order the book from any of the sellers linked on the Hachette site.

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Hey @theatlantic.com thanks for at least hyperlinking mine and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social piece that says the exact same thing from 3 years ago. Oh, wait, you didn't.

There is no scientific evidence for any meaningful climate benefits of "grass-fed" beef, as many people, including myself and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social, have long been saying. This news study in PNAS further strengthens this point.
newrepublic.com/article/1637...

I'm just a humble food policy scholar, but I submit to you the idea that a robust regulatory state is far better for population health than fries cooked in beef tallow.

Letter on Modifications to the National Stonewall Monument Web Pages Letter on the National Park Service Modifications to the National Stonewall Monument Web Pages Signatures closed at 5 P.M. EST on February 19, 2025. If you are a journalist writing about this issue o...

Proud to have signed this with a whole lot of other historians! "Letter on the National Park Service Modifications to the National Stonewall Monument Web" Pageshttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1qHqQix_XkmiXVb6dclAPQNMSElDuIMsqV3gUN_Byxxo/edit?tab=t.0

Letter on Modifications to the National Stonewall Monument Web Pages Letter on the National Park Service Modifications to the Stonewall National Monument Web Pages Signatures closed at 5 P.M. EST on February 19, 2025. If you are a journalist writing about this issue o...

Letter on the National Park Service Modifications to the Stonewall National Monument Web Pages, signed by LGBTQ+ historians and authors, including Jonathan Ned Katz, John D'Emilio, Jack Halberstam, Marc Stein and Hugh Ryan.

National Stonewall Monument Response Letter Letter on the National Park Service Modifications to the National Stonewall Monument Web Pages Signatures closed at 5 P.M. EST on February 19, 2025. If you are a journalist writing about this issue o...

300+ leading historians and scholars of gender and sexuality respond to Trump admin's removal of references to transgender people from the National Stonewall Monument.

This action " is unfounded in historical fact and distorts the legacy" of Stonewall.

shorturl.at/ljOYW

There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments.

If your pride or legitimacy rests on a denial of the realities of history, it's time to find new sources of pride and legitimacy.

I'm sorry to say we've closed additional signatures at this time. Now that it's circulating (hopefully widely!) I don't have the bandwidth to monitor the signatures (and emails for adds), especially if it becomes a target for trolls (as public petitions often do).

I signed because indeed, removing references to trans people at Stonewall "is unfounded in historical fact and distorts the legacy" of Stonewall.

Such an honor to lend my name to this letter alongside so many folks I admire and respect. Many thanks to @gnrosenberg.bsky.social, Margot Canaday, Kevin Mumford, Emily Hobson, and Marc Stein for writing such a powerful letter. 🗃

Historian folks! Please circulate widely. cc @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net

National Stonewall Monument Response Letter Letter on the National Park Service Modifications to the National Stonewall Monument Web Pages Signatures closed at 5 P.M. EST on February 19, 2025. If you are a journalist writing about this issue o...

300+ leading historians and scholars of gender and sexuality respond to Trump admin's removal of references to transgender people from the National Stonewall Monument.

This action " is unfounded in historical fact and distorts the legacy" of Stonewall.

shorturl.at/ljOYW

Please circulate this widely on social media and in your personal contacts.

52kg getup x2

Feed the People! manuscript revised and sent back to press. Should now exist in physical form at some point in the next 10-12 months with Basic Books. @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and I wrote a book and it's a tour de force, must read, game-changer.

Outside of HBO, there's also something to be said about the changing depiction of unacknowledged paternity across the Starwars trilogies: from the heroic bastard, to the tragic bastard, to the villain who chooses his bastardy.

Notably, a great strength of *Succession* is that it resisted playing this trope too literally and, instead, delivered Siobhan as the better son excluded by the rules of paternity.

As the sprawling familial lines of our two most empowered families—the Musks and the Trumps—complicate the frayed and fraying nature of their current alliance, the spectacle of legitimated paternity, both legal and vernacular, will rise from the grave to haunt our politics.

Media that reflects (and implicitly stabilizes) the worldview of the wealthy regards this phenomenon as quintessentially tragic, a narrative structure that implies the greater virtue (think Jon Snow) is the bastard who, because he is the better son, renounces all claims.

The poison of the bastard is not always in the weakness of his character but instead in his strength. In fact, the most poisonous bastards are those that are the better sons, those that *should* inherit but cannot because of their status.

That is a moralistic spin on a material problem that becomes most pressing in societies with high levels of inequality: unacknowledged paternity (or maternity) destabilizes the inheritance of status and wealth, which matters most when the status and wealth conveyed are exceptional.

Poisonous bastards, of course, play regime destroying roles in both GoT series and now D:P. These bastards are depicted as the spoiled fruit of flawed but otherwise good men, whose indiscretions return to destroy the regimes they purport to serve.

Just completed Dune: Prophecy, and observing that, contra claims of "woke" media, popular narratives are now often conservative in their messages, it's notable that HBO is single-handedly trying to restore the deeply reactionary ancient trope of the poisonous bastard.

a delicious dinner of silken tofu in crispy chili sauce, kale and kimchi stir-fry, cucumber salad, and rice.

oh hell yes

It is always already too late to discover and enjoy Pearl Jam, Mischa.