Phil Feller

That’s an interesting idea. Meriden, the town in question, had a vocal anti-slavery base, reacted strongly against Kansas/Nebraska, and was an Underground Railroad station. But opposition to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act doesn’t quite chime with what I know about the Young Men’s Institute.

It’s clearly ‘93, and the Principles of ‘98 wouldn’t make much sense in this context.

I live in NC and have been immensely frustrated with Tillis prior to his decision not to run for reelection. His votes to confirm every Trump nominee were particularly galling, especially when, like with Hegseth, he hinted at possible opposition.

“The Voice of the Institute announces that the Meriden, CT, Young Men’s Institute will be publishing a paper that is “entirely original, racy, and well filled,—devoted to the interests of Meriden, the welfare of the young, and “the great principles of ‘93.”

Have any #skystorians come across the phrase “principles of ‘93?” An 1854 announcement for a Connecticut Young Men’s Institute newspaper described it as devoted to those principles. Is it Jeffersonianism?

Killing goats must be a real red line for you.

Such as Thomas Cole’s Course of Empire paints: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Co...

You were itching to say that.

Season 8 was a big disappointment. Martin hasn’t yet finished the book series, and the way that the showrunners resolved the many plot points was deeply unsatisfying.

I wish that economists would stop making pronouncements about areas where they lack sufficient background knowledge.

I am now curious about the paper’s methodology, and I may take a look art it later.

It seems as though the claim is that the armies are more effective along one axis: desertion rates.

The idea that desertion rates and competent junior officers are important isn’t crazy, but the subhead suggests more than the story delivers.

Don’t you mean E litism (apparently kerning is out)?

My research has touched on this conflict. Fredrick McGhee, an ally of Du Bois in the Niagara Movement, was scolded by my subject because he objected to something a Chicago debater said about southern Blacks. Tuskegee was one of the places where she had given a public address.

And where’s someone like Horace Mann?

Hasn’t there been a recent attempt to argue that Washington wasn’t as accommodationist as he’s typically been presented?

You got straight to the heart of the matter.

I had a summer job doing this and other low-skill IT jobs for Monroe County. The episode I still remember was when the carriage control tape broke on the line printer and it started spewing out paper.

The name Scipione is another sign of the extent to which XVI century Italy was harkening back to Roman models.

That was great.

I’m the descendant of Irish Catholics who immigrated following the potato famine. My study of the 1850s, though, has forced me to consider the context in which the Know Nothings rose and consider that many were motivated by things other than nativism and religious bigotry.

I haven’t read Fate of the Republic, but I assume that Guiteau didn’t have as many direct interactions with the other main figures , and that those scenes were intended to illustrate character and what would otherwise be abstract concepts. That doesn’t bother me.

My one complaint was with the way that the show often mined Guiteau’s story for comic fodder, leading them to misrepresent the Oneida Community as orgiastic. It would have been more interesting (and historical) had they explored its utopian appeal.

He’d be better suited to give the response to Chuck D’s address.

In the area of political theory, a lot of it did filter through Italian Renaissance thinkers. Pocock’s classic Machiavellian Moment analyzed how the English Commonwealth writers received Aristotle’s and Polybius’ political thought.

That was outstanding. Among many other things, I liked your description of the US operation as “classical.” Vegetius would have had a thing or two to say about the failure to fortify overnight camps.

Like Gunnar, I think that its use in the coding assignments is legit. I’ve been using GitHub Copilot and other AI to help me build and analyze multinomial-Diriclet modules, and it’s made me much more productive.

A court order froze the account.

I haven’t painted it yet, but I have a new model army.

Yeah, I’m a JQA fan, although not enough of one to read his lectures on rhetoric and oratory.

I think that presidents should be ranked by their ability at epideictic, not just persuasion.

A mathematician would probably dispute that she used it correctly.

Plus they’re named after people who created notable Catholic religious art.

FWIW, here’s how historians rank the presidents on public persuasion in a C-SPAN poll: www.c-span.org/presidentsur...

That’s the closest they get to ranking their rhetorical abilities, although the categories of moral authority and vision/agenda setting are related.