Paul Lerner

I don't know much about her but this is great and Dartmouth must have lots of Trumpies on its board.

Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President

president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...
Short and to the point

😂

Frantically preparing for the holiday

'A perfect storm' — more colleges at risk as enrollment falls and financial pressures mount In part due to the Trump administration's changes to the student visa policy, there are fewer students on college campuses this fall.

www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/c...

'For the sins we have committed': Reimagining Yom Kippur liturgy in a post-Oct. 7 world Hovering over this 5786 holiday season is a sense of moral and spiritual crisis that calls out for liturgical innovation.

forward.com/opinion/7726...

That "enemy from within" thing is kind of ringing a bell for me but

Hitler and Hindenburg on "Potsdam Day," March 31, 1933

mood

Congratulations, Michelle! And your paper was a banger

Finally got around to uploading my scans from the ÖNB in July. This is from the Viennese Political Cabaret

"The robot [machine-person] is invented, pushes the workers out of the factor, the soldiers out of the battlefield, and finally, inevitably, humanity out of life."
Robert Plank, "The Triumph of Technology," Vienna, 1929

"Der Maschinenmensch wird erfunden, verdrängt die Arbeiter aus der Fabrik, die Soldaten vom Kriegsschauplatz, und schließlich -- unentrinnbare Folge -- die Menschheit aus dem Leben," Robert Plank, "Der Triumph der Technik"(Wien, 1929)

For once he kind of has a point

Wait, let me see if I have this right: democrats are accusing ICE agents of murdering Christian children and using their blood to make matzah to [checks notes] incite pogroms against ICE?

That should be self evident, but sigh, it needs to be said again and again

and we should enjoy things of great beauty in these trying times

I did just have a birthday

🤔

I’ll be in touch

Orange cat in a suitcase

Someone is happy to see me

I’m here all week

And 2 people I know well and kind of grew up with as historians

Very niche skeet

Opa ftw

I was so tired I confused Jonathan Zatlin with Jonathan Wiesen

you're on my list of contributors

count me in

Not me agreeing to co-edit a Festschrift in these times. Holy hell

But I have the bookseller’s info

I resisted the temptation and now regret it