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Jan. 6 and the Long Shadow of Civil War- and Reconstruction-Era Political Violence Two days after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, we...

Kate Masur and Greg Downs break it down. A must-read.

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A Foremost Scholar of Slavery Wonders if America Can Ever Atone

Being name-checked in a review of the great Eric Foner’s latest would be nicer if, you know, the reviewer didn’t wildly mischaracterize my view of Reconstruction.

That would have been a better film.

That story won’t develop because something something the DNC.

It is just too absolutely freaking on the nose that the newly elected member of the Harvard Corporation is a partner at (drumroll) Paul Weiss.

Coulda sworn that game was against the Rootless Cosmopolitans.

God fornøjelse!

Breaking: NYU revokes Olmert's diploma.

Whatever hype you are reading now about powerful people will almost certainly turn out to be bullshit

A ray of light on the "kids these days" front: the students in my undergraduate course on slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction liked the long, scholarly readings the best - Foner's short(est) Reconstruction, Taylor's Embattled Freedom.

"Science Fiction is for people who can't face reality."

Dept. of Joy: If you have the slightest fondness for Sharon Van Etten (or PJ Harvey or St Vincent or Patti herself) do yourself a favor and catch Sharon and her band on tour. My kid’s Xmas present to me and what a gift it was.

This is a shockingly mistaken understanding of due process by Stephen Miller. It is likely this misunderstanding that is informing the President’s misunderstanding.

Can they not even hear themselves over the "both sides"?

"The Constitution, all of the sudden, out of nowhere, has words."

Some impressive brass cojones there, celebrating Ann Telnaes like she didn't win the Pulitzer for standing up to your own censorship of her work.

See also Yarvin, Curtis.

If by "holding power to account" you mean "killing the Pulitzer Prize-winner's cartoon because it criticized the paper's owner," sure.

Article II, Section 3: the president "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed."

Oath of office: I "will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

This is exactly what my syllabus warning on LLMs says, quoting Frankfurt.

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

This is how I have four copies of "Reconstruction" and three of "Impossible Subjects."

So just to recap, the Transportation Secretary is scared shitless of public transport. The Education Secretary is being sued for enabling child sex abuse. The Health Secretary is bringing back measles. And the Defense Secretary is texting classified war plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic

UVA being number 1 on this "campus free speech" list, when you had a former board member successfully lobby to suspend campus tours that addresses UVA's history w slavery, is evidence of how idiosyncratic and right-wing-coded the cosponsoring organizations' definition of "free speech" really is.

He cited a line all incoming students had to memorize when he began his studies there 55 years ago: “Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.” “No matter what you have done before,” he wrote, “your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’”

Two Naval Academy faculty members have resigned, and 18 more have taken early retirement. One was offered a place of honor at the annual dedication parade. He declined, telling the academy’s superintendent:

Wayne, can you clarify the audience for the letter ("Haislip Board")?