Felix Harcourt

bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it

I haven’t read it yet, but Guy Gugliotta’s “Grant’s Enforcer” might fit the bill (or at least point towards something suitable)

i believe there are about a hundred and fifty million people like me who would pay $17 to watch benicio del toro as sergio st. carlos plan and execute a tight sunday costco run before he has to man the barbecue after his niece's afternoon soccer game (run time: 2 hours 20 minutes)

"Globalist" has long been used by the white power movement to signify a Jewish conspiracy to eliminate the white race. It sometimes means something less alarming, like opposing the UN, worrying about cosmopolitanism, etc, but that's not who this meme is for. This meme is bread & butter racism.

One easy way to see that those were labor issues was the fact that many of your colleagues with a different employment status didn't have those rights and protections. Instead of seeing that as a problem to be fixed for the good of all, too many saw it as a sad fate they'd avoid because of ✨merit✨

the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.

CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me?
ME: A lot of people have, so
CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement?
ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess
CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get?
ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over

Op Ed by President of the AAUP chapter at UT Austin. Let teachers teach, let students learn. #AcademicFreedom #DefendHigherEd

Trump Says Broadcasters Should Lose Licenses for Criticizing Him

This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."

Come join me in the Austin College History department! Hiring a tenure-track Latin Americanist, so apply/spread the word!

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"General sense of doom."

The Founders of This New Development Say You Must Be White to Live There

We really just speedran the process back to segregation, huh?

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Mac from Always Sunny posing with the caption “It’s not a jacket, it’s a duster”

Bespectacled cat in a classic academic sweater and shirt combo with a mug of tea (never coffee) and a document, saying “These primary sources are very revealing,” and overall making for an uncomfortably strong resemblance

Absolutely outstanding drawing of a historian at work from @charliejane.bsky.social in my much awaited copy of Lessons in Magic and Disaster!

The guy who wrote this has written for Quillette and The American Spectator and, if you google his name, you won't be surprised by any of it.

I think this is all true, but I also think about the number of people who have assumed my PhD (in history) took a long time because it takes that long to memorize all those facts. They eschew skill building, of course, but also confuse knowledge accumulation/regurgitation with knowledge production.

Anyone have any recommendations for longform pieces on Alex Jones and/or Sandy Hook truthers?

In Washington, Lehrer was supposed to be engaged in top-secret work, but he doesn't remember doing any. His sole contribution to our nation's defense, he claims, was the invention of vodka Jell-O. "They didn't allow alcoholic beverages on the base," he recalls, "and we were planning a Christmas party, which presented a problem: how to have alcohol without it being a beverage. So a friend and I went to her apartment and spent a very happy evening trying various proportions of alcohol and Jell-O. We tried replacing the water with alcohol, but as you can imagine, that was a waste, because you have to boil it and it all evaporates. So you start with hot wat-

-ter, but instead of adding cold water later on, you add vodka. And orange turned out to be the best flavor. She later told me that lime Jell-O is very good with daiquiris."

Since there seems to be some confusion, Tom Lehrer discussed his invention of the Jello shot in a January 1, 1984 interview with the Boston Globe:

Adjunct professors face low pay and few benefits even though they play an invaluable role at colleges and universities.

Today, I led my colleagues in reintroducing legislation that would make it easier for adjunct faculty to qualify for PSLF and the debt relief they deserve.

a cartoon character says good news in front of a futurama sign Alt: Gif of the professor from Futurama saying “good news”

Good news - Austin College is hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor of History - Latin America and the World. Apply, spread the word, and reach out if you have any questions!

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Also contains an absolutely dead-on Alex Jones crying impression

I was always sad that none of the reviews of the book mentioned the chapter titles, which were my favourite part

thinking for no apparent reason about @felixh.bsky.social's brilliantly titled chapter "Invisible Umpires" in his book Ku Klux Kulture

‘Wheel of Fortune,’ ‘Jeopardy’ to Stream Next Day for the First Time Starting This September, on Peacock and Hulu 'Wheel of Fortune,' 'Jeopardy' to Stream Next Day for the First Time Starting This September, on Peacock and Hulu

Game-changer for you @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social fans under 70! variety.com/2025/tv/news...

title card from The Curse of Frankenstein that reads "Starring Peter Cushing"

the three words every girl wants to hear

Was lucky enough to see this at a SXSW screening where the majority of the audience was students from Texas School for the Deaf and the filmmaker Q&A was signed. Great film, fantastic experience.

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.

Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

The classic John Soane maneuver

Mom just suggested that I march right up to the Vatican, introduce myself to the guy in charge, hand him a printed copy of my resume and tell him confidently and forcefully that I’m the right person for the job.

Excerpt from a 1924 letter which passive aggressively asks the recipient if he knows where the big scissors, which had been on a bench in the garage, are now

Can confirm my sabbatical research is truly engaging with the big questions of 1924