Ben Railton

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

Once more before Sunday ends, here’s today’s thread. Please share as widely as possible, thanks! @hcrichardson.bsky.social 🗃️

When I was in high school, I had a part-time job on an educational website where young students would write to folks like Thoreau or Lincoln with questions & I would respond in character as those folks. I will do this for Florida State et al for less money than, & infinitely better than, the bots.

Seconded. & like all aspiring fascist regimes, it has in these first years especially targeted folks with identities different from that of Tom Nichols (& of me). Which means folks like Tom Nichols (& me) are especially needed to help highlight the aspiring fascism.

#ScholarSunday Thread 244 (10/5/25) – Black and White and Read All Over Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possib...

Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possible, & thanks, all! 🗃️

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Biscuits can’t believe some of y’all haven’t shared all the great public scholarship in today’s #ScholarSunday thread yet. 🗃️

This week, I was prompted to review The Hunchback of Notre Dame from a genre perspective and I realized it's probably the film I would most recommend for everyone right now, young and old alike.

Frollo is a genocidal potential rapist who gleefully orders law enforcement to murder innocent civilians

Biscuits can’t believe some of y’all haven’t shared all the great public scholarship in today’s #ScholarSunday thread yet. 🗃️

Such important work!

Thanks, Tracy! Vaughn (our web designer par excellance) will look into it, but in the meantime hopefully right-clicking can help keep the multiple tabs open!

That's very cool to hear, thanks! If it's of interest, I also blogged about the Rocks Spring massacre a few years back:

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Thanks!

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#ScholarSunday Thread 244 (10/5/25) – Black and White and Read All Over Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possib...

Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possible, & thanks, all! 🗃️

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Who wants a free copy?
#graphichistory

Thanks!

Poster for the animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). From the top of the bell tower, we see between the bells down into Paris blazing in orange. Quasimodo sits on the ledge reaching out for a dove.

This week for the first in my Spooky Season Monster Mash series, I watched a movie with the scariest monster I can think of: Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame in which the monster wraps himself in unjust laws and bible quotes to commit genocide and assault.
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October 4-5, 2025: Lou Moore’s Sensational Sports Studying – Black and White and Read All Over [50 years ago this week, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier met in Manila for their third and final professional boxing bout. So this week on the blog I’ve stepped into the ring with posts on a handful of c...

So for a special weekend tribute to follow up the Thrilla in Manila anniversary series, three ways in which Lou Moore can help us remember & understand that fight & its many American contexts.

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I couldn't write a weeklong blog series on Muhammad Ali, boxing, or sports in America without paying tribute to one of our best scholars of all those subjects, @profloumoore.bsky.social. His books alone have reshaped the way we think about such topics, but his groundbreaking work goes far beyond.

Chilly weekend mornings need some warm Biscuits.

The world is so bleak right now, but my city is not only promoting a fun touristy activity through a less-touristed area, it's simultaneously sending those tourists (and residents!) to immigrant, family, and worker owned restaurants to support some of the communities most attacked in our moment.

Happy Frederic Remington Day & Buster Keaton Day!

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