Ben Waterhouse

Periodic reminder that the U.S. Constitution doesn't need to be "defended" or "interpreted correctly." It needs to be changed.

Sure, but recognize symbolism for what it is.

What the candidates should really pledge is to dismember the entire imperial presidency that got us to this point.

But they won't.

Because they think the system was basically fine until Trump showed up.

Well, if anyone is equipped to do so, I suspect it would be the folks at Cal Tech.

Historians of Bluesky: a query--

Is CalTech out of their minds?
networks.h-net.org/jobs/69483/c...

Brave people in central New Jersey with access to the Mudd Library, anyway.

Or you coud, you know, just read Larry's thesis: catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/dsp0...

3 Carolina seniors win Rhodes scholarships - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tiana Dinham, Rotimi Kukoyi and Gabrielle Moreau received the prestigious honor, matching Carolina’s record high for a single year.

UNC-Chapel Hill has THREE Rhodes Scholars this year!

Congratulations to Tiana, Rotimi, and Gabrielle!!

Big thanks to Dr. Marc Howlett, Executive Director of our Office of Distinguished Scholarships, and to all faculty and friends who helped in the process.

www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...

Trippy experience today when the hotel elevator opened up and I was face to face with Britt Lower, aka Helly R.

I was a little worried about losing my memory before the elevator got to the bottom floor!

Among other things, today's news is making me very smug about my polished email grammar and style.

Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1959.

I'm with you, but boy is that a lonely tune to sing these days.

Yes, it sucks. Defending the value of education is hard enough without having to explain over and over again what it actually is.

yes, but people who think the point of college is to learn specific facts somehow end up writing for Forbes.

"A business student can [read a book in a library] to explain supply chain optimization or [hire someone to] generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its [Gutenberg] moment."

There, fixed it.

The Presidential Records Act found its way into a toilet in Mar a Lago a LONG time ago...

Professor Popper has entered the chat!

yeah that tracks

Which tall mean Irish Catholic guy did you have for 8th grade Social Studies? The bald one or the other one?

"Racists who like to smoke weed."

Gonna break their hearts when you get to Scopes...

Remember When Things Were Better in the ’90s? A.I. Does Too.

This article is insipid and stupid, but the sub-head is worse. No one is "too young" to "fact check" things that happened before they can remember.

Maybe too lazy or ignorant, but not too young.

Entire professions exist to explain things you didn't live through.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/s...

I don't think people should be getting MBAs, but I would point out that there is nothing mutually exclusive about being a history major and going to business school.

But did he catch the Mario Savio reference?

Matt LeBlanc, best known as that guy in that ketchup commercial that one time

Ben Affleck, best known as that little kid on Voyage of the Mimi

I know this isn't the point, but there is no way that speech was written in the present century. Leaving aside the reprehensible views, the language itself is completely plagiarized from some early 20th century bullshitter.

I mean, Jason was just a wee pup then, so kudos to him for the article!

I too think of 1998 as "a little more than a decade" ago. Solidarity.

Reviews in American History, June 2021. Subtitle is "how I learned to quit worrying and love the decade," so that's the angle. If that's not it, his citations might contain what you're looking for.