Anthony Chaney

Thinking of this song again today.
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America America by Greg Grandin

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Dallas Texas #nokings

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A photograph of Louis Bamberger, seated on the right, wearing a mustache and bowler hat, and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, standing on the left, wearing a fur hat and shawl

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.

They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

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I'm having trouble loving my monsters—that is to say, my students, who have re-emerged, as if from some Ironman-like techno-rebuild, newly fortified behind a thick armor of machine language. Is there anyone in there anymore? How would I know?

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Nationwide 'Hands Off!' protests erupt against Trump and Musk Demonstrations took place across the country, uniting a myriad of criticisms of the Trump administration under one message: "Hands off!"

Demonstrations took place across the country, uniting a myriad of criticisms of the Trump administration under one message: "Hands off."

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Fort Worth Blues, 11/14-15/2024 Months before, when I bought the tickets, I was concerned about the dates and how I would feel. The first was for T Bone Burnett at a local listening room in my Dallas neighborhood called the Kessler Theater, and the second the next night for Leon Bridges and Charley Crockett at Dickie’s Arena, where they hold the annual Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo. The two dates fell on a Thursday and Friday, the week after the election. Would I be elated, my trust in the American electorate renewed? Or—well, we all know how it turned out.

Fort Worth Blues, 11/14-15/2024

Months before, when I bought the tickets, I was concerned about the dates and how I would feel. The first was for T Bone Burnett at a local listening room in my Dallas neighborhood called the Kessler Theater, and the second the next night for Leon Bridges and…

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Leon and Charley, an old photo that came up in my feed:

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Fort Worth Blues, 11/14-15/2024 | Society for US Intellectual History Months before, when I bought the tickets, I was concerned about the dates and how I would feel. The first was for T Bone Burnett at a local listening room in my Dallas neighborhood called the Kessler ...

“The promise of America is realized in its music,” T Bone Burnett, November 14, the Kessler Theater, Dallas, TX. My essay up at Society for US Intellectual History today: s-usih.org/2024/12/fort...

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The Poppy Acts: the agency of the non-human in Amitav Ghosh’s *Smoke and Ashes* | Society for US Intellectual History Once in a while, even in works of popular history, an author will raise the prospect that what happened twelve thousand years ago, during the so-called Agricultural Revolution, wasn't that humans dome...

What does it mean to see intelligence and historical agency in the non-human world? My essay on Amitav Ghosh’s Smoke and Ashes is up on the Society for US Intellectual History blog today: s-usih.org/2024/09/the-...

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RIP Alice Munro. One of the greats

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