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Stephen froze like a deer in the headlights and pretended to have connection issues because he unintentionally gave away the game plan.

“Plenary authority is complete, absolute power over a specific area or issue, with no significant limitations."

Show people this clip. This is an insane slip up.

Yes but we have been dealing with it, on and off, for two and a half centuries. Usually with a lower standard of living, by choice. Many good choices remain to us.

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In a way you can say that it wasn't ISI that led to the terrible debt crisis of the 1980s, but rather its sudden, sharp reversal during the mid and late 1970s. Blaming ISI for the crisis was always more of an ideological tactic than it was an empirical observation.

Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?

Welcome to Michaelmas Term!

Details of this term's #MondaySeminar are now available.

We kick off on 13th October with Duncan Kelly presenting his paper on "Seeing Politics through Time: The Grounds of Modern Politics c. 1848-1914", with a comment from Fernanda Gallo.

Ah, I see this post has crossed the Bad Faith Threshold: that indefinable moment on social media when people stop behaving as if you’re a normal human person who, say, loves your child and is making a mildly humorous observation, and start responding with wild criticisms and imagined slights.

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

I saw Dr Konkle at a conference and thanked her for this book, it’s magnificent

Its out in the world!

PSMEMM 11
𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞
Michael Stolberg

𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐭: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#CSMBR #PSMEMM #Body #Medicine #EarlyModern #Medicalhistory

Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-7 on Benton, They Called it Peace Roundtable Review 17-7 Lauren Benton, They Called it Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence (Princeton University Press, 2024). ISBN: 9780691248479. 6 October 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt17-7 |...

interesting Jervis forum on Lauren Benton's new book

issforum.org/roundtables/...

Here's the reality: Trump and Russell Vought know using the shutdown to punish Dem constituencies delivers a sadistic thrill to the MAGA base. But sating MAGA bloodlust alienates the middle. That's WH's core dilemma.

Exchange w/ @amandamarcotte.bsky.social on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Thank goodness, we found this incredibly reliable and sturdy trustworthy basket. Now to make the obviously intelligent choice of putting every single last egg in it.

I wouldn’t normally endorse AI prompts but these are indeed essential for all academics.

Ian McKellen giving this speech www.williamlanday.com/2017/02/28/s...

So 100 years ago they banned ideas from colleges and museums. States like AR, MS, and TN all banned a broad set of ideas they called "evolution."

What happened? A journalist investigated and found that many colleges suffered. Students left. Budgets fell.

But the teaching went on...

God, It's Brutal Out Here: lindseyadler.substack.com/p/god-its-br...

A wonderful timeline cleanse ♥️

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."

-Anne Frank

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Office of the President Dear Dartmouth community, As many of you know, Dartmouth was one of nine universities asked by the White House to give feedback by Oct. 20 on a draft of its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” I am deeply committed to Dartmouth’s academic mission and values and will always defend our fierce independence. You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves. Best, Sian Leah Beilock President

It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.

This looks like a great volume (due out Feb next year)! I'm really pleased that I was able to contribute a chapter. Mine is: "The Bastille and the Roundabout: Popular protest and the revolutionary past of the Gilets Jaunes"

🗃️ #FrenchHistory #SkyStorians

Hugh MacDiarmid, “I am the civilisation you are fighting for.”
But for England, David Hume was the main source of civilisation theory, as a move towards something less chauvinist, more dialogical.

“Currently, Massachusetts sends $4,846 more per capita to the federal government than it gets back. New Jersey and Washington are in the same position...Meanwhile, red states pocket $1.24 for every dollar they send to Washington. Blue states are essentially paying red states to undermine democracy.”

60!!

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Universities considering capitulating to the Trump “conditions” should use this real world example to understand they will simply be destroying their own institution. bsky.app/profile/nich...

United States may split into warring federal entities. Let’s side with the better one Recent developments contain the seeds of a United States divided into two competing federalisms – and even a potential civil war

Wow. @dougsaunders.bsky.social bluntly saying what needs to be said here. Gift link www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5a1c29c...

The great failure of legacy media is that it demands the assumption that both sides are arguing in good faith.

That is no longer true. And hasn't been for some time now.

And they still can't adjust to that fact, possibly out of the sense that their survival depends on NOT adjusting to it.