Mark R. Stoneman

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Apr 12, 2025 - The ink of political fiction is blood. – Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom, chap. 2.

Apr 12, 2025 - I saw the first hour of Fritz Lang’s “Hangmen also Die” (United Artists, 1943) tonight. The story, inspired by Reinhard …

Apr 10, 2025 - 📽️ I enjoyed “The Cape Town Affair” (South Africa, 1967), starring Claire Trevor, James Brolin, and Jacquelin Bisset. I’ve …

Apr 9, 2025 - 📽️ Watched “Affair in Trinidad” (Columbia Pictures, 1952), a murder–spy story starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. Was fun …

Apr 9, 2025 - The post-[1968] invasion regime in Czechoslovakia spoke of “normalization,” which nicely caught the spirit of the moment. What …

Apr 9, 2025 - 📽️ The last time I saw “Three Days of the Condor,” dir. Sydney Pollack (Paramount, 1975), was long enough ago that I …

Apr 8, 2025 - 📽️ Am watching “So Ends Our Night,” dir. John Cromwell (United Artists, 1941), a “story of people without passports” …

Apr 8, 2025 - I forgot how many things can be on a NH town and school election ballot. Still more boning up to do, and not a deep enough media scene to …

Apr 8, 2025 - Turns out some 800 people were at the protest I attended in Conway, NH, on Saturday.

Apr 7, 2025 - In a conversation about the information disorder we’re all grappling with, I found myself saying that the constant barrage of …

Apr 7, 2025 - 📽️ Watched a post–Cold War episode to the Harry Palmer films, “Bullet to Beijing” (1995). Michael Caine, the lead in the 1960s …

Apr 7, 2025 - 📽️ This evening I saw “Secret Agent,” dir. Alfred Hitchcock (UK, 1936). It was a box office hit in its time, but for me …

Apr 6, 2025 - Local clergy and faith leaders posted A Call to Justice, Mercy, and Peace (PDF) in our local newspaper yesterday. Its themes have been …

Apr 6, 2025 - 📽️ I watched “The King’s Speech” (2010) for the first time. It certainly lives up to all the praise it received 15 years …

Apr 5, 2025 - My sign is hiding a lot of the crowd. I haven't heard an official number, but preliminary counts suggest at least 500 for my small town. …

Apr 5, 2025 - Here’s a concise overview (in German) of the so-called economic arguments behind the orange narcissist’s tariffs: Patrick …

Apr 4, 2025 - 📽️ Just watched “Berlin Correspondent,” dir. Eugene Forde (20th Century Fox, 1942). It’s not so much about a reporter as …

Apr 4, 2025 - 📽️ For thievery and spying escapades set in the Blitz, “Counter-Espionage” (aka “The Lone Wolf in Scotland Yard”) …

Apr 4, 2025 - I joked cautiously with a neighbor who I think of as Republican or independent about Social Security worries. He told me that for him …

Apr 4, 2025 - I saw a license plate from Quebec in North Conway yesterday, the first in a long time. It was on a flatbed truck. Earlier in the week, I …

Apr 3, 2025 - 📽️ I enjoyed “Diplomatic Courier,” dir. Henry Hathaway (20th Century Fox, 1952) this evening, available at archive.org… and …

Apr 3, 2025 - Other countries will boycott us, and we’ll be consuming less because of fear about the economy. Meanwhile, His Royal Donaldliness will …

Apr 3, 2025 - “FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot to Just Sit Back and Enjoy Collapse of United States,” theonion.com….

Apr 2, 2025 - 💰 I’m old enough to have experienced both stagflation and recession, but never depression. I guess that 🤬🍊💩 is going to give me the …

Apr 2, 2025 - If Congress doesn’t resurrect itself as a coequal, independent branch of government that doesn’t delegate crucial decisions to …

Apr 2, 2025 - Congress needs to revoke Trump’s tariff authorities NOW.

Apr 2, 2025 - Chris York of the Kyiv Independent interviews historian Marci Shore on why she’s leaving Yale University for the University of …

Apr 1, 2025 - My son sent me a picture of a blurry coywolf running in front of his house this afternoon. This evening he had my young granddaughter say …

Apr 1, 2025 - I’ve been watching a lot of Cory Booker on the Senate floor since yesterday evening (but getting some sleep myself). Good to see the …

Mar 31, 2025 - 📽️ After watching Roberto Rossellini’s 1945 “Rome Open City” (Roma città aperta) this weekend, I’ve started on his …

Mar 31, 2025 - Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes!… Galileo: No. Unhappy the land where heroes are needed. – Bertolt Brecht, “Life of …

Mar 31, 2025 - Killing and Fueling Hatred

Mar 30, 2025 - I enjoy the short cartoons that @Freeonis makes about Russia’s war against Ukraine. The latest, “The Art of Ceasefire,” is …

Mar 30, 2025 - There will be a nation-wide protest on April 5 called Hands Off! Check out the map on handsoff2025.com for a town or city near you. …

Mar 29, 2025 - Timothy Snyder and the Existential Significance of History

Mar 29, 2025 - It did not hurt my feelings to see reports of a Putin limo going up in flames. I also enjoyed seeing how scared the president is of his own …

Mar 27, 2025 - Operator Starsky (@starskyua.bsky.social) talks with Ben Hodges about the current strategic situation in and around Ukraine. youtu.be… (19.5 …

Mar 26, 2025 - Democracy failed in Europe in the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s, and it is failing not only in much of Europe but in many parts of the world today. …

Mar 26, 2025 - Women's History, Union Work, Educational Ambitions, and More in a 1942 Photo

Mar 26, 2025 - Committing war crimes against Ukrainian POWs trains perpetrators to abuse their fellow citizens in custody back in the motherland. See …

Mar 26, 2025 - Micro.blog's European Server Option

Mar 25, 2025 - New York World-Telegram photograph by Fred Palumbo, 1964: Miss April Lou, teacher at PS 1, Manhattan, with six Chinese children, recent …

Mar 25, 2025 - When the American president and his national security adviser speak of fighting terrorism alongside Russia, what they are proposing to the …

Mar 25, 2025 - “A lonely Ukrainian stork is waiting for his girlfriend and thousands of people are watching live” https://kyivindependent.com…. …

Mar 24, 2025 - The good thing about the security lapse revealed today is that many are talking about it instead of about the administration’s sadism …

Mar 24, 2025 - When we take an active interest in matters of doubtful relevance at moments that are chosen by tyrants and spooks, we participate in the …

Mar 24, 2025 - You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This renunciation of …

Mar 23, 2025 - CB Radio Cards and Sociability

Mar 23, 2025 - I’ve heard historian Timothy Snyder a lot in the past several years thanks to his fantastic public speaking, captured in freely …

Mar 23, 2025 - YWCA War Work Council poster, ca. 1917 (United States)   Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002707403

Mar 22, 2025 - Institute for the Study of War: “US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff uncritically amplified a number of Russian demands, …

Mar 22, 2025 - Just arrived from Berlin to an empty Dulles airport in DC. Assumed because Heathrow outage. “No,” says my WashFlyer cabbie, the …

Mar 22, 2025 - I heard the term deadcatting for the first time today.1 It means employing a shocking distraction to pull peoples' eyes away from what …

Mar 22, 2025 - It’s not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way and for the same purpose—blatantly, to assert power over …

Mar 22, 2025 - “If it’s good, let it be killed.” – Trump’s Insecure Ego Example no. 100,001: “Is planting trees …

Mar 22, 2025 - Trump’s supporters, who felt increasingly anxious or displaced in the prevailing consensus reality, could see what was happening. But those …

Mar 21, 2025 - "Girl with Blue Hair" by Blanche Grambs. Lithograph signed by artist, ca. 1935–43. Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art Collection, …

Mar 20, 2025 - The Trump administration is slashing the State Department’s annual human rights report — cutting sections about the rights of women, the …

Mar 20, 2025 - A lot of talk about the shadow library Libgen today in my socials because of Meta. In this context, Molly White has recommended an …

Mar 20, 2025 - “Mexican miner’s wife and child are visited by another miner’s wife (Hungarian) who is interested in starting a maternal …

Mar 19, 2025 - Carl T. Bergstrom, a professor of biology at the University of Washington, has written an excellent thread about his and his colleagues' …

Mar 19, 2025 - Prices going up while the White House shrinks the economy. If stagflation is the goal, these people are geniuses.⛓️‍💥

Mar 19, 2025 - Gaullism, loosely defined, long struck me as a French eccentricity that simply was. Now Trump’s and Vance’s posturing places …

Mar 19, 2025 - More animated satire by @Freeonis: “Oval Deception” (3 min.) at youtu.be…. Use the closed caption button (cc) for subtitles.🇺🇦

Mar 18, 2025 - Brilliant new set by Josh Johnson: “The Only Way to Survive a Recession” (43 min) youtu.be…. 📺

Mar 18, 2025 - Putin Playing Trump for a Fool Again

Mar 18, 2025 - The rivers are full to bursting with melted snow and ice where I live, but there’s still snow, especially at higher elevations, and I …

Mar 17, 2025 - “After Trump DEI Order, Navajo Code Talkers Disappear From Military Websites,” www.axios.com…. From 1942 to 1945, the Navajo …

Mar 16, 2025 - A 1943 Photo of Welders for Women's History Month

Mar 16, 2025 - The snow is both melting and evaporating into a fog.

Mar 16, 2025 - America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp. – George Takei

Mar 16, 2025 - Seen in grocery store: Old guy prolly dependent on Social Security, etc., wearing a black windbreaker marked ICE. Maybe supposed to look …

Mar 15, 2025 - “JACL condemns Trump erasure of 442nd and 100th Infantry Battalion,” asnews.com…. “The 100th and 442nd remain the most …

Mar 15, 2025 - Started rereading a little book I enjoyed when it first came out: Brooke Gladstone, The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in …

Mar 15, 2025 - “Idaho Teacher Told To Remove ‘Everyone Is Welcome Here’ Sign From Classroom,” www.today.com… There are only two …

Mar 14, 2025 - Poster from an Antiwar, Lesbian, Feminist Fugitive, ca. 1970

Mar 14, 2025 - I do not understand Democratic caucus politics in the U.S. Senate, but it seems to me that if Sen. Schumer lost the majority of his caucus …

Mar 14, 2025 - Deeply disappointed in the votes of my two senators for cloture and for submitting to a GOP budget that will harm New Hampshire’s …

Mar 14, 2025 - This change says a lot about the ambitions and delusions of the current Trumpy regime: Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information …

Mar 13, 2025 - Sometimes I hate my state: “NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates,” …

Mar 13, 2025 - Joe Stieb has posted some good history recommendations to help counter Hegseth’s bizarre scrubbing of Department of Defense webpages …

Mar 13, 2025 - The pictures of Putin in Kursk wearing military garb instead of the suit we’ve been seeing him in lately were interesting. It’s …

Mar 13, 2025 - Too many clocks around here that need resetting after a time change, and I forgot that someone born a few decades before me might be using …

Mar 12, 2025 - Blog categories again: One overarching theme seems to be justice, although I haven’t made it explicit. Maybe it’s time to change …

Mar 12, 2025 - Tata Kepler, a Ukrainian volunteer and activist, gave a powerful address to the European Parliament on International Women’s Day. She …

Mar 12, 2025 - I’ve been tweaking the blog’s categories again, and not all posts are caught up with the changes. This happens with living …

Mar 12, 2025 - An explainer for journalists that the rest of us can benefit from: “Understanding Information Disorder” by Claire Wardle, …

Mar 11, 2025 - Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, July 18, 2015: Members of the Native American Women Warriors, a Pueblo, Colorado-based association of active …

Mar 10, 2025 - Enjoyed a Ukrainian concert tonight that Jerry Heil gave in Kyiv last March. Lots of kids in the audience who knew the words, youtu.be….🎵🇺🇦

Mar 10, 2025 - “Trump Says Recession Unfortunate but Necessary Step to Get to Depression,” The Onion, March 10, 2025, theonion.com….

Mar 10, 2025 - Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat offers valuable, but concerning insights into the current disordered information spaces we live in: conversation …

Mar 10, 2025 - Warm enough to eat outside today!

Mar 10, 2025 - Ukraine has been proving the value of U.S. arms these past three years. Now Trump is using Ukraine to demonstrate the achilles heel of …

Mar 10, 2025 - This is bad: “US to stop participating in future military exercises in Europe, Swedish media reports,” Kyiv Independent, March …

Mar 9, 2025 - 📺 I’m in the middle of “The Eastern Gate” [Przesmyk], TV miniseries (Poland, 2025), a gripping and topical spy drama …

Mar 9, 2025 - If you pretend this isn’t real, it’s very exciting. – Laurie Kilmartin on “Have I Got New for You” (U.S.), s. …

Mar 9, 2025 - Only Orange Choad could side with the Russian Bear and think that doing so makes him look strong. #RussoUkrainianWar …

Mar 8, 2025 - 📽️ Watched an excellent film set in the 1930s: “Cradle Will Rock,” dir. Tim Robbins (Touchstone, 1999). Strange to think that …

Mar 8, 2025 - Women and Children Working in New York City Tenement Homes, 1908

Mar 8, 2025 - The title of this cover from a prominent German news weekly borrows from a famous Ronald Reagan quote: “Axis of Evil” (Die Achse …

Mar 7, 2025 - Apropos of Russia’s meat assaults, which throw their soldiers' lives callously away: In the town of Polyarnye Zori in Russia’s …

Mar 7, 2025 - A New Era for Women Workers, Minority Women and Lesbians. 1976 poster by a Seattle organization called Radical Women. Via Library of …

Mar 6, 2025 - Does Felonious Husk even think about the probable consequences of his reliance on self-dealt government contracts come the midterm …

Mar 6, 2025 - French Senator Claude Malhuret describes what’s happening in the United States in stark terms and explains the consequences of …

Mar 6, 2025 - Sad, but sensible for a country in their position: “Lithuania sends ‘strategic message’ as it leaves cluster munitions …

Mar 5, 2025 - British “Votes for Women” postcard (stamped 1912) that centers on solidarity across social class and age. The purple, green, and …

Mar 5, 2025 - Conflating Business Acumen, Reality TV Stardom, Electoral Politics, and Governance

Mar 4, 2025 - Conscription, Industrial Mobilization, and the Russo-Ukrainian War

Mar 4, 2025 - Knock-Out Blow to the Russian Bear: Postcard from 1904–05

Mar 4, 2025 - As our government ramps up its war on its own people, not to mention the free world, I am finding it really difficult to focus.😱

Mar 3, 2025 - Not looking forward to higher fuel and food prices here in Northern New England just because Orange Turd doesn’t understand how …

Mar 3, 2025 - Two Suffragettes

Mar 3, 2025 - Sometimes you got to Ukrainesplain shit to people. – Roy Wood Jr., “Have I Got News for You,” season 2, episode 3, …

Mar 3, 2025 - Playing Putin’s lapdog isn’t a good look for Trump. His ass is too big for the terrorist. But he is just as uselessly loud as …

Mar 3, 2025 - “U.S. military removes words ‘history,’ ‘respect,’ ‘dignity’ from digital presence as part of DEI …

Mar 3, 2025 - This Italian fascist poster prefigures the disgusting rhetoric of Putin and Trump: “On them rests the blame!” by Gino Boccasile, …

Mar 2, 2025 - “Stamp ‘em out! Buy U.S. stamps and bonds.” Poster by Thomas A. Byrne. WPA War Services of La., circa 1941–43. Via Library …

Mar 2, 2025 - Watching videos of my granddaughter tear up the dance floor at a wedding reception. So much joy in that beautiful little human!

Mar 2, 2025 - The Kyiv Independent’s Anna Belokur packs a lot into one of the best comments I’ve seen about the Trump-Vance debacle during …

Mar 1, 2025 - 📽️ Watched “Il conformista” [The Conformist], dir. Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy, 1970). The first half stitches together vignettes …

Mar 1, 2025 - “Gladys” by Will Barnet, 1936, for the Federal Art Project NYC WPA. Signed, dated, and stamped print from engraving. Via the …

Feb 28, 2025 - If we as U.S. citizens find the resolve to oppose Orange Oaf’s foreign policy, especially with regard to Ukraine and Russia, we will …

Feb 28, 2025 - I see why Orange Oaf chose the VP that he did. The current VP is the worst. His assholery is unequaled.

Feb 28, 2025 - 🇺🇦 Friends of Ukraine might learn something from how the Second World War was portrayed in American movie theaters before the attack on …

Feb 28, 2025 - Zelensky is 1,000 times more a man, leader, and patriot than Trump and Putin will ever be. #FuckTrump #ПутінІдиНахуй #ScrewOligarchy …

Feb 28, 2025 - 📽️ “Conclave,” dir. Edward Berger (USA/UK, 2024), is one helluva good movie. Made differently, the same story could have yielded …

Feb 28, 2025 - 📽️ “Cloak and Dagger,” dir. Fritz Lang (Warner Bros., 1946), is good as a thriller and as a war film. Unfortunately, it never …

Feb 27, 2025 - 📽️ If you want to watch a thriller set in 1939 before Germany’s invasion of Poland, “Man Hunt,” dir. Fritz Lang (20th …

Feb 27, 2025 - 😷 Got an email from the hospital in Berlin, NH, saying that masks are currently mandated there again. Encouraging to see the health of their …

Feb 27, 2025 - 🇺🇦 Excellent development: “Ukraine Is Jamming Russian Glide Bombs All Along The Front Line, Erasing One Of Russia’s Main Battlefield …

Feb 26, 2025 - 📽️ Watched “‘Pimpernel’ Smith,” dir. Leslie Howard (British National Films, 1941), which imagines The Scarlet …

Feb 26, 2025 - Today’s so-called conservatives would do well to read Edmund Burke on the French Revolution. He was conservative. Republicans are …

Feb 26, 2025 - We’re going to end up spending many more billions to rebuild much needed governmental functionality than any savings ostensibly netted …

Feb 26, 2025 - A lot of veterans have (or had) civil service jobs. Do Orange & Cyberwreck think they can mistreat veterans and currently serving …

Feb 26, 2025 - 'Judgement' by John MacWhirter for the WPA, ca. 1935–43

Feb 25, 2025 - Good piece on the role of Black children and youth in the civil rights movement: “Hidden Herstory: The Leesburg Stockade Girls” …

Feb 25, 2025 - 📽️ I am really enjoying Irene Dunne in her old comedies, most recently “Lady in a Jam,” dir. Gregory La Cava (Universal, 1942). …

Feb 25, 2025 - Good piece: “The history and resurgence of The Transexual Menace” by Riki Wilchins and Denise Norris, Gay City News, February …

Feb 25, 2025 - Jen Psaki offers a glimmer of hope in the face of Orange & Cyberfruck’s shock and awe program. “Pushback is coming from …

Feb 25, 2025 - Kamala Harris speaking at the NAACP Image Awards: youtu.be…. This is leadership.

Feb 25, 2025 - “Theodora Goes Wild,” dir. Richard Boleslawski (Columbia Pictures, 1936) is great fun. It roasts performative morality, gossip, …

Feb 25, 2025 - An Example of White Terror Depicted in WPA Art

Feb 24, 2025 - A message to Putin from my car’s rear end. The same goes for his White House asset. #RussiaIsATerroristState #SupportUkraine …

Feb 24, 2025 - “Spirituals” by Lillien Richter for the Works Progress Administration, ca. 1935–43. Print from engraving, signed by artist, via …

Feb 24, 2025 - “What Felt Impossible Became Possible,” dansinker.com…. Some stood up to the seemingly unstoppable Ku Klux Klan resurgence of …

Feb 23, 2025 - 📺 I really enjoy the U.S. iteration of “Have I Got News For You.” Roy Wood Jr., the host, is brilliant. I was missing Amber …

Feb 23, 2025 - If the FDP doesn’t make it back into the Bundestag, and if Scholz is gone, maybe this early election will have been worth it. Much …

Feb 23, 2025 - Do I dare check the election news from Germany? Lots of opportunities to chip away at support for Ukraine on the left and the right.😬🇺🇦 …

Feb 23, 2025 - The way “Suffragette” depicts the use of social pressure to make and then ostracize a working class suffragette, drive her out …

Feb 23, 2025 - “Make Ukraine Guilty Again” – short cartoon by Freeonis, youtu.be…. Turn on closed captions for English subtitles.🇺🇦

Feb 22, 2025 - Pre–World War Two Pictures from the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature

Feb 22, 2025 - “First day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine captured in images,” AP News, February 22, 2025, apnews.com….🇺🇦 …

Feb 22, 2025 - One of my go-to mental, musical, and emotional escapes these past few years has been “The Voice of Ukraine” on YouTube. Suck it, …

Feb 22, 2025 - From Maine: “Governor Mills’ Statement on Notice of Investigation From U.S. Department of Education,” www.maine.gov…. No …

Feb 22, 2025 - 📽️ A well reviewed historical drama is streaming on Paramount+ in the United States: “Suffragette,” dir. Sarah Gavron (UK, …

Feb 22, 2025 - 'Ship of Fools' (1965 Film Set in 1933)

Feb 22, 2025 - 'The Iron Curtain' (1948 Spy Film)

Feb 21, 2025 - Anyone in the current U.S. administration who thinks Ukraine will accede to their weird demands has not been paying attention.🇺🇦 …

Feb 20, 2025 - Operator Starsky takes time out to fact-check the recent stupefying utterances on Ukraine by the U.S. president because friends don’t …

Feb 20, 2025 - 🏳️‍⚧️ The U.S. federal government has opened public comments on its dehumanizing passport regulations vis-à-vis trans people. These comments …

Feb 19, 2025 - 'When you're famous, they let you . . .'

Feb 18, 2025 - 'A Bit of War History' – Three Paintings by Thomas Waterman Wood (1865–66)

Feb 18, 2025 - The U.S.–Russia talks in Saudi Arabia have proven once again that Ukraine is ground zero for the war against democracy. Unfortunately, the …

Feb 18, 2025 - The pope is ill. Who will Orange Ogre replace him with? Perchance himself? /sarcasm

Feb 17, 2025 - Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it …

Feb 17, 2025 - The federal government is now using force to suppress knowledge of the history of violence against Black people. Remembering the past is too …

Feb 17, 2025 - Intersections: three photos of Ernestine Eckstein in a 1965 picket line outside the White House protesting Federal discrimination against …

Feb 16, 2025 - Who’s going to be the first cabinet member to go? Rubio because of the impossible negotiating position his boss and colleagues have …

Feb 16, 2025 - 📽️ I had fun watching the pre-Code “This is the Night,” dir. Frank Tuttle (Paramount, 1932). Its primary purpose was to be a bit …

Feb 16, 2025 - 🎙️ On one of my long drives last week, I heard Timothy Snyder talk about freedom in a helpful way in the “Explaining Ukraine” …

Feb 16, 2025 - A barrage of stupid is making it nearly impossible to see or think clearly, let alone argue cogently and persuade. M. Gessen offers a …

Feb 15, 2025 - “Daisy Bates takes a walk – Activist Daisy Bates picketing with placard: ‘Jailing our youth will not solve the problem in Little …

Feb 15, 2025 - Anders Puck Nielsen looks at the current U.S. administration’s (non)understanding of the Russo-Ukrainian War and offers reasons for …

Feb 15, 2025 - Make America a reviled laughingstock! MAARL isn’t as catchy as MAGA, but it’s more accurate. And it captures something of the …

Feb 15, 2025 - Felonious Husk underlings fire bird flu, not realizing it is a crucial ally in their effort to destroy the country.

Feb 15, 2025 - “Two Boys” by Getel Kahn, color print, ca. 1935–43. Note the books the boy in red has slung over his shoulder. Via NYPL, …

Feb 14, 2025 - I’ve eliminated a lot of categories that I’d rather keep as tags, if my host Micro.blog had tags. While I wait to see if that …

Feb 14, 2025 - The plot of “The Manchurian Candidate” relied on a convoluted brainwashing technique to get an American to attack his own …

Feb 14, 2025 - “Murray Hill Hotel, Manhattan” by Berenice Abbott on November 19, 1935, for her “Changing New York” Federal Art …

Feb 13, 2025 - Despite Russia’s unrelenting propaganda, Ukraine is not a U.S. client state, and NATO is not a U.S. client organization, not even when …

Feb 13, 2025 - Let the great eugenicist experiment begin! RFK Jr.’s terrifying Senate confirmation puts the U.S. withdrawal from the WHO in a foul …

Feb 13, 2025 - If Gulf of Mexico = Gulf of America If America = Great Again Then Gulf of Mexico = Gulf of Great Again

Feb 13, 2025 - 📽️ Watched “The Deadly Affair,” dir. Sidney Lumet (UK, 1967), a spy thriller based on John le Carré’s 1961 debut novel, …

Feb 11, 2025 - It must be rough to have many billions but to not know love, friendship, or respect.

Feb 11, 2025 - “Why Has Transphobia Gone Mainstream in Philosophy?” by Samantha Hancox-Li, Contingent Magazine, October 1, 2019, …

Feb 11, 2025 - Diplomacy 101: Orange Oaf’s threats are going to lose their value as fast as Putin’s nuclear saber rattling has. It sure would …

Feb 11, 2025 - Sounds like artillery fire. Guess I’m close to Aberdeen Proving Ground. That, or things in DC are escalating.

Feb 10, 2025 - “When this is all over, Adams Morgan, Washington, DC” by Tracy Meehleib, April 8, 2020. Via Library of Congress, …

Feb 10, 2025 - Orange Oaf is setting up a mediocre cadre of leaders who will only tell him YES. And why not? This approach has been working out real well …

Feb 10, 2025 - Translations from MAGA to English: merit – good-for-nothing meritocracy – mediocracy patriot – sucker taxpayer – sucker

Feb 10, 2025 - 📽️ Watched an antifascist drama set in the time before the United States was at war with Germany, “Watch on the Rhine,” dir. …

Feb 10, 2025 - It’s hard to look at the coming constitutional crisis and not think of Prussia’s constitutional crisis of 1858–64. But instead …

Feb 10, 2025 - I don’t understand how tariffs are supposed to foster American industry. How is investing in a country led by a criminal lunatic a …

Feb 9, 2025 - I don’t know how the Republican party comes back from their fascism, however long the affair lasts, without some thorough …

Feb 9, 2025 - 📽️ Rewatching “Mrs. Miniver,” dir. William Wyler (UK, 1942) for the first time in maybe 20 years. In its day it was an effective …

Feb 8, 2025 - Photo of Mixed Race Sociability in Jim Crow Washington, DC, 1944

Feb 8, 2025 - The one who deals the blow forgets. The one who carries the scar remembers. – Haitian proverb* * Quoted in Jonathan M. Katz, Gangsters of …

Feb 8, 2025 - What’s the U.S. version of “banana republic”? “Orange republic”?

Feb 8, 2025 - World War Two Poster Marking the Dignity and Humanity of Black Women on the Home Front

Feb 7, 2025 - Listening to Woody Guthrie, Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti, archive.org…. 🎶

Feb 7, 2025 - Books Are Weapons – World War Two poster by NYC WPA War Services promoting knowledge about Black history and culture, the war's colonial …

Feb 6, 2025 - This is not a book I would have considered controversial even two weeks ago. Now I'm not so sure. Imagine having it on your desk in the …

Feb 6, 2025 - I don’t get it. With the Abraham Accords from last time and now the changed situation in Lebanon and Syria, His Royal Orangliness …

Feb 6, 2025 - 📺 Is “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” (1970–77) too subversive for this administration? “Good Times” (1974–79) too Black? …

Feb 6, 2025 - Meritocracy (U.S.) – a social, economic, and political system that uses the law to remove those people from view who orange boss prez gets …

Feb 6, 2025 - “WPA Rhythm Band” by Elisabeth Olds, 1937. I love how dynamic this image is, like her “Harlem WPA Street Dance” from …

Feb 5, 2025 - Xi Jinping must be feeling really good. Putin’s worn down his army in a bid to end Ukrainian state- and nationhood. Felonious Husk is …

Feb 5, 2025 - “Harlem WPA Street Dance” by Elisabeth Olds, 1937. Signed and dated print, Federal Art Project, NYC WPA, via Schomburg Center …

Feb 5, 2025 - Not a bad drive, but still something of a forced march from the White Mountains to the great city that hosts the institutions under attack …

Feb 4, 2025 - Ethnic cleansing as daring do—if Orange Donald’s own country doesn’t move to try him and his collaborators in the end, …

Feb 4, 2025 - King Donald as nation builder in the Middle East. It’ll be a snap with the U.S. armed forces at his command. He just needs a few more …

Feb 4, 2025 - How are kids supposed to plan for next year? Pell grants and student loans? Not if Felonious Husk has his way. Daddy Donald there to provide …

Feb 4, 2025 - This will not end well for Felonious Husk. I just wish he wasn’t so intent on taking the rest of us with him.

Feb 4, 2025 - People who are only leaving Twitter now: Are you okay? I can’t imagine the amount of noxious nonsense you were exposed to over the …

Feb 4, 2025 - Felonious Musk is having a ball, while Donald Dingus performs for us all. Presidenting is the biggliest shit. Don’t steal my show or …

Feb 3, 2025 - Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration, 1942 or 1943. Library of Congress, …

Feb 3, 2025 - The fighting spirit and actions announced here are a breath of fresh air: “Congressional Democrats on Trump Admin. Closing USAID …

Feb 3, 2025 - Bonds and justice will smash the Nazis, not bondage! World War Two poster – The word "bonds" can work three ways here: the bonds or chains …

Feb 2, 2025 - Democratic U.S. allies are going to need to find ways to stand up to the United States, whose government is being captured by Rocket Man, …

Feb 2, 2025 - Eighteen Points toward Strength and Solidarity in a Time of Fear and Despair

Feb 2, 2025 - Unsexy Tariffs Matter

Feb 2, 2025 - I’m streaming my mother’s church service to her in the living room. On a Facetime call, my three-year-old granddaughter asked …

Feb 2, 2025 - Great remarks by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last night on the unconscionable tariffs announced by President Man Baby: https://youtu.be…. …

Jan 31, 2025 - I plainly have a cold. On a video chat, my granddaughter reported that she had a lot of boogers in her nose too.

Jan 31, 2025 - Just now reading a bit about the student protests in Serbia against government corruption. Inspiring stuff, both the students' actions and …

Jan 31, 2025 - Orange Oaf’s ongoing assault on American democracy is ironically narrowing our attention to America first.

Jan 31, 2025 - 📽️ I rewatched “Amsterdam,” dir. David Russell (New Regency, 2022) because machinations in and around the current administration …

Jan 31, 2025 - Shit is Getting Conspiratorially Dark

Jan 31, 2025 - I love this image of reading. We’ve all been there, if not with a donkey in tow. Source: [Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties] by …

Jan 31, 2025 - The AHA’s members and their colleagues teach students how to think, not what to think. Preparing future generations to read, think, and …

Jan 31, 2025 - The historyofknowledge.net domain is no longer live. Use historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org instead. I’m in the process of checking and …

Jan 30, 2025 - Am digging the increase in Pixelfed posts boosted into my Mastodon timeline lately. The fediverse rules.

Jan 30, 2025 - Listening to the original cast recording of Marc Blitzstein’s “The Cradle Will Rock,” (Musicraft, 1938), youtu.be…. 🎭 🎶

Jan 29, 2025 - Inspiring Photo from 1971 for Our Troubled Times

Jan 29, 2025 - I’m terrible at memes, but poking fun at the oaf is never not fun.

Jan 29, 2025 - If you choose not to continue in your current role in the cult, we thank you for your service to your Dead God, and you will be provided …

Jan 29, 2025 - If Merz thinks he can control the AfD, he should remember that parliamentary elections have consequences, and political predictions are …

Jan 29, 2025 - PS: The joyful picture of Barbara Gittings I posted earlier today came from the private sphere, but even their private moment was political. …

Jan 29, 2025 - Maybe 4 in (10 cm) of snow last night. Not as good as down on the Gulf of Mexico, but still something.

Jan 29, 2025 - Where is big pharma on a Sec RFK Jr for HHS? Do they really want to work with dozens of different health departments because there are no …

Jan 29, 2025 - Photo of Joy and Love, 1962

Jan 28, 2025 - “One of the many young newsboys selling late at night…, November 1912” by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor …

Jan 28, 2025 - Orange Ogre’s economic warfare on poor people and blue states undermines the rationale for a federally administered income tax. Why …

Jan 28, 2025 - We haven’t had enough fresh snow lately, so wind on the dry roads, driveways, and parking lots is kicking up a lot of sand, salt, and …

Jan 27, 2025 - Thinking of a member of Orange Oaf's cast of terrible characters… Don't Kill Our Wild Life – Department of the Interior, National Park …

Jan 27, 2025 - Group portrait of a Tuskegee Airmen squadron, U.S. Army Air Corps, ca. 1939–45. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL Digital …

Jan 26, 2025 - “Air Force says recruits will again learn about Tuskegee Airmen” by Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, January 26, 2025. …

Jan 26, 2025 - Office of Strategic Services, Simple Sabotage Field Manual (Washington, DC, 1944) via the Internet Archive.

Jan 26, 2025 - Feel like I could use a little American history, starting with Amy S. Greenberg, A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. …

Jan 25, 2025 - “From Maine to Florida. The Annual Migration of the Bathing-Girl.” By Gordon Ross for Puck, January 11, 1911. Library of …

Jan 25, 2025 - Quoth Aviel Roshwald: “It’s not officially fascist until one could be shot for saying that it is.” /sarcasm 🫠

Jan 25, 2025 - Quoth Darth Putin: “Chomsky: Greenland is clearly in US sphere of influence. Denmark should trade land for peace. Mearsheimer: Great …

Jan 25, 2025 - Valuable multilingual resource: “Immigrants' Rights,” www.aclu.org….

Jan 25, 2025 - Sergio Olmos, “A surprising immigration raid in Kern County foreshadows what awaits farmworkers and businesses,” Cal Matters, …

Jan 25, 2025 - Finished reading Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (Norton, 2020). Highly recommended. Good antidote to feelings of …

Jan 25, 2025 - Valuing loyalty over expertise and allowing violence to become an end in itself can result in a deprofessionalized and demoralized …

Jan 25, 2025 - “Heeding Trump, Air Force won’t teach recruits about Tuskegee Airmen” by Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express News, …

Jan 24, 2025 - According to Politico, Vance broke a tie vote for the Colon-in-Chief’s choice of Sec Def. All Democrats opposed Hegseth. Three …

Jan 24, 2025 - Senate Majority Leader John Thune sure has some strange notions about military professionalism. (“Senate is preparing to confirm …

Jan 24, 2025 - “Apple Intelligence to Be Enabled on All Compatible Devices” by Adam Engst, TidBITS, January 24, 2025, tidbits.com. At least it …

Jan 24, 2025 - The totalitarian impulse evident in Orange Oaf’s efforts to put federal employees—and Republican legislators—through a loyalty test …

Jan 24, 2025 - Digital Transgender Archive – Trans History, Linked www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net. 🏳️‍⚧️

Jan 24, 2025 - “‘Make a Molotov Cocktail’: How Europeans Are Recruited through Telegram to Commit Sabotage, Arson, and Murder,” …

Jan 24, 2025 - Pro-Immigration Cartoon, 1903

Jan 23, 2025 - Sharpies seem like a pretty good metaphor for a manbaby’s presidency.

Jan 22, 2025 - I’m trying to remember how long it took me to get used to Orange Oaf in the White House last time. Was it six years? Longer? It took …

Jan 21, 2025 - Snapshot of frost on the inside of my windshield this morning

Jan 21, 2025 - It was a treat to see my granddaughter and other adults in her life this weekend.

Jan 21, 2025 - I’ve learned that the writing app Ulysses does not support alt text. Strange omission for software that is supposed to support …

Jan 20, 2025 - Deactivated my Facebook account without deleting it outright because Messenger.

Jan 20, 2025 - 😃 Roy Wood Jr. on “Masculine Commercials,” youtu.be… (6 min).

Jan 20, 2025 - Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind). – Susie Dent …

Jan 20, 2025 - Now that I’m more than 20 years older than Martin Luther King, Jr., ever had a chance to become, his youth at the time of his murder …

Jan 20, 2025 - Sherrilyn Ifill, “It Is MLK Day. Do Not Despair. This Year Especially, We Have Work To Do.” sherrilyn.substack.com…

Jan 19, 2025 - One of the pieces I linked to in my previous post is a “must read” about scientific speculation and its selective dissemination …

Jan 19, 2025 - This funny old German postcard about “the end of the world” caught my attention because of tomorrow’s big event in …

Jan 19, 2025 - Democratic heads of state often see their departures from office as an opportunity to build on their leadership legacy. The authoritarian …

Jan 19, 2025 - 📺 Smart analysis by Anders Puck Nielsen on the dangers of unrealistic expectations for forthcoming talks to end the Russo-Ukrainian War: …

Jan 18, 2025 - Poster: Cartoon of the German and Italian dictators trying to cobble together what was left of their obscene project in 1945. Source: …

Jan 17, 2025 - I have some sympathy for Orange One’s fear of the cold. He’s an emperor with no clothes, after all.

Jan 17, 2025 - So much cringe, but Rebecca Shaw’s telling made me laugh. 😬😅 “I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down …

Jan 17, 2025 - “Proposed Legislation Threatens a Backslide on U.S. Democracy” by Samantha Karlin, newlinesmag.com…, January 16, 2025. Lede: …

Jan 16, 2025 - News told in the future tense or conditional mood does nothing but increase my anxiety about our uncertain future, and I can do that all on …

Jan 16, 2025 - Feeling sick about next Monday, January 20. Fortunately, I’ll be with family and nowhere near a TV.

Jan 15, 2025 - James Ball, “Is Anyone Out There?,” Prospect, September 14, 2024, www.prospectmagazine.co.uk…. Lede: “Dead Internet Theory …

Jan 13, 2025 - 📽️ I am surprised by how much I enjoyed “Jojo Rabbit,” dir. Taika Waititi (Fox Searchlight, 2019)—its overall sensibility; …

Jan 13, 2025 - The new version of MacPaw’s CleanMyMac (the successor to CleanMyMac X) is unusable for me. The features sound good, but the animations …

Jan 13, 2025 - Color photo by Jack Delano of kids skating and playing hockey on a pond in the vicinity of Brockton, Massachusetts, in December 1940. …

Jan 12, 2025 - By creating nodes of empathy and anger, social media helps to overcome the cynicism and paralyzing fear that authoritarian states foster. …

Jan 11, 2025 - Are the settings to deactivate or delete one’s Facebook account impossible to find because Meta doesn’t want this to happen? Or …

Jan 11, 2025 - 📽️ Arte is streaming classic postwar Italian cinema at the moment. I watched “Bellissima,” dir. Luchino Visconti (Italy, 1951), …

Jan 11, 2025 - “Review and Evaluation—Tulsa Race Massacre,” by the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, January 10, 2025. …

Jan 10, 2025 - I watched the Ukrainian movie “Sniper: The White Raven,” dir. Maryan Bushan (Ukraine, 2022), which was filmed before …

Jan 9, 2025 - “To the Man on the Northeast Regional” by Charlotte Clymer, charlotteclymer.substack.com… 🏳️‍⚧️

Jan 9, 2025 - I’m assuming the poignant service for Jimmy Carter in the National Cathedral went over TFG’s head and he got bored. Mercifully, …

Jan 8, 2025 - I love the art deco lettering on this modernist “Air Show” building from the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, “A Century …

Jan 8, 2025 - Public Domain Image Archive, pdimagearchive.org.

Jan 8, 2025 - “Digitization Complete for World-Renowned Franco Novacco Map Collection,” www.newberry.org…. Newly digitized map collection …

Jan 8, 2025 - 📺 Comedian Josh Johnson does it again with a new 45-minute set called “Why They’re Turning on Elon.” As always, he gets where …

Jan 7, 2025 - Had to cut short a walk this afternoon because I was not dressed for the wind, which was making 19°F / -7°C feel like 5°F / -15°C.

Jan 7, 2025 - Zuckerberg’s post today makes me extra glad I dropped Threads in October. I just wish more people had had Fediverse-sharing enabled at …

Jan 6, 2025 - Besides marking a massive mob attack on the Capitol four years ago, this date reminds me of the early signs of the coronavirus pandemic a …

Jan 6, 2025 - Women installing assemblies and fixtures in the tail fuselage of a B-17F bomber (Flying Fortress) under construction at the Douglas Aircraft …

Jan 5, 2025 - 🇺🇦 Excellent satirical primer on the Russo-Ukrainian War: a half hour of military and foreign policy animations by @Freeonis in 2024 (in …

Jan 5, 2025 - Poster from the Spanish Civil War, ca. 1936–39. The main text reads, “We charge the rebels as assassins! Innocent children and …

Jan 4, 2025 - A book that manages to historicize a century of strongman regimes in an accessible and readable way while maintaining intellectual and …

Jan 4, 2025 - Strongman regimes … turn the economy into an instrument of leader wealth creation, but also encourage changes in ethical and behavioral …

Jan 4, 2025 - 21°F / -6°C outside with a real feel of 11°F / -11.5°C, and people are still ordering iced coffee drinks.

Jan 3, 2025 - Who would the strongman past and present be without those crowds that form the raw material of his propaganda? His secret is that he needs …

Jan 3, 2025 - Propaganda is also a system of attention management that works through repetition. – Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen, chap. 5.

Jan 3, 2025 - At its core, propaganda is a set of communication strategies designed to sow confusion and uncertainty, discourage critical thinking, and …

Jan 3, 2025 - Molly White, “Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia,” www.citationneeded.news…

Jan 2, 2025 - I enjoyed rewatching “Saboteur,” dir. Alfred Hitchcock (Universal Pictures, 1942). It offers plenty of action and suspense from …

Dec 31, 2024 - “The old and the new” – front-page cartoon by Bryant Baker for Puck, December 28, 1910. Source: Library of Congress, …

Dec 30, 2024 - “What Is Salting, the Organizing Tactic Spicing Up the Labor Movement?” by Kim Kelly www.teenvogue.com…

Dec 28, 2024 - In the United States, “January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1924!" …

Dec 28, 2024 - Hitler had been in his early twenties when he made an important discovery. He felt most alive when losing himself in something he found …

Dec 28, 2024 - “Die Welt am Sonntag veröffentlicht einen Gastbeitrag, in dem Techmilliardär Elon Musk für die AfD wirbt. Mitarbeitende der Redaktion …

Dec 28, 2024 - Finally started reading Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (Norton, 2020).

Dec 27, 2024 - Rural health nurse, upstate New York, by Lewis Wickes Hine for the Milbank Memorial Fund, ca. 1934. The New York Public Library, image ID …

Dec 26, 2024 - Sled dog race in Tamworth, New Hampshire, on February 28, 1990 with Mt. Chocorua in the background. Source: Bruce Bedford Archive.

Dec 25, 2024 - I enjoyed watching the comedy-noir-thriller “Foul Play,” dir. Colin Higgins (Paramount, 1978), starring Goldie Hawn and Chevy …

Dec 25, 2024 - “Skiers arriving early in the morning with the weekend ‘ski-meister.’ North Conway, New Hampshire, center of the Eastern …

Dec 25, 2024 - “Collecting, storing and preserving - Which knowledge is vital?” ~ DW Documentary ~ youtu.be…

Dec 22, 2024 - My mother received nine carolers from her church this afternoon. I steered clear so she could enjoy the company without me getting in the …

Dec 22, 2024 - Brisk out this afternoon, 16°F / -9°C.

Dec 22, 2024 - “Russia is executing more and more Ukrainian prisoners of war” (December 21, 2024), www.bbc.com…

Dec 21, 2024 - 📺 Comedian Josh Johnson is brilliant in “The Failure, Fear, And Frenzy around Luigi Mangione” (December 17, 2024), …

Dec 18, 2024 - I enjoyed rewatching “The More the Merrier,” dir. George Stevens (Columbia Pictures 1944). Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, and Charles …

Dec 17, 2024 - Iowa Art Project WPA poster for a Winter Sports Festival on Jan. 20, 1940, in Hubbard Park [Des Moines] and on Jan. 21 at Gilman Terrace …

Dec 17, 2024 - The caption reads, “Residents listening to radio outside storefront, circa late 1940s.” There are some signs and goods visible, …

Dec 17, 2024 - We sometimes describe aggressors as “brainwashed” by propaganda that dehumanizes their victims, so much so they are …

Dec 17, 2024 - Did the [Ukrainians'] Russian relatives really “believe” [that the Bucha atrocity was fake]? That’s the wrong question. We are …

Dec 15, 2024 - I enjoyed another Marlene Dietrich movie this evening: “Dishonored,” dir. Joseph Starnberg (Paramount, 1931). This was her …

Dec 15, 2024 - This evening I watched “Blonde Venus,” dir. Joseph Starnberg (Paramount, 1932). Paramount ad for the film featuring its star, …

Dec 13, 2024 - Just watched “The Roaring Twenties,” dir. Raoul Walsh (Warner Bros., 1939). It starts in World War I and moves into prohibition …

Dec 12, 2024 - Since “influence” is Time’s criterion for selecting a person of the year, its 2024 choice makes sense. Nonetheless, it is …

Dec 12, 2024 - I watched “Passage to Marseille,” dir. Michael Curtiz (Warner Bros., 1944), this evening. I forgot about the shocking scene in …

Dec 11, 2024 - Two Aerial Photographs, ca. 1918

Dec 10, 2024 - U.S. Government Caricature of Nazi Propaganda

Dec 10, 2024 - Europe's Changing Map in 1939 (Photo)

Dec 9, 2024 - We’re getting some good snow tonight and tomorrow, but then, consistent with climate change, we’ll have a couple warmer days …

Dec 8, 2024 - 🎙️ “Netanyahu and Trump’s ‘Creeping Authoritarianism’: ‘It Always Begins and Ends with Women’" …

Dec 8, 2024 - 🎙️ “Timothy Snyder in Kharkiv: A Conversation about Freedom – with Volodymyr Yermolenko” (Explaining Ukraine / …

Dec 8, 2024 - We often wonder why people follow leaders who are wildly self-centered, greedy, and hateful. But that can be the very essence of their …

Dec 8, 2024 - Adieu Assad

Dec 7, 2024 - I’ve long understood the “trickle down” metaphor in economic policy as a reference to the perversions of the rich and …

Dec 7, 2024 - 🤖 This one is freaky: “OpenAI’s new model tried to avoid being shut down” by Shakeel Hashim (Transformer).

Dec 7, 2024 - 🦋🤖 “A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service” by Amy Castor and David Gerard (Pivot to …

Dec 7, 2024 - Started reading Peter Pomerantsev, How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler (PublicAffairs 2024).

Dec 6, 2024 - My feel-good television series this past year: Elsbeth on Paramount+.

Dec 6, 2024 - 📺 Historical Background to U.S. Migration: “The Bigger Picture: U.S. Migration Debates and Policies since 1965” – Online …

Dec 6, 2024 - 🙃 Unprecedented times? It’s like being killed by a bear. Lots of people have been killed by a bear, and so that’s not at all …

Dec 5, 2024 - This evening I watched “Orient-Express,” dir. Viktor Tourjansky (Germany, 1944). It’s a humorous murder mystery that takes …

Dec 4, 2024 - 🇰🇷 Fascinating read: “Why South Korea’s Leader Made Such a Fateful Decision” by Choe Sang-Hun (archived from NYTimes).

Dec 4, 2024 - 🥶 First morning of the season with frost on the inside of the car windows.

Dec 3, 2024 - 🇰🇷 This is bonkers. “PM Han overlooked as defense minister bypasses him on martial law declaration” (The Korea Times) Prime …

Dec 3, 2024 - 🇰🇷 “South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know” by Heesoo Jang of UMass Amherst, who shared …

Dec 2, 2024 - The opening paragraph of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is a doozy: Lost in the shadows of the shelves, I almost fall off the …

Dec 2, 2024 - I tend to think that Biden’s pardon of his son was at least partly about safety. Given the son’s prominence in MAGA revenge …

Dec 1, 2024 - Watching 'Citizen Kane' in late 2024

Nov 30, 2024 - Reading Notes: 'Last Call at the Hotel Imperial' by Deborah Cohen

Nov 29, 2024 - Shopping in Northern Virginia: Photos from 1967, 1971, and 1976

Nov 29, 2024 - Walking through this wet snow felt a little like trying to walk along a very sandy beach. Walking poles kept me stable and gave muscles in …

Nov 29, 2024 - 🇵🇸🇮🇱 Here’s a gruesome report of the dire conditions in northern Gaza at +972 Magazine, “an independent, online, …

Nov 29, 2024 - More Photos from the Season's First Snowy Day

Nov 28, 2024 - 📽️ Think I’ll start rewatching “Good Night, and Good Luck,” dir. George Clooney (Warner Bros, 2005). Seems all too …

Nov 28, 2024 - Photos: First Snow of the Season

Nov 28, 2024 - 1909 Thanksgiving postcard via The New York Public Library. Image ID: 1588318.

Nov 27, 2024 - Sometimes it feels like the Cold War was a long cease fire, and now we’ve decided to reprise the 1930s to see what else we can muck …

Nov 27, 2024 - When Russia makes yet another nuclear threat, why is the biggest scaredy cat in the room always a would-be “man’s man” …

Nov 26, 2024 - “Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing”, editorial in Nature today – “Digital preservation …

Nov 25, 2024 - We Need a New Political Translation Dictionary (English–English)

Nov 25, 2024 - Mount Washington from the Power Line Trail, North Conway, NH, this afternoon.

Nov 25, 2024 - Japanese-American Internment as 'Evacuation' and 'Relocation'

Nov 24, 2024 - Snow flurries this afternoon. Windy. Should’ve worn my long johns.

Nov 24, 2024 - Considering the $16.1 billion in contracts the federal government has handed to SpaceX since 2003, the interests of SpaceX and the agencies …

Nov 24, 2024 - Squaring the Anti-Science, Pro-Technology Circle

Nov 23, 2024 - Good and healthy societies do not require to be ruled by terror. This is not to deny that terror is an enormously effective means of …

Nov 23, 2024 - 🏳️‍⚧️ “Reasons That I, a Trans Woman, Have Had to Use the Bathroom at My Workplace” (a list) by Natasha Dumas …

Nov 22, 2024 - Important thread by political historian Seth Coltar that extrapolates from a couple centuries of print culture and civic nationalism to our …

Nov 22, 2024 - “Who Goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson, Harper’s Magazine, August 1941 (alternative link). – This short piece by a …

Nov 22, 2024 - Am futzing around with my blog categories again.

Nov 22, 2024 - A threat to the U.S. military’s morale, cohesion, and effectiveness: "‘Profound fear and anxiety among women in …

Nov 21, 2024 - …The only thing more vexing than being a Trump critic is being a Trump ally. – Jonathan Martin

Nov 21, 2024 - An Old Putin Meme – 'Weaponizing Ridicule'

Nov 20, 2024 - House Speaker Mike Johnson announces that male Republicans neutered by Donald Trump may continue to use the men’s bathrooms. – …

Nov 20, 2024 - 🇺🇦 “How Russian Forces Hunted People in The Bucha Massacre,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, YouTube, Nov 19, 2024 (29 …

Nov 20, 2024 - 🏳️‍⚧️ From the Church of Sweden via @transworld.bsky.social: God, today on Transgender Day of Remembrance, I want to remember everyone who …

Nov 20, 2024 - “Minneapolis Assault on Transgender Women Sparks Rally,” Transvitae, November 20, 2024. 🏳️‍⚧️ In Minneapolis, two transgender …

Nov 20, 2024 - 'Digital Vampires': Four-Part Podcast Series

Nov 20, 2024 - Two U.S. Public Health Service Posters Warning against Quacks, ca. 1936–41

Nov 19, 2024 - Maybe friends shouldn’t let friends use Substack for their blogging and newslettering. You see, Substack is an active propagator of …

Nov 19, 2024 - Snapshots from small railroad yard and surroundings in North Conway, NH, between 4:33 and 4:45 p.m., as the sun was rapidly waning. The …

Nov 19, 2024 - “Wissenschaftler fordern Umstieg von Musks X auf Mastodon” von Christian Schwägerl, RiffReporter, 18.11.2024. …

Nov 19, 2024 - 1,000 Days 🇺🇦

Nov 19, 2024 - Poster from 1919 Advocating American Citizenship

Nov 19, 2024 - Some of the last hangers-on in this part of Whitaker Woods, North Conway, NH. The trees that aren't bare are pine.

Nov 19, 2024 - The pace of things on Mastodon and Bluesky might have picked up a little too much for my wellbeing today. My post-election nerves are still …

Nov 18, 2024 - The waves at Moss Beach, California, on May 13, 2018, shortly before 7:00 p.m.

Nov 18, 2024 - “How some Texas parents and historians say a new state curriculum glosses over slavery and racism” by Jaden Edison, The Texas …

Nov 18, 2024 - I don’t think there’s a trend towards actual conservatism in the Valley—there’s a trend towards monopoly and corruption, and that’s …

Nov 17, 2024 - At least, when you knock a fascist out, you will send him to a hospital or observation ward—but when he knocks you out, he sends you …

Nov 17, 2024 - From my experience in fascist countries, I have come to one conclusion. Rules of democratic fair play should be reserved for democrats. …

Nov 17, 2024 - How many of you blog history or history-adjacent topics, if not exclusively? I know many lost the habit to social media. Between that and …

Nov 17, 2024 - “One Against All” (animation) by Фріоніс with English subtitles (2:20), youtu.be/8LXEG1mhg… 🇺🇦

Nov 16, 2024 - Mt. Cranmore from Whitaker Woods. I skied there in the second half of the 70s.

Nov 16, 2024 - Whitaker Woods: Winter is coming.

Nov 16, 2024 - When we walked into school on the morning of 6 November, we exchanged quick glances with the other girls in our social circle – looks filled …

Nov 16, 2024 - Nearly 10:00am, and the sun sets in 6.25 hours. I need to get outside.

Nov 15, 2024 - Informative piece, reported from Ukraine: “A war-weary Ukraine warily eyes a Trump presidency” by Fabrice Deprez, The Boston …

Nov 14, 2024 - The principle that a commander has an obligation to punish war crimes by his subordinates is not a progressive development of the law …

Nov 14, 2024 - Dunno which nomination freaks me out the most, but if the Senate GOP bows to the recess appointments demand, we are in for a world of hurt. …

Nov 13, 2024 - I've Started a 'News Sites' Links Page. Here's Why.

Nov 13, 2024 - This informative piece takes you through the author’s discovery process when he was shown an email copyright threat: “Beware of …

Nov 13, 2024 - Am reacquainting myself with the literal wintertime darkness, learning again how to move through it without letting it consume me.

Nov 13, 2024 - I’m nostalgic for the days when you could tell the difference between a message announcing a Cabinet appointment and a trollish …

Nov 13, 2024 - Separation of Powers or One-Man Rule?

Nov 13, 2024 - “Idiocracy,” dir. Mike Judge (2006) 📽️ One of the great prophecies of human history—practically a holy text at this …

Nov 13, 2024 - On deck: “Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn,” documentary, dir. Ivy Meeropol (HBO 2020). Will probably have to take …

Nov 12, 2024 - It is extraordinary just how utterly unsuited the people are that the next president is assembling for his cabinet. I suppose the senate …

Nov 12, 2024 - I’m not a fan of phrases like “as a historian, you know…” or “should know…” Replace “historian” …

Nov 12, 2024 - On the radio’s 10 o’clock news this morning came an announcement about the next national security adviser and a comment about …

Nov 12, 2024 - Photos of Children Working in Textile Mills, 1908–1914

Nov 11, 2024 - Call for Contributions: Histories of Expertise, via Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK)

Nov 11, 2024 - I resurrected a couple categories that had gone the way of the dinosaurs when I moved from WordPress to Micro.blog – language learning …

Nov 11, 2024 - @Infrogmation asked on Mastodon what Mussolini was wearing on his nose in an image I had reposted. I didn’t know, but now I do thanks …

Nov 11, 2024 - Photo from the first Armistice Day in Paris

Nov 10, 2024 - Photos of a Vigilante Deportation in 1917

Nov 10, 2024 - Have moved from sadness about the November 5 result to frustration and now anger.

Nov 10, 2024 - I want to be able to block thumbnails in my socials that contain an image of Mr. Rotton Orange or of certain of his cheerleaders, starting …

Nov 10, 2024 - Besides acting as a windfall for the privatized segment of our mass incarceration system, mass deportations will offer plenty of …

Nov 10, 2024 - My mother has been watching her church service online so she can hear it. That means I hear parts too. And I can see what’s happening …

Nov 10, 2024 - Timothy Snyder, “What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?,” The New Yorker, Nov. 8, 2024.

Nov 10, 2024 - Halya Coynash, “Russians Execute Wounded Ukrainian POW amid Mounting Evidence of Russia’s Policy and Incitement to Kill,” …

Nov 9, 2024 - I can’t listen to my usual podcasts about the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East because the man in Palm Beach is not the president, …

Nov 9, 2024 - From Chicago, John [Gunther]’s editor sent a request for “more diversified” articles: “The whole paper has been loaded with anti-Hitler copy …

Nov 9, 2024 - “Oakies” by Stuart Davis, ink and black crayon on paper, captioned “In a Florida Auto Camp: ‘Don’t cry baby, …

Nov 8, 2024 - Media like to complain about tech monopolies. With boot-licking Bezos' #BrokenPost on its death spiral, #BrokenCNN retreating behind its …

Nov 8, 2024 - Does Putin understand the United States? I'm inclined to think not, even if he's got Trump as a person pretty well sized up.

Nov 8, 2024 - Worried about Mr. Orange Face's Effect on The Military

Nov 8, 2024 - Imagining Some of the Worst: Domestic Edition

Nov 7, 2024 - Postmortems of the Harris–Walz campaign make little sense to me at this moment. They did their damndest. Moreover, any campaign in 2028 will …

Nov 7, 2024 - War’s 1976 Greatest Hits album is sitting right with me today, too. 🎵

Nov 7, 2024 - “Easy to Be Hard” by Three Dog Night (1969) 🎵

Nov 7, 2024 - Meyers–Colbert–Kimmel–Lydic

Nov 7, 2024 - The fact that Trotsky, Mussolini—and Goebbels, too—had all started as journalists created its own sort of dynamic with the …

Nov 7, 2024 - How wretched it was to think that one’s own fate depended on what some farmer in Iowa felt—or more to the point, how he voted. Still, …

Nov 6, 2024 - The few people I saw in the grocery store this evening were looking kind of shell-shocked. It’s possible I’m projecting, but we …

Nov 6, 2024 - Does anyone know of any community Mastodon servers in #NewHampshire? I’m happy on mine, which is based in Germany, but I need to start …

Nov 6, 2024 - Scholz’s speech on dropping Lindner was impressive.🇩🇪 So was the timing.🇺🇸 I had been despairing in the face of his long-running …

Nov 6, 2024 - It’s 69°F outside. There’s an outside to enjoy, an outside in which to wear out my anxiety and calm my mind.

Nov 6, 2024 - translifeline.org/hotline/ ☎️ 877-565-8860 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Lifeline’s Hotline is a peer support phone service run by trans people for our trans …

Nov 6, 2024 - Again??? 💔 The only way we get through this is if we ignore the orange clown’s dangerous, immoral antics as much as possible and keep …

Nov 6, 2024 - GOP takes the Senate?!?! There would be no brakes on the orange ass’s appointments. Should not have looked at this tonight. Too many …

Nov 5, 2024 - Election Night Illumination, Flatiron Building, New York City, color postcard, N.Y. Sunday American & Journal (W. R. Hearst, 1904), …

Nov 5, 2024 - “Watching the election returns—great crowds before the Times B’ld’g. and Astor Hotel, New York,” stereograph …

Nov 5, 2024 - Is anyone really prepared to set store by exit polls this year? 🗳️

Nov 5, 2024 - First time voting in person since 2016. First time casting a vote in NH since the 90s. There’s a long line, but it’s moving. …

Nov 5, 2024 - Am wondering how the “resist” energy we had in 2017-21 could have been infused with an absolute indifference toward the fool at …

Nov 4, 2024 - Broadcasting Election Results and Taking Opinion Polls in 1872

Nov 4, 2024 - "Susan B. Anthony to the women of today: 'Everything but the vote is still to be won'" by Nina Allender (1872–1957) for the Women's …

Nov 4, 2024 - On November 5 we will find out just how strong we are. We will each choose on which side of the historical ledger to record our names. On …

Nov 4, 2024 - “Confessions of a Republican” (LBJ 1964 Presidential campaign commercial) https://youtu.be/LiG0AE8zdTU 🗳️

Nov 3, 2024 - Had to put on a winter jacket this evening. First time since April. 🧊

Nov 3, 2024 - Am still bringing in very old posts, but have stopped noting which blog I originally posted these on. Should that ever matter, it’s …

Nov 3, 2024 - I’m daring to hope that pollsters are gonna have some ‘splaining to do after Harris whups Trump’s ass on Tuesday. 🥊

Nov 3, 2024 - DC Residents Still Have No Vote in Congress

Nov 2, 2024 - This evening, I watched two short films from The Kyiv Independent’s YouTube channel about people in uniform. In The Witches of Butcha, …

Nov 2, 2024 - What Are We to Do with Our Democracy?

Nov 2, 2024 - Via Stephen West (@stephenwest.bsky.social) comes news that businesses and offices near the White House are boarding up their windows. The …

Nov 2, 2024 - Telling myself that we often take the hard way, but eventually we get things right. Hoping we’re nearing the inflection point toward …

Nov 2, 2024 - The past is being whitewashed at the National Archives museum. The changes to the new exhibits are remarkable. A photo of King was replaced …

Nov 2, 2024 - It’s striking how many candidates for state office in New Hampshire don’t make their party affiliation obvious in their campaign …

Nov 1, 2024 - One of the 8-inch M110 self-propelled howitzer crews I served on in the mid 1980s was majority Puerto Rican. If I recall correctly, two of …

Nov 1, 2024 - 'Welcome to All' (1880 Cartoon)

Nov 1, 2024 - If you’re gonna put people on the phone to urge residents to support your candidate, you better make sure they know more than their …

Oct 31, 2024 - Election Refusal as Career

Oct 31, 2024 - The bright colors were largely gone on my walk in Whitaker Woods yesterday, and the sky was gray, so I turned my eyes to moss.

Oct 31, 2024 - Okay, I’ve made it this far into my day without coffee because there was none. That’s changed, so time to put the moka pot to …

Oct 31, 2024 - Brought my mother to the town hall so she could drop off her absentee ballot and show her ID in person. No crowds, no fear of getting …

Oct 31, 2024 - Looks like pieces of my old “Commonplacing” tumblelog were saved by the Wayback Machine too. I see quotes that meant something …

Oct 30, 2024 - Following up on my efforts last Sunday, I began looking at 2009 posts saved by the Wayback Machine and imported my inauguration post to …

Oct 30, 2024 - For whatever reason, I ended up chatting with some guys I encountered on my walk this afternoon. Could’ve been coincidence, but maybe …

Oct 30, 2024 - Wealthy 'Criminally Insane' Playboy Posing with Captors (ca. 1913–14)

Oct 30, 2024 - Winslow Homer, 'Bell-Time' (1868)

Oct 29, 2024 - Seeing pictures of the crowds of Harris–Walz supporters at the Washington Monument in DC tonight is heartening. They make me feel at home. …

Oct 29, 2024 - 'The Unrestricted Dumping Ground' (1903 Cartoon)

Oct 29, 2024 - Talking about some other kid, the bagger asked the cashier, “How old is he?” “Fourteen,” she replied. …

Oct 29, 2024 - Whenever Olaf Scholz sees an opportunity to do the wrong thing for European security and Ukraine, he seizes it. I don’t know how his …

Oct 29, 2024 - I never thought I’d be reprising this post from February 2017. Even the dominant color of this 1926 Mussolini cartoon is on point. 🍊

Oct 28, 2024 - Russia is intent on eradicating the Ukrainian language and all aspects of Ukrainian identity, with young Ukrainians a particular target. …

Oct 28, 2024 - It hurts to hear that someone’s getting sucked even further into the black hole of MAGA, parroting the worst lies and injuring the …

Oct 28, 2024 - Wow! Over 200,000 subscribers flee ‘Washington Post’ after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement (report by David Folkenflick for NPR)

Oct 28, 2024 - Pre-Election Jitters Be Still

Oct 27, 2024 - I am adding some old blog posts that were largely saved by the Internet Archive. I’m doing this by hand in order to review links and …

Oct 27, 2024 - Sun sets at 5:40 this afternoon, and it’s 3:10 now. I gotta get outside while there’s still time. 🥾

Oct 27, 2024 - Societies, societal attitudes, and cultural norms change, but people not so much. Positive societal developments reinforce a healthy sense …

Oct 27, 2024 - It’s one thing to criticize presentist thinking and optimistic notions of human progress that don’t comport with professional …

Oct 27, 2024 - Photo of “African American demonstrators outside the White House, with signs ‘We demand the right to vote, everywhere’ and …

Oct 26, 2024 - If you’re looking for a booster shot of optimism, you could do worse than read this opinion piece by James Carville from October 23: …

Oct 25, 2024 - In the name of civilization, rebellious villages would be burned to the ground. – Deborah Cohen, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial, …

Oct 25, 2024 - Mt. Chocorua was looking fine today. So was the foliage bordering the water.

Oct 25, 2024 - The DMV can be tricky no matter where you live. My last experience in DC was easy and pleasant. Today’s visit in rural NH was a little …

Oct 24, 2024 - Sometimes I wonder how the former reality television star’s malevolence, laziness, and insatiable hunger for praise would play out in …

Oct 24, 2024 - Helped my octogenarian mom pick up her absentee ballot so she can fill it out at home in her own good time and avoid the crowds on Nov. 5. …

Oct 24, 2024 - Am thinking Deborah Cohen’s Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War (Random House 2022) will make …

Oct 23, 2024 - Late afternoon sun on trees behind the condo.

Oct 23, 2024 - Joseph Cox, “Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics,” 404 Media, Oct. 23, 2024.

Oct 22, 2024 - Managed to get out today, if just for a short walk to Diana's Baths.

Oct 21, 2024 - We no longer live in a world where the very wealthy can do business with autocratic regimes, sometimes promoting the foreign policy goals of …

Oct 20, 2024 - Here are some of the fall colors people came to the region for. Photos taken in North Conway Village.

Oct 20, 2024 - Beautiful weather and fall foliage brought lots of visitors to the valley today. I couldn’t resist taking this snapshot of Mount …

Oct 20, 2024 - Overheard a snippet today from a conversation about the weather: “According to the almanac…” #FarmersAlmanac #NewHampshire …

Oct 19, 2024 - “Ku Klux Klan Rallies in Worcester” – 100 years ago saw the biggest Klan rally in New England for a mass induction of new …

Oct 19, 2024 - "[American] conservatives hyped anti-Ukraine videos created by a TV producer who also worked for Russian media" – AP News, …

Oct 18, 2024 - “Autocracy in America” – a podcast by Anne Applebaum and Peter Pomerantsev There are authoritarian tactics already at …

Oct 18, 2024 - A remarkable indictment: “We Created a Monster: Trump Was a TV Fantasy Invented for ‘The Apprentice’" by John D …

Oct 18, 2024 - Thoughtful, informative, even fun reporting by Kerry Howley: “Code Red: Watching the Tim Walz Magic Trick Up Close”, …

Oct 17, 2024 - My brother and a friend of his took a short trip from L.A. to the White Mountains. They did his usual beating about the lake and woods where …

Oct 17, 2024 - Old Man of the Mountain postcard written in 1906. The Old Man, located in Franconia Notch, collapsed in 2003, but he remains a symbol of …

Oct 16, 2024 - Two snapshots from a walk in Madison, New Hampshire, last Friday morning

Oct 16, 2024 - BBC: Hundreds of LGBT veterans given honourable discharges from US military 🏳️‍🌈

Oct 15, 2024 - I just torched my Pixelfed, Instagram, and Threads accounts—Pixelfed because it doesn’t do much more for me than Mastodon …

Oct 13, 2024 - More from Jackson Falls

Oct 13, 2024 - My 86-year-old mother went with us to Madison Boulder today. The 0.6-mile round trip gave her and her rollator quite the workout. …

Oct 12, 2024 - Jackson Falls

Oct 9, 2024 - Tree Trunks

Oct 8, 2024 - Was back at Diana's Baths today.

Oct 8, 2024 - Boulder with a refined hairdo

Oct 7, 2024 - Late Afternoon Walk

Oct 5, 2024 - I see History of Knowledge has migrated from WordPress.com to Hypotheses.org. Given all the nonsense that Automattic has been putting its …

Oct 3, 2024 - Moss- and lichen-covered granite, ferns, and red pine close to a series of small water falls called Diana's Baths on September 30, 2024. …

Oct 3, 2024 - As we near the election, I’m sleeping about as well as I did in the early months of the pandemic. 😱

Oct 3, 2024 - Given how much JD Vance lies, I don’t see why we should believe any of his denials about having a weird couch fetish. 😉

Oct 1, 2024 - More fall colors

Sep 30, 2024 - Groovy, Far Out Coffee

Sep 28, 2024 - Fall colors in the White Mountains include the light blue and light lavender of wild asters.

Sep 28, 2024 - Russia Wants to Muzzle Childless Cat Ladies

Sep 27, 2024 - There is a lot of red pine in this area. The tree bark is fairly distinctive. (4/4)

Sep 27, 2024 - Heading back down, so no more sun on the ground. (3/4)

Sep 27, 2024 - From the same walk. More sun is visible because I gained elevation (2/4)

Sep 27, 2024 - Seen on my walk late this afternoon. (1/4)

Sep 26, 2024 - Boulder Loop Trail

Sep 24, 2024 - Has the past decade of information war, alternative facts, and bothsidesing journalism been about conditioning us to believe we need crappy …

Sep 23, 2024 - Ten seconds of sounds at dusk last week via an iPhone SE. Probably need a microphone, but I thought I’d give it a go.

Sep 23, 2024 - A few more impressions from my walk in the Pudding Pond area on the 19th

Sep 20, 2024 - Russia lets African migrant laborers enter on tourist visas. From there, they can look for work, but sign a contract that lands them on the …

Sep 19, 2024 - A German hashtag phenomenon I ran across on Mastodon and Bluesky recently is #FotoVorschlag (photo suggestion). The idea is to post …

Sep 19, 2024 - Here are a couple pictures from my walk on the 17th.

Sep 17, 2024 - The contrast between VP Harris’s performance in this NABJ interview and the other guy’s is stark. The first part, on economic …

Sep 14, 2024 - Autocracy is a political system, a way of structuring society, a means of organizing power. It is not a genetic trait. Particular cultures, …

Sep 13, 2024 - Just shipped a package from the post office. Clerk: Any hazardous materials? Me: Well, books. ⚠️📚

Sep 11, 2024 - With his abysmal debate performance last night, the rotten orange shit accomplished the one thing that gives him and his acolytes the oxygen …

Sep 9, 2024 - This TV map of the world as viewed from the North Pole looking down in all directions caught my eye. Screenshot (in color) from “The …

Sep 8, 2024 - I haven't been walking enough lately, but today I managed to get out. Instant mental health boost. Pudding Pond Conservation Area, …

Sep 8, 2024 - Here’s another bit of decor that I added to the car last week. <img …

Sep 7, 2024 - Revisiting Image of Two Back Sailors Browsing Books

Sep 5, 2024 - Bridgy Fed has temporarily slowed down in the direction from Bluesky to Fediverse because of all the new Brazilian accounts on Bluesky. …

Sep 5, 2024 - I decorated the car today. 🏳️‍⚧️

Sep 2, 2024 - I really enjoyed Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War against Reality (2019). He pursues his subject across much …

Sep 1, 2024 - . . . It was their relationship with media, with televisions, radios, books, blogs, which helped them to re-imagine themselves over and …

Sep 1, 2024 - These days, I take a somewhat inconsistent view of polls. In general, I choose not to trust them. (Who answers pollsters' calls anymore?) …

Aug 29, 2024 - Every fresh gross of Trump’s misdeeds seems to crowd out the gross that was already squatting in my head. When will the nightmare be …

Aug 28, 2024 - An old problem explained with a new metaphor: “Silicon Valley’s Very Online Ideologues are in Model Collapse” by Aaron Ross …

Aug 27, 2024 - "Two U.S. Navy sailors browsing library shelf labeled 'Negro Books'" – U.S. Navy Department, Office of Public Relations, ca. 1944-49. To …

Aug 27, 2024 - Russia has been testing drones and training their pilots with attacks on Ukrainian civilians in Beryslav (Kherson Oblast). Good …

Aug 26, 2024 - HOT TIP: We do not need to pollute people’s timelines with screenshots from trolls, ghouls, and other noxious beings.

Aug 26, 2024 - With its massive air attack today, Russia offers still more convincing arguments for lifting restrictions on Ukraine’s use of …

Aug 24, 2024 - I am happy to see all the Independence Day posts from Ukrainians on my socials today. 🇺🇦🌻 I am sad about the losses behind these posts. And …

Aug 23, 2024 - I can’t remember a campaign in which the biographies and values of the candidates have mattered as much as they do now. The …

Aug 23, 2024 - It’s hard to imagine biographies better suited to the present moment than those of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

Aug 21, 2024 - Workplace Safety Posters, ca. 1936–40

Aug 20, 2024 - I’m enjoying the DNC’s ceremonial roll call unmediated by television pundits. I did the same with a few speeches yesterday.

Aug 20, 2024 - Interesting DW documentary about Palestinian refugees from Gaza fortunate enough to gain entry to Egypt: “Fleeing war in Gaza - for a …

Aug 20, 2024 - Biden gave one helluva good speech last night.

Aug 19, 2024 - You don’t have to be religious or Catholic to love this one. 🏳️‍⚧️ "‘No Body Now But Yours’ – How a Catholic sister …

Aug 19, 2024 - Recommended Insights into the Kursk Incursion

Aug 16, 2024 - Today we have a code orange air quality alert in Mt. Washington Valley due to particulate matter from all the smoke produced by wild fires …

Aug 15, 2024 - Brain Worms

Aug 13, 2024 - The Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) in Warsaw has put out two interesting reports on YouTube that analyze Russia’s initially …

Aug 12, 2024 - Maybe right-wingers are up in arms about tampons because they saw the IT Crowd episode “Aunt Irma’s Visiting” and …

Aug 11, 2024 - In This is Not Propaganda (end of part 2), Peter Pomerantsev writes of his Russian family, based in Kyiv, becoming stateless in the late …

Aug 11, 2024 - He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have …

Aug 9, 2024 - Fairness and Dignity

Aug 6, 2024 - Negotiating One's Own Murder (Satire)

Aug 5, 2024 - Has 1Password been getting worse over the past year or so? They update regularly, but it feels like I’m encountering unnecessary …

Aug 5, 2024 - Just drank a cooled-off pint of the broth left over from cooking a bunch of chard. 😋

Aug 5, 2024 - There are two documentary films streaming on Paramount+ right now that I find inspiring and motivating: “Superpower” (2023), …

Jul 31, 2024 - Here is a moderated group in the Fediverse to help make Vice President Kamala Harris the next president of the USA. Kamala Harris for …

Jul 31, 2024 - We need a president who reads widely, not one as ignorant and crudely cynical as the former president quoted in this piece is. …

Jul 27, 2024 - Meta’s algorithms are so good that they “think” placing a CPAC ad in front of me on Instagram is a good idea.

Jul 25, 2024 - Microsoft installed Copilot on my mother’s machine earlier this week, and it took multiple rounds of force rebooting before I had …

Jul 23, 2024 - Good on Ukraine for using a little leverage against the Putin lackey Viktor Orban. It was high time. Details of the spat are in this short …

Jul 22, 2024 - Interesting notes on DNC process in the coming weeks: “DNC poised to move forward with virtual roll call after Biden dropout” …

Jul 21, 2024 - Things are gonna get ugly, of course. Instead of ageism and ableism, we’ll have racism and sexism. And we’ll still have a …

Jul 21, 2024 - I was undecided about whether Biden should step aside, but I trust his judgement on this. He’s a public servant as too few are these …

Jul 18, 2024 - Briefly looked at my social media feeds this evening. Bad idea. I can’t take any more 24/7 coverage of the Rotten Orange Ass and his …

Jul 18, 2024 - Turned off NPR this afternoon because I am sick to death of the cliched, both-sides genre Let’s Talk to Voters in Swing States. This …

Jul 18, 2024 - The Kremlin switches messages at will to its advantage, climbing inside everything: European right-wing nationalists are seduced with an …

Jul 17, 2024 - “Here Come the Russians, Again” by David Corn, Mother Jones, May 24, 2024. The media has an important role to play. The more …

Jul 16, 2024 - “Trump’s ‘secretary of retribution’ has a ‘target list’ of 350 people he wants arrested." by Jordan …

Jul 13, 2024 - “How Charles Holman discovered the Bushes’ ancestors had enslaved his family” (Washington Post) archive.ph/zx17m.

Jul 13, 2024 - “Scientists identify victim of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in mass grave” (Washington Post) archive.ph/DPC5e.

Jul 12, 2024 - My impression is that there is a lot more activity going into third-party tools for Mastodon (and the Fediverse more broadly) than there is …

Jul 10, 2024 - Delirious Television Propaganda

Jul 10, 2024 - Russian Hybrid Warfare

Jul 10, 2024 - According to the Frankfurter Rundschau today, Russian food producers are adding banned “meat glue” (transglutaminase) to …

Jul 10, 2024 - “We believe Russia is a great empire that other powers want to tear away parts from. We need to restore our power, occupy our lost …

Jul 10, 2024 - My Micro.blog-hosted website is not working this evening. Seems to be another SSL connection issue on the server’s end. At least I …

Jul 8, 2024 - How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are left orphaned. So …

Jul 6, 2024 - Got to see a niece today who I hadn’t seen since 2017. She got to meet a niece of her own, my granddaughter.

Jul 5, 2024 - From a walk on the beach with pleasant cloud cover this afternoon: Nauset Light Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore. This is the colder side …

Jul 4, 2024 - Something I blogged 16 years ago on the basis of documents I frequently taught undergraduates: Received Rights versus Human Rights in the …

Jul 4, 2024 - Important historical context for this week’s unconscionable immunity ruling: Sean Wilentz, “The Dred Scott of Our Time”, …

Jul 4, 2024 - "Get out of there!"

Jul 2, 2024 - It’s amazing how much hair a bald man can still grow on his head. Beard and hair trimmer died before I was quite done. Fortunately, my …

Jul 2, 2024 - The drive down to DC last weekend threw out my back, so I haven’t been able to do anything down here. At least the great nephew I …

Jul 2, 2024 - If the Supreme Court’s rulings are clearly at odds with our history, our constitution, and American jurisprudence, are they even …

Jul 2, 2024 - The current moment reminds me of how desperately we need to teach the contested and often fraught history of human rights. We need better …

Jul 1, 2024 - SCOTUS would do well to remember what revolutions tend to do: they eat their own.

Jul 1, 2024 - “Like ‘Being Friends with a Hurricane’": Fintan O’Toole looks at DJT and those who surround him through the …

Jul 1, 2024 - Stunned but not surprised by SCOTUS’s DJT immunity ruling. Do these people really think that breaking the Constitution is going to …

Jun 29, 2024 - Reading about Israel's Inequitable Application of Military Conscription

Jun 28, 2024 - World War I Poster: How to Act during an Air Raid

Jun 27, 2024 - I was just starting to get my social media groove back again, and now the debate, which I didn’t even watch. Anxiety and fear are …

Jun 27, 2024 - So that’s Perplexity’s real innovation here: shattering the foundations of trust that built the internet. Elizabeth Lopatto, …

Jun 27, 2024 - Shared Notes: Website Prehistory

Jun 26, 2024 - 😠 Shameless: “Israel blames U.N. for Gaza aid crisis amid fresh reports of starvation” (Washington Post) archive.ph/qSSPf

Jun 24, 2024 - PSA: If you are posting a screenshot to a microblogging platform of some sort, please remember that these platforms are also mobile. And …

Jun 24, 2024 - Death, destruction, refugeehood, humanitarian crises – those are the things we’re used to accepting as part of the reality of …

Jun 21, 2024 - Shared Notes: Why I'm Dropping Bear.app

Jun 20, 2024 - I fleshed out my site’s portfolio page for the scholarly blogs that consumed much of my attention and creative energy from late 2016 …

Jun 19, 2024 - Reading about Black Librarians and Knowledge Formation

Jun 19, 2024 - I noticed the GHI’s History of Knowledge blog was crashing this week. Apparently they solved the problem but had to disable the …

Jun 19, 2024 - Images of Returned POWs

Jun 18, 2024 - Reading about Netanyahu's Clusterfuck of a War

Jun 17, 2024 - 🫤 Why don’t I have any muscle memory for where the # key is when my keyboard is dark? I guess hashtags are still a relatively recent …

Jun 17, 2024 - Importing Instagram Posts to Pixelfed

Jun 16, 2024 - Reading about Evidence of Russia Using Starvation as a Weapon in its War on Ukraine

Jun 16, 2024 - 😀 Historian Daniel Bellingradt has been growing a thread "of screaming and horrified city gates" in Europe. Here's the first image in the …

Jun 16, 2024 - Reading Aryeh Neier on Israel, International Humanitarian Law, and Justice

Jun 15, 2024 - Reading about Israel's Universities during War

Jun 15, 2024 - 🙄 That feeling after you try to do a thing that requires an app you haven’t used in a while, but that app acts up, so you research and …

Jun 15, 2024 - Here’s a Git repository that gathers information about LLMs and offers some ways to deal with them. The only tool I know how to use is …

Jun 14, 2024 - Shared Notes: Tiny Theme – Use and Modifications

Jun 14, 2024 - Shared Notes: Why Move from Wordpress.com to Micro.blog?

Jun 13, 2024 - What Can We Do about LLMs on Our Independent Websites?

Jun 12, 2024 - Creepy noises outside: Sounded like a life-and-death struggle between two small creatures in the woods, but maybe they each got away in one …

Jun 12, 2024 - Shared Notes: Small Image Galleries

Jun 11, 2024 - Was in the dentist’s chair for two hours today. (One procedure became another, the second done by an extern.) I don’t want to …

Jun 11, 2024 - Shared Notes: Digital Gardens

Jun 11, 2024 - The clouds were changing shape and color, getting very dark in one part of the sky while the sun was playing with white clouds and a blue …

Jun 10, 2024 - Are people really shocked about the European Parliamentary election results? Or are the responses more part of the performative virtue that …

Jun 10, 2024 - Wahl 2024

Jun 8, 2024 - Microblogging is Social Media, Not Broadcast Media

Jun 8, 2024 - The IndieWeb approach is about owning your own content. Making over one’s web presence in such terms might also be about fashioning a …

Jun 8, 2024 - In any case, the site is humming along. And Micro.blog’s IndieWeb features are already making it easier to move about and socialize in …

Jun 8, 2024 - Still getting used to the automatic crossposting option on Micro.blog. There are no preference settings for how an automatic crosspost …

Jun 8, 2024 - Visited Facebook last night for the first time in ages. Very good to see news from old friends, but the algorithm also churns up a lot of …

Jun 6, 2024 - Was just feeling good about the new iteration of my site, but then apparent server issues on Micro.blog (host) and Knowledge Commons (where …

Jun 6, 2024 - Loud TV screen at the gas pump. Will have to remember to not stop there next time.

Jun 5, 2024 - I am wondering how Threads can really federate given what Meta is doing with user content and so-called AI. There’s opt-out in Europe …

Jun 5, 2024 - A Bridge for the Bluesky–Mastodon Gap

Jun 5, 2024 - Revisiting an Old Project

Jun 4, 2024 - Waging War with Factories

Jun 3, 2024 - Comments Back On (Tentatively)

Jun 2, 2024 - Bringing Back a Blogroll

Jun 1, 2024 - I still need to work on the styling (colors, fonts, etc.) of this version of my website, but I’m becoming satisfied with it’s …

Jun 1, 2024 - The Republican Party’s divorce from the rule of law is complete. Aaron Blake, Washington Post

May 31, 2024 - Any general machine can be misused by any malign actor with ill intent. The pursuit of failsafe guardrails in AI will prove futile, for it …

May 28, 2024 - ☺️ It is amazing to watch a tiny human, my granddaughter, develop language for herself.

May 25, 2024 - Whenever I finish fixing one thing on my site, a new issue arises. Still, if I tell my perfectionist self to get over it, I can have a good …

May 20, 2024 - This is just a test post from Drafts.app (MacOS and iOS) to Micro.blog, which will then crosspost to Mastodon and Bluesky. Later, I will hit …

May 19, 2024 - Cleaning up my blog posts, which I’ve moved to Micro.blog, reveals just how much extra unnecessary garbage markup WordPress.com has …

May 12, 2024 - I am migrating my website from WordPress.com to Micro.blog in order to simplify its maintenance, reduce costs, and streamline my online …

Sep 19, 2023 - Juggling Social Media Platforms

Sep 17, 2023 - Driving north on Rt. 16, I can still be surprised by the appearance of the White Mountains from a few hilltops between Wakefield and …

Sep 1, 2023 - Another Trip to Scarborough

Aug 28, 2023 - Ukrainian Media at War

Aug 25, 2023 - Sign of Life

Jan 7, 2023 - Snow-covered trees with a moon behind them in Center Conway, NH, on the evening of January 6, 2023. The slightly visible lines in the sky …

Jan 6, 2023 - Links: Russo-Ukrainian War

Jan 1, 2023 - Ringing in the New Year: Peace and War, Hope and Fear

Dec 27, 2022 - Choices

Dec 23, 2022 - Red Cross Poster with Christkind, circa 1917

Dec 21, 2022 - The press conference this afternoon reminds me of what a disaster we averted by showing the orange blob the door after one term. I get …

Dec 18, 2022 - Ongoing Saga

Dec 4, 2022 - Bye Bye Birdie

Nov 23, 2022 - Mastodon

Nov 23, 2022 - Death Wish for Their Soldiers

Oct 27, 2022 - Brute Force

Sep 25, 2022 - Writing is Thinking

Sep 7, 2022 - Potato Harvest

Aug 11, 2022 - More than a Euphemism

Jul 17, 2022 - Justitia Again

Jul 15, 2022 - The Old House and Barn

Jul 15, 2022 - To Everything There Is a Season

Jul 12, 2022 - Wordpress no longer supported the blog theme I was using, so I decided to start from scratch with a minimalist block theme (Livro) that …

Jan 17, 2022 - We Are the Problem

Dec 16, 2021 - New Hampshire Winter

Aug 17, 2021 - Ten Helpful Tweets on Revising

Jul 14, 2021 - American Sociopathy

Jul 10, 2021 - Open Access Article on 'History of Knowledge' Blog

May 17, 2021 - 'Keep Clean'

May 4, 2021 - The Self

Apr 19, 2021 - Springtime in Glover Park, Washington, DC

Apr 19, 2021 - Russian Anti-Austrian War Propaganda, 1914–15

Apr 17, 2021 - Getting the News

Mar 1, 2021 - Pandemic Dreams

Mar 1, 2021 - “I’m a Short Afternoon Walk and You’re Putting Way Too Much Pressure on Me” by Emily Delaney

Jan 11, 2021 - Leadership Failure

Dec 23, 2020 - Statistics and Tears

Dec 15, 2020 - Leadership and Trust

Nov 2, 2020 - Children Watching

Sep 28, 2020 - Depression in Two Senses of the Word

Jul 13, 2020 - 'Absurdist Tropes'

Jun 8, 2020 - Looking forward to a more productive week in quarantine now that martial law and the end of our democracy appear to be off the table for the …

Jun 3, 2020 - Curfew

May 30, 2020 - Riots

May 29, 2020 - 'Mr Smith Goes to Washington'

May 18, 2020 - Alpharetta, Georgia

May 2, 2020 - Quarantine Life

Apr 3, 2020 - 'The Public Health' (1840)

Mar 7, 2020 - Two Faces of America

Feb 25, 2020 - The Sod

Feb 24, 2020 - Social Cognition

Feb 19, 2020 - Migrant Girl in the Dust Bowl

Feb 14, 2020 - Happening Here

Feb 14, 2020 - 'Authoritarian Style'

Feb 11, 2020 - 'Emigration—Detailing the Progress and Vicissitudes of an Emigrant' (1833)

Feb 11, 2020 - Saco River

Feb 9, 2020 - Mt. Washington

Mar 17, 2019 - Consumer Engineering

Mar 17, 2019 - New Blog

Feb 8, 2019 - A Walls from 1916

Feb 7, 2019 - Munitions Workers

Nov 20, 2018 - Astoria, Oregon

Nov 20, 2018 - American Psycho

Oct 24, 2018 - The Changing Faces of Nationalism

Jun 16, 2018 - Organiz­ing and Commu­ni­cat­ing Historical Knowledge: Some Personal Observations

Jun 13, 2018 - Blogging before Conferencing

Jun 9, 2018 - On the Metro

Jun 9, 2018 - Elephant Seals

Dec 27, 2017 - Monsters in the News

Nov 11, 2017 - Emperor Mussolini

Oct 13, 2017 - Noooo!

Oct 6, 2017 - How Open is Open Access?

Sep 16, 2017 - YWCA Poster, ca. 1918

Sep 15, 2017 - Writing

Sep 15, 2017 - 'Colonizability'

Aug 9, 2017 - North Korea

Jul 23, 2017 - Information and Meaning

Jun 25, 2017 - War Savings Stamps Poster, 1917

Jun 23, 2017 - War, Gender, and Nation in 19th-Century Europe: A Preliminary Sketch

Jun 22, 2017 - Angry America

Jun 22, 2017 - Cultural History and the History of Knowledge

Jun 15, 2017 - 'Near East Relief' Appeal, 1919

Jun 15, 2017 - 'Dead, but the remains are still with us'

May 2, 2017 - Child Labor in the United States

Mar 9, 2017 - Blogging

Mar 5, 2017 - Global History’s Blind Spot

Feb 26, 2017 - A Refugee in New York, 1942

Feb 26, 2017 - Duck and Cover: 1951 Civil Defense Film for Kids

Feb 20, 2017 - A Hard Thing to Teach

Feb 19, 2017 - Military History

Feb 19, 2017 - Information, Sociability, Reality Check

Feb 17, 2017 - Old Photographs

Feb 15, 2017 - Kyrie

Feb 14, 2017 - 10,000 Threads

Feb 14, 2017 - Bicycle Taxi Driver

Feb 13, 2017 - Teachers

Feb 13, 2017 - Social Media Behavior

Feb 12, 2017 - An Encounter between our Enslaved and our Immigrant Pasts

Feb 12, 2017 - Intersections

Feb 11, 2017 - The History of Knowledge and Contemporary Discourse on Science

Feb 11, 2017 - Richard Evans on Trump

Feb 10, 2017 - Seen at Dupont Circle tonight

Feb 9, 2017 - What's Going On?

Feb 8, 2017 - Banned Immigrants

Feb 7, 2017 - Assault on Facts and Credibility

Feb 5, 2017 - Justitia

Feb 3, 2017 - Don’t be a Sucker (1947)

Feb 3, 2017 - German Magazine Cover

Feb 2, 2017 - Totally Normal

Feb 2, 2017 - History under Trump

Jan 29, 2017 - Please Make It Stop

Jan 29, 2017 - The Past in the Present

Jan 28, 2017 - From the Historian who Brought us 'Ordinary Men'

Jan 22, 2017 - Feminism

Jan 22, 2017 - Gaslighting

Jan 18, 2017 - Ludwik Fleck on Cognition

Dec 21, 2016 - Hate Speech and Fresh Air

Dec 20, 2016 - Academic Prose

Dec 20, 2016 - 'Kill the Historians'

Dec 19, 2016 - WordPress Email

Dec 17, 2016 - Preparing to Fight the Last War? Maybe Not

Nov 13, 2016 - ACLU’s Open Letter to Mr. Trump

Nov 12, 2016 - Grafenwöhr 1983

Nov 10, 2016 - 'American Tragedy'

Nov 10, 2016 - Values

Oct 20, 2016 - Tonight’s Lecture

Sep 24, 2016 - Automation

Jul 25, 2016 - 'The American Face of Fascism'

Jul 9, 2016 - ‘Black Man Driving’

Jul 8, 2016 - A Few Notes on the History of Knowledge

Jun 27, 2016 - Experts <—> Public

Jun 27, 2016 - Rates of Change

Jun 27, 2016 - Commonplacing

Apr 16, 2016 - Georgetown University’s Massive Slave Sale

Nov 9, 2015 - Historiographical Impasse

Jul 30, 2015 - Communism, Consumerism, and Currency

May 3, 2015 - Kitchens of the Future

Mar 8, 2015 - History and the Packaged Gnocchi

Dec 12, 2014 - 2014 Archival Seminar Report

Dec 8, 2014 - Terence Zuber, Military History, and Culture

Dec 5, 2014 - German Scholarly Monographs

Nov 29, 2014 - Why Study Atrocities?

Nov 29, 2014 - Sand Creek

Nov 27, 2014 - Digitized Resources for World War I Research

Nov 25, 2014 - Happy Thanksgiving!

Nov 23, 2014 - Housekeeping

Nov 21, 2014 - 'Not a Military Historian'

Oct 31, 2014 - Work Update

Oct 15, 2013 - Archival Summer Seminar 2013

Jun 6, 2013 - Archival Seminar

Jan 13, 2013 - Book Review: GDR and Consumption

Sep 29, 2012 - Teaching Notes: Synthesis and Process

Jul 3, 2012 - Reflections after Class

Jun 14, 2012 - Requiring Students to Use Chicago Style (or Turabian or Whatever)

May 13, 2012 - Military History Conference

Apr 28, 2012 - Command Culture by Jörg Muth

Mar 18, 2012 - Who Should Groener’s Schlieffen Plan Matter To?

Mar 3, 2012 - Separating Writing from Formatting

Feb 27, 2012 - Refuting Straw Men and Explaining What Happened

Feb 26, 2012 - German Handwriting from 98 Years Ago

Feb 19, 2012 - Working through More Journals

Feb 14, 2012 - Catch-Up Reading and Article Idea

Feb 13, 2012 - Dissertation on Internet Archive

Feb 11, 2012 - Terence Zuber’s Image of War and the Schlieffen Plan Debate

Feb 5, 2012 - Still Reading the Dissertation

Jan 31, 2012 - Military History and Business History

Jan 28, 2012 - From Dissertation to . . . What?

Jan 22, 2012 - Another Fresh Start

Apr 10, 2011 - Consumption History Again

Apr 9, 2011 - Editing and Consumption History

Mar 14, 2011 - Using an iPad to Grade Student Papers

Nov 10, 2010 - Foreign Language Competency in the U.S.

Aug 14, 2010 - Learning to Synthesize History

Jul 21, 2010 - Hist 314: History of Germany (Fall 2010)

May 20, 2010 - Hist 388-B02, Approaches to European Military History (GMU)

Apr 5, 2010 - U.S. History as a Political Football?

Mar 22, 2010 - The Politics of Identity and How We Learn History

Feb 7, 2010 - When History Collides with Commercial Interests

Jan 12, 2010 - History without Reading

Jan 7, 2010 - History 100 Again

Jan 7, 2010 - Plagiarism Again

Oct 28, 2009 - Contemporary Political Rhetoric and Teaching History

Aug 28, 2009 - Fall 2009 Semester

Aug 28, 2009 - What Having a Socialist Nazi in the White House Means for the Classroom

Aug 13, 2009 - Tiring of the Permanent Campaign

Aug 9, 2009 - Work

Aug 9, 2009 - Turning up the heat in Iran?

Jul 25, 2009 - Frightened Bushies

Jul 23, 2009 - Miracle Workers by Taylor Mali

Jul 22, 2009 - Life Imitating Stereotypes

Jun 25, 2009 - Generous Farm Share Yesterday

Jun 24, 2009 - Noteworthy on Iran

Jun 21, 2009 - Bloggers Unite for Iran on June 29th

Jun 19, 2009 - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Jun 18, 2009 - The Fast Pace of Time in Iran

Jun 15, 2009 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

May 13, 2009 - One Problem with Unemployment Statistics

Apr 29, 2009 - Small Crime

Apr 26, 2009 - Downgrading 'Torture' to 'Harsh Questioning'

Apr 24, 2009 - Terrorism

Mar 23, 2009 - Mob Rule

Mar 22, 2009 - Honor and Violence

Mar 15, 2009 - Great War Course Planning

Mar 12, 2009 - Walking

Mar 8, 2009 - A Different Approach to History 100?

Mar 4, 2009 - Great War Course

Mar 3, 2009 - Blogging Politics

Feb 13, 2009 - Work

Jan 20, 2009 - Two of Two Million

Jan 9, 2009 - 'Tags can be a rich source of noise'

Jan 7, 2009 - Politics and Scholarship: U. S. Army War College

Jan 7, 2009 - Al-Qaeda and Gaza

Jan 4, 2009 - Juan Cole on Israel’s Wars

Dec 26, 2008 - Is College Worth It?

Dec 25, 2008 - A Christmas Short Film from 1898

Dec 22, 2008 - Atrocities in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870–71

Dec 21, 2008 - A New Personal Record in Plagiarism Cases

Dec 15, 2008 - Vegetable Goodness

Nov 28, 2008 - Waiting by the Oven

Nov 22, 2008 - At the Bus Stop

Nov 16, 2008 - Language Study Tip: Daily Practice

Nov 15, 2008 - Online Forums: Blackboard and Wikispaces

Nov 15, 2008 - Thursday

Nov 11, 2008 - Ninety Years Ago

Nov 10, 2008 - Is the rheotorical war over for now?

Nov 7, 2008 - A Couple Election Night Thoughts

Sep 25, 2008 - Professor Wikipedia

Sep 11, 2008 - My 9/11

Sep 4, 2008 - The Case against Sarah Palin

Sep 1, 2008 - Of Bellicosity and Patriotism

Sep 1, 2008 - Labor Day

Aug 26, 2008 - Lessons from the Classroom

Aug 16, 2008 - What Russia should have learned from Iraq

Aug 15, 2008 - In Brief: Georgia and Russia Again

Aug 11, 2008 - McCain’s Ethnically Charged Scare Tactics

Aug 4, 2008 - “Conflict” (USSR 1983)

Jul 30, 2008 - The Vocabulary of Grammar

Jul 27, 2008 - The Most Famous Closed Trial with Secret Evidence

Jul 22, 2008 - Blogging and Myth-Busting

Jul 6, 2008 - Authors of Interrogation Handbook Abuse Their Sources

Jul 4, 2008 - Received Rights versus Human Rights in the 'Declaration of Independence'

May 19, 2008 - Do You Link to Your Sources?

May 18, 2008 - Ignorance or Deliberate Abuse?

May 15, 2008 - The Responsibility to Protect

May 15, 2008 - Human Rights in the History Survey

May 10, 2008 - Language and Culture: The Way We Speak

May 4, 2008 - DC Film Fest

May 1, 2008 - Happy May Day!

Apr 29, 2008 - Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, and Generational Differences

Apr 21, 2008 - War and Public Opinion

Apr 15, 2008 - Textbook Costs

Apr 5, 2008 - Why Skepticism about Global Warming?

Mar 17, 2008 - Links: History, Politics, and Memory

Mar 16, 2008 - Orange Juice, Apple Juice and Applesauce

Mar 14, 2008 - Fostering Historical Thinking with Brecht’s Galileo

Mar 12, 2008 - Spring Break and Teaching

Mar 11, 2008 - Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day

Mar 5, 2008 - American Idealism

Feb 29, 2008 - The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

Feb 26, 2008 - Talking Religion on Public Forums

Feb 24, 2008 - Presidential Campaigns and Leadership

Feb 3, 2008 - Excitement about the Obama Campaign

Jan 21, 2008 - When Experts Are Forced to Talk to Outsiders

Jan 15, 2008 - Baking Bread

Jan 14, 2008 - Google Alternative to Wikipedia?

Jan 14, 2008 - Historians Speak about the Profession

Jan 13, 2008 - Ron Paul: Paranoid Racist

Jan 11, 2008 - Nonsmoking Workers Fired in Germany?

Jan 10, 2008 - When Google Gets it Wrong

Jan 8, 2008 - The Ups and Downs of Tumblelogs

Dec 26, 2007 - Smoke Stinks

Dec 8, 2007 - Germany and the United States on the Eve of the Cold War

Nov 23, 2007 - Military Studies in Liberal Arts Education

Nov 23, 2007 - Fluency and Accuracy

Nov 11, 2007 - Donald Duck Goes to War

Oct 28, 2007 - Outsourcing Revisited: Doonesbury at War

Oct 9, 2007 - Historians and Politics

Oct 8, 2007 - Outsourcing Military Tasks

Sep 11, 2007 - Six Years Ago

Sep 9, 2007 - Stumbling onto a Dissertation Topic

Aug 28, 2007 - The Cold War Museum

Aug 25, 2007 - Wilhelm Groener (1867–1939)

Aug 13, 2007 - Good Old Stalin

Jul 26, 2007 - Stereoptic Views of the Great War

Jul 21, 2007 - Across Generations

Jul 21, 2007 - Paradoxes

Jul 10, 2007 - Politics in the Classroom

May 23, 2007 - On Writing