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It is really tricky to explain and even trickier to prove to readers who have perhaps not so much experience with different languages that just because a word X in
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This is a good thread that I think nails the lottery nature of academia as a result of marketization, but as always I think it is then necessary to ask
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Alright, let's do this!My first recommendation for someone looking to start reading on this topic is always J.E. Lendon, Soldiers and Ghosts (2006), which offers an basis for the whole
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Alright, going to pick up again live-tweeting my reactions to the next few videos in Steven Pressfield's 'The Warrior Archteype series.' I looked at the first five videos last time
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Alright, I think it's time to get more ancient stuff on this twitter, so I'm going to start sharing some of my favorite ancient artifacts.Let's start with BM 2001,0501.1: The
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So I'm seeing the same set of reactions to the line "this isn't what America is" which is to respond with the obvious truth that...well, yes it is.The United States
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Since y'all wanted me to write about the silly idea of the 'universal warrior' and warrior vs. soldier dichotomy, and it came up in the context of Steven Pressfield's silly
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My own take for why this is a problem has to do less with the abilities of any particular SecDef or fears about the increasing politicization of the military and
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It's time for a long twitter thread on the nature and limits of the evidence for the ancient world!As you may be aware, compared to even something like the European
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...BUT most of that money needs to be flagged to go for instructional budgets. Legislatures: condition funding on tenure-track hires! Make sure your money pays for *teachers* and *teaching* not
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Now you might ask - why focus on big state schools that get public funding? Because those big state systems are so big, they set the tempo for everyone else
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So everyone is talking about UNC's COVID-19 mess - and all that criticism is perfectly valid.But we also need to talk about why the uni-administration probably had no choice.Buckle up
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