#CONTEMPORARY

Mateusz Fafinski

Calthalas

Crap about history gets published. Historians freak out. Why do we care about Wodan weddings in England? It's not like someone is publishing misleading articles about science, right?It matters. It

Ross Kempsell

rosskempsell

Extraordinary SAGE advice just published "Public Disorder and Public Health: Contemporary Threats and Risks" UK gov told military support would be needed to police serious disorder in the UK 'police

was that a nerve?

primediscussion

A lot of white America is shocked and fatigued right now because for the first time in any of our lives, we’ve pressed pause nationwide on pretending that racism isn’t

Sean T at RCP

SeanTrende

My hot takes on contemporary Twitter discussions:(1) I think Trump is likely to lose. Maybe 1-in-5 chance he wins(?)(2) I don't think the 1988 example is terribly apposite; that was

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

Between this and that Ed Markey ad with footage from the 70s, I'm getting an interesting pre-Reagan vibe from the current Democratic Party. Nostalgia is a powerful emotion, and it's

The Provost / سيدة الفتنة

MsEntropy

Quick thread on the Capitol siege and media culpability (it's not what you might expect) incoming. Recently, we've heard A LOT about media culpability for platforming and laundering the ideologies

✨🖤Shannon on 3 day limit🖤✨

ShazYoongiJoon

BTS as Iconic Dances peformed on Strictly Come Dancing - A very British thread: Namjoon - Tom & Camilla's Showdance: A classic ballroom quickstep with flashes of cheek. Masterful and

Jules Gill-Peterson

gp_jls

Some thoughts on whiteness and trans genre (ie writing and authorship)...(thread) I was mulling over Preciado’s astonishing claim in An Apartment on Venus that “sex change and migration” are the

Debra McDougall

DebraMcDougall

Excited to listen in on a family conversation between @TeachingSana and Martin Nakata about Indigenous higher education...another great @SocSciWeek event @ArtsUnimelb https://tinyurl.com/yy96n2zl Savaging the Disciplines showed how ac

Tessa Dare

TessaDare

I keep thinking about this and how it brings home for me one of the reasons I love writing historical romance. (I feel a thread coming on) Most (not all)

Ritwik Priya

ritwik_priya

Having seen the clip, and as someone with, let's say, an unhealthy level of interest in the life and times of JMK, I can safely say that what Hayek is

Stuart Newman

sanewman1

1/4 The debate among left-of-center academics and pundits about whether Trump represented a turn toward fascism has a well-worn contour. Some are pointing out that things that have happened in

Kelvin Odense (Not Odanz)

MrOdanz

Someone tell Black Americans that it is okay, they should stop coming to my page to rant. I apologize for calling out their hypocrisy. We are brothers and sisters and

Emmett Macfarlane

EmmMacfarlane

9/11 doesn't seem all that long ago but it happened before the average undergrad was born. The typical grad student has no memory of it. What I'm saying is I

Peli Grietzer

peligrietzer

Hyperbole is to right-now what irony was to the '90s The mode of speech holding the key to the contemporary, or whatnot It's so forgotten as a formal concept these

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

Yes, Democrats are 'nervous.' Good by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/yes-democrats-are-nervous-good?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. The headlines over the last seven days have be

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