#Essays

1/ Thanks to @militaryhistori, I went down a smallish rabbit hole on the state of military history education in America today, precipitated by this Max Hastings lamentation which might be
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0/ New podcast with the Gritty and Curious @brandonthezhang!Brandon is one of my favorite people to follow on twitter. Super smart dude with lots of great thoughts and ideas.Here is
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On this day in 1999, more than a month after NATO established its presence in Kosovo and Albanian majority got the control of its government, 14 Serbian farmers were slaughtered
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Q:Which Popper should I start with?A:Don’t read Popper, read Deutsch.Start with The Fabric of Reality.Then read The Beginning of Infinity. Unless you don’t like STEM, or if BoI’s table of
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How to have a steady stream of creative output? Understanding the flow of creativity - Mixing ideas from @Julian's creativity faucet and @paulg's early work essay. #90DaysOfProse Day 6 To
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hopping on the book bandwagon by daring myself to read 30 books this year. this will be *that* thread. 1/30 I was dumb & turned my nose up at this
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Today we launch Slavery & the UVA School of Law, a new website and digital archive that explores the law school's historical connections to slavery. http://slavery.law.virginia.edu/  Digitized lecture notes kept
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There's a really particular frustration about being a medical historian right now, as so many people say "well history will tell us who was right and who was wrong" when
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Reading Books is both overrated & underrated at the same time.The quality of the books, how you feel, the actions you take and what you share make a big difference.Most
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OKAY. So I have sat down and taken a look at this whole "Helen Keller is a fraud" business on tiktok and I maybe have some Thoughts that I would
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It’s impossible to consume every show, film, book, blog, livestream, etcTime is precious, attention even more limitedIf you make content, you are succeeding at capturing somebody’s attention away from an
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And we’re back with our semi-regular feature #InTheLoveseat. We've been planning our feature on Corey Alexander @TGStoneButch for the last month and had been in contact w/ them about what
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In my latest for @AmerCompass & @amconmag I review Trump's policy record and issue a warning to conservatives: beware embracing or disavowing the Trumpian program wholesale. What was the Trump
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"The Midwest is, in fact, fairly frequently written about, but almost always in a way that weirdly disclaims the possibility that it has ever been written or thought about before."https://getpocket.com/explore/item/on-being-midwes
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i’m happy for eddie izzard but also remembering when ppl on tumblr used to call her transphobic for referring to herself as a “lesbian trapped in a man’s body” instead
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Hi! It’s a hard weird time in one of the hardest weirdest historical moments any of us will (hopefully) ever live through. Here are some things that have been helping
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