GOP Senators John Kennedy and Ted Cruz devised this off-ramp, Kennedy says on Fox: "Senator Thune submitted that to President Trump. As is his right, he said no. ‘No deals with the Democrats.’ It would have worked. We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week. But the president said no deal."
After one owed book chapter and an abstract this summer, i should be able. It would be a good lead in to my next book project on ancient immigration across antiquity.
Are we going to have to write that joint article?
oooooo. that looks good. I will look it up.
That crostini looks amazingly delicious.
Oh. Check the UK site. It’s there.
on the website.
Now available for preorder, with promo code TCCCR2026, "The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race," a major intervention against the decades-old orthodoxy of the alleged anachronism of "race" and "racism" for the study of the ancient past. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
I just had virtually the same conversation with my nephew (humanities edition) - he’s graduating college in May and had wanted to go into academia but says it’s totally infeasible with so many departments not taking grad students and funding drying up.
We’re losing an entire generation of scholars.
Of course my first post on here will be shameless self-promotion. I have two books coming out imminently. Cambridge is offering 20% off until the end of April with this discount code TCCCR2026
www.cambridge.org/9781009295130
welcome!
🚨🚨🚨 🇮🇱 BOMBED NEXT TO THE UNESCO SITE OF BAALBEK
This adds to the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 axis targeting of a series of heritage sites in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon over the past week (see post 👇 🧵)
How lovely to see mine & Sharon Macdonald’s article on “degrowing museum collections” in the top 10
most read of all time articles in the International Journal of Heritage Studies. No. 8! www.tandfonline.com/action/showM...
On March 5, 2026, Marion County Judge Christina R. Klineman made an existing temporary injunction permanent, ruling that the abortion ban imposes a substantial burden on religious exercise, and violates Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”
Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.
Mainstream America: We are obsessed with Heated Rivalry and Drag Race. We love them and can't get enough.
American Democrat politicians: LGBT people are not culturally normal. We will not speak of them.
Haahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha.
25 specialised panels at the International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (Bologna, 30th Aug–4th Sept 2027) are seeking proposals of 20-minute papers. Deadline Sept 2026. Lots to choose from! site.unibo.it/epigrafia-gr...
1. Ancient Greek and Persian History
2. Roman History
3. Ancient Historians
4. Ancient Drama
5. Ancient Gender and Sexuality
6. Ancient Race and Ethnicity
7. Ancient Art/Modern Politics (Hitler, Mussolini, Confederacy)
8. First Year Ancient Greek
9. Advanced Ancient Greek (variety of texts/authors)
Finally an Alexander maybe done right.
Did you see that Jacob Tierney is going to be leading a new Alexander series for netflix? based on the golden mean.
He can only nominate.
Connor Storrie as Alexander?
Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $
Screenshot of an X post by Acyn quoting a CNN segment. The text shows a back-and-forth between Collins and Mullin discussing whether something described as “obliterated” is being rebuilt. The embedded image shows a CNN studio set labeled “The Source with Kaitlan Collins,” with Collins seated across from a male guest. A lower-third banner reads, “Massive military buildup looms over Iran talks.”
So their nuclear program grew back like Trump’s ear?
The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
Tom Nichols: “There are people in the Republican Party who think it’s a hoot to post Nazi memes and to use language from the Third Reich, and I wrote it because we can’t keep ignoring this and pretending that it’s normal. The Republicans in fact do have a Nazi problem.”
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