"The principal purpose of what has passed for humanities education has been to convince students that the humanistic tradition is not what they think it is. . . .They are being rushed straight from ignorance to contempt."
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$50 to fill up an ordinary sedan today and it wasn’t quite empty and it’s not quite full 😳

LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

Beyond the Book with The Whaling Museum Thematic Bookclub

Thank you Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum for hosting a book club session on Sea People (May 27) 😎 🗿🏝️⚓️ www.cshwhalingmuseum.org/bookclub.html

Benjamin Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

Opinion | Critics Are Doing Colleges a Favor Attacks from outside can spur positive change within.

“Scholars should learn how to speak in different registers about what they do, and their employers should reward it.”

Actually, they should have done that 30 years ago.

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Spent my birthday rereading this treasure. Glyn Williams was a wonderful historian.

I’m here for it! Approaching 1066 at the moment, still a few Norse grammar impacts to go and then on to the French. Can’t tell you how many people I’ve shared this with. My son is just a few episodes behind me — we’re both history + linguistics nuts. Thank you for your great work!

Wall Street’s Doom-Mongering on Software Is Bizarre Just four paragraphs on the website of Anthropic PBC were enough to spark a $300 billion stock rout. A Jefferies analyst called it the “SaaSpocalypse,” a run on the shares of specialized software comp...

I mean, what do I know? But this feels like a voice of reason www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"We need to help students grow into the difficulty of reading. The best way to do that is not to “meet them where they are.”

I really agree with this; my experience of becoming a reader always involved reading things I didn't quite understand. @theatlantic.com

Thank you! Thank you! It means so much to hear from someone who liked your work. 🙏

Stop Meeting Students Where They Are What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.

"The iterative process of confusion, endurance, and incremental understanding is what literature professors teach when they assign whole books. This march toward understanding doesn’t have a great name other than READING." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Episode 2311: Martin Puchner looks forward to 2045 when the whole world will have access to high quality education Why we should remain cheerful about our tech century

keenon.substack.com/p/episode-23... optimistic words from Harvard's Martin Puchner on the long term role of technology in democratizing education

If you're in D.C. a week from tomorrow, there's an event at Politics & Prose honoring the history of Book World. I think the tone will likely be less funerary than you might imagine. I know my comments will be. politics-prose.com/tribute-book...

Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?

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How did I live before I discovered The History of English Podcast? Just so fantastic. @englishhistpod.bsky.social

Review | A historian corrects the record about the mysteries of Easter Island In “Island at the Edge of the World,” Mike Pitts tells the story of the people who carved the giant heads on the remotest inhabited place on Earth.

My current and, sadly, last review for The Washington Post, as it retrenches and bows and eliminates its book section.

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2026/0...

Honored to be hat-tipped; depressed by the context. I reviewed this same book for the TLS, though it has yet to appear. Book reviewing 😔 Still, thanks.

I loved your book so much and have told everyone I know about it. Thank you for writing it!!! I’m forever obsessed with Tupaia speaking to the Māori and them understanding him

... Transmitting an account of ... Voyage from ... To this island ... Natives ...

I hope some of the other pages are easier to read. Love your prev books!

@cathomps.bsky.social's book "Sea People" is a fascinating search into the lives and origins of the Pacific peoples.

Cannot recommend it highly enough.

For Polynesia more broadly I can’t recommend Sea People by Christina Thompson enough!! Thoroughly researched and compelling writing

Wow, glad it was helpful. Hope all is well now.

Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages— Harvard Gazette Researchers place Caucasus Lower Volga people, speakers of ancestor tongue, in today’s Russia about 6,500 years ago

New cool research on ancient populations (funded by NIH and NSF) news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

A very Chicago gamble Chicago and Bally's have teamed up in an investment offering.

🤔 if you’re not reading this guy you are missing something
www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/chic...

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Hey #booksky, if you are going to see Moana 2 this week, consider chasing it with a read of Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by @cathomps.bsky.social. It’s a fascinating history of the culture and settlement of Oceania.

Started a new book. Here’s a sample of some of the source material 😢