Hegseth's repeal of universal flu vaccines is nonsense on so many levels, but his claim vaccine mandates were an "era of betrayal" irked me as a historian. Here's my response, in @thebulwark.com this morning;
www.thebulwark.com/p/george-was...
I apologize, but I've some harsh words here:
Until the tenured are taking pay cuts to get more tenure lines, until they are pooling their salaries to provide basic living for the folks who *didn't* get hired in this shit job market, y'all have no right, zero, NONE to tell us how to do history.
Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
“The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency.” — NEH.gov
The NEH has $207 million for FY2026. War in Iran? 1 billion per day. We go through 4.83 NEHs a day for what?
Looking forward to it. They need ruffling.
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Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.
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Quick reactions after learning that no, nobody could stop him. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m... 1/
Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
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Even in the Mid Republic, women are active participants in defining what virtus *is* and the bounds of its requisite behaviors and attitudes! To say women are "outside" of it or somehow separate from it is a wild reading of the evidence.
My dissertation adviser is chairing your panel! She's great! Also I wish I'd made arrangements to go to this SMH, because those ancient history panels look great.
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I want to treat "Roman Helmet Guy" as a serious interlocuter, and I want to do it as someone who does what might be called "New Military History," applying cultural studies to military history (religious violence and apocalypticism during wars): you can't study war without studying people.
Okay locking this thing up. Let's all go enjoy the lovely day.
It's cool and my apologies too--I'd
read a bunch of other/negative commentary before replying, and that became the lens through which I read your comments. I'm generally not internet-fighty and should've asked questions rather than start on defense.
"not nearly the depth of analysis you’d get in other sub fields" indicated an overall tone or attitude, or that's how I read them. Sincerely, I don't want to talk past one another here, and I do apologize if I missed the point.
Hm, well, as I said in the 2nd piece of the thread, I may be misunderstanding. I don't think my comments indicated that I felt personally attacked, so much as I was defending the subfield. I thought some comments indicated read in your thread/replies,
e.g.
Very true!
For sure, and thanks for saying so. I'm just surprised to learn that a bunch of historians are unaware of this fact, and/or have a very outdated view of the subfield. Another fun day of Discourse.
This right here.
Yeah I guess that's where some of the confusion lies. I study the same topics as you, but for antiquity, and I would say I am a military historian.
Put another way: I feel like we can poo-poo on bad actors without throwing shade at entire subfields.
I am a non-entity and will likely regret and ultimately delete this post, but this isn't the first such comment I've seen recently, and it is disappointing.
Maybe I am misunderstanding the intent? I realize Helmet Guy is imagining fife-&-bugle, weapon fetishist stuff, but I'd expect my historian colleagues to know that's NOT the field's cutting edge, or even where most of the work is happening.
I don't understand the point of this comment. Because from where I'm sitting, it is actually not a Good Thing for a world class university--situated in a democracy that is frequently at war, where a disproportionate number of future policy makers are educated--to NOT teach military history.
May the Ents march forth and tear your data centres to the ground