Also, Christians I have known (who are not Black) LOVE U2 and go see them and take ecstatic selfies. To this day.

I am marginally more fond of the parts where Bono shuts up.

Walter Benjamin: “The only writer of history with the gift of setting alight the sparks of hope in the past, is the one who is convinced of this: that not even the dead will be safe from the enemy, if he is victorious. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.”

‎New Books in Military History: Aidan Forth, “Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Cam... ‎Show New Books in Military History, Ep Aidan Forth, “Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903” (U California Press, 2017) - Apr 24, 2018

Continuing the topical and timely downer theme of settler colonial genocide, here’s an interview about the invention of concentration camps by the British. Happy Thanksgiving… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

‎New Books in Intellectual History: Empires, States, Corporations: A Discussion with Historians Ph... ‎Show New Books in Intellectual History, Ep Empires, States, Corporations: A Discussion with Historians Philip J. Stern and Quinn Slobodian - Nov 3, 2023

Since settler colonialism should be at the center of everyone’s political attention nowadays (but also all the time), here is a good podcast on centuries of informal privatized financial imperialism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Tenure track faculty at ISU just filed for our union!

If folks are interested, here's a piece I wrote, "Art evading confinement: Abolition as Universal Design," for the wonderful new issue of the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, edited by Cala Coats and Alexandra Allen. Free download! journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jcrae/articl...

Thanks Noah! At some point I will have a profile picture and such.