He could have gone for cheap shots (there were plenty of opportunities) but David took the time to write a thoughtful and super informative rebuttal to the drivel in Monthly Review.
Worth a read even if you didn't see the original
It's US tax day, but it's also deadline day for the spring cycle of AIP's grants-in-aid program for history of the physical sciences.
Honestly, running a grant program is just the best. Seeing emails roll in from all over the world, with proposals for all kinds of interesting projects is great fun.
OMG! I need to check that out asap! And huge congrats again!
I wrote a China in 1989 unit for an ambitious, classroom-oriented @historians.org project on authoritarianism www.historians.org/news-publica... --the case studies are open access & intended to have relevance to varied times & places, other contributors include Louise Young & Barbara Weinstein
Congratulations!! But when are you going to write a sequel to Wives and Their Warlords, titled Commanders and Their Concubines?
The AHR has launched a new project, Authoritarianism 101: A Global History, as part of the #AHRSyllabus series.
Explore 30 modules from different contributors and key questions on authoritarianism—each paired with primary sources and teaching resources. The first twelve modules are now live.
Notice how they never cite a study or statistic that justifies AI use in the classroom. Why? Bc there is basically no evidence that AI improves student learning outcomes (and they know it). Politicians are putting corporate profit ahead of student needs—a corporate-backed science experiment on kids
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
Five titles in the shortlist for the 2025 Baifang Schell Book Prize in the nonfiction category
It's such a privilege to return as a judge for the Baifang Schell Book Prize @asiasociety.org @chinabooksreview.com, after serving on its inaugural cohort last year. The shortlist for the 2025 Nonfiction Award is out. Find out more about the five fabulous titles: chinabooksreview.com/2026/04/02/s...
Five titles in the shortlist for the 2025 Baifang Schell Book Prize in the nonfiction category
It's such a privilege to return as a judge for the Baifang Schell Book Prize @asiasociety.org @chinabooksreview.com, after serving on its inaugural cohort last year. The shortlist for the 2025 Nonfiction Award is out. Find out more about the five fabulous titles: chinabooksreview.com/2026/04/02/s...
Pt. 2: chinabooksreview.com/2026/04/02/s...
On Tuesday, we announced the shortlist for our Baifang Schell Book Prize’s literature award.
Today, we are delighted to present the shortlist for our nonfiction category, the 2025 Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Book on China or the Sinophone World: chinabooksreview.com/2026/04/02/s...
Norman Wong, retired carpenter, great grandson of Wong Kim Ark, and now activist to protect #birthrightcitizenship.
That should not be controversial!
As a longtime fan of NüVoices, I'm so honored to be on its podcast to talk about why science is always political, who needs "China" as a threat, and how to write against precarity and public pressures. Many thanks to hosts @solarina.ca @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social and the @nuvoices.bsky.social team!
NEW EPISODE: This week, hosts Solarina Ho @solarina.ca and Rui Zhong speak with Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social, a research scholar at Yale Law School, on writing about science, politics, and US-China relations.
🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts:
History is not a settled field. We remain in discussion, debate, and research on every event in the past and are likely to forever remain uncommitted to one singular “true” version of the past.
The new episode of our 开门见山 podcast is out! In the wake of the adoption of the new 'ethnic unity law', @yangyangcheng.bsky.social speaks with @dbyler.bsky.social and @rianthum.bsky.social on centuries of Islamic life in China, the repression in Xinjiang, and how identities survive state violence.
As NüVoices has been rebranded as NüVoices Magazine along with the new website launch, our editor @laujessie.bsky.social has a letter to all of you supporting us along the journey ❤️
🔗Read the full letter: nuvoices.com/magazine/let...
🙏💛Thank you for having me!
Thank you!
A timely and important conversation between three brilliant folks about the history and current status of Islamic identity in China: @yangyangcheng.bsky.social @rianthum.bsky.social and @dbyler.bsky.social. Great stuff from @madeinchinajournal.com’s 开门见山 podcast!
question for *media studies* folks:
what are some journals that invite short (3K word ish?) commentaries with a quick (ish) turnaround time?
this would be for themes like tech, data, infrastructure, media, enviro, etc
thanks!
A mural of Ruth Wilson Gilmore in New Haven
I would be remiss if I didn’t post the mural to Ruthie that’s up in her home town. Ideas are material.
happy publication day to *The Future That Was* out today from @princetonupress.bsky.social
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
just re-upping this in case anyone else might save me from trying to do this.
does anyone have digitized 红旗/求是 for the early reform era?
If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question
New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
I am teaching a Computer Graphics class this semester where I am going to pair technical readings with STS-type readings. The students are evaluated on both.