In my introductory class, "The History of Your Parents' Generation," we read texts by Phyllis Schlafly, Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, Pat Buchanan, and Lynne Cheney.

Joe Mazzulla, basketball existentialist, strikes again

Michel says RISE and GRIND

I can't wait to open my class on Foucault on Monday with some Ed Mylett YouTube clips. Figuring this out at 10:20pm on a Saturday is elite time manipulation fyi

One of the greatest inventions of all time. Even though it appears to be all wrong in the ice cream to wafer ratio, it is not. It is perfection.

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

A stack of books, copies of Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination

If you're as excited as I am about Audiofuturism, let me make some suggestions:

•Invite me to your campus to deliver a talk
•Suggest me as a keynote speaker for your conference
•Host me for a workshop on research

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"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

"What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?
The barbarians are due here today." – C. P. Cavafy

"The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour." – Aimé Césaire

Waiting for the Americans Notes from the brink

Waiting for the Americans -- my notes on being here, out of control

BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites.

This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran

(🎥 i24 News)

And I thought my teaching Discourse on Colonialism tomorrow was too on the nose

People are asking

abolish the draft!!!!

As the ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon intensifies, I will bring up this hobbyhorse of mine yet again. The Biden administration's decision to accede to Israel's expansion of its genocidal war into neighboring states was a but-for cause of what's happening today.

‘We Know Occupation’: The Long History of Black Americans’ Solidarity with Palestinians Why the Black Lives Matter movement might help shift the conversation about a conflict thousands of miles away.

I think this is definitely right, as I wrote in 2021. People often overlook the 2020-21 conjuncture as a reason for the shifting views of Americans on Israel-Palestine *well before* October 7

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A Real Conversation With Gov. Josh Shapiro | Higher Learning | The Ringer YouTube video by Higher Learning

This interview from two weeks ago totally flew under the radar but I highly suggest skipping to 46:00 in the video.

This is the some of the most substantive pushback I have ever seen Shapiro, or any Democrat really, receive on Israel-Palestine from basically anyone ever. It's really interesting.

Emily Callaci on Sam Klug’s *The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization* | Society for US Intellectual History Sam Klug’s excellent new book The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization tracks the history of an idea: that the position of Blacks in the United States is that of an...

Thanks to Emily Callaci for this thoughtful review of *The Internal Colony* for @susih.bsky.social: s-usih.org/2026/03/emil...

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

This is one of the most bizarre posts I have ever read on Bluesky. It is demonstrably false. HCR has received multiple profiles, been elevated and lionized as perhaps the ur-representative of the American historical profession in the age of Trump. The NYT in 2020: www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/b...

Israel blocks Catholic cardinal from Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday www.ft.com/content/ec79... via @ft

I may be mistaken, but I believe I am the first person working off the tenure track to win this award in its half-century existence. I hope this will help put to rest the myth that historians struggle to secure permanent teaching positions because their work is inadequate.

I am extremely excited to share that my book Make Your Own Job received the 2026 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians. It is a real honor. www.oah.org/2026/03/26/o...

Amazing news and well-deserved. Congratulations!!!

(not) pizza — YELLOW

The best pizza I eat in DC is from an amazing Palestinian place that, cleverly, describes its pizza as "(not) pizza" www.yellowthecafe.com/notpizza

I do not regret to inform the haters that the Boston Celtics are officially BACK

I'm seeing quite a few liberals using the obviously cynical and antisemitic anti-Israel turn by some far-right influencers to defame anticolonial, pro-Palestinian rejections of Zionism. This will get much worse over the next 2.5 years. It's important to have clarity about you believe.

C'mon now, no one places the start of WWII at September 1, 1939 anymore. We cannot not periodize!

Oh yes, thank you! I meant as a book, as you also pointed out that he's turning it into one

Not published yet, but Tim Barker's dissertation about military Keynesianism is a banger. I'm sure if you reached out to him he'd send you a copy. Curt Cardwell's NSC-68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War is great. I also love James Caroll's book about the Pentagon, House of War