Appalling.

"They were worried and irritated - but these are not feelings with which to confront plague. Their first reaction, for instance, was to abuse the authorities ... Could not the regulations be modified and made less stringent?" - Camus

A surprisingly dismissive remark. To say “popular history” is not to dismiss, nor even to criticize. I see more appreciation than hostility.

The sentence should begin “In the post-industrial age, poverty…” no claim to newness there.

Disgusting little man

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Nearly 100k people have joined our call to get dangerous US spy tech firm out of our NHS.

Palantir's founder has called for the NHS to be ripped up. Now his company has access to millions of patient records.

Tell the government to end the contract!

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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Whew, I needed that laugh this morning

The Constitution says "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law." Presidents who violate the Constitution should be impeached and removed from office.

It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.

Opinion: The post-Poilievre leadership race has begun Jamil Jivani is staking his claim to lead the MAGA wing of the Conservative Party

The scorn heaped on Jivani misses the most important point, which Coyne highlights:

There are a group of Canadian conservatives and business leaders who are auditioning for the role of Pétain and would be happy to lead a white Christian nationalist party.

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Pope Leo Rejects Trump’s Gaza “Peace Board” Invitation After his top Middle East envoy denounced the plan as a “colonialist operation,” the Vatican formally declined to participate in Trump’s pay-to-play Gaza “Peace Board.”

NEW: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, a Catholic, criticized Pope Leo XIV’s decision to decline President Trump’s invitation to join the proposed Gaza “Board of Peace.”

The pope’s top Middle East envoy condemned the initiative as a pay-to-play “colonialist operation.”

Grammarly Revisited - Carleton College A close look at Grammarly's new AI tools

This (about the 'new' Grammarly AI toolset) is absolutely terrifying, not because the tool is good, but because it is an easy, all-in-one, way to avoid thinking any thoughts or doing any work at all *and 3000 universities say its OK to use*.
www.carleton.edu/ai/blog/gram...

Canada if we had built the Avro Arrow

New book review:
Ferguson on Carlson, Mark: _Young Fed: The Banking Crises of the 1920s and the Making of a Lender of Last Resort, The_. University of Chicago Press, 2025. Published by H-Pol.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20142227

Happy #pubday to "The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from 1650 to Today," edited @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social and @cindyermus.bsky.social!

Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/

@ageofrevolutions.bsky.social #skystorians

If you really think that's true, I'm dying to hear what you think of this essay i just finished when I post it.

Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value by Nima Bassiri (Forthcoming Article)

Forthcoming book review in the JEL: "Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value by Nima Bassiri" by Matthew Basilico.

“The hospital admitting room, where somebody tonight is dying because they cannot afford to go upstairs to a bed that’s empty waiting for someone with insurance to get sick. We are a better nation than that. We must do better.”

Jesse Jackson’s message of what America could be still resonates.

The History of Contingency and Future-Oriented Thought Cambridge Core - Global History - The History of Contingency and Future-Oriented Thought

Congrats to @thomasmoynihan.bsky.social on 'The History of Contingency and Future-Oriented Thought'. The first new title of 2026 in @universitypress.cambridge.org series Elements in Historical Theory and Practice is out and available for free download till March 3/26. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

The preannounced title for 1978-79 (in parallel to the lecture course The Birth of Biopolitics) was “Problems of method in the history of ideas”, but in the report Foucault says “The seminar was devoted this year to the crisis of juridical thought in the last years of the nineteenth century…” (4/4)

#EconSky The newly appointed asst prof of economics, E.E. Day (Harvard PhD 1909) took over the second half of the money and banking sequence at Harvard in 1910-11. His exam questions plus links to those of the previous four years now posted. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-bank...

Message discipline could save us.

Divination. I see my visual history of divination is now up on the Yale website. Forthcoming this year, Oct 2026. Enjoyed the challenge, once again, of exploring global traditions. Complex and rich.

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Student debt is a generational injustice. Why are we squeezing graduates harder than the super-rich? | Gaby Hinsliff Reform of this stealth tax is long overdue – and with it, a shake-up of the whole university system, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Glad to see student-loan unfairness continuing to get mainstream attention. Good piece by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social. Pity about the concluding misunderstanding, which repeats popular myths. (Semesters just organise the same 24 wks into 2 terms & most unis are increasing not reducing teaching time.)

If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...

Infamous and hilarious account complete with map.

www.kidspot.com.au/parenting/my...

Power, Money, Deception, and Brexit: A Short History of the Oligarchy vs The People It should never be surprising when governments allow billionaires to have their way, given that government itself was invented by the wealthy in the first place.

Epstein saw Brexit as incredible opportunity: "Descent into “tribalism”, as he called it, would open the door to millions of back door deals among the wealthy who would be the only remaining bidders in the fire sale of the UK’s collapsing assets"

georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/power-mone...

appearing later this month

www.bloomsbury.com/us/quelling-...