"Ms. Ross-Mahé, age 86, was greeted at the airport by her three adult children. She was still dressed in her prison wear — orange shoes, sweatpants and a gray sweater — covered in stains and holes...
"She was in a state of physical shock...
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...
A chance to talk about my favorite topic by way of Althusser
Jon Wilson - Out of Chaos
How the Nation State Emerged from the Ruins of World War II
À paraître en septembre chez Basic Books
Fun fact: they passed it because a DC video store leaked Robert Bork’s video rental history to a local paper during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
Pope treading on Trump's tie.
Seems about right...
I’m very excited to dive into Subodhana Wijeyeratne’s new book with Stanford University Press on the history of Japan’s space program. It is a very welcome addition to the growing body of work on the global history of space technologies.
Marc J. Hetherington, Jonathan Weiler et Andrew M. Engelhardt - The Right Way
The Conservative Worldview from the New Deal to Trumpism
À paraître en janvier aux Princeton UP
Une passionnante enquête entre Europe et Asie au siècle des Lumières signée Sébastien Pautet.
Parution le 8 avril chez Payot.
“Today’s students might think AI has made the liberal arts irrelevant. Yet this centuries-old educational tradition is precisely what they will need to thrive, personally and professionally, in the age of AI.“
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I created a deep linked and searchable table of contents index for issues of the prewar "Japan Magazine" found on Internet Archive, with over 200 issues and several thousand articles. Useful for history students working only with English sources:
froginawell.net/indexes/japa...
#japan
The claim "the fact that the incumbent party was successfully defeated in an election shows that there was never anything to worry about and democracy was fine all along" in the Hungarian case— with explicit or implicit analogy to the US— is maddening to begin with, bc it's a well-known fact
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After years of autocratic rule, Hungarians have rejected the far right. Could the same thing happen here one day?
REMINDER You can still sign up for Thursday's #DIJStudyGroup
"Female Mayors and the Practice of Local Leadership in Japan" with Stefanie Schwarte (LMU Munich / DIJ Tokyo)
📅 April 16, 2026 / 6.30 pm (JST) / 11.30 am (CEST)
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could say today would be a good day to tell people to read theory (Mahan), but actually the early chapters of this on the Entente's blockade in WW1 doing away with any of the norms of neutral shipping (that the royal navy was never particularly married to) would probably be more interesting.
Four years ago, Orbán gloated that his election victory was so big that it could be seen even from Brussels.
Today's defeat is such that it can be seen even from Washington and Moscow.
Ron Howard made an Oscar-bait movie out of it, starring Amy Adams AND Glenn Close
When one considers the eventual heat death of the universe, any individual policy choice is fine enough
Faut-il sauver le soldat Boucheron ?
Je précise que je ne suis aucunement lié à PB, en dehors du fait que je suis médiéviste 😉
Mais devant une critique d'une telle virulence, qui peut faire sourire à la 1ère lecture et qui s'avère souvent de mauvaise foi, qq remarques s'imposent: 1/23
My book is now available on paperback too! And considerably cheaper (well, if ~50€ is cheap) as well.
Reposting for attention of #envhist #envhums #STS #HistSTM folks, can anyone help? Amazing story and a vital longitudinal datastream that needs continuity and care
🇰🇭 Cambodia unveils statue for mine-sniffing hero rat
Cambodia unveils a statue of the landmine-hunting rat, Magawa, the only rat ever awarded the PDSA Gold Medal for animal bravery.
New Arcadia article by Eiko Honda: learn how the Japanese naturalist-polymath Minakata Kumagusu’s (1867–1941) fascination with slime mold shaped a multispecies onto-epistemology—and a fierce campaign to protect shrines and sacred forests.
www.environmentandsociety.org/node/10086/
#envhum #envhist
No matter how bad he gets and no matter what he does, Republicans in Congress will never stand up to him or speak out because some agree with him on everything and the rest are spineless cowards.
From our FirstView: Race, Democracy, and Public Support for War by MICHAEL TOMZ and @jlpweeks.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Asking AI the same question 1,000 times and then treating it exactly the same as if you'd polled 1,000 real human beings is one of the most batshit uses of AI I've seen yet (and the competition is STIFF).
Yet investors are pouring 100s of millions of dollars into this nonsense.
All forms of reading are collapsing in the face of smartphone apps and short-form video destroying attention spans and sucking up all available free time.
This includes manga comics, in of all places, Japan, where a staggering 77.7% of teens and kids no longer read manga mags.
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À paraître aux @edladecouverte.bsky.social
« Une armée "révolutionnaire". Contre-insurrection et subversion militaire pendant la guerre d'Algérie » par Denis Leroux :
www.editionsladecouverte.fr/une_armee_re...
awesome resource: @mariloupage.bsky.social put together this consistently-updated mediagraphy of pieces of writing that are critical of AI!
It's striking how, despite Trump now having been a prominent/dominant force in US and global politics for 12 years, US media coverage still treats him as a neophyte learning lessons from the previous 48hr news cycle, rather than an unstable man with deeply set cognitive and behavioral patterns.
