#Write

A thread on writing contemporary history and getting older: I’ve been teaching a lot of contemporary British history this term, encouraging my students to reflect upon the challenges of writing
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my main takeaway: so far from knowing whether or not to cancel Aristotle, I do not know what "to cancel" meanshttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/opinion/should-we-cancel-aristotle.html I do definitely however enjoy the pleasant fr
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hi i’m going to repost my story from thecomedownsad instagram but i’m prefacing it with this video first!!!! so that hopefully even people who don’t like me become aware of
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A thread for leave voters who are hurting right now:1/ You didn't get what you were promised, and it is all going wrong, and the shitshow has barely got started
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The more I write about this, the more it becomes plain: if Biden loses, 2020 will be the last remotely free and fair election we have for decades, and certainly
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Since a lot of people's resolution for the new year includes reading a lot more, I looked at what helped me read faster. Summarising my learnings here on 1.Read
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Let me tell you a little story about campaigning in rural Iowa. A thread-I pulled off the gravel road into his lane, it was a long driveway with his farm
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‘Can we go Dungeoneering? Can we? CAN WE? Can I have an axe? What about a mace? No wait! A BASTARD SWORD! Can I cast a spell? Can I cast
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If you haven't yet read the extraordinary, very long editor's note that's been appended to the Ruth Shalit Barrett story, it's here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/squash-lacrosse-niche-sports-ivy-leagu
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Our report from our webinar "Upsetting the Linguistic Anthropology Canon":http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/LSJ-Citations-Syllabi-Report_December-2020.pdf We addressed the necessity of reformulating and
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I used to freelance for years, took a 3 year break, and will be coming back to it next month. I try to remind myself of the DARK SIDE OF
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This is a lovely essay by @JGiesberg & I’d like to add just a couple additional thoughts on Grant’s presidency, & the relationship between the executive & Congress, & party
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I’m going be honest with the Twittersphere tonight: the last 4+ years as a twenty-something—one who grew up in and has a deep, abiding love for evangelicalism—have been disorienting to
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Hasn't been a week, but @POTUS has a diplomatic headache. A #FakeNews story that 2 Hindu Americans holding senior roles in the Biden campaign are not being given jobs in
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Anyway, this morning I remembered that in college, I wrote a 10 page paper about how RIP VAN WINKLE was about the fear of impotence in the American male GUESS
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I love reading so many people’s commitment to stop drinking in the new year. I’m a couple years in to my life without alcohol (very very happily), and thought I’d
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