This is a devastating take down..."Report on the State of a Report (on the Humanities)" pghrev.com/report-on-the-sta…

I’m not sure Thierry Henry is going to last 5 weeks working with Alexi Lalas 😳

Those who celebrate @elonmusk's $1 trillion fortune need to be reminded of a simple and vital truth: That there is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy.

Anthropologists fire back: five scholars quoted in the WashU-Vanderbilt report say their work is being misrepresented to provide a caricature of anthropology to justify an attack on their field: insidehighered.com/news/facu…

the fact that we didn’t go all in on solar power the second we discovered it is still so crazy to me

"What we cannot accept is a sweeping verdict about anthropology’s intellectual culture, scholarly practices, and professional norms built on selective evidence and issued without consultation." @americananthro sets the record straight on anthropology: americananthro.org/advocacy-…

If your chancellors are organizing to discredit whole disciplines on your campus, your faculty should get organized too! Joint statement from WashU and Vanderbilt AAUP chapters on the report just dropped:

Breaking News: David Hockney, the English artist whose colorful paintings restored the human form to art, defying the abstract schools of the mid-20th century, died at 88. nyti.ms/3S4k0Fx

Yes, hopefully this is a lesson for the miserable policies that FDD have been pursuing for decades. They got the war they wanted (twice in one year) and the rest of the world suffered the disastrous consequences of it. Instead of weakening Iran, it has embolden Iran. The JCPOA was much less costly and didn’t have Iran controlling the Straits of Hormoz at the end of it.

Setting the Record Straight on Anthropology @AmericanAnthro on the Vanderbilt Report...Yes. And still more to come... americananthro.org/advocacy-…

Bring consistency that reinforces your story’s message—and gives your readers a more focused, polished experience Read the first of a two-part blog series on cohesive design in geospatial storytelling: ow.ly/AG9350Zay1Q

Good to see @ACLS1919 weigh in on the "report" and its rehashing of decades old debates under the guise of addressing some new distrust in universities. ACLS president unconvinced: acls.org/news/june-10-2026-a…

Big congrats to a real one!

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him. In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over. Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I used to call my mother every Sunday to catch up. Lots of times, we ended up talking about what I was reading that week in my grad seminars or for leisure. Mom had an omnivorous mind, and she was always looking for something else to read. She was a true intellectual—curious about almost everything, always eager to integrate new arguments or ideas into her existing schemas of how the world worked or to have those schemas challenged and changed. When we talked that particular Sunday, I think I tried to describe to her part of Wood’s argument about the relationship between the state constitutions during the Articles of Confederation era and the federal Constitution. Maybe I was tired, maybe I didn’t completely understand her questions, but the end result of the conversation was that Mom had questions about Wood’s argument that I didn’t answer satisfactorily. I told her that she should probably just read the book, and we said goodbye. She did eventually read the book, but the next Sunday, Mom started our conversation by saying, “Well, I had a lovely conversation with Gordon Wood this week.” For a split second, I thought she was joking, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. I started to sweat. “How?” I asked. A whole variety of unlikely scenarios in which the foremost historian of the American Revolution and my mother, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, might have met ran through my mind. “Oh, I just looked up his office phone number on Brown’s website and called, and he picked up!” Mom said. I decided I would have to find another profession. As it ended up, Gordon Wood spent about an hour on the phone with my mother answering her questions about the Constitution. Ever since, I’ve had a soft spot for the man when I imagine him picking up the phone in Providence and finding Becky Elder from Wichita on the other end of the line. His generosity in that moment spoke very well of him. Rest in peace, professor.

Col. Steven J. Lockjaw ass face

I for one think it’s actually dope that Trump is building a cage fighting arena at the White House lol

Erdoğan's autocratic takeover has been underway for a decade, and is now almost complete. Hollow out the justice system; manipulate foreign policy; exploit the opposition's fractures - an illiberal blueprint in practice. My latest for @EngelsbergIdeas engelsbergideas.com/notebook…