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Historian and writer. I mostly study the American South and things that are connected to it somehow.
Paxton, Scotland
Joined July 2015
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"28. Higher-education teaching personnel have the right to teach without any interference, subject to accepted professional principles including professional responsibility and intellectual rigour with regard to standards and methods of teaching."
unesco.org/en/legal-affairs/…
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NEW: Students at Davidson College have walked out of class to demand justice for survivors of sexual assault.
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So if you’re getting annoyed with the AI overview at the top of your Google search page, Ruby Granger recently shared a very useful trick: just type “-ai” at the end of your query and it will give you the results without AI, like the Google we once had.
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Unless I’m working in an ER, or working as a paramedic, or working as a firefighter, there’s no reason I should be expected to “thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.” Just fix the terrible management and stop running your office like a circus.
Can we shift the discourse from the problems with OUP to whatever the hell has just happened to Yale UP? If anyone needs me, I'll be out back making my own paper, binding it, and writing out copies of my next book by hand.
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Peasants sustained empires, financed states, built cities & made revolutions. Modernity was supposed to make them disappear. It didn’t. There are more peasants today than at any point in history.
How do they continue to make the modern world? Contents page of "Peasants":
simplesmente Claudia Sheinbaum, a primeira presidenta DA HISTÓRIA do México respondendo a pergunta de uma repórter sobre o resultado das eleições do Brasil, e principalmente, sobre a ascensão da extrema direita na América Latina
gente, EU TO ARREPIADO
Who could possibly have guessed that experienced property developers might be a lot better at it than a group of self-congratulatory, overpromoted, failed academics?
An entitled & over-paid senior management team destroyed a University with property mismanagement
Modern Languages, Music and American & Canadian Studies are closed down at Nottingham
Very sad for all the staff losing their jobs
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly…
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Those of us born into and raised in postcolonial 'self-determined' entities understand in a way that perhaps those in white ex-coloniser nations don't: the self-determined nation state is NOT exempt from fundamental criticism or vigilance. It must always be held to account.
See also Liston Pope, *Millhands and Preachers: A Study of Gastonia* (yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780…)
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“Being published by the Oxford University Press is rather like being married to a duchess: the honour is almost greater than the pleasure.” - G.M. Young (1956)
This strikes me as about the most mild and restrained possible response to the situation.
In the early hours of Monday morning, the door of Cornell's main administrative office was smashed. Red graffiti there reads: "At Cornell rapists are protected protesters are expelled.” reporting w/ @maiarcoleman @SantulN nytimes.com/2026/10/05/nyreg…
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#InternacionalCC| 🚨 17 congresistas de EE. UU. piden a Marco Rubio impulsar una investigación internacional sobre la masacre de Rigores, en el Bajo Aguán.
Liderados por James P. McGovern y Delia Ramirez, solicitan al Departamento de Estado presionar al Gobierno de Honduras para crear, junto a la ONU, una comisión que identifique a todos los responsables de la masacre de mayo de 2026, y para desmantelar las organizaciones criminales que operan en la región.
La carta señala que la violencia ocurre en el contexto de la nueva ley que favorece a conglomerados agroindustriales sobre los pequeños productores: «La violencia, la corrupción y la impunidad socavan la estabilidad regional», advierten los legisladores.
🔗 Leé la nota completa aquí contracorriente.red/2026/09/…
#DerechosHumanos #ActualidadInternacional #Contracorriente
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As bureaucracy expands & decisions disappear into layers of administration, democratic scrutiny is diluted
Accountability almost gone at Cambridge University
Vice-Chancellor vetoes amendment questioning creation of another highly paid administrator
varsity.co.uk/news/32160
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Labour have caught themselves in a horrific democratic bind by saying that a referendum of 2016 can be re-run but one of 2014 cannot
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theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
If you want to understand the legal structures by which fraternities indemnify themselves from their members’ conduct…
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One of the problems is that slavery is taught as the history of Black people and not the history of white people.
Imagine trying to convince people in 1889 to invest in your gold mine in Honduras and saying, "Look, we've got William Walker on our board of directors!" 🤣🤣🤣
The most British phrase in two weeks of research in 1860s-1870s Foreign Office records: "the moral influence of a small Naval Force"
FO39/38, p.115
@aljhlester this sounds like it should be a book or article title for you!