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Evan Procknow

3 years

Please see my review of Amy Hubbell's Hoarding Memory

Overall, Hubbell’s work illustrates how literature, history, and art refract the memory of the Algerian War. These memories are multiple, varied, and ultimately accretive, which impedes healing and...

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1 year

@jbouie If only there was historical precedent warning against certain tests for political participation

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2 years

This can’t be stressed enough. Much of the new/alt right ideology is born out of (or nostalgia for) Apartheid

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Worth noting that all three of those men grew up in part in Apartheid South Africa and then came to California.

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@dylanmatt Powerful people feel that they have a right to insulate themselves from any semblance of criticism or pushback and in the rare instances where it happens they appeal to vague notion of respect or fairness

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@HarrisonHSmith @boutch67 Also the contention that the only reason the Eastern Empire survived was due to the Church is an all-time dumb take---rather than the economic weight of Egypt, Near East and Anatolian provinces. The archeological record is pretty conclusive on that as shown by Ward-Perkins

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6 years

Timbuktu: A Laboratory for Jihadists Experimenting with Politics @WarOnTheRocks

Timbuktu: A Laboratory for Jihadists Experimenting with Politics

What options do jihadists have after they lose territory? In the short term, they can regroup and rebuild. But what then? Since 2011, jihadists have found

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7 years

@chrislhayes @Susan_Hennessey McCabe is an SES, a position designed to be protected from this political bs. smh

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@lionel_trolling @SamAdlerBell The guy wrote his dissertation on Castlereagh and Metternich. I’m convinced he thought of himself as the Cold War Metternich

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6 months

Remember Liberalism developed out of opposition to the French Revolution and its ideals

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The notion of students putting the administrators on trial is like a scene out of the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution... and just a reminder that it didn't end so well.

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4 years

Want to read

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Neil Macmaster - War in the Mountains - Peasant Society and Counterinsurgency in Algeria, 1918-1958 à paraître en octobre @OxUniPress

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5 years

@HotlineJosh @randalljudt Uh the constitution does say that blacks were worth 3/5 of a person...

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2 years

Rooting for Morocco against Portugal. Hoping it is replay of the Battle of Wadi al-Makhazin in 1578

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@rhaecker2 @AmyZegart The proliferation of commercial satellite imagery really makes that a questionable assertion

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8 years

Aaron Rodgers' Dad looks like if Aaron was turned into a White Walker #TheBachelorette

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@TheM_L_G The fact that OSINT detected the Russian military buildup prior to Ukrainian invasion was a major factor in rally international public opinion against this move. Prohibiting these type of efforts have major implications for national security

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4 years

First dose of the COVID vaccine down ✅

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6 years

Our dreadnaught and zeppelin production is best among Central Powers

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6 years

Name them. Citations of quotes and plants. (Note: Your son’s tweets don’t count)

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8 months

Awful convenient for Volkswagen to start their commercial in 1949...

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@Contrainer that would be a surprise to Edmond Burke

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3 years

My holiday book haul

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6 years

@SecPompeo It was designed to stop all nuclear pathways. That is an utterly unrealistic objective. What it did do is provide verifiable checks on the Iranian nuclear fuel cycle. If the policy is such a failure why do all other JCPOA parties remain committed?

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10 months

Great Xmas present! Can’t wait to dig into @WonkVJ ’s work

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6 years

@CatlinNyaa Afrikaner state created vast repressive security state, disenfranchised blacks and other minorities, and pass hundreds of laws to deny basic rights but let’s take anecdotal evidence from 17c as a long term historical trend...

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8 years

@baseballcrank Missile Defense? Now that's out of left field. No one disputes the science behind it only the efficacy of current systems 🤔

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4 years

@MC_of_A The dissertation is hot garbage.

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@Cirincione @ColinKahl @CIA Who knew a nuclear weapons treaty wouldn't solve problems not associated with nuclear weapons?

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@Patrick_Wyman @AmesCG @mikeduncan The Vandal capture of Carthage and the grain fleet did more to shatter the Western Empire than any other barbican invasion

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1 year

This tweet speaks volumes about the supposed eminence grise of the foreign policy establishment.

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Invoking the 14th Amendment to avoid default on the debt is a terrible idea, not for legal reasons, but political. It would be an end-run around the political process, and set a terrible precedent for future end-runs by Republicans when they are in a position to do it.

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@ettingermentum Not surprising when you consider much of that population lives in NH and works in MA as a quasi tax revolt

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1 year

@USCapitalAccess @united Dude there are three airports in the dc area

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2 years

@redsoxstats His time on the team needs to come to an end

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4 years

@Patrick_Wyman serious Freikorps vibes going on-would recommend Robert Waite's Vanguard of Nazism

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4 years

You guys might want to sit this one out

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@redsoxstats How can he say that with a straight face?

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@lionel_trolling Ask him about Fethullah Gülen too. Does he support his deportation from PA?

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4 years

New reads

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8 years

@ConorMichael28 that map is incorrect. W. Sahara was Spanish not French and Mauritania was French not Spanish

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4 years

I feel seen

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3 years

Re-watching Season 2 of The Wire...maybe the best season

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@JDevermont @GeorgeNugybaby @TC_Africa I got to read this book! I could also go for a Windhoek

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1 year

@GavJacobson @weltghost Munitions expenditure rates always exceed estimates…we’ve seen that phenomenon since the 1973 Yom Kippur War

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4 years

Why are Senators and Congresspeople getting vaccines before grocery store clerks and delivery people?

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3 years

@MichaelShurkin Only a certain narrow segment of the CT cottage industry has a vested interested in Mozambique and magnifying those ties

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2 years

Something I never thought I would be typing-Lech Walesa threw out the first pitch at the Red Sox game

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3 years

Happy Tooze-day

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Happy Opening Day ⚾️

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4 years

My favorite books read in 2020

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6 years

We could have a Weekend at Bernie's situation in Algeria

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5 years

This is my favorite meme ever

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Got a meme

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Got my copy of Formation @FolaFagbule @FeyiFawehinmi Looking forward to diving in!

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4 years

I despair at the reactions of former colleagues to current events. Their embrace of far-right talking points. The racism, bigotry, claims of voter fraud, the fetishization of historical authoritarian nationalists/fascists

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@Sharon_Kuruvila @dhnexon “Actually herrenvolk democracy was created by anti-racist theorists” is a wild take

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@Trillburne Baron Haussmann designed the SCIF in response to the Commune

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Why France Failed in Mali @WarOnTheRocks

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@NewLeftEViews Boiler Room

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@ElbridgeColby Fuck off dude! You don’t have shit to say after supporting the overturning of the 2020 election results

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4 years

Great idea!

Dan Price

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4 years

After Chicago canceled late fees for library books: *83% increase in books returned *11,000 people got their library card back *7% growth in books checked out *Lost $900k in fees - 0.009% of city budget Amazing what happens when you decriminalize poverty

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5 years

More like Iraq and a hard place...

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Ankara is between a rock and a hard place.

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4 years

The storming of the Palace de Concorde is a good comparison. Will it lead to a Popular Front or a Petain?

Judith Butlerian Jihadi doing Gladio with Orcas

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February 6, 1934 or January 6, 2021?

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My favorite books of 2021

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One step backward: US to assist French in failing African counter-terror ops

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@tommymiles @Sathnam Performative imperial nostaglia is a lot easier than dealing with the present

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5 years

@NarangVipin Ford seems to be arguing against a giant constructed straw man when speaking in favor of the Admin’s view on nukes

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@FranklinH3000 Both literally never used the word liberal when referring to their philosophies or political leanings

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My favorite books I’ve read in 2023

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@zeithistoriker We're doomed to repeat the 1970s like some Russian Doll episode, learning the wrong lessons each time

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5 years

How many of those @Facebook groups highlighted in the #SuperBowl add created by the Internet Research Agency?

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3 years

@tweetsintheME It suggests that far-right movements and ideology are in conversation with each other. Claremont Institute's magnification of the French generals' letter is indicative...

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2 years

My Twitter feed is suddenly filled with tweets from people I don't follow and are extremely toxic...not sure I want to stick around when I'm subjected to Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and Dan Bongino. There's a reason why I didn't follow them in the first place!

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4 years

@GerardAraud This obscures a ton of historical nuance. The relationship between the Kemalist state and USSR in the inter-war period being the prime example

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4 years

This got me

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adam driver and lady gaga look like they’re about to drop a new critical theory reader

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Points to sign: Central Bankers are terrible historians

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World Bank warns global economy may suffer 1970s-style stagflation

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The ESPN app managing to anger the whole Maghreb on the Eve of WC qualifying

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@BaseballAmerica Lastings Milledge

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I’m late to the game, but wish me luck

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3 years

100 agree with this point. Often missed by many in the Blob

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@jaycaspiankang @ishaantharoor Did Karl Marx have a blue check mark? Phil’s on the case!

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3 years

Finally got my hands on this @GeneProck . Looking forward to cracking open

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3 years

This might be the stupidest fucking take I’ve ever seen

Ed Husain

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Blaming America is easy. But ask why is it Germans, Koreans, Russians, Austrians, today’s Japanese, *do not* produce suicide bombers? All were empires. All lost power. Why is it activist Muslim politics cannot adapt to the modern world? Political Islamism kills.

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The Blind Spots of Diplomatic History @WarOnTheRocks

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@mattyglesias “Anti-American nationalists would naturally become Anglophiles.” This screams, “I have never read history” I read this as a 21st century attempt to remake a 19th century vision of Anglo topia

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@uelmendrado @nandorvila @AthertonKD Agreed on historical reductionism-It seems that once Congress or any legislature grants executive war powers, difficult to rescind

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@NewLeftEViews Seems like the Economist conveniently forgot about the 1970s in the UK

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@TheM_L_G That may be true…the “rule” is very vaguely worded (clearly a feature not a bug). The mass suspension of OSINT accounts doesn’t exactly engender confidence

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@teaghan_g @suzania @lionel_trolling As opposed to the right argument that the Salvadorien nuns had it coming…

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4 years

“Giving up” here totally erases the blood and tears shed by millions of anti-colonial activists

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4 years

Only fascists can study fascism

Nathaniel Powell

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To illustrate how dumb this take is, let's replace a few words: "Similarly, if your academic work is focused on the Transatlantic Slave Trade, but you also have a personal hatred of slave traders, then your research and writing on the topic will be inherently unreliable."

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@MatthewBerryTMR Melvin Gordon or TJ Yeldon? Half Point PPR

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Umm... @marcorubio Yazidis aren't Christians. Read a book

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6 years

Sasha Baron Cohen has a history degree from Cambridge and wrote his thesis on the Jewish role in the American Civil Rights movement. Roy Moore's "love" of Judaism and Israel only serves to fulfill his eschatological fantasy

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INBOX: Statement of Judge Roy Moore on Sasha Cohen’s CBS/Showtime series, Who is America?

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I'm going to bed, but count every vote!

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2 years

Fascinating!

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Did you know that the peace sign is the combination of the flag semaphore for N and D, which spells nuclear disarmament? h/t my friend Elaine Fong.

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@Laprofmme I would recommend @MichaelGVann 's The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt

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9 months

My anecdotal experience bears this out

Afrobarometer

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Only one-third (32%) of Africans say their police “often” or “always” operate in a professional manner and respect the rights of all citizens. Read more about Africans’ experiences and evaluations of the police in Afrobarometer’s latest Pan-Africa Profile.:

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4 years

@DoHoBOB @cjchivers real Substack energy

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2 years

Interesting…I’ve been thinking along those same lines

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In my new book, @RosieCollingto & I unpack the entrenched relationship between the consulting industry & how our economies are run. We need a new system where govt & business develop internal capabilities & innovate towards the common good. US pre-order:

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@EvansRyan202 I was told restoring deterrence was just a matter of a Republican administration withdrawing from the JCPOA

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Update: It was decidedly meh…the Habsburg-Ottoman rivalry wasn’t well covered and I definitely don’t buy the argument that there is a causal relationship between the growth of Ottoman power and the Reformation. 2.5 stars

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3 years

We have reached peak CONCACAF #QATvUSA

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