Aaron Wistar

Looking forward to learning the six laws that all historical processes obey

An eternal 2011 reigns in the minds of the pathological optimists in charge of the American landscape. Each new coastal eco-folly reminds us that nobody has yet imagined an appropriate form for the contested commons of the 2020s—let alone the next decade. @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social

Looking forward to learning the six laws that all historical processes obey

(c/o Sid Prabhu)

Doing My Own Research.

Unnamed literary agent in @thedriftmag.com's anonymous AI confessional. (love this format.)

Read Issue Eighteen Mentions from @izzyampil.bsky.social, @madeleineebaker.bsky.social, @juliangeorge-abhf.bsky.social, @aaronwistar.bsky.social, and more. www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...

This Labor Day, let’s never forget that we have the 8-hour workday thanks to years and years of protest. The efforts of this willpower did not happen overnight. buff.ly/xwurW7y

Happy Labor Day! WORK, CAPITALISM, AND DEMOCRACY, edited by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, explores the meaning of work, capitalism, and democracy in the past to shed light on the same conflicts today—one of many great Penn Press titles grappling with the history of labor in America https://bit.ly/4r4YTjW

Nice review of William Whyte's THE UNIVERSITY: A HISTORY IN STONE, SILK, AND BLOOD in @chronicle.com

On vacation in South Carolina and had an extraordinarily vivid dream that I got this tattooed on my shoulder.

On vacation in South Carolina and had an extraordinarily vivid dream that I got this tattooed on my shoulder.

Breaking: new NYT investigation uncovers that Mamdani likes sports, seems fun.

It's hard to square "it's wasn't racist" with the breathtaking and distinct callousness that's everywhere in response to this death.

Breaking: new NYT investigation uncovers that Mamdani likes sports, seems fun.

Pass by this amazing building every morning. Sacred Heart Church in Waltham, designed by Aldo A. Minotti, 1964

and I wrote about this: newrepublic.com/article/2143...

Great essay from @vincentbevins.bsky.social on why the “vibe shift” toward anti-wokeness is mostly just ambient awareness of whatever right-wing bullshit Elon’s platforms are churning out.

A perfect gift for the freeloaders and malingerers in your life

A perfect gift for the freeloaders and malingerers in your life

Woke 1 was crazy

high priority cross post

Visited 19th-century landscape painter Frederic Church’s estate in Hudson NY, and learned his wife Isabel was caught up in the Victorian-era craze "pteridoma-nia" or fern-fever, an obsession with collecting, cultivating and decorating with ferns.

Finally someone is speaking up for vulnerable men living in their mom’s pied-à-terre because their girlfriends are too depressing

Heaven help us. Over the past week I have received thirteen different AI-driven scamming emails from fictive people who say they want to feature one or another of my books in reading clubs. I hope no one out there is falling for this kind of thing.

Forget white boy summer it’s

Forget white boy summer it’s

Happy UK paperback release day to our book! www.penguin.co.uk/books/468070... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social

Which campus panic decade are you anti #MeToo/BLMer, 10s post-9/11 patriot, 00s anti PC future billionaire, 90s neocon, 80s anti affirmative action racist, 70s imperialist war hawk, 60s second red scare anticommunist, 50s libertarian, 40s patriotic mother, 30s fundamentalist, 20s >>

Especially true of historians. Precious few willing to consider that the course of history was fiercely contested—and hardly inevitable.

We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea

I’m not scared to say it: Every adjunct professor should have to pass their GED BEFORE cashing their $79.95 paycheck.

I’m not scared to say it: Every adjunct professor should have to pass their GED BEFORE cashing their $79.95 paycheck.

New dads often imagine that they are not biologically “wired” to care for their kids in the same way that moms are. In Dad Brain, @darbysaxbe.bsky.social shows nothing could be further from the truth. An amazing, necessary book!

Some recent titles from the NYT nonfiction bestseller list: - All-American Patriotism - The Case for America - Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World - America, USA