Elias G Saba

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

yes he's factually wrong, but the bigger problem is that our heads of government are stoking nazi-grade ethnic hate with absolutely no fear of criticism from their own party

It's maddening because (imo) we have such an extreme housing shortage. Boston should build, build, build. They should want like 500K new units in the next three years. SF should build over 1M! Just go HAM on construction!!

Is there a good translation of Benjamin of Tudela? Which one should I use for teaching?

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Yes, I can't anymore. It's horrible!!

I wonder if people consider their college biology professor a "living scientist."

Very proud of my Middlebury students articulating these values so clearly: www.middleburycampus.com/article/2026...

All the messaging I get from this guy is how he has no money and struggling. It's really hard to overstate how much the incessant ActBlue text messages are a turn-off for candidates that otherwise seem fine. If he didn't ask me for money four times a day, I might be excited about him.

The amount of "pro-Palestinian" dunking/mocking of Brad Lander on Twitter yesterday was really wild and wildly depressing.

This book was so good!

A very exciting opportunity for a scholar of Palestinian Studies at Georgetown! mesana.org/resources-an...

This is grotesque behaviour on the part of @historians.org, and it needs to be addressed directly.

In this explosive follow up to the story about the American Historical Association's use of DC lobbyists to silence AHA member Palestine advocacy, we have this: AHA is conducting a witchhunt of its Council. Loyalty oaths. Lawyers. Threats. Authoritarian behavior. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

In other words it's not just that there are few academic jobs for humanists in the academy; it’s also that the academic jobs that exist are mostly bad in the sense that you have to struggle against the institution to have any semblance of intellectual life you thought the job was supposed to provide

Why is there a StatsMuse page that says the Chicago Bears have NEVER beaten the Green Bay Packers? They are 0-109-6, apparently, against one of their main rivals. www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/nfl-...

I got an advance copy of GTA VI and I gotta say, the immersion into Vice City is crazy. Right now I'm doing a mission where you have to get into a lengthy online argument defending the low attendance of Vice City's sports teams and whether Vice City lacks passion for sports as a market

this looks so good, although I'm too old for this shit.

They did used up all their politicking in the late 90s.

My memory is that this was openly acknowledged during my undergrad days at Cornell. It was by far the most prevalent form of affirmative action on campus, and generally across peer schools.

We couldn't wait for the Marco Polo Netflix show. The very first scene has Marco Polo arriving at the Mongol court (hell yeah!!) and... they think he is dirty and then proceed to wash him down?! The Mongols would never! They had a water taboo! Anyway, didn't make it past the first couple of minutes.

After reading the first fifty pages of A People’s History of the United States my feelings on Christopher Columbus have gone from “we shouldn’t have a day commemorating him” to something … much, much darker.

"From 1980 to 1987, Carson taught Classics at Princeton as an instructor and later assistant professor, but was not granted tenure at the end of her term"

All this Bard news makes me think about a former colleague here who constantly complained about how much unlike Bard we were, how great Bard was, and how much credit Botstein deserved.

Innocent until proven guilty etc, but this is so beyond.

Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression organization, the ADL, and others. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

Grinnell has a required writing class for first-year students. As part of the class, we have to teach about academic honesty and avoiding plagiarism. Easy enough, I thought, until I got the first student question: "Why does Grinnell seem to take this so much more seriously than it does Title IX?"

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

AMERICANS WHEN STUFF IS FOR THEE: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! AMERICANS WHEN STUFF IS FOR ME: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

What a headline, lmao. Two of every fact!

Actblue messaging me: "Wow... just wow. ActBlue's CEO got subpoenaed." Me: "Thank God."

Obviously, I am not going to click on this link, but it cracks me up and speaks to how professional pols view the world, that "quitting the Democratic party" means also voting for Trump. Also, yes, just selling a book etc.

I know I'm out of touch, because I've only seen five of the top 10 shows, and Curb Your Enthusiasm is the only one I didn't give up on (although I'll never get around to watching them all).

"If you bring an iced coffee... you're disqualified." "How could you say that? I actually offer people coffee!" This discourse is engineering to drive me, specifically, crazy. OP is right, ofc.