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Very proud to get this very small credit line #TheGildedAge

Another great thread from @americanstudier.bsky.social. Enjoy!

Thanks as always for the mention, @americanstudier.bsky.social! Check out my piece and many others on this great thread

My latest #CommonThreads column on the fashion politics of Gloria Steinem who we lost last month. 🗃️

Amidst this fraught, contested, deeply American holiday weekend, we need more than ever all the public scholarly goodness in my 297th #ScholarSunday thread. Add more writing & work, podcasts & conversations, new & forthcoming books below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +

There was a lot of talk lately about Trump’s suit and the meaning of the move from more luxurious brands to this one. But maybe the reason is far more mundane than a clever appeal to voters, as Derek implies. It’s all about covering body odors.

Another great thread from @americanstudier.bsky.social who reminds us all the importance of solidarity these days.

I just love Mamdani’s support of art and artists. Ever since the WPA arts programs we haven’t seen a government official so dedicated to the idea that art is essential to democracy and thus should be supported.

Check out Ben’s thread with lots of interesting things and scholars

There‘s much to appreciate in Mamdani, but his insistence that culture isn’t a privilege of the rich is one of his strengths.It is reminiscent of how unions and the government treated it in the 1930s -art for the masses - paintings, music, opera, theater - democracy for all.

Like every Sunday, @americanstudier.bsky.social is bringing all the great scholarship of the week. Check it out and follow him

My mom got polio a year before the vaccine was available. It has shaped her life ever since. Vile doesn’t even begin to describe these people.

Ben’s work and his #ScholarSunday threads are one of the best things you can find her. I hope his account will be reinstated soon. In the meantime check all this goodies inside, including my own @satevepost.bsky.social column on dress codes.

With the start of the school year, what to wear to school is still a pressing question. Check out my latest @satevepost.bsky.social #CommonThreads column🗃️ www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/09/comm...

Always a treat to read @americanstudier.bsky.social threads, finding things that I missed.

First Gloria and now Robin Morgan. Feminism really took a hit this week. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...

Gloria Steinem is featured heavily in my book because she was not only a fashion icon but a trailblazer who understood her power and used it. She surely going to be missed. What a life she had. Rest in Power.

I’m very proud that I had the opportunity to have some of my columns published in the print edition of this paper. Looking forward to continuing publishing my #CommonThreads column online.

There is no need to rehabilitate nazis, especially not now. Better late than never, I guess www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/s...

Happy to share issue 3 of Cleveland Art, now at the members’ mailboxes

There is a little less light in this world and a little more quiet. So so sad. What an awesome human being.

it almost the end of summer and an honor to be included in this great list of scholarship with my piece on shorts. www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/08/comm...

Are you coping with the heat? Here is my latest @satevepost.bsky.social #CommonThreads column on the fashionable solutions to hot weather and how shorts became popular. Check it out🗃 www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/08/comm...

Once again, my article about the mainstreaming of fascism just never seems to get old. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Happy birthday to @americanstudier.bsky.social and his wonderful threads! Give it a read and raise a glass for him!

Connecticut people - I'm going to be talking tomorrow on NPR for the Colin McEnroe show, on how colors, and especially blue, function and shape politics. Come and have a listen at 1PM, or through the show link - from everywhere in the world. www.ctpublic.org/show/the-col...

I know that Kevin Spacey is now a problematic figure, but this movie is by far his best performance, and I will always remember that for him. I can still remember how I felt when I left the cinema after watching this film. #HATM

The 1937 musical Pins and Needles has an entire sketch criticizing right-wing conservatives who wanted to make America “bigoted and better.” These verses could have been a post today. Some things change, some things stay the same.

He is basically Anthony Hopkins (playing Kellog) in this scene www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMKu...

What a great way to start August with…thank you @americanstudier.bsky.social

August is here, & with it my 287th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

What a great thread! But really, it is always a great thread. Check it out!

I don’t know much about Graham’s sister, but up until the 1960s and even later, being a dead senator’s wife, sister, or daughter was almost the only route available to women to be elected to congress.

Always a treat to be included in @americanstudier.bsky.social’s threads. Especially with this piece www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Red States and Blue States - how did they get their color and what is the role of color in politics? Check out my piece for @theguardian.com 🗃️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The new Minion movie is one of the best love letters to Hollywood ever made.

Happy bikini day to all those who celebrat! www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/07/comm...

What a trove of goodies for the holiday weekend, including one of my pieces on the bicentennial. Enjoy this celebratory thread!

Lillian Bassman Do American Girls Like Freedom? Cover art for Harper’s Bazaar (From the Met exhibition of her work)

In 1976, retailers inundated the market with “patriotic” consumer goods in red, white, and blue, and with images such as the bald eagle, flag, Liberty Bell, and George Washington, and Americans happily bought them.

More than anything, art is a sound political investment

On this “real” Independence Day, my latest #CommonThreads column for @satevepost.bsky.social on the commercialization of the bicentennial. Because what is more American than buying patriotism? 🗃 www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/07/comm...

As we gearing up for the holiday, here is Duchamp’s take on Americana (from the great retrospective at the MoMA)

It should have been 9-0

Always an honor to be included in @americanstudier.bsky.social threads, and especially on the occasion of Mel Brooks’s 100th birthda!

It’s a nice gimmick, but even with the growing informality of dress in our politics, we will never see Mamdani not wearing a suit and a tie, whether in the pool or in the knicks parade. Unlike Fetterman, or even Eric Adams, Mamdani, as a Muslim and a socialist Democrat, can’t afford to look casual.

Brides didn’t always wear white, until Queen Victoria kicked off the white wedding dress trend.

June is a very busy month, but it is also the perfect time to wed. Here’s my latest #CommonThreads piece for @satevepost.bsky.social on how white became the color for brides. Check it out 🗃 www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/06/comm...

During wwii more soldiers were out of commission due to VD than from combat. it became such a national threat that it prompt the military to have one of the largest public health campaigns in its history. To fight you need to be healthy—this is why the army mandates vaccines. until now of course