Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn

It never fully sinks in until you're holding the copy in your hands... Thank you to @oldfortunatus.bsky.social for trusting me with the introduction! I’m quite proud of how it turned out. 😄🍾📖 #Shakespeare #EarlyModern

Evergreen message from the Financial Times to its readers www.ft.com/content/88c8...

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

“That’s quite the act! What do you call it?” ”THE REPUBLICANS!”

I would 100% buy Rick Steves' guide to Westeros.

Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.

Indigenous people were crucial to many public health achievements: 💉Development of Hib vaccine (Hib is bacterium that causes deadly infection in young kids) 🦠 Helped isolate & identify what's now known as hantavirus 🌽 Promoted traditional Indigenous foods to support health Read more👇

Excellent advice for life in general here. Don’t be someone’s hype man if you don’t understand what they’re hyping! 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

I will never forget the first time I stepped into Chris Wickham’s office as a PhD student in 2007 and saw his Buffy the Vampire Slayer mousepad. We hit it off immediately. He was such a kind, generous scholar in addition to being brilliant. Medieval studies is the poorer for his absence.

Good advice for journalists covering the story too 👇

From the article: “The thing we don't hear about enough, in my opinion, is the lives and humanity of pregnant people.” 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 In Judaism, the fetus is regarded as a part of the pregnant person's body until birth. Because whose life matters most is the one already born.

Good riddance.

This lecture on #Shakespeare and #HouseoftheDragon is from April 2024, before Seasons 2 and 3 aired, but I suppose that just means I need to do a sequel. #medievalism #medievalsky

⚫ L’artiste japonaise Yayoi Kusama est morte à l’âge de 97 ans. Considérée comme précurseure d’Andy Warhol et de Keith Haring, elle a créé une œuvre entêtante, marquée en peinture par la répétition de motifs, notamment du filet et du point. 📷 https://l.liberation.fr/2e0

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Just another Manicule Monday...

Harvard is embarking on a new and exciting experiment to determine whether one truly needs to have a university that does university things in order to maintain an endowment the size of a small nation’s GDP.

Absolutely brilliant from Katherine Rundell. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

Available for pre-order (The exhibition opens October 18th @folger.edu) Patricia Akhimie’s work here is phenomenal. Featuring work by @profkfh.bsky.social and yours truly.

Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.

kids should know how to type, yes. but i am telling you as a teacher, this is BROADLY not the reason kids are using ChatGPT. They use it for the same reason adults do: because it's a shortcut and they don't see the value of the work they are being asked to do or the skill underlying it.

I am shocked, SHOCKED, I say!

To be clear, I'm sorry for everyone who travelled and didn't get to see it, but the fact that safety issues with pyrotechnics caused the Royal #Shakespeare Company #MadKing show to be delayed is far too thematically apt for a play about King Aerys II Targaryen. ...also it sounds like a great show.

Extra-long recap (with extra pictures) of #S03E04 and #S03E05 of #HouseoftheDragon, in which Ryan Condal adapts the bestselling novels A Feast for Crows and A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin kvmfinn.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/h...

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

These cuts are appalling. Let’s make clear they will not be tolerated!

Finished my recap of @houseofthedragon.bsky.social 3.03 'Rhaenyra Triumphant', aka 'Rhaenyra shall sleep no more', aka a one-queen production of Shakespeare's Macbeth with a dash of Perkin Warbeck for spice. kvmfinn.wordpress.com/2026/07/07/h...

NEW: Two-hundred-and-fifty years in, Justice Jackson is doing the work that is needed from our leaders. The United States needs leaders willing to speak forthrightly about our past and ambitiously about our future in order to make it through the treacherous present. This Fourth, at Law Dork:

British Academy President's statement on the UK's higher education crisis, July 2026.

My recap for #HouseoftheDragon S3E02 'Queen's Landing', for the night is dark and full of feelings. Also burnination.

"how can we incentivize public transport usage" make it free "but who will pay for it" the taxpayer "but won't that make people have less money" not if they use public transport "but doesn't that punish motorists" that is the incentive yeah

Mel Brooks is an icon for so many reasons. Nothing but respect for this brilliant man.

Happy 100TH BIRTHDAY to the king Mel Brooks, who wore a fake extra finger to his handprint ceremony🥳🎂🥳

Mel Brooks, legende. Trickster genius. Mel Brooks doth deserve all the lyfe, fame, and love he hath receivid, and more, and more. To make anothir person laugh ys to helpe them bear thys lyfe. We love you Mel Brooks.

“Our societies are not built to withstand what’s coming, and by any rational thinking, all countries should be uniting in a last ditch battle to save the world.”