Listen: if you care about History, especially history written for broad audiences, we need review sites. It’s basically impossible for me to sell book reviews the mainstream media applications now. So I’m asking you to subscribe to this one.

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Oftentimes institutions think they recognize mere potential in men far more frequently than women and minorities who have actually demonstrated achievement.

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As I discussed with @laywilliams.bsky.social intellectual abilities and ideas take time to slowly mature over one's career. Not being picked as the winning horse early on doesn't mean someone is not able to achieve greatness in their craft later, whether they receive awards or not.

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Totally missed that Tayari Jones won the Kirkus Prize. That’s amazing! apnews.com/article/kirk...

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For lack of clear rules about the use of AI in classrooms, it’s difficult to steer students toward slow, close reading and analysis. So I’m pretty sure that I’m gonna return to reading together in class and bluebook-style assignments next year.

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