Indescribably funny to be doing “oh you guys can’t just blame him forever, let it go!” about the current president of the United States who is still in the first half of his term

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I think it also reflects that historians have not been working on theoretical approaches over the last 25 years. Probably because source material has become easier to access.

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A lot of people there who aren’t historians. But to get to the main point, academia since the 1990s has not been able to produce the same stars because of a complex mixture of factors: short-termism in grant funding, numbers of people in fields, mass teaching

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Historians cited by at least 300 dissertations in a corpus of 10,229 open access history PhDs from Canada, the United States, Britain and a mix of European countries strongly weighted to France. What does it say about our discipline that Judith Butler is the youngest person in the core canon?

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Since winning elections in 2023, he is always facing a hostile president who vetoes everything, so best (or worst, depending on your political orientation) he can do is to find loopholes to circumnavigate the presidential veto. No broader reforms are currently possible in Poland.

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