Internet's looking good tonight! Radio Dead Air at 9pm ET, if it holds up ...
Compromise: "Ocial Sciences" Or perhaps "Social Séances"
Sorry that you had to thread the needle at all.
I was very close to specializing in the French Revolution, but there weren't any classes offered on it the same semester I chanced into 4 different classes taught by medievalists. Roads not taken, ya know?
Lot of things that could be said about tonight's debate. I just want to highlight Vance once again demonized immigrants. Them: "Not ALL immigrants. Just illegal ones." Fuck that. He said the legal ones in Springfield shouldn't be here!
As a religious historian, I can also say that the last 10 years have been designed to drive those who study the convergence of apocalyptic rhetoric and violence bonkers.
Him: "Emperors were bad at economics." Me: "Who was Basileus in 2008?"
I got a new book from the library today. I showed it to my 7yo and asked, "Who is this?" Without hesitation, she said, "Louis." If there is one thing I've taught my daughter about history, it's that.
