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Ben Waterhouse
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Historian @UNC-Chapel Hill. Works on culture and politics of business, especially in modern U.S. New book out in January: One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion that Conquered America
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Regulation has *always* been unconstitutional, Eric. Relatedly, we have always been at war with Eastasia.

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On the plus side, it'll be nice to know how history actually ends.

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Eric, I assigned an essay of yours in class recently. Thank you again for your exceptional work.

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Speaking of which, I'm teaching the "third half" of the US survey this term (1984-2024). Tomorrow is The Internet--woo! Monday of Election Week will be "2016: But Her Emails." Wednesday I'll skip forward to "2024: WTF?" That class *might* be improvised.

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Chronological order is for the weak!

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Well yes Mr Lincoln did a good speech but fact check: wasn't just our fathers who brought forth on this continent, some mothers were involved too, and mr Lincoln didn't even mention capital gains tax bands so who's to know if Robert e lee was right

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Me to all my grad students: Do you have a dissertation plan? Them: I have concepts of a plan.

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Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1899.

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Cowboys were basically working class laborers, largely exploited by large corporations and international capitalist interests. The idea that they were rugged individualists and paragons of self-reliance is just a big myth.

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In my state, all correspondence by university employees about "university business" (broadly defined) is considered publicly available and subject to FOIA requests. That includes personal email accounts, text messages, etc. So no, this meeting can't be an email!

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Ben Waterhouse
@benwaterhouse.bsky.social
Historian @UNC-Chapel Hill. Works on culture and politics of business, especially in modern U.S. New book out in January: One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion that Conquered America
221 followers161 following161 posts