Disgraced public intellectual Yascha Mounk has a new essay titled “Where Environmentalists Went Wrong.” His main thesis is that instead of focusing on *banning plastic straws*, environmentalists should act more like the effective altruism movement. … Why, lord, why must you test me like this?
Alt: That’s bait
New paper alert! With @thomasnhale and aldrick arceo, we tracked #Netzero pledges by govts and firms from 2015-23. We find a net zero “wave” – huge growth in pledges over time, but of varying robustness. 🧵 ClimateSky EnergySky GreenSky
The Athenians and Spartans famously signed a peace treaty with an expiration date (also 30 years, weirdly). It only lasted 15.
How did they know it would only be thirty years long Was there a contract or something
Man U fans leaving early like it's a Trump rally
No, haven't heard of it!
YOUR HISTORY TEACHER NEVER TOLD YOU- *me, checks lecture notes* I definitely told you. YOUR TEXTBOOK LEFT OUT- Me: It is on page 37 and again on 54. HISTORIANS NEVER ADMIT- Me: Look will you just admit already that you slept through class?
This week, a look at the way Callot and other artists who lived through the Thirty Years’ War turned the tragedy around them into art. open.substack.com/pub/worldhis...
Jacques Callot tells us all we need to know about conflict
Callot’s work, The Miseries of War, is sometimes called the first example of anti-war art. His little etchings show us how war corrupts everything it touches.
