there's a real feeling of like...if a man did something horrible to me or someone i know that guys like this just wouldn't fucking care
If you only read Onion headlines but never the body copy, make one exception right now. My face is covered in tears. I haven’t laughed this hard in years.
Proofs day for the published version of my 2024 Hans Lietzmann lecture on Marcion as Slave Trader.
Marisa Kabas
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The magic of America
Wait, this was 16 professors commenting on other professors and no students involved at any time?
This is true *but* we have also seen an increase in archaeological research on inequality/lack thereof that I think is interesting and productive…so something genuinely to be said for it as “provocative”
In my high school AP US History class, I was taught that the Civil War was not fought over slavery but over States’ Rights. (This was in Texas & I suddenly had the depressing thought that what Erin says might not be true there anymore, at least at certain universities).
Wondered this myself. Not sure I’m convinced by this methodology.
John Maynard Keynes on coinage-- later partly quoted by Finley-- was, uh, something. (Quoted from Martin's "Why Did the Greek Polis Originally Need Coins?")
Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
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Candida Moss
Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the...
