Lawfare Senior Editor - MS NOW National Security and Intelligence Analyst - Former FBI Special Agent - Current Bon Vivant/Borderline Roué
Michael Feinberg
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There is a non-zero chance that the allusion to Chamberlain was intentional.
Can anyone recommend histories of France post-1945? I’m particularly interested in politics and intellectual movements (and already have Judt’s book on Blum, Camus, and Aron).
Even if this awful “content” does limit itself to western civilization, I’m quite sure Kenneth Clark has nothing to fear.
Regardless, history needs more readers, researchers, and archivists. The discipline doesn’t need influencers, and it certainly does not need AI augmentation.
If this is going to be stuck in my head for days on end, you all deserve the same fate.
Maybe Hegseth inadvertently leading Mike Lee to the arguments of Voltaire’s “Treatise on Toleration” is a good thing; perhaps Brendan Carr might edge him towards Milton’s “Areopagitica.”
These are the people who claim to be in favor of a canon-based education, after all.
This is a great interview with @shikhadalmia.bsky.social, particularly for those of us with libertarian tendencies who have struggled to understand why the @reason.com circles were so unalarmed as Trump edged towards authoritarianism.
