Professor of History at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
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Rebecca Spang
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a) not how it works
b) you really want to put vulnerable GOP members of congress on record about this in the run up to the midterms? President deals strikes again
Today I've written for Arguably on one big mystery in our public life: why does no-one care about the existential crisis of our universities? Read all about it... 👇
www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
Au BUN pain!
This sounds SO familiar….
I’m super grateful to this whole milieu for the way it’s members have welcomed and cite my work. I guess I WILL write this next book!
One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away
i really like what the WSJ did in trying to help people visualize "what is $1 trillion." because it's true, it really is hard to communicate what that even means. after a while, large numbers just become a blur. we become desensitized to them. www.wsj.com/business/tri...
These reports of this herbicide use are deeply troubling. Our public forests aren’t chemical dumping grounds. We should be protecting our natural treasures in California and across the U.S., not subjecting them to heavy-handed practices that threaten their wildlife and habitat.
On the third page of The Almighty Dollar is a fawning ode to this book and a frank admission that I copied @rlspang.bsky.social’s street-level approach to the history of money. Stuff and Money should be on your shelf
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Worth noting that in 1921, the American Yiddish-language press described the anti-Black Tulsa massacre as a “pogrom,” because they knew that was the word that would best make their immigrant Ashkenazi Jewish readers understand what happened. ingeveb.org/blog/the-mos...
Exclusive: President Trump and his allies have discussed pushing lawmakers to pass a resolution aimed at voiding his first-term impeachments, according to people familiar with the matter.
Rebecca Spang
Rebecca Spang
The President just said we're on the cusp of a deal with Iran.
Today's post explores two fun facts:
1. It's the fiftieth time he's said this. (I counted!)
2. Even so, stocks rose on the news.
newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-to-pri...
Uri Schreter traces attitudes about race in the United States evident in Yiddish newspapers' coverage of the Tulsa massacre — often simultaneously denouncing th
