Benjamin L. Carp 🎏
@bencarp.bsky.social
Historian of Early America, Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY. Leading AHA wit. Latest AmRev book: "The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution" 🔥 Dad, Mets fan, fantasy reader
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@bencarp.bsky.social
· Jul 21
Here I am, as the Scorpions once foretold.
Five Towns racists are wild, man
Wild that a woman of Ashkenazi & Sephardic Jewish descent would call anyone "biotrash".
Side note: WTF are these elite schools teaching that they're turning out so many racists & fascists?
Side note: WTF are these elite schools teaching that they're turning out so many racists & fascists?
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Alana Newhouse
Born 1976 (age 49–50)
Lawrence, Nassau County, New York, U.S.
Occupation Journalist
Alma mater Barnard College
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Alana Newhouse (born 1976) is an American writer and editor. She is the founder of Tablet magazine.
Early life and education
Newhouse was born in 1976 and grew up in Lawrence, New York. Her father is Ashkenazi Jewish, and her mother is Sephardic Jewish.[1][2] She is a graduate of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, a 1997 graduate of Barnard College,[3] and a 2002 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hxkss7c2v7qpqebqkbc46jvq/bafkreifsncxwy7c2tvpzahlq3l3ksttej4tejmrglaigq5m23vdocoowa4@jpeg)
January 2, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Five Towns racists are wild, man
Includes an article by the GC History Program’s very own Melanie Rush! @cuny-ears.bsky.social @historygc.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
The last 2025 edition of @thejerpano.bsky.social is out!
December 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Includes an article by the GC History Program’s very own Melanie Rush! @cuny-ears.bsky.social @historygc.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
Reposted by Benjamin L. Carp 🎏
Coming out in late May. It is an honor to be sharing the story of James Selkirk, Scottish immigrant and New Yorker who spent over seven years serving in the Continental Army.
December 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Coming out in late May. It is an honor to be sharing the story of James Selkirk, Scottish immigrant and New Yorker who spent over seven years serving in the Continental Army.
Now that I’ve seen “It’s a Wonderful Life” I need a new entrant for “what’s the biggest movie you’ve never seen?”
Saturday Night Fever
Avatar
The Exorcist
Gone with the Wind
Doctor Zhivago
My Fair Lady
The Bridge on the River Kwai
…but there must be other 21st-century ones
Saturday Night Fever
Avatar
The Exorcist
Gone with the Wind
Doctor Zhivago
My Fair Lady
The Bridge on the River Kwai
…but there must be other 21st-century ones
December 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Now that I’ve seen “It’s a Wonderful Life” I need a new entrant for “what’s the biggest movie you’ve never seen?”
Saturday Night Fever
Avatar
The Exorcist
Gone with the Wind
Doctor Zhivago
My Fair Lady
The Bridge on the River Kwai
…but there must be other 21st-century ones
Saturday Night Fever
Avatar
The Exorcist
Gone with the Wind
Doctor Zhivago
My Fair Lady
The Bridge on the River Kwai
…but there must be other 21st-century ones
Reposted by Benjamin L. Carp 🎏
Mother
F u c k e r
F u c k e r
December 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Mother
F u c k e r
F u c k e r
"mascarpone" sounds like something I'd say in Spanglish when being seated at a restaurant or filling out a wedding RSVP
December 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"mascarpone" sounds like something I'd say in Spanglish when being seated at a restaurant or filling out a wedding RSVP
Make a Bond movie academic
On Her Majesty’s Committee on Committees
On Her Majesty’s Committee on Committees
Make a Bond movie academic
Tenure is Forever
Tenure is Forever
Make a Bond movie casual
From Russia with Best Wishes
From Russia with Best Wishes
December 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Make a Bond movie academic
On Her Majesty’s Committee on Committees
On Her Majesty’s Committee on Committees
Make a Bond movie academic
Quantum of Recognition
Quantum of Recognition
Make a Bond movie academic
Tenure is Forever
Tenure is Forever
Make a Bond movie casual
From Russia with Best Wishes
From Russia with Best Wishes
December 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Make a Bond movie academic
Quantum of Recognition
Quantum of Recognition
Make a Bond movie academic
The Word Count Is Not Enough
The Word Count Is Not Enough
Make a Bond movie academic
Tenure is Forever
Tenure is Forever
Make a Bond movie casual
From Russia with Best Wishes
From Russia with Best Wishes
December 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Make a Bond movie academic
The Word Count Is Not Enough
The Word Count Is Not Enough
It’s funny that the end credits label Hans Gruber and his gang as “terrorists”even though Hans laughingly asks Takagi early on, “Who said we were terrorists?” and Holly derides him as “nothing but a common thief” (to be fair he was working his way up to mass murder)
has anyone ever noticed that the die hard cover looks like the twin towers blowing up? maybe die hard is more of a 911 movie than a christmas movie
December 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
It’s funny that the end credits label Hans Gruber and his gang as “terrorists”even though Hans laughingly asks Takagi early on, “Who said we were terrorists?” and Holly derides him as “nothing but a common thief” (to be fair he was working his way up to mass murder)
After many years of bragging that "It's a Wonderful Life" was my answer to "what's the biggest movie you've never seen," I finally watched it at the urging of @unlawfulentries.bsky.social . Then afterwards I was too emotional, so I had to follow up with a "Die Hard" chaser. 🎄🏢🚁💥
December 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
After many years of bragging that "It's a Wonderful Life" was my answer to "what's the biggest movie you've never seen," I finally watched it at the urging of @unlawfulentries.bsky.social . Then afterwards I was too emotional, so I had to follow up with a "Die Hard" chaser. 🎄🏢🚁💥
Having seen "It's a Wonderful Life" for the first time, I realize how much Biff Tannen's Hill Valley in "Back to the Future II" owes to the Pottersville in Clarence's vision for George Bailey. Both movies argue: you can have (slightly racy) picket-fence wholesomeness or you can have Blade Runner.
December 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Having seen "It's a Wonderful Life" for the first time, I realize how much Biff Tannen's Hill Valley in "Back to the Future II" owes to the Pottersville in Clarence's vision for George Bailey. Both movies argue: you can have (slightly racy) picket-fence wholesomeness or you can have Blade Runner.
Once as a college student I was in Rome for the holidays—after running into my 12th-grade teacher and his wife in the Sistine Chapel, we met up on Christmas Eve and drank wine in a piazza, and then I saw the Pope’s Christmas message the next day in person
December 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Once as a college student I was in Rome for the holidays—after running into my 12th-grade teacher and his wife in the Sistine Chapel, we met up on Christmas Eve and drank wine in a piazza, and then I saw the Pope’s Christmas message the next day in person
Reposted by Benjamin L. Carp 🎏
George Bailey and John McClane are really on the same Christmas Eve journey: they yell at their wives and almost give in to despair, but with the help of friends they regain their self-confidence and apologize to the people they love. Plus a stairway motif, a timepiece, and a big pile of $$. #HATM 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 5:52 AM
George Bailey and John McClane are really on the same Christmas Eve journey: they yell at their wives and almost give in to despair, but with the help of friends they regain their self-confidence and apologize to the people they love. Plus a stairway motif, a timepiece, and a big pile of $$. #HATM 🎄
George Bailey and John McClane are really on the same Christmas Eve journey: they yell at their wives and almost give in to despair, but with the help of friends they regain their self-confidence and apologize to the people they love. Plus a stairway motif, a timepiece, and a big pile of $$. #HATM 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 5:52 AM
George Bailey and John McClane are really on the same Christmas Eve journey: they yell at their wives and almost give in to despair, but with the help of friends they regain their self-confidence and apologize to the people they love. Plus a stairway motif, a timepiece, and a big pile of $$. #HATM 🎄
Hans Gruber is like Santa Claus, with as many associates as there are reindeer. "On Theo! On Heinrich! On Tony and Karl!"
December 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Hans Gruber is like Santa Claus, with as many associates as there are reindeer. "On Theo! On Heinrich! On Tony and Karl!"
Some bad handwriting led me to read a line as "the corrupting nature of women" but on closer inspection it's "the corrupting nature of power."
December 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Some bad handwriting led me to read a line as "the corrupting nature of women" but on closer inspection it's "the corrupting nature of power."
Every polite sign you see in a publicly accessible bathroom has a tragic backstory of some kind
December 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Every polite sign you see in a publicly accessible bathroom has a tragic backstory of some kind
With one of my favorite fantasy nerd friends from college, I long held the contrarian position that "Willow" is better than "Princess Bride," even though that is obviously not the majority position. "Princess Bride" is funnier but I'm still not sure I was wrong! #HATM
December 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
With one of my favorite fantasy nerd friends from college, I long held the contrarian position that "Willow" is better than "Princess Bride," even though that is obviously not the majority position. "Princess Bride" is funnier but I'm still not sure I was wrong! #HATM
Peter Cook famously plays the priest with a rhotacism; my mother was a speech pathologist and she never thought it was amusing when kids' programming (like Elmer Fudd in Looney Tunes) mocked speech impediments. #HATM
December 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Peter Cook famously plays the priest with a rhotacism; my mother was a speech pathologist and she never thought it was amusing when kids' programming (like Elmer Fudd in Looney Tunes) mocked speech impediments. #HATM