Patrick Iber
@patrickiber.bsky.social
Co-editor, Dissent Magazine. I teach history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Write books about Cold War culture and propaganda. Have written for the set of all publications that are not members of themselves
I don’t know if that’s the reason but I will say that University of Wisconsin has a military historian and it’s very good for our programs and our department and I would 10/10 recommend it
This right here is a significant part of why it is a problem that you have so many universities - including prestigious, elite private universities - without a military historian, because their colleagues or the deans think military history is 'icky.'
Yeah, people are going to get military history whether the universities teach or or not. If you're lucky they'll go you the History Channel. If you're unlucky they read BAP.
December 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I don’t know if that’s the reason but I will say that University of Wisconsin has a military historian and it’s very good for our programs and our department and I would 10/10 recommend it
Well what can I say Bari Weiss did get me to watch some CBS News content
December 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Well what can I say Bari Weiss did get me to watch some CBS News content
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60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail
Get it while it's hot.
www.filemail.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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Legal bans on affirmative action mean that universities can realistically only diversify slightly and in places where there could be a focus on studying identity. So it's reasonable that there are effects in some areas. But they're small, locally concentrated, and not offsetting overall distribution
December 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Legal bans on affirmative action mean that universities can realistically only diversify slightly and in places where there could be a focus on studying identity. So it's reasonable that there are effects in some areas. But they're small, locally concentrated, and not offsetting overall distribution
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Got some figures from the @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social Salma Mousa & @kylepeyton.bsky.social DEI analysis from 4.67 million employment records at US public universities (1993-2024)
Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.
Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.
December 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Got some figures from the @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social Salma Mousa & @kylepeyton.bsky.social DEI analysis from 4.67 million employment records at US public universities (1993-2024)
Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.
Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.
So just like most of the other releases then
1. BREAKING
Congressman Ro Khanna — who co-authored the Epstein bill with Congressman Thomas Massie — says the Trump Department of Justice’s Epstein files release today DOES NOT comply with federal law.
Congressman Ro Khanna — who co-authored the Epstein bill with Congressman Thomas Massie — says the Trump Department of Justice’s Epstein files release today DOES NOT comply with federal law.
December 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
So just like most of the other releases then
I’m not a degrowther but I became one while watching this video
Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas...$70 per ticket.
December 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I’m not a degrowther but I became one while watching this video
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Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
I believe this in my soul; there is no such thing as "deserve" in academia and if you are lucky enough to have a TT academic job all you can do is to try to live up to it - this is not to take anything away from the terrific people working hard who have those jobs, but we're all on a knife's edge
Anyone who thinks anyone "deserves" an academic job is a rube and a mark, also.
December 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I believe this in my soul; there is no such thing as "deserve" in academia and if you are lucky enough to have a TT academic job all you can do is to try to live up to it - this is not to take anything away from the terrific people working hard who have those jobs, but we're all on a knife's edge
I’m very reluctant to weigh in on the discussion about the academic job market and race. I was on the market from 2011 to 2017 (the last two years with a job, so more selectively and calmly). I made it to a lot of campus interviews and came in second many times, including for my first job
December 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I’m very reluctant to weigh in on the discussion about the academic job market and race. I was on the market from 2011 to 2017 (the last two years with a job, so more selectively and calmly). I made it to a lot of campus interviews and came in second many times, including for my first job
and yet somehow being a dick seemingly costs you nothing at all
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
and yet somehow being a dick seemingly costs you nothing at all
Can’t believe their closing argument is “Venezuelans stole the oil in Venezuela” (I can believe it actually)
Sorry: Forgot Miller's gloss of Trump's post.
It's 3 parts.
1) The Gringos did everything.
2) Which VZ used to fund terrorism.
3) And send brown people to the US.
That's the closing argument, trying to link all three.
It's 3 parts.
1) The Gringos did everything.
2) Which VZ used to fund terrorism.
3) And send brown people to the US.
That's the closing argument, trying to link all three.
December 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Can’t believe their closing argument is “Venezuelans stole the oil in Venezuela” (I can believe it actually)
This is also true if you want to write for a magazine: you should read that magazine
My best advice to aspiring authors of scholarly books is to read other scholarly books recently published by your target press. This may seem obvious and yet is not!
December 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This is also true if you want to write for a magazine: you should read that magazine
If this is true, it's just the most comprehensive failure imaginable. Everyone failed. The terrible people are terrible and they failed. The better people are better and they also failed
Tucker Carlson: “Members of Congress were briefed yesterday that a war is coming, and it’ll be announced in the address to the nation tonight at 9 o’clock by the President… A member of Congress told me that this morning.”
Video: Christopher Leonard via X (@ChrisLeonardATL)
Video: Christopher Leonard via X (@ChrisLeonardATL)
December 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
If this is true, it's just the most comprehensive failure imaginable. Everyone failed. The terrible people are terrible and they failed. The better people are better and they also failed
Cold facts
In Chile, where non-citizen residents can vote, right wing candidate Kast is heavily favored to win today’s election with a combination of voters who blame an alleged crime wave on Venezuelan migrants, and Venezuelan migrants he’s pledged to deport, who support him because he’s anti-communist.
December 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Cold facts
Man, I was such a fan of Chomsky when I was 20 years old and he felt like a rare voice against the war in Iraq; I read almost everything he wrote and as I read I started to notice habits like selective quotation and oversimplification that really started to gnaw at me
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Man, I was such a fan of Chomsky when I was 20 years old and he felt like a rare voice against the war in Iraq; I read almost everything he wrote and as I read I started to notice habits like selective quotation and oversimplification that really started to gnaw at me
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My new book, THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY goes on sale TODAY! It is a NEW argument about TRUMAN AND THE ATOMIC BOMB, from Hiroshima through the Korean War, from HarperCollins. alexwellerstein.com/writing/book...
The Most Awful Responsibility – Alex Wellerstein
alexwellerstein.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
My new book, THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY goes on sale TODAY! It is a NEW argument about TRUMAN AND THE ATOMIC BOMB, from Hiroshima through the Korean War, from HarperCollins. alexwellerstein.com/writing/book...
Really smart piece from @cgmaisano.bsky.social getting beyond the popularism debates to argue that what Mamdani's victory shows the rest of the country isn't necessarily about ideology, but it is about organization dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Partyism Without the Party - Dissent Magazine
Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.
dissentmagazine.org
December 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Really smart piece from @cgmaisano.bsky.social getting beyond the popularism debates to argue that what Mamdani's victory shows the rest of the country isn't necessarily about ideology, but it is about organization dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
*historian side-eye intensifies*
December 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
*historian side-eye intensifies*
Right, but also, and I say this with all possible contempt, what Weiss wants to do is not ~~news~~
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Right, but also, and I say this with all possible contempt, what Weiss wants to do is not ~~news~~
People keep talking about this happening to Mexico City within a couple of decades and it’s the sort of thing that you hear and think, no, that won’t happen, people will take action before it does. But what if they don’t?
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep talking about this happening to Mexico City within a couple of decades and it’s the sort of thing that you hear and think, no, that won’t happen, people will take action before it does. But what if they don’t?
Among the million insulting things about this is that every time over the years in which Republicans said they were working on their health care plan to improve Obamacare or whatever they were just straight up lying, it was totally obvious they were always lying, and there were no consequences
Trump: "THE ONLY HEALTHCARE I'LL SUPPORT OR APPROVE IS SENDING MONEY DIRECTLY BACK TO THE PEOPLE W/ NOTHING GOING TO THE BIG, FAT, RICH INSURANCE COMPANIES, WHO HAVE RIPPED OFF AMERICA LONG ENOUGH. THE PEOPLE WILL BE ALLOWED TO NEGOTIATE & BUY THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, INSURANCE. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!"
November 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Among the million insulting things about this is that every time over the years in which Republicans said they were working on their health care plan to improve Obamacare or whatever they were just straight up lying, it was totally obvious they were always lying, and there were no consequences
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The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking.
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
The Case for a Third Reconstruction - Dissent Magazine
The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking.
dissentmagazine.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking.
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
Read Thomas, read the thread
What is really going on in this society that elected Donald Trump president a second time?
I wrote about three stubborn myths about Trump’s support – and why America has experienced a de-alignment rather than a rightward realignment.
My new piece for @zeit.de – and some thoughts in English:
I wrote about three stubborn myths about Trump’s support – and why America has experienced a de-alignment rather than a rightward realignment.
My new piece for @zeit.de – and some thoughts in English:
Unterstützung von Donald Trump: Die Irrtümer über Donald Trumps Rückhalt
Rechtsruck, multiethnische Koalition, Held einfacher Leute: Trump gilt als fest verankert. Doch diese Überzeugung beruht auf drei großen Missverständnissen.
www.zeit.de
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Read Thomas, read the thread