Paul Lerner
@plerner.bsky.social
🗃️ Historian of modern Central Europe, consumer culture, human sciences, migration, and Jews. Here to talk about fascism and cats. Mostly cats.
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Paul Lerner
@plerner.bsky.social
· Feb 24
I wrote this about teaching a fascism class in the age of Trump 🗃️
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Looking forward to this! 🗃️
February 10, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Looking forward to this! 🗃️
Not me yelling "please god no more fucking emails today" at the cats just now
February 10, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Not me yelling "please god no more fucking emails today" at the cats just now
It’s not like they said democracy dying in darkness was a bad thing
February 4, 2026 at 5:49 PM
It’s not like they said democracy dying in darkness was a bad thing
Happening this afternoon!
Excited to be bringing in Dr. Jessica Brier, for a talk about her wonderful book "Typophoto: New Typography and the Reinvention of Photography" on modernist graphic design and photography in Weimar Germany. Next month at the Max Kade Institute at USC #academicsky #skystorians
February 3, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Happening this afternoon!
And it will last 1000 years!
February 3, 2026 at 9:33 PM
And it will last 1000 years!
It’s all so exhausting
February 2, 2026 at 2:45 AM
It’s all so exhausting
L’etat c’est moi
You CANNOT make this shit up.
I assume this outrageous graft will be considered to be part of his "official duties?" Totally immune?
I assume this outrageous graft will be considered to be part of his "official duties?" Totally immune?
Trump on his multiple suits against the federal government: "I'm supposed to work out a settlement with myself ... We could make it a substantial amount, nobody would care, because it's gonna go to numerous, very good charities."
February 1, 2026 at 2:57 AM
L’etat c’est moi
Breaking news: Himmler is an antisemite
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Breaking news: Himmler is an antisemite
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
How long till they start busing school children to see Melania
January 30, 2026 at 8:59 PM
How long till they start busing school children to see Melania
I had forgotten Carl Schorske’s point that Schönerer and the Austrian antisemites looked to the US Chinese Exclusion Act as a model. Seems relevant
January 28, 2026 at 8:24 PM
I had forgotten Carl Schorske’s point that Schönerer and the Austrian antisemites looked to the US Chinese Exclusion Act as a model. Seems relevant
Hell of a day to be teaching City without Jews
January 28, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Hell of a day to be teaching City without Jews
"we promise never again to go down the darkest path" and yet we're literally fucking doing it
Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
January 28, 2026 at 4:25 AM
"we promise never again to go down the darkest path" and yet we're literally fucking doing it
Omg love this for him 👇👇
January 27, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Omg love this for him 👇👇
Edward Dimendberg ed.,
Podcast Episode · New Books Network · 01/25/2026 · 32m
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January 25, 2026 at 5:19 PM
While Minneapolis burns
January 25, 2026 at 4:23 AM
While Minneapolis burns
Hoping for home grown baba ghanoush by spring!
January 23, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Hoping for home grown baba ghanoush by spring!
It was only a matter of time before they started in on "double earners" and trying to push women out of the workplace.
JD Vance: "To our fellow Americans we say, you're never gonna find great meaning in a cubicle or in front of a computer screen. But you will find great meaning if you dedicate yourself to the creation and sustenance of human life."
January 23, 2026 at 10:24 PM
It was only a matter of time before they started in on "double earners" and trying to push women out of the workplace.
Thinking these days about Manzanar and Japanese interment for just random reasons
January 23, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Thinking these days about Manzanar and Japanese interment for just random reasons
#skystorians, please help circulate this CfP for an upcoming volume on Asian-Pacific-Jewish histories
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Pacific Jewish Histories | H-Net
Call for PapersPacific Jewish Histories. Special Issue of the Casden Annual Review Guest editors: Paul Lerner and Hana Cordero Rothstein This special issue of the Casden Annual Review seeks to shed li...
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January 22, 2026 at 4:00 PM
#skystorians, please help circulate this CfP for an upcoming volume on Asian-Pacific-Jewish histories
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Stop calling it an “immigration crackdown!”
January 22, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Stop calling it an “immigration crackdown!”
Reposted by Paul Lerner
Happy MLK Jr. Day 2026! Here is an interesting piece about MLK's connection to Germany in 1964: time.com/5504826/mart...
time.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Happy MLK Jr. Day 2026! Here is an interesting piece about MLK's connection to Germany in 1964: time.com/5504826/mart...
On the plus side, it wouldn’t be the first time we invaded the wrong country
January 19, 2026 at 8:37 PM
On the plus side, it wouldn’t be the first time we invaded the wrong country