Tom Connolly
@tomconnolly21.bsky.social
Futurist, but also film and theatre historian. Radio, TV, and podcast commentator. I’ve lived and taught on three continents, and I’ve been on stage with Sir Ian McKellen.
My latest article: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RMUEN...
Fear of the Future: Causal Layered Analysis and Narrative Foresight Versus Conspiracy Theories
This essay addresses conspiracism using an interdisciplinary futures studies approach. Conspiracy theories can be reframed, rather than dismissed, via Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) and narrative fo...
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October 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
My latest article: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RMUEN...
Book Review: Barrymore Shadows — “Too Fast, Too Short” Does Justice to the Life of a Nepo Orphan artsfuse.org/317656/book-...
Book Review: Barrymore Shadows - "Too Fast, Too Short" Does Justice to the Life of a Nepo Orphan - The Arts Fuse
Jennifer Ann Redmond’s sympathetic approach to Diana Barrymore’s disastrous life is valuable because it rejects the poor-little-rich-girl tropes. She was more than a debauched debutante or fallen star...
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September 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Book Review: Barrymore Shadows — “Too Fast, Too Short” Does Justice to the Life of a Nepo Orphan artsfuse.org/317656/book-...
Book Review: “Three Speeches that Saved the Union” — Truth, Powerful and Strange artsfuse.org/316800/book-...
Book Review: "Three Speeches that Saved the Union" - Truth, Powerful and Strange - The Arts Fuse
The political and moral consequences of the Compromise of 1850 continue to be debated, but Peter Charles Hoffer’s book offers valuable lessons on how concession and consensus once served as pillars of...
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September 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Book Review: “Three Speeches that Saved the Union” — Truth, Powerful and Strange artsfuse.org/316800/book-...
Too coherent to be a genuine Lacan quotation…
August 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Too coherent to be a genuine Lacan quotation…
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Who else is revolted by the Met Gala?
May 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Who else is revolted by the Met Gala?
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Apparently Wyna Liu has never heard of Édith Piaf.
April 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Apparently Wyna Liu has never heard of Édith Piaf.
I’ll be presenting my paper this Thursday in Rabat, Morocco—
“Post-Soviet Transitions and the Bandung Spirit:
Education, Language, and Cultural Reorientation
in the Czech Republic (1996–1998)”
“Post-Soviet Transitions and the Bandung Spirit:
Education, Language, and Cultural Reorientation
in the Czech Republic (1996–1998)”
April 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I’ll be presenting my paper this Thursday in Rabat, Morocco—
“Post-Soviet Transitions and the Bandung Spirit:
Education, Language, and Cultural Reorientation
in the Czech Republic (1996–1998)”
“Post-Soviet Transitions and the Bandung Spirit:
Education, Language, and Cultural Reorientation
in the Czech Republic (1996–1998)”
Reposted by Tom Connolly
Strands #401
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April 8, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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My latest reiew—https://artsfuse.org/307330/book-review-the-last-tsar-last-train-to-pskov/
Book Review: "The Last Tsar"-- Last Train to Pskov - The Arts Fuse
Historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's towering achievement is to show that, while Nicholas II was betrayed, he lost his throne because he had made it impossible for anyone who loved Russia to be loyal to him.
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March 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
My latest reiew—https://artsfuse.org/307330/book-review-the-last-tsar-last-train-to-pskov/
Reposted by Tom Connolly
Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY.
David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”
David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”
March 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY.
David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”
David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”
It is time for lexical iconoclasm. “Iconic” must go!
February 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
It is time for lexical iconoclasm. “Iconic” must go!
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Hey y’all! We have three regional chapters with accounts on here. If you’re in the area, check them out! @gsuswy.bsky.social
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February 10, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Hey y’all! We have three regional chapters with accounts on here. If you’re in the area, check them out! @gsuswy.bsky.social
@generalstrikemt.bsky.social
@generalstrikesocal.bsky.social
You can also see more about our other regional chapters here:
docs.google.com/document/u/0...
@generalstrikemt.bsky.social
@generalstrikesocal.bsky.social
You can also see more about our other regional chapters here:
docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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Aha!
Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
February 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Aha!