Christine Kooi
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Christine Kooi
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Reformation historian, immigrant, dochter van Nederlanders, birder (not necessarily in that order). Working on a book on the year 1572 in (mostly) Europe. Opinions all mine, and I speak only for myself.

History 50%
Political science 37%
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Happy to be in bluer skies. I'm working on a book titled "1572: A Year in the End of Christendom," about the working out of reformation in Europe in the later 16th cen. Any tidbits about 1572 that you come across in your research that you're willing to share are welcome.

What every woman working in higher education already knew.
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.

"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

Happy Feast of Stephen to all who observe.
Giorgio Vasari, 1560s.

Another offering from the Department of Facile Historical Analogies, one that manages to mischaracterize both modernity and the Middle Ages.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck
Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute
www.theguardian.com

"Since the Enlightenment, we've all been making our own decisions." That other sound you hear is modernists having a good chortle.

"Dark ages." That sound you hear is every medievalist erupting in apoplexy.

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Onlangs verscheen het nieuwe nummer van het Engelstalige multidisciplinaire Open Access tijdschrift Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC). De tweede aflevering van deze negende jaargang is nu voor iedereen online te lezen: www.mdnl.nl?p=19262

I have not watched it either. Not a Jimmy Stewart fan.

Secular modernity's version of indulgence selling.
The blatant selling of pardons is perhaps the clearest instance of criminal conduct authorized by SCOTUS. Pardons are a quintessential "official act." So, even when Trump takes a bribe to issue one, he is presumably above the criminal law.
The president’s own chief of staff was reportedly stunned by his pardon of a former Honduran president.
The blatant selling of pardons is perhaps the clearest instance of criminal conduct authorized by SCOTUS. Pardons are a quintessential "official act." So, even when Trump takes a bribe to issue one, he is presumably above the criminal law.

And if you read these blurbs, none of them attests to his likeability.

Merry Christmas, friends.

Every year I offer up a prayer of thanks to the marketing genius who came up with the gift bag.
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.

"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

Here at the "Old War Skule" military history is popular with undergrads, but we don't teach the drum-and-trumpets variety.

Mushrooms are the most disgusting "food" on earth, like dirt-flavored pencil erasers.

He's just lying like all the rest of them.

Just my own little bit of decoloniZation. 😄

One American does one thing, and now the whole country is to blame? So what does J.K. Rowling tell us about Britain, then, lol.

The techbroligarchy really has this administration by the short hairs.

I have not seen it. Thanks for the tip!

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The age-old author dilemma on social media: To timidly try not to annoy people who'll never read your books? Or to strive to consolidate your artistic future in a world that's on fire, while not making the self-absorbed assumption that everyone sees everything you post? Lately I choose the latter.

How much is an AI company paying the AFT for you to write this nonsense?

I can't credit this administration with that much cunning competence.

Epstein to Larry Nassar in 2019: "Our president [Trump] also shares our love of young nubile girls"
Epstein to Larry Nassar in 2019: "Our president [Trump] also shares our love of young nubile girls"

My mother, her sister, her mother and her aunt (r to l) in the Bergummermeer, circa 1935.

"Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume
Breathes of life of gathering gloom
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying
Sealed in the stone-cold tomb."

Holy cow....

His latest book, Moral Reconstruction, is a fascinating look at an earlier period in US history when a Christian lobby tried to control public life. uncpress.org/978080785366...
Moral Reconstruction
Between 1865 and 1920, Congress passed laws to regulate obscenity, sexuality, divorce, gambling, and prizefighting. It forced Mormons to abandon polygamy, at...
uncpress.org