In my chapter I argue that it started when the “handbook” replaced the “edited volume”

Somehow the drivers of these trucks are all “cool” in exactly the same way

No, thanks for the rec!

I like it when Near Easterners take interest in the Far East and vice versa. Asia-Asia relations, no Europe allowed!

_Raja_ also poses an important question, for me: what if Japan was cool?

The first four are “about” “hybridity” partially. In some sense the dominant thread in Christian historiography is _against_ “hybridity,” dogmatically focused on “essence,” its “spread” or “perseverance”

not many degree programs lead to the job of "king of denmark" unfortunately

The poster writes itself! "With a BA in political science, you can be any one of these guys!" *Biden, AMLO, and Modi stare at you*

if i did n-grams for "leaf-blower" and "migraine" they would both go up together

"ai" blames california and the pacific world more generally lol

why do we need leaf-blowers when we have wind? and rake?

Nguyen, _The Committed_ (2021); Kuang, _Babel_ (2022); McMahan _The Making of Buddhist Modernism_ (2008). Finished Alameddine, _True True Story_ (2025) and Wilken, _First Thousand Years_ (2012) earlier this week!

What are footnotes but woke voices from the future, explaining to posterity that we are horrible