Clare Corbould
banner
clarecorbould.bsky.social
Clare Corbould
@clarecorbould.bsky.social
Historian 🗃️| Associate Professor.
Books: Harvard UP; 2026 The New Press.
Bylines: Conversation; WaPo; Guardian.
She/her 🌈 | Personal account
Presidency Upending: season 2 with colleague Dr Zim Nwokora is a go! Ep 1: a brilliant talk with Prof Ned Foley about his distinguished research in US election law & recent discovery of a 19th century Australian voting model to prevent polarization.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpQk...
October 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
And will he have them wear brown shirts or black shirts?
August 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Truly, nothing at all to see here. Just a cool $1.5 billion dollars "Epstein moved through the banking system to fuel his vast sex-trafficking network." Follow the money, says Dem Senator Ron Wyden, who has been doing just that for 3 years.
July 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
this link worked for me. And um: WTF:
July 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
You say: Quarles was canny. It says: koels was Kenny

You say: Tate's foreword... It says: tights forward...

You say Quarles. It says: koels; coils; Qualls; quals! I gotta work morrrrre on those rrrrrrrs.
July 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
This 2014 cartoon hits a bit differently now
July 15, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Black historian Benjamin A. Quarles, asked in 1962 about key moments in US history since the Emancipation Proclamation. Without hesitation he said: the 14th Amendment, on which Black Americans "based [their] whole fight for equality."
July 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Finally read that NYT piece on AI and history (book) writing. This line caught my attention. Does the journalist not understand that without Robert Caro to begin with, the AI cannot possibly generate even a poor imitation of Robert Caro…
June 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
On Being a NYT editor… or, when the biggest risk to one’s wellbeing from the rise of fascism is the risk you might sound, now what’s the word… *shrill* in opposing it.
May 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Aesop's Fables for a modern age. Absolutely spot-on, utterly perfect BS, 10/10, no notes
April 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
yeah nah that's the least crazy story running in today's Times
April 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
WaPo ran a made-up bit written for a year 9 exam on logic.
April 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Conservatives have been gunning for the NEH & NEA at least since Karen Finley et al. got the Supreme Court to agree “decency” is no grounds for suppressing free speech. And most definitely since the Smithsonian had the temerity in 1995 to question the morality of the 1945 dropping of A-bombs.
March 31, 2025 at 9:57 PM
For those who think the smartphone is unusually good at preventing people from concentrating on book-learning, I give you this lively piece from the _Minneapolis Star_ of 1953, about a man who bought a book--on the same day his newfangled tv arrived home.
March 31, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Late in 1963, Malcolm X told a cheering Manhattan crowd that JFK's murder was "chickens coming home to roost." Here's the response of Minneapolis Star editorial cartoonist, Roy Braxton Justus. IJS, apropos, you know, nothing. Nothing at all.
March 31, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Vance Fails to Pull Off Classic Photo Stunt.
March 29, 2025 at 6:17 AM
March 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
March 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Well played, @theconversation.com! Well played.
February 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
My attempt to buy eggs feeling like some sort of metaphor
February 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
January 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The language the Exec Order uses is scientifically inaccurate (there is no sex differentiation in foetuses at conception, that comes later). It is also legally dubious, implying that a foetus is a (legal) person:

newrepublic.com/post/190506/...
January 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
GOP House Resolution, 3 Jan: "the importance of access to comprehensive, high-quality, life-affirming medical care for women of all ages." The outfit it holds up as the national standard offers "abortion healing" & "abortion pill reversal". Here's how the clinic chain pictures its clients:
January 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
government site for reproductive healthcare: GOOOOONE.
January 21, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Herbert Marcuse offering a cheerful assessment of things in 1973
January 2, 2025 at 2:46 AM