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Eric Wilhelm
@ehwilhelm.bsky.social
Scholar-in-Residence at The Stephenson Institute for Classical Liberalism at Wabash College

GMU PhD - Economic History, Public Finance, and Tax Policy

https://sites.google.com/view/ehwilhelm/home
We are the Skaven

Those who believe we exist are decried as fools

Believe in our presence at your own peril

Tow the Empire line and move along
November 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
white Southerners wanted to LARP as their feudal overlord ancestors

but like the Victorian-era caricature of medieval life

SC planters called themselves "the chivalry"
May 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Lean into the posted on Bluesky bias 👍
May 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
How do I account for posted on Bluesky bias?
May 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
another unsettled question for the ages:
how many chuggas does a train chug before a choo-choo?
April 23, 2025 at 10:14 AM
April 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
should I read Peirce?
If so, what?

It took me five attempts to override autocorrect and write the name Peirce
April 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
🥲
April 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Best of luck returning to the Mothership. We salute you
a close up of a cat 's face with its paw on its face
Alt: all members of the animal kingdom are saluting your return to the mothership
media.tenor.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
too much psychic damage
March 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
massive lifestyle improvements, reducing time spent on formatting and increasing time spent on the stuff that matters
March 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
another casualty of world building a cutthroat bureaucracy built on constant carnage is the author themself who must invest time and effort building backstories for various characters only to fell them in sacrifice to the Blood God and in service to the bloody audience
March 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I miss MATES
March 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
e.g. a portrait of Ebbo during one of his stints imprisoned in the Abbey of Fulda suffering from gout and forging some Decretals

something like that...
February 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Really enjoyed #Oathbreakers

I'm currently reading Portraits of Medieval Europe, 800-1400, a collection of 'imagined lives' of various individuals in Medieval Europe derived from primary sources

Would be cool to see what you & @profgabriele.com would come up with www.routledge.com/Portraits-of...
Portraits of Medieval Europe, 800–1400
This volume provides a collection of ‘imagined lives’ – individuals who, no matter their position on the social hierarchy, were crucial to the development of medieval Europe and the modern period that...
www.routledge.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
@shirokuriwaki.bsky.social is one of the conclusions that polarized issues have a higher "success" rate (representative of public support) than unpolarized issues?
January 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM