Ruhaan Shah
@ruhaanshah.bsky.social
Studying Political Thought and Intellectual History at Cambridge. Interested in medieval political thought, political theology, contemporary Indian political theory, and literary theory. Former film and television critic at Film Companion.
Those at Cambridge who recently debated Charlie Kirk, kudos for revealing his ideological and factual deceit but also:
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
May 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Those at Cambridge who recently debated Charlie Kirk, kudos for revealing his ideological and factual deceit but also:
When Oppenheimer was running the Institute, he got T.S. Elliot to join them because Opp loved the Waste Land and wanted Elliot to create something just as great. Elliot ended up writing something horrific that Oppenheimer quite hated. Fun stuff lol
Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey.
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵
May 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
When Oppenheimer was running the Institute, he got T.S. Elliot to join them because Opp loved the Waste Land and wanted Elliot to create something just as great. Elliot ended up writing something horrific that Oppenheimer quite hated. Fun stuff lol
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From “who will do X jobs?!” to “how will universities survive without international tuition fees?”, it’s really tiring to see immigrants get boiled down to just economic factors.
If that’s your only argument in supporting immigration, congrats! You’re also part of the problem by dehumanising us.
If that’s your only argument in supporting immigration, congrats! You’re also part of the problem by dehumanising us.
Find it v tiresome that in response to Starmer’s racist nonsense there are people doing “but without migrant workers our NHS/social care/food systems collapse”. That is of course TRUE but let’s not prop up a narrative that says people can only come here if they do hard work for shit pay
May 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
From “who will do X jobs?!” to “how will universities survive without international tuition fees?”, it’s really tiring to see immigrants get boiled down to just economic factors.
If that’s your only argument in supporting immigration, congrats! You’re also part of the problem by dehumanising us.
If that’s your only argument in supporting immigration, congrats! You’re also part of the problem by dehumanising us.
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Worst is thinking migration tap to be turned on and off for our benefit or to indulge voters rather than seeing immigrants as individuals with agency, choices and rights.Integration ought to be about helping people to take part rather than singling people out and making them perform arbitrary tasks
Starmer accused of echoing far-right with ‘island of strangers’ speech
Prime minister’s immigration speech was likened by MPs to rhetoric of Enoch Powell
www.theguardian.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Worst is thinking migration tap to be turned on and off for our benefit or to indulge voters rather than seeing immigrants as individuals with agency, choices and rights.Integration ought to be about helping people to take part rather than singling people out and making them perform arbitrary tasks
Very fateful to come across this right now as I write a dissertation about how Oedipus continues to suffer from displacement after being naturalised into Athens as a citizen
Reminder that earlier naturalization leads to better integration of immigrants. Extending the period necessary for settlement in the UK will have exactly the opposite effect of what Starmer and the Labour leadership claim. "Migrants first have to prove themselves" is a nativist trope and bad policy.
May 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Very fateful to come across this right now as I write a dissertation about how Oedipus continues to suffer from displacement after being naturalised into Athens as a citizen
You know what this means -- CM Punk gets new trunks
They’re going to add another star to the city flag, aren’t they?
For a city as Catholic as Chicago, being the home to the first American pope has got to outrank, at the very least, the Century of Progress Exhibition (the … what?), which is Star 4.
For a city as Catholic as Chicago, being the home to the first American pope has got to outrank, at the very least, the Century of Progress Exhibition (the … what?), which is Star 4.
a chicago flag with four red stars on a white and blue background
Alt: a chicago flag with four red stars on a white and blue background
media.tenor.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
You know what this means -- CM Punk gets new trunks
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BREAKING: Days after a Louisiana judge ruled that the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil can proceed, thousands are holding an emergency Passover Seder at the ICE headquarters in New York City, saying: If you come for one, you face us all.
April 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
BREAKING: Days after a Louisiana judge ruled that the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil can proceed, thousands are holding an emergency Passover Seder at the ICE headquarters in New York City, saying: If you come for one, you face us all.
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NEW from @johnphudson.bsky.social: No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
April 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
NEW from @johnphudson.bsky.social: No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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for every 50 likes i’ll photoshop betty white into movies she wasn’t really in.
January 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
for every 50 likes i’ll photoshop betty white into movies she wasn’t really in.
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The new issue of the journal features the second installment of Sophie Smith’s two-part article, “Women and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century: Activists, Academics, and the Future"—open access for the next few weeks.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
December 3, 2024 at 2:32 PM
The new issue of the journal features the second installment of Sophie Smith’s two-part article, “Women and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century: Activists, Academics, and the Future"—open access for the next few weeks.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Finished the first full draft of my MPhil essay and also submitted my PhD application yesterday. I woke up after 9 a.m. for the first time since my term began at Cambridge...and god, such a sweet, sweet feeling
December 3, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Finished the first full draft of my MPhil essay and also submitted my PhD application yesterday. I woke up after 9 a.m. for the first time since my term began at Cambridge...and god, such a sweet, sweet feeling
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Finally watched Arrival last night and I really think we should be allowed more big-budget films about linguistics.
December 1, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Finally watched Arrival last night and I really think we should be allowed more big-budget films about linguistics.
Seeing Conclave after studying papal theory for almost two years now vindicated a lot of what I'm trying to work towards. There's no sniff of self-seriousness in the film. It knows that everything about the vicariate is equally profound and ridiculous. It's all just reality TV.
November 29, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Seeing Conclave after studying papal theory for almost two years now vindicated a lot of what I'm trying to work towards. There's no sniff of self-seriousness in the film. It knows that everything about the vicariate is equally profound and ridiculous. It's all just reality TV.
People constantly conflate Oscars predictions with what ought to actually get nominated. The problem with Variety is that it's terrible at both. And now, it's also creating a breed of people that are terrible at both.
November 28, 2024 at 7:37 AM
People constantly conflate Oscars predictions with what ought to actually get nominated. The problem with Variety is that it's terrible at both. And now, it's also creating a breed of people that are terrible at both.
Love how he follows an Oscar win with his best performance
Small Things Like These: turns out you can get a whole movie out of examining every crevice on Cillian Murphy’s haunted face. Refreshingly lowkey, far more quiet lingering than in-your-face tragedy. Shot with a hazy sadness. Really liked this.
November 24, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Love how he follows an Oscar win with his best performance
Wouldn't mind a world where all the rats are a part of the 2%
November 23, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Wouldn't mind a world where all the rats are a part of the 2%
I had my own issues with it but dismissing Saturday Night--or any other film/show for that matter--as too Sorkinian is just a very easy criticism to level on something. What does that even mean? Is it the tempo of the film or the constant dialoguing or both? And why is that inherently an issue?
November 22, 2024 at 7:03 AM
I had my own issues with it but dismissing Saturday Night--or any other film/show for that matter--as too Sorkinian is just a very easy criticism to level on something. What does that even mean? Is it the tempo of the film or the constant dialoguing or both? And why is that inherently an issue?
Since I have virtually no one to read my thoughts here--which I consider fairly liberating--I'm gonna treat this space like a glorified Letterboxd but talk about books and essays, too
November 22, 2024 at 6:56 AM
Since I have virtually no one to read my thoughts here--which I consider fairly liberating--I'm gonna treat this space like a glorified Letterboxd but talk about books and essays, too