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Scott MacEachern
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Vice-Chancellor, archaeologist, Maritimer
‘Finally, I can use the r-word again!’

“…I see a lot of people walking around right now thinking that wokeness is over. They say: The vibe shift is here. We don’t need to worry about it anymore….”
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
And Douthat’s entry in the crazy sweepstakes…

“when I confronted …the incredibly generous paternity leave package, I was like: Well, if I take all of this, I’m going to fail as an employee…. I’m going to become less competitive as a newspaper columnist..”

Wonder what his wife thought…
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Have to say: I’ve been telling people this is a fantastic series for years. Great books.
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I’m an archaeologist: I like old maps and old territories.
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Just finished Cold Water. Very much enjoyed it, and glad to see those Europes reappearing.
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 AM
As I said elsewhere on Bluesky… if Dave Hutchinson had started writing his Fractured Europe sequence five years later, it would’ve been accused of being a documentary. Rather too on the nose.
Except for the alternate universe and the Flu starting in Wuhan, of course.
November 6, 2025 at 4:46 AM
And which ‘type of person’ was that, exactly?
November 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Fantastic how the Overton window has shifted so that Beauchamp can earnestly interview ‘reasonable’ right-wingers who are racists and Muslim-haters - as they are- but who condemn antisemitism.
In today’s right-wing ecosystem, only being a Nazi puts you (barely) beyond the pale.
October 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
It must be difficult for Trump to deal with grown-ups.
October 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Personally, I’d like to have him bring Residente as well. Bajo los Escombros would be a great Super Bowl song.
October 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Leaving all the rest of it largely aside, there are about 3 1/2 million American citizens who are permanently deprived of a vote in national elections because of their territorial status.
More generally perhaps, -were- the good guys.
October 4, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Goes well along with this series from today’s NYT.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...
They Celebrated Vigilante Justice on the Battlefield. Then They Brought It Home.
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM