For me, what makes most of the works of history that I consider great are those that offer a glimpse into the unique mind and obsessions of people who have sifted through and curated a large number of sources, and made compelling and often idiosyncratic choices about what to highlight./9

This means as a historian or political commentator, you spend quite a lot of time having to explain “yes, I know, I’m not saying it SHOULD be like this, I’m saying it IS like this,” unless you couch everything you say in fluffy adverbs (“Unfortunately…”), and often it happens even if you do.

I know! It's so good!

This is definitely worth reading if you haven't already!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎉🎉🎉🎉 Hooray!! Congrats!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

To wrap up, some key distinctions I use to do my work:

Public vs. audience
Journalism vs. the media
Truth-seeking vs. refuge-seeking
Political vs. politicized
Issues vs. troubles
Ritual vs. transmission
Expect vs. predict
Subscription vs. membership

"When in doubt, draw a distinction." 25/

Universities — including the schools that most aggressively shut down student activism — are now fully panicking because the Trump administration is about to shut down all kinds of funding for research and more. Too bad they made it clear that their students shouldn’t speak up and speak out.

Going to read up on this once the reporting and applications are done:

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/chat...