People are being unfair. O.J. Simpson's life was 'mostly peaceful.'

I will be speaking at the Conrad E. Wright Research Conference on Citizenship at the Massachusetts Historical Society (the oldest in the US), July 11-13.
Be there or be square. Click link for programme and to register: masshist.org/research/confe…

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We are entering a neo-tribal age. Although coded in terms of a return to the past (on the left, via a rhetoric of care, solidarity, and mutual aid; on the right, an “illustrious civilisational heritage”) it is enabled by the new affinity-based logics of digital hyperconnectivity.

Philosophy professor Nancy Fraser, who is Jewish, has been uninvited from a guest professorship in Germany for signing a public letter in support of Palestine

'Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.'

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

It would be a good start.

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Cancel culture doesn’t exist, right?

R.I.P. Ed Piskor

The grotesque anti-northern, anti-working class snobbery on display here. This, by the way, is Blackpool:

I will be discussing the future of the British nation and whether it has one with David Edgerton and Tomiwa Owolade on 2nd May at LSE.

Entry is free but register here to guarantee a seat: lselaw.events/event/the-brit…

This looks great and is one of a spate of books reassessing Marx’s legacy (see eg Andrew Hartman forthcoming _Marx in America_) My own research on American citizenship in the c19th will no doubt be enriched. Looking forward to reading!

I think this, from Matthew Parris, is probably the most despicable piece of comment I have ever read in a British newspaper. And that’s saying something.

Ashley Frawley COMPACT During Covid, not wearing a mask or wanting schools open made you an immoral “granny killer.” Now, killing granny is right and just? I don’t get it.

'No man can love mankind who does not love his country. To love his country, a man must love his city, to love his city he must love his family, and to learn to love his family as it deserves, a man must love himself.'
- Henry Demarest Lloyd, Chicago 1902.

“In a democracy, meaning can only be reached in conversation with fellow citizens. Essential truth is impossible because truth – in a democracy at least – is negotiated and contingent.”

The Enigma of Moby Dick usadialogue.wordpress.com/2019/03/02/the…

What I've learnt from following the War Discourse is that if you oppose the slaughter of large numbers of non-combatants, then you are duty-bound to support the slaughter of large numbers of non-combatants.

I am looking forward to participating in this conference on the history of U.S. Citizenship at the Massachusetts Historical Society Massachusetts Historical Society
- if you are in the Boston area in July, do come along. masshist.org/research/confe…

#HistoryEdBirds , get those planners out and pencil in the Spring College Lecture delivered by Dr. Touré Reed! March 27th at 5:00 pm! Check out the article to read more about Dr. Reed and his accomplishments.
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Perhaps the greatest American historian of his generation, Eric Foner explains that the source of inequality for most Americans was not race.