Howard Eissenstat
Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, SUITS
MENA History and Politics
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Also block folks who tell me my border collie is akshually a kelpie
- One basic problem with the MAGA folks is that they have embraced a sort of lumpen cynicism in which "everybody does it." This, in turn, allows them to do shit that nobody fucking does.
- I have no words for my anger, for my disgust.
- I am struck, once again, by how arbitrary and cruel academic processes are both in hiring and promotion. Anyone who has succeeded was smart, hardworking, ambitious, but also just lucky.
- Question: Should Zionism be understood through the lens of nationalism or colonialism? Answer: Yes.
- I know about as much about Catholicism as the next Jew, but I just came across this item and wanted to share it. Do you ever wonder whether Vance, uh, did his homework first? www.ncronline.org/vatican/fina...
- I am repeatedly struck by the romanticism that academics have for "the power of protest," out of all proportion with its ability to deliver the desired policy changes.
- Reposted by Howard EissenstatThis is totally insane
- Reposted by Howard EissenstatA federal appeals court upheld a judge’s order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England for hearings to determine whether her rights were violated and if she should be released.
- Reposted by Howard EissenstatThe ubiquity of "punching left" and "punching center" online reflects, IMHO, a tacit form of mutual recognition: you get annoyed at the people that you think *should* agree with you, not the people who obviously don't and likely never will. That being said... [1]
- Reposted by Howard EissenstatNEW: In the Mahmoud Khalil case, Judge Farbiarz orders the government to give him a COMPLETE LIST of every time since 1975 it has invoked the secretary of state's power to deport someone for foreign-policy reasons—including a description of each case's facts and a copy of the official determination.
