Marci Shore
Historian, professor, author "The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution;" "The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism;" "Caviar and Ashes."
- Someone is thinking clearly.
- The Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at the University of Toronto is accepting applications for the 2025-2026 Petro Jacyk Non-Residential Scholarship.
- The End of the Affair: “It’s like something in your body being torn, because we grew up with this, we lived with this, we believed in this.”— @glandsbergis.bsky.social
- Oś zła raczej się nie zmieniła, ona nadal istnieje. Zmieniło się to, że Stany Zjednoczone zdecydowanie nie są już "arsenałem demokracji". Europejczycy muszą uświadomić sobie jedną rzecz: dzisiejszej Ameryce nie wolno ufać pod żadnym pozorem. @wpwiadomosci.bsky.social
- "You are brazenly violating the law every hour or every day. . . .Sending migrants with pending asylum claims into a war zone just because it's cruel is so deeply disturbing." Thank you @chrismurphyct.bsky.social for your eloquence, directness, and moral clarity 🙏
- "Autocrats rarely entrench themselves in power through force alone; they are enabled by the accommodation and inaction of those who might have resisted. Appeasement, as Churchill warned, is like feeding a crocodile and hoping to be the last one eaten."- @lucanway.bsky.social @dziblatt.bsky.social
- Discussing translations with an editor, I'm struck by how many ways there are to say "there is no bottom" in Russian: дна нет, низа нет, дна не существует, стук снизу. . . @ymonastyrskyi.bsky.social @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social @aglaser.bsky.social @orelb.bsky.social
- Dwie moje ulubione osoby, ucieleśnienia duchu "za wolność naszą i waszą," w stolicy wolności 🥰
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- We try to expose what’s hidden, but that is perhaps a 20th c. method better suited for 20th c. fascisms. Today much more threatening than whatever remains concealed is what has been normalized. Europeans keep asking me, disbelievingly: but can this really be happening in America?
- Nous essayons de révéler ce qui est caché, mais c’est peut-être une méthode du XXe siècle, qui convient mieux aux fascismes du XXe siècle. Aujourd’hui, ce qui est normalisé est bien plus menaçant que ce qui reste caché.
- “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. . .Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”--from Harper Lee's truly great American novel, To Kill a Mockingbird
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- Thank you to Ilana Bet-El for the conversation about the meanings of historical time, and the experience of time rupturing.
- “Self-alienation, the fact that man is not at home in the world, that wound that Marx wants to heal, is incurable.” –Jan Patočka
- Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)
- I can only hope that someone like Jon Stewart at @thedailyshow.com brilliantly juxtaposes this tweet with the Trump-Gaza video. It calls for a whole new genre of political satire.
- Read what was done to this young journalist in Russian captivity. And then think about what it means for Trump to look at Zelensky and say to Americans: "You see the hatred he's got for Putin. It's very tough for me to make a deal with that kind of hatred. He's got tremendous hatred.”
- A chilling story about my ex colleague, journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, detained by Russia on the occupied territories of Ukraine while reporting. She was tortured and killed, her body returned to Ukraine several months later with missing organs, as brain www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
- This is why just handing over Ukrainian territory to Putin is not morally viable: it means handing over human beings to a reign of terror. Ukrainian soldiers are fighting so that Ukrainians are not tied to boards and tortured with electric shocks.
- “The biggest story here for me is the profound impact that the Nazis, or more specifically Jews fleeing from the Nazis, had on American music,” Dan Shore told Byline Supplement.
- My twelve-year-old daughter came up with a much less creepy method for making this determination: “You know the person you’re texting with is Jewish if you have to click the 'read more' button.”
- Take note of the slides a philosophy professor was asked to delete from his presentation on "dehumanization" when giving a guest lecture at another university.
- Ce régime se fiche de protéger les juifs. Il se fiche des juifs. Il se fiche de tout le monde. Il se fiche des gens. C’est ce qui donne carte blanche à des gens comme Poutine et Trump. Si la vie des autres n’a aucune valeur à vos yeux, vous n’avez aucune contrainte.
- Je peux comprendre pourquoi Hegel et Marx ont captivé les gens. Mais là, on se trouve en réalité face à un abîme nihiliste. On se dit qu’il n’y a même pas l’illusion qu’il existe des valeurs réelles. Et pourtant, cela fonctionne quand même sur les gens.
- Please join us on Monday, April 28, 2025, 18:00 (CET) by zoom Register: forms.gle/UHjYpX3BWRYA...
- This essay was especially important to me--an act of communing with two searing writers across time and space, death and generations. With special gratitude to @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social for being my--and Lev Shestov's--interlocutor even, and literally, from the trenches.
- Adam Michnik knows what he's talking about; he has a lot of experience. . .
- "For centuries the list of names has been an irremovable element of social history: the lists of witches burned at the stake; the lists of heretics examined by the Inquisition; the lists of Jesuits condemned to exile; the lists of Masons; the lists of Jews. . ." --Adam Michnik
- "Ukrainians don’t have the luxury of indulging in the fantasies and distortions of Truth Social, or X, or Russian state TV. They have no choice but to believe in the rockets flying over their heads, the news of dead neighbours – in short, in reality."--Nataliya Gumenyuk
- More news to file under "Vindication of the Neurotic Catastrophists."
- “We’ve seen this movie before, and it ends with yellow stars,” Nara Milanich, a Barnard history professor, told The New York Times.
- Thank you to filmmakers Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor for their bravery in capturing this extraordinary story about friendship in a time of cruelty.
- You can watch the documentary "No Other Land" here: supportmasaferyatta.com
- A webinar invitation, tomorrow (Tuesday) at noon ET: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- “We have indeed seen this show before, and I fear we do know how it ends.”--Joel Grey
- "All of these folks tell themselves even as they eat the tainted grain that they're not like the others. . . it is the silence of this group--the majority of us after all--it is their willingness to conform and consent that clears the path for the tyrant."--Rabbi Sharon Brous
- 19 April 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. “I won’t describe here,” Marek Edelman told the judge, “the scenes that took place, because it’s obvious that if a house is burning, then people are burning alive.”
- George Packer never contacted me or @timothysnyder.bsky.social before writing about us in @theatlantic.com I own my anxiety and cowardice, but I cringe when I see it imposed on my husband. Were he alone, he would return to the US--he agreed to stay in Toronto for me and our kids. Tim does not flee.
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- I'm a neurotic Jew, and I don't trust myself to be brave if confronted with physical violence. I completely own that, and I've been honest in all my interviews. But that's not true of Tim. Packer's attack should just be directed at me.
- "Donald Trump is a one-man wrecking crew for the truth." This @nytimes.com documentary on Russian "active measures"--i.e. disinformation--by @aellick.bsky.social shows us how studying Soviet history can help us decipher the pathologies of the present moment.
- Ja som chcela utiecť do Kanady aj v prípade, že by vyhrala Kamala Harris, však Tim nie je taký úzkostlivý človek. Keby Tim bol sám, vrátil by sa do New Havenu a bojoval by tam za demokraciu. @timothysnyder.bsky.social
- Chris Murphy has consistently been voice of clarity and moral sanity.
- Чи погодилася б Ханна Арендт говорити з Томасом Манном під час Другої світової війни. . .? Дуже дякую Богдані Романцовій за запитання!
- "If citizens endorse the idea that people named by authorities as 'criminals' or 'terrorists' have no right to due process, they are accepting that they themselves have no right to due process. . . the masked men in the black vans can simply claim that you are a foreign terrorist and disappear you."
- "the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
- As the Polish aphorism goes: "I found myself at the very bottom--and then I heard knocking from below."
- Sober and on point by David Shimer, director for eastern Europe and Ukraine on Joe Biden’s National Security Council, on why Europe needs to mobilize now:
- "I don't feel alienated from the United States. I feel sad for Americans who are being hurt. . . I'm very concerned that the people who run my country don't care at all about its people, or its interests, and I care about that in a special way because I am American."-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social
- "We could not believe it could happen here is not just the title of a recent book on the Yugoslav wars, but also an important warning: it can happen wherever you may be, dear reader."--Vladimir Petrović
- Danke @taniamartini.bsky.social für das Gespräch! Meine meine zwölfjährige Tochter hat mein schlechtes Deutsch korrigiert 🥰
- "It is said that never again, has two formulations: the first is never again, and the second is, in view of the genocidal antisemitism that culminated in the Final Solution, never again to us. Now is the time to put this distinction aside."--Omri Boehm
- "Es ist schwierig, einer Öffentlichkeit, die auf ein brennendes Haus schaut, zu erklären, warum die Menschen darin gerettet werden müssen."-- Serhiy Zhadan
- "I think about how she taught us that resistance begins with refusing to normalize what should never be accepted as normal.”--Khalil Greene, my former student at Yale, who just made me feel that teaching really matters 🥰
