#CONTEMPORARY

Niti Bhan used to be The Prepaid Economy.

niti_bhan

There is an airgap between the ecosystem where donor funds circulate and the ecosystem that is the engine of informal rural & urban value flows. / I first noticed this

Prime Video

PrimeVideo

Movies connect us with people we might not get the chance to meet IRL. For #GlobalMovieDay, we’ve put together a THREAD of immersive films from around the world. Think of

words are weapons ⚡

vimoh

The fact that we don't like to exist in the presence of those who work to make our lives easy is not a particularly well-hidden secret. You won't have to

John Handel

_John_Handel

Listening in now. Extremely refreshing to have an intellectual conversation without quite so large a threat of global crisishttps://twitter.com/jainfamilyinst/status/1325840573140361218 Really appreciating Marc Schwartz’s comparison of th

Meredith Pruden

MeredithPruden

The Turner Diaries... a thread (if you really must read the book, please don't pay for it bc it may fund extremist groups): There have been a lot of references

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

1/25 Today, I will continue looking at the lives of Palestinian poets in the context of the intellectual battle over modernizing Arabic poetry after 1948. A marginalized and maligned figure

Fabien Miclet

Fabien_Miclet

For the first time, the new @europe_creative funding programme will have a specific focus on the music sector, particularly in the fields of contemporary and live music. This is the

Cycling Professor

fietsprofessor

[1/11] Need for speed: Why speed is both cause and solution for unsustainable urban mobility.A mini lecture on land use and mobility... [2/11] The starting assumption of much thinking in

David W. Congdon

dwcongdon

The latest episode of @WTravisMcMaken's podcast series on the Göttingen Dogmatics stimulated me to reflect on the differences between Barth, Bultmann, and Gogarten, something I've been spending a long time

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

1. Why Conservative “Slippery Slope” arguments undermine American democracy (and have always been intended to do so). 2. I’ve taught a course on the History of American Conservatism for seven

Lee Bryant

leebryant

2 days before the war, ppl in Sarajevo told me there couldn’t be a war - unthinkable. 9mo later they were burning books for warmth. When a state collapses, it

Sandra Bullock

brownskinliam

SLAVERY AT THE CAPE (and the history+heritage of coloured people at the Cape) • A THREADSince the S. African education dept. glosses over this, I'm sharing what I learned in

Benjamin Wittes

benjaminwittes

A friend just sent me a list of quotations this person had compiled asking me to decide whether each was uttered by Bill Barr or Ayatollah Khomeini. It was surprisingly

Roger C. Schonfeld

rschon

This morning I've been reading Catherine Murray-Rust's new book, which is a primer on professional and organizational reinvention, drawn from her experience leading the library at Georgia Tech and from

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

1. In honor of Lyndon LaRouche's passing, I want to recommend this excellent podcast on the history of the concept of "cultural marxism." Why LaRouche? Cause it was a LaRouche-ite

Thomas Streinz

t_streinz

I didn't feel this way at all. I'm very grateful for @ntinatzouvala's review: https://academic.oup.com/ejil/article-abstract/31/3/1166/5921742. She gave me plenty to think about and my next papers are likely to reflect that

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