#Contemporary

Avishek

ChaxCR

Over the past few days we have seen the manufactured protest against the #FarmBill2020 unravelling and the overt Islamists sitting in the Republic are shedding crocodile's tears in solidarity.Lets put

Richard Florida

Richard_Florida

1. Terrific analysis of the new class structure of contemporary capitalism. In line with my own thinking.https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/1347939981575282692 2. There is a "1%" (actually less) of enormously wealthy oligarchs

Nanjala Nyabola

Nanjala1

Many of the first resistances against colonialism in Kenya were primarily led by women. We are learning more about Mekatilili, but also the 1922 Kikuyu women's riots against Thuku's arrest

@redlibrarian

redlibrarian

So, some people have been pushing back against this by saying there are reasons not to do it (the implication being that I don't know that, maybe?). Sure. There are

Kevin Vaughn

iamkevinvaughn

I'd really like to read more writers from across the Americas and esp with expertise in countries that tend to get glossed over in US media (pretty much the entirety

Massimo Faggioli

MassimoFaggioli

short thread on history and statuesDo some statues deserve to be toppled and removed? Of course. My father went to school in Italy when fascism was largely still a taboo

vanerdsa

vanerdsa1

On a serious note, specifically about international sex trafficking, anyone who is asking "How do they get away with it for so long?" Or looking for the underlying material conditions

Jason Call for Congress WA02 🌹

CallForCongress

ThreadThis campaign has raised about a total of $45k since we announced on 8/25/19Think about that. In contemporary terms it’s a paltry amount. It’s less than a day’s take for

Derek | The Hellenistic Age Podcast

HellenisticPod

Buddhism & Ancient Greece:One of the most interesting and cryptic topics regarding the Hellenistic period is the interactions between Buddhism and the Greek-speaking world. There are a number of interesting

Hetty's Star Sigil (she/ her)

ThistleVerse

I know I'm never going to read all the new releases I'm interested in during the year, but in reflecting on 2020, there were definitely books I wish I had

True Indology

TIinExile

Ha ha.Facts:Ertugrul was NOT a Muslim. He was a Pagan.Turkey makes purely fictional stories about Ertugrul, glorifying him as a Ghazi fighting crusaders & mongols.This idiotic PM & his nation

Nicolette D'Angelo

nicohhhlette

On what “burn it all down” really means, where it comes from, and why the predominant reactions to Sarah Bond’s original tweet from academics are willfully ignorant and reactionary. Thread.

Josh Rowley

joshmrowley

Reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer's WORLDLY PREACHING: LECTURES ON HOMILETICS. "The Christian religion as a religion is not of God. It is on the contrary another example of a mortal road to

Richard Toye

RichardToye

A thread on Paul Addison, The Road to 1945, and the "post-war consensus" debate.#twitterstorians Paul Addison’s The Road to 1945 (1975) was a seminal account of British politics during World

Christopher Ó Ruairc

Rourke199811

ok.this might annoy a few people but remote learning really isn’t so difficult.go ‘off curriculum’ and keep some •books on maths, English (Shakespeare!), human geography, and contemporary history.your child

Jeremy Giffon

jeremygiffon

A thread of incomplete theses I believe to be true as of of 06/15: If you have only vocational ends in mind, you probably shouldn’t go to college. There’s a

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