Also, thanks to the guy who was sitting near the window at Cambridge wine merchants today and let me pet his cocker spaniel Dottie, who he said recently retied from hunting pheasants.
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Had a lovely time speaking at Cambridge University todayThanks to Celia Donert for organizing and to Helena Trenkic (who is finishing what sounds like a spectacular dissertation on self determination debates in 20th century Yugoslavia) for her thoughtful and generous comments.
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The new NEH guidelines, distilled.
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Love that at the Cambridge University press bookshop in Cambridge United States is a subdivision of area studies.
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i once did an AHA interview for a school in Nebraska where one dude was running two search committees. Just one dude in the hotel room by himself. When I showed up to the door, he was wearing an actual bathrobe and interviewed me while sitting on the edge of the bed.
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
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This happened to me once at the AHA, but it was for a school in Nebraska where one dude was running two search committees.Just one dude in the hotel room by himself. When I showed up to the door, he was wearing an actual bathrobe and interviewed me while sitting on the edge of the bed.
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I mean Fetterman would vote yes just in the hopes that some Palestinians living in Venezuela would get killed.
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An auspicious start to my visit to the United Kingdom. All the trains running from Heathrow Airport are shut down.
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Operation small dick energy
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An insufferable reactionary masquerading as a liberal public intellectual.
