Come join me in the Austin College History department! Hiring a tenure-track Latin Americanist, so apply/spread the word!
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Felix Harcourt
@felixh.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of History. English transplant to Texas.
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"General sense of doom."
First Faculty Meeting of the Year Bingo
First Faculty Meeting of the Year Bingo
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We really just speedran the process back to segregation, huh?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...
The Founders of This New Development Say You Must Be White to Live There
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Absolutely outstanding drawing of a historian at work from @charliejane.bsky.social in my much awaited copy of Lessons in Magic and Disaster!
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The guy who wrote this has written for Quillette and The American Spectator and, if you google his name, you won't be surprised by any of it.
In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities.
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
Unyoke the Sciences From the Humanities
Arts and sciences typically cohabitate. Should they?
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I think this is all true, but I also think about the number of people who have assumed my PhD (in history) took a long time because it takes that long to memorize all those facts. They eschew skill building, of course, but also confuse knowledge accumulation/regurgitation with knowledge production.
Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.
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Anyone have any recommendations for longform pieces on Alex Jones and/or Sandy Hook truthers?
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Since there seems to be some confusion, Tom Lehrer discussed his invention of the Jello shot in a January 1, 1984 interview with the Boston Globe:
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Adjunct professors face low pay and few benefits even though they play an invaluable role at colleges and universities.
Today, I led my colleagues in reintroducing legislation that would make it easier for adjunct faculty to qualify for PSLF and the debt relief they deserve.
