Theodora Dragostinova

@cornellupress.bsky.social, I am game, let’s play #StackandSave. Just a quick selection from my home office for the #BookSky challenge—so many wonderful books to choose from!

Thank you so much!

Thank you! And I am so grateful for your work, major inspiration!

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much!

Grateful for the opportunity, humbled by the quality of work out there, and energized to promote humanist perspectives on the world when we most need them!

The project title is “Spoils of War: The Repatriation of Children in the post-1918 Balkans”

Congratulations, well deserved!

Today (4/3/25) we learned that DOGE has begun terminating previously awarded NEH grants. We understand this includes operating grants to the state and jurisdictional humanities councils, scholarly societies, community orgs, & individuals.

Learn more & take action: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

I am so so sorry.

Ivan Krastev on how Europe should respond to the trumpian revolution, an appealing analysis—let’s see who the counterrevolutionaries are!
www.ft.com/content/3507...

Live updates: Trump cancels news conference with Zelensky after contentious Oval Office meeting The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.

“A correspondent for Tass, the Russian state-owned news agency, briefly gained access to the Oval Office of the White House on Friday… even as Reuters and the Associated Press were barred from entering the room.”

What else do you need to know?

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

When I teach the Cold War, I do an exercise: I give my students a variety of primary sources and ask them, what was the point of no return?

This episode will be on future syllabi, a prime example of a point of no return in the unraveling of America’s position in the global order.

Winston Churchill visiting the White House in 1942. Not wearing a suit. #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦

Europe makes me proud.
This is not just rhetoric, there are moments that really bring folks together, and this is one of them.

“You don’t hold the cards,” says Trump. To which Zelensky responds, “We are not playing cards.”

Nothing else to add, just what happens when bullies play war, call it peace, and want to make “deals” on the side.

It was all worth a try -- Macron, Starmer, etc. If anything this has clarified the "can NATO limp along" or "will Trump grudgingly support Ukraine" questions -- no and no. 2/

Looool

I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again).

"The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties.

#BTW25 #GermanElection

Election turnout at 83,5% - highest turnout since German reunification

Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia.

Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist.

Extraordinary.

I have personally been thinking about the concept of a “captive state” and will read this with interest.

Check out my colleague Elizabeth Dillenburg’s wonderful new book, Empire’s Daughters, among others below!

🚨 Europeans are shifting their view of the US. ECFR’s latest poll shows that most now see the US not as an “ally” but as a “necessary partner.” Even in Atlanticist strongholds like Poland & Denmark, perceptions have changed.

Read the full report 👇
https://buff.ly/4huJpjm

I’m taking bets that article is already on the syllabus! Not recent, but pair it with the work of Manon Pignot on French children? “Drawing the Great War” has examples of children’s school art from France, Russia, Germany.

I’d love to see your syllabus! Check out Ayse Parla’s “Hamlet after Genocide”.

800 written & 200+ oral testimonies against (8.5 hours) later, with barely 15 testimonies for, the GOP-controlled Senate passed it with few amendments.

Frankly, I have never been more motivated to teach my students critical thinking, civil society, dissent, protest, agency, etc.

You can count on an Eastern European woman to call it as it is: you can’t “make a deal” announcing concessions before the negotiations begin.

“Why are we giving them everything they want even before the negotiations have started? …
It’s appeasement. It has never worked.”

Exactly right! Was thinking I need to teach this topic again.

Commitment to “independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity” can be the only basis for peace and security in Europe, full stop.