Tulsi Gabbard released a fundraising video in 2019 titled "Trump's Path To War With Iran"
"We've gotta stop Donald Trump from starting a war with Iran."
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Tulsi Gabbard released a fundraising video in 2019 titled "Trump's Path To War With Iran"
"We've gotta stop Donald Trump from starting a war with Iran."
This one hits hard.
Student uses AI to summarize readings, then feeds summary back into AI so it can write his term paper. Professor uses AI to grade the paper and then to write the student a recommendation. Employer uses AI to read the recommendation. Student is hired, and then soon replaced by AI. Whee!
Really dangerous. Do you want strangers on the street to look at you and immediately be told your name, profession, employer, religion, party affiliation—maybe your address and tax bracket? Meta claims it will strictly limit the features. Do you believe them?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Un #colloque sur le thème "De l’Amérique à la France : Beaumarchais et l’expérience des Révolutions" est organisé du 1er au 4 octobre 2026 au Musée de la Révolution française de Vizille.
Un appel à communications a été lancé : archibeau.hypotheses.org/de-lamerique...
New column: On Viewpoint Diversity.
davidabell.substack.com/p/on-viewpoi...
Thank you Jack.
My new column on the deteriorating Franco-American relationship: “We Are Not an American Colony.”
open.substack.com/pub/davidabe...
New column: "The Dumb-roe Doctrine"
davidabell.substack.com/p/the-dumb-r...
"I got up at 7.30, and while I breakfasted I read through a volume I had to review. By 10.30 the review was written — three-quarters of a column of the Evening Budget.” From a character in George Gissing's New Grub Street.
“They talk very loud, very fast, and all together. If they ask you a Question, before you can utter 3 Words of your Answer, they will break out upon you, again—and talk away.” John Adams, on New Yorkers, August 23, 1774.
New column. 2025: The Year of Trump?
davidabell.substack.com/p/2025-the-y...
Upcoming two-part graduate student conference at Princeton and Sciences-Po on "The French Revolution and the Sacred." Call for papers here:
fit.princeton.edu/events/frenc...
A new column of mine in the Chronicle of Higher Education, on the in-fighting at the American Historical Association:
www.chronicle.com/article/acad...
A few days before that, Mr. Roberts had appeared to throw the full weight of the Heritage Foundation onto one side of a bitter conservative family fight over the rise of the white nationalist Nick Fuentes. After the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson conducted a friendly interview with Mr. Fuentes, Mr. Roberts posted a video on social media that defended Mr. Carlson and called his critics “the globalist class” and a “venomous coalition.”
Perhaps the most damning words in this article are the claim that this is "a bitter conservative family fight" over the neo-Nazi, Nick Fuentes.
What does this say about the conservative family?
My newest review, of Lynn Hunt's "The Revolutionary Self," in The Nation:
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
New column: On grade inflation and university culture today.
davidabell.substack.com/p/no-a-for-e...
A new essay of mine on the situation in France: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
David A. Bell @davidavrombell.bsky.social on the Enlightenment and race
This is a welcome post about expertise, but even more so about the dangers of total suspicion and the nihilism it encourages. Thinking of societies fueled by total suspicion always gets me back to experiences in Russia recently, but also to close post-Soviet contacts. One story always returns 1/4
“Expertise is… a process, driven by trial and error. ʼBelieving in the scienceʼ doesn’t mean taking what scientists say at any moment as holy writ—the scientists themselves don’t do this. It means believing in the process and accepting that what is seen as truth today may look like error tomorrow.”
Do we need to "stop trusting the experts"?
davidabell.substack.com/p/do-we-need...
My newest piece for the NYRB, on William Max Nelson's excellent book on Enlightenment biopolitics:
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
My new column, on the political crises in France and the US.
open.substack.com/pub/davidabe...
Why the idea of “vaccine choice” is based on a dangerous misconception of what parents can control (by my better half):
www.wsj.com/health/why-v...
