Even if it is a "mistake," it can still be a war crime. A person who acts recklessly in causing disproportionate civilian deaths can be found to have acted “wilfully” and thus responsible for a war crime.
Read "'Mistakes' in War": papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
-Uses traditional elites to secure power;
-Imposes autarkic forms of economic control;
-Deploys paramilitary at home ;
-Creates a cult of an infallible Leader;
And — you guessed it—
*Promises redemption via violence/conquest/struggle.*
Btw, Fascism:
-Emphasizes the threat to the nation from within and without;
-Proposes to cleanse the nation of “enemy/ other”;
-Glorifies an imagined “lost” past of national greatness;
-Seeks an anti-democratic one-party state;
-Demands control of media/culture/universities;
Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.
Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.
Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:
I need a couple books on the origins of the New Deal. Is there much on tha…
🗃️Read Elizabeth R. Varon on why J.D. Vance is wrong about the Civil War, immigration, and “real” Americans. www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/elev...
Still waiting
Graduation speeches in the 1930s were 🔥
Woah 🔥!
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
Tim Naftali's tweet on the termination of the HAC members without cause.
Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/
I am fortunate to be part of this great group of colleagues and phd students in our (entirely voluntary and casual) seminar on 20th C international history. Great discussion on Berlin as a site of decolonization!
“Almost the first freedom to be destroyed, as dictators take control, is the freedom of learning. Tyranny hates and fears nothing more than the free exchange of ideas.”
Franklin Roosevelt, Oct 5, 1940.
In 1940, the presidents of Yale, Columbia, and Harvard urged the government and country to fight fascism. It was national news.
Lovely convo with my grad students this week, riffing with them about how to plot a book on decolonization and the Cold War. Dreadful chalk scribbles but fun intellectual exercise.
Sometimes old books can suddenly seem new again.
Fortune mag, March 1940. 65% say government should care for needy even if it means more taxes or higher prices.
Look, it was never about prices. Sure, millions of people spoke those words but this is how ideology operates: it provides you with believable nonsense so you can hide your racism, sexism, and xenophobia behind happy stories about egg prices.
Word of the moment, used during the Nazi merging of the party w the state in 1933-35:
*Gleichschaltung*
gleich (same)
schaltung (circuit):
All switches are put on the same circuit, allowing them all to be activated by throwing a single master switch.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
Happy birthday FDR! Your New Deal state survived almost a century but some very bad people you would call “economic royalists” are going to destroy it from within.
Well… the jury is still out on whether we beat the Confederates and the Nazis! They seem to be thriving tbh
History doesn’t repeat itself but sometimes it rhymes with Mussolini.
Read up on Italy from 1922 to 1926 for a preview of coming attractions.
Now do History.
Sam, this Quincy brief you joined is non-sensical. It proposes Trump’s global grift over the “system” we’ve got now. I get you want an end to imperial overstretch. But why not envision that within intl law? Instead you embrace Trumpian nihilism and say “hey let’s give it a try! Silver lining!” Sad!
Can confirm
My colleague and podcast cohost @sivav.bsky.social has written an excellent piece here about the global rejection of liberal democracy. Brief and insightful! Have a look:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reading about the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany? This sheet pan Black Forest cake will make you feel like you were there.
Similarly, in Virginia, Democrat Suhas Subramanyan and Republican John McGuire are moving to the U.S. House from the state Senate, which is currently split 21 to 19 in Democrats’ favor. The race to replace Subramanyan in District 32nd is more likely to be competitive, according to The Downballot, giving the GOP a chance to tie the chamber in a Jan. 7 special election; a tie would effectively hand Republicans the majority since the GOP lieutenant governor would have the power to break ties. In mid-November, Democrats chose state Delegate Kannan Srinivasan to run in this race. This triggered another Jan. 7 special election, this time in District 26, Srinivasan’s blue-leaning House seat. Democrats’ control of the lower chamber is just as narrow—51 to 49—so the GOP will have an outside shot at tying the House as well.
We're just 48 hours from the special elections that will decide whether Dems keep their majorities in the Virginia Senate & Virginia House boltsmag.org/legislative-...
