1+ week, 1+ day ago   (620+ words) Germany’s war was lost by December 1941. And yet, Hitler refused to stop killing, sending millions to death. Who and how? That’s the lesson. The Wehrmacht stalled at Moscow, the United States entered, and the economic arithmetic that Adam Tooze later…...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago   (281+ words) flyingpenguin I was surprised, but not really, to find a book about the harms of information technology is pushing bad history. The history wasn’t written by a historian, in other words. Take this bit, for example. First, Socrates wrote nothing....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (391+ words) The plantation was the original demonstration that total ownership and total incapacity coexist. If you think that history clue sounds a lot like today’s techbro fascination with AI, then this post is for you. A new post called “Everything I…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (203+ words) Racist disinformation 101 time. A new poisonous “freedom” letter demonstrates that its drafters constructed a description of a racist case with the racial dimension removed, addressed to a rector who had spent March publicly handling exactly that. The drafters knew what…...