🔊 Teaser out now! Introducing Roots and Branches - Host Selma Sondern explains what Intellectual History is, why it matters, and what to expect when we launch on 1 July 2025 with Prof Richard Whatmore.

Check out this opportunity for faculty to develop a class on 20th C Communism with UT Civic Leadership , Victims of Communism organized by my friend Flagg Taylor civicleadership.utexas.edu/events/teachin…

Good luck, manuscript. I hope editor finds nice reviewers for you. 🙏

Uh. Wut.

The sinking of the Titanic is a grandiose symbol... It is the sinking of the very idea of ​​progress: the perfection of technique is disturbed by the accident; bold optimism is replaced by panic, maximum luxury by destruction, automatism by CATASTROPHE. Ernst Jünger

"Progress." Hope, change, forward, etc., etc. #philosophyofhistory

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Welp.

The idea of progress helped build the world's first civilizations ~5,000 years ago. It is now driving global civilizational collapse. My book tells the history of this process. You can now preorder it at Bookshop.org for August 14 (in the UK William Collins Books)

Discursive essays in the humanities and social sciences??

So close!! That is a shape 💕 chicagotribune.com/2025/07/07/edi…

Niece and Nephew visited today. Niece starting at Purdue in the fall. Needs to take a foreign language. I told her to take Urdu: Urdu at pURDUe. Not currently an option. Told her to start a campaign for it. We'll see.

I'd like to propose a panel on progress/optimism for the International Network for Theory of History's next conference (May 2026 in Tallinn). Any cool people want to join? Abstracts due September 2025. inth.ugent.be/node/168605

Any *uncool* people want to join? 🧐

Was it you?