By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/04/2026Palmer wants her students to get a bone-deep understanding that while every moment has great forces bearing down on it, that the *people* of each moment have an enormous amount of leeway to channel the floodwaters that history will unleash. 17/ 1131 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/04/2026From the servant who bears a message from one great power to another, up to those great powers themselves, each person guides the course of history, even if they can't halt some of its outcomes. 18/ 170 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/04/2026Though Palmer unpacks this exercise and its meaning and results in the final part of her *magnum opus*, this message about forces and people is really the key to her historiography. 19/ 150 0
