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David Waldstreicher

@dwaldstreicher.bsky.social
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Historian, CUNY Graduate Center. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley (Farrar Straus & Giroux/ Picador), Slavery's Constitution, & Runaway America (Hill and Wang). More at www.bostonreview.net/authors/david-waldstreicher

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 22h
The subtext of this is: stop my brother, you're embarrassing my a$$imilation strategy. In two weeks Brooks will be calling him anti-Israel (on one network) and a bad Jew (in another venue).
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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 22h
has he said anything about all the republicans talking about communists (and antisemites) who aren't remotely? I doubt it.
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nobody beats The Wiz!
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I had it too, adding to the list (Bill Bradley, Walt Frazier basketball cards circa 1973?)
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Unexpected snapshot of the historiographical moment, from a (very fine) graduate student reaction paper: "the unexpected smallness of vast early America"
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Jon Ossoff is cool, convincing, and brutal. He reminds me of Cary Grant, only not slimy (ducks).
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
fall break was early there
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Gyms for our brains," you say?
Don Draper meme showing him presenting with the words "Hear me out...We call it 'The University'."
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/10/2026
The starting point for any discussion of declining public trust in higher education in the US has to be that since the McCarthy Era, the center-right has systematically misled the public about the purpose and practices of higher education as well as underfunded it.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026
Any discussion about declining "public trust" in higher ed needs to start with acknowledging that the default stance in media coverage of higher ed looks like this: bsky.app/profile/ashe...
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
zip code PSAs of the mid-70s still in my head. Ike Turner!
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not just impeachable. Impeachment, both pres. and agency heads, is the only option. It's impeachment or nothing. Courts won't stop it. Other tools are impotent. Put them on trial the only way you can. Even if you can't get 2/3, use process as punishment. Make it miserable and costly. It can be done.
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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 28/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/newr... they're coming for all of it, everything universities do
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My STEM-oriented son, 1st yr at a uni, is a great example. His high school ditched AP around when he arrived. Now has surprised his parents (both historians) by choosing Intro to World History as an elective his first semester. Anything could happen next!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please say this again...
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Front page news, Boston Globe: Ivy provost leading charge to infuse AI into higher ed discovered using AI in academic & public work w/out disclosure--an action for which a student could fail a course or worse. Free link: archive.is/JoJbA
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i keep thinking Greg’s work can’t keep getting better, bigger, clearer and then it does
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i have the same, with Madison, Hamilton... NOT.
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I neglected to thank @johnfea1.bsky.social for the summary and reposting. I hope there is something useful here even after all the press (and new books) the Dec has been getting recently. If and when I revise the piece, though, I will likely ad "the settler colonial way."
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
they are increasingly connecting the dots on who benefits when their cognitive capacities are stolen and the history of cultural production enclosed
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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
More on class-action suit against Columbia which my daughter is part of, including the news-to-me that CU (in the shameful tradition) actually hired Pinkerton thugs to crush their students’ peaceful protest. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/09...
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Pro-Palestinian student protesters sue Columbia over Butler protest crackdown
Three Columbia students filed a federal class action lawsuit Friday over the University’s handling of the May 7, 2025, pro-Palestinian protest at Butler Library, alleging Public Safety officers locked...
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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Excellent oped in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social by my @harvard.edu colleague Jill Lepore. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
But of course, the machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends. Not to mention, supervising student researchers is our job.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
After reading some of the recent pubs and discourse around US higher ed.… I should just stop right here. But here are the three major fallacies of much of what’s out there, three contexts that are missing, and the one big thing that is driving me around the bend (actually already there, but). 1/
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Daniel Rood’s work including recent (2nd, trade) book points in this direction — plantations as technology as well as political economy.
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Marina Moskowitz @profmoskowitz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At our first class, I asked students to write on a notecard, anonymously, if and how they use AI and why. One responded: ‘As someone in the humanities my job is to think, question & write—I can and should (and enjoy) do(ing) it. I don’t need a robot to do that for me.’ The kids are alright…
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Elder brother, younger sister: lots to prove.
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 03/09/2026
again, I appreciate that his glowering face is surrounded by the message that liberty died in 2026
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Anything but a PhD but must have an MA in publicfacingjargon.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 28/08/2026
BREAKING: A federal court granted voting rights groups’ emergency request to block USPS from implementing its newly finalized mail-ballot rule for the midterms. The rule would give USPS an unprecedented and illegal gatekeeping role in mail voting. The rules for mail voting remain the same.
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Federal Court Grants Emergency Relief Blocking USPS From Implementing Newly-Finalized Mail Ballot Rule For November Election
The temporary restraining order will remain in place for 14 days while the parties brief the pending motion for a preliminary injunction.
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I read everything MSB writes, Amar … not at all, not in a long long time.
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Can you give us the cites for the amar and bilder, they don’t sound familiar as articles— thanks.
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
did c17 give the west coffee and collars?
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A VIP shelf.
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
they’ll put it to a vote then do the opposite
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
we write about presidentialism because we too are in it, yes?
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Coincidentally, I am watching it for the first time because my daughter was curious and picked up a used copy of season one…. and i am finding it a tonic!
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Devastating.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“To the extent folks continue to be invested in a story of Founders worship around the text of the Constitution, it’s very difficult to convey how it’s precisely those arrangements that have facilitated the rise of an incredibly aggressive form of right-wing authoritarianism.” —Aziz Rana
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America at 250
A roundtable on the arc of U.S. history at the nation’s semiquincentennial with Adom Getachew, Aziz Rana, David Waldstreicher, and Nikhil Pal Singh.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Scott Jennings.
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
ah, then the plot thickens, as Wilson brings out the women and the enslaved in contrast to 20c translations (which even avoided the word "slave," I found). Here too a parable of contemporary cultural politics?
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I'd urge folks who are outraged by Emily Wilson's take to read the brilliant intro to her edition of The Odyssey. She's treating the movie as a very different, problematic, translation in a long tradition of them (& of snark among translators). Nolan didn't read it or didn't take hers seriously.
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Because they make the pants.
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Because they make the pants.
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Eleven Ways of Looking at the Declaration of Independence - if you're looking for something to read that is civic & historical but not too didactic I hope, and somewhat optimistic. New snazzy url: www.tc.columbia.edu/imaginingliberty/pdfs/eleven-ways-of-looking-at-the-declaration-of-independence/
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Eleven Ways of Looking at the Declaration of Independence
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