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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“Very liberal” and “very conservative” people are much more comfortable discussing controversial issues than moderates are.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“There is a certain mercy in the impression that he won’t perceive how those who elevated him saw him as a performing monkey. Still, it’s long past time for Anglophone academia to stop thinking that it’s immoral to evaluate black scholars on the basis of whether they are—get ready!—intelligent.”

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Jason Arday and Academia’s Self-Seeking Pursuit of Virtue

On both sides of the Atlantic, white professors think that suspending judgment when it comes to black scholars makes them good people.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Which college majors are the least religious?

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Some cruise reading. I’m getting ready to teach a homeschool co-op class on the Third Reich and Childers offers a great overview.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

$20.8 million opening weekend! Glad I could contribute.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Empires by geographical size and duration.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I’m in the “was, but not now” camp.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I bought every seat in a 60-seat theater to treat my homeschool co-op to an opening day showing of Young Washington. I’m spending four times as much to take my family to Hamilton at the Majestic in San Antonio.

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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Flash sale! Feeding Washington's Army for only $17.76! uncpress.org/250-2/

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A solid film. It got Washington right—his overweening ambition and self-promotion, his hot temper, his complex relationship with his mother, and how repeated failure shaped his character.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

American fascist sympathy was not confined to the fringe; it imbued our elite institutions. Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Virginia were especially pro-fascist, and German departments across the country were hotbeds of Nazism.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

RIP to Gordon S. Wood, one of the great historians of the American founding.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Getting ready to teach George Washington’s 1753 mission to Fort Le Boeuf for my Young George Washington class. The 21-year-old Washington carried Virginia Governor Dinwiddie’s demand that the French leave the Ohio Valley.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The Army is introducing a new combat fitness test for all combat arms soldiers. They will have 30 minutes to complete a seven-event sequence performed continuously and scored on total time. Individual events are not timed separately, and the test is pass/fail.

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US Army announces new Combat Field Test to enhance Soldier readiness

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Was Charlie Kirk was irreplaceable? As a leader of a center-right movement, his death risks doing to the right what the assassinations of MLK Jr. and RFK did to the left in the 1960s: shattering a moderating consensus and opening the door to radical takeover. nymag.com/intelligence...

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The Takeover of Kirk Country

How the dark forces of conspiracism remade MAGA’s youth movement.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

DEI advocates often framed their initiatives as necessary to attract female and nonwhite recruits. Today’s evidence contradicts that self-serving view. Female recruitment is up from 16,725 in 2024 to 23,985 in 2025. apple.news/ARRaOkZdWTSG...

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Opinion | How DEI Caused a Military Recruitment Crisis — The Wall Street Journal

The Biden administration discouraged white recruits. Secretary Hegseth’s ‘reset’ invites everyone to serve.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Incredible, and they say X is a nasty place 😆

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

At 0800 on this day in 1776, George Washington led a daring attack on a Hessian brigade at Trenton, reviving the American cause at its darkest hour.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

“How to create work for future art conservators and historical preservationists.”

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How to Make Art Out of Confederate Monuments

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Meatballs for the homeschool formal potluck!

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

“Awful people” is the problem.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Debate, not violence. Charlie Kirk exemplified the ethos of open debate in a free society.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

As a father, I owe it to my daughters to teach them how to responsibly avoid these situations.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Eight months on and this has been quite predictive.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

There is something about riding on public transportation that renders people catatonic and stupid. A bovine lethargy sets in once people are seated and they become inattentive and inert.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Joe’s hitting on the cougars again.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Forcing kids to learn is a bad model.

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Jonathan Rolfe @jonathanrolfe.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Uh oh. How did Hegseth’s tattoo end up here?

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