Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 23hYou’re suggesting that the GOP might be Cooked in the midterms? 000 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Is this perhaps a misreading of Blight’s Race and Reunion? 100 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Musgraves has an album out this year: Middle of Nowhere. “Dry Spell” was the first single off it. youtu.be/NlohfwTunwU?...youtu.beKacey Musgraves - Dry Spell (Official Music Video)YouTube video by KaceyMusgravesVEVO 110 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I still remember that his first regular season rookie play (against the Rams!) was a fumble. 000 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Philip was in the Burgundian and Habsburg namengut, and there were a lot of things them, like Philip the Bold. 000 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 10/10/2026And let’s not forgot Van Buren’s 1848 Free Soil candidacy. According to a paper at an APHC panel this June, Van Buren thought that the 12th Amendment gave him a chance. 110 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I spend much of my adult life in Minneapolis and frequently went to events in the heavily Somali-American Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. 010 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026What’s the context of that quote? Obviously it was in the wake of Gettysburg’s horrific casualties, but hadn’t the Public Ledger been siding with the Copperheads? 000 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026He’ll regret it when his efforts fall flat because the turned stones have become stumbling blocks. 000 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Yes, “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...usccb.orgUSCCB President Condemns Plans for Livestream of Fort Hood Shooter's Execution as ‘a Barbaric Promotion of a Culture of Death’“In no way can Hassan’s actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.”... 000 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Their defense of brand identity and IP is legendary. 000 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And I think (but you would probably know better), that the general consensus is that the founders were influenced by both liberalism and republicanism. But I understand why you didn’t want to wade into that debate and consider a political philosophy that doesn’t neatly slot in to your overview. 010 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And I forgot to mention that my grasp of the founders is tenuous. I’m aware of the literature but have mostly read it with an eye to how their political ideas influenced the antebellum era. 100 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Finally, I’m sure that you know that the 1850s were politically quite messy. 200 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Second, it’s difficult to say when the Republicans became the conservative party (in the modern sense). You see it becoming increasingly pro-business by the 1880s. Also, Progressivism isn’t uniformly liberal (in the modern sense), and not all Republicans could be labeled as such. 100 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Republicanism continued to be influential into the 19th century, animating the Whig party and becoming an important part of artisan and labor culture. 100 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Now that I know what you’re trying to do with these pieces, I won’t be too critical, but there’s a few things I’d like to add. First, there is a lively debate among historians about the extent to which the founding generation was inspired by classical liberalism or classical republicanism. 100 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026St. Joseph working on a mouse trap is also a fascinating detail of this triptych. 010 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026That yoghurt had *live* cultures! What happened to the sanctity of life? 000 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Which is what I try to apply to the Know Nothings (and hope that my antebellum Irish ancestors forgive me). 000 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Although you need to be able to understand why its proponents would have justified it, which i feel requires a hermeneutics of charity. 100 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Of course there’s no standing. If the hens laid while standing, the eggs would break. Duh! 000 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I was just discussing this cover with NPR Music’s Lars Gotrich. bsky.app/profile/phil... 000 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It’s a great location and @lmchervinsky.bsky.social is a fantastic host. This year’s APHC held its opening plenary there. 020 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026And to get from Athens and Rome to London, you need to go through Florentine republican thinkers like Guicciardini and Machiavelli. Harrington and the English political theorists who followed him were heavily indebted. 011 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Quite often; I’ve seen statistical analysis of people broken down by sex and wealth. 000 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Iran might also have learned from the first phase of Operation Rising Lion. 010 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Will you do it again, or was it a flash in the pan? 130 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You’re such a yolkster. Of course, people are shelling out for plenty of other grocery items. 000 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Nicomachean Ethics is outstanding and is central to Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics. I would have guessed that you were reading Aristotle’s Rhetoric. Gadamer’s use of phronesis in Truth and Method was fundamentally rhetorical, though. 100 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Quite a contrast from photos like the classic one of Eugene Debs. It’s what I imagine when reading Charles Woolbert’s description of the public speaking graduate, “in action, elevated upon a public platform … giving forth vital ideas and feelings to the people before him.” 000 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026So you’re one of those Marxist historians. Do you view history as being driven by class clown struggle? 100 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There’s a line in Peter Murphy’s “Cuts You Up” that offers good advice for the historian: “look for what seems out of place.” And Bronski Beat’s “Smaltown Boy” reminds me not to romanticize antebellum rural towns. 000 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you haven’t already, you should read Wittgenstein’s Vienna. Janik and Toulmin argue thatHabsburg-maxxing sometimes led in other directions. 001 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Others might see more optimistic best-case scenarios, but I have trouble with them. The AI capital expenditure (as a percentage of GDP) exceeds that of the 1870-1890 railway boom. I’d see that as a worrying sign even if I weren’t currently reading Liaquat Ahamed’s 1873. 000 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I’d say that the best realistic scenario is something like the dot com crash: a minor downturn in financial markets that leaves the US with a fantastic build-out of IT infrastructure. Employment will continue to be flat, with some sectors facing significant job losses. 100 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That’s overly pessimistic, at least for the best-case scenario. I’m not an economist, but I do have graduate economic and financial training, not to mention decades of observing the economy with a generally bearish outlook. I’ve learned that the diversity of the US economy makes it fairly robust. 100 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Although it’s printed in candy apple grey, not copper blue. 010 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When I presented a paper at a National Communication Association conference, I did so extemporaneously, only to find out that everyone else read their papers. My paper was about the importance of extemporaneous speech to the creation of Speech as a separate discipline and to the NCA’s founding. 000 0
Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Campaigning under the banner of the new Union Party wasn’t a bad idea, I just wish he’d picked a better former Democrat as running mate. 010 0