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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Thrilled and excited to dive into the new book as a Carnegie Fellow! @carnegie.org #CarnegieFellows

Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Kate Masur and Greg Downs break it down. A must-read. Jan. 6 and the Long Shadow of Civil War- and Reconstruction-Era Political Violence talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/jan-6-a...

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Jan. 6 and the Long Shadow of Civil War- and Reconstruction-Era Political Violence

Two days after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, we...

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Being name-checked in a review of the great Eric Foner’s latest would be nicer if, you know, the reviewer didn’t wildly mischaracterize my view of Reconstruction.

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A Foremost Scholar of Slavery Wonders if America Can Ever Atone

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

It is just too absolutely freaking on the nose that the newly elected member of the Harvard Corporation is a partner at (drumroll) Paul Weiss.

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Breaking: NYU revokes Olmert's diploma.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Whatever hype you are reading now about powerful people will almost certainly turn out to be bullshit

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

A ray of light on the "kids these days" front: the students in my undergraduate course on slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction liked the long, scholarly readings the best - Foner's short(est) Reconstruction, Taylor's Embattled Freedom.

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

"Science Fiction is for people who can't face reality."

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Dept. of Joy: If you have the slightest fondness for Sharon Van Etten (or PJ Harvey or St Vincent or Patti herself) do yourself a favor and catch Sharon and her band on tour. My kid’s Xmas present to me and what a gift it was.

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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This is a shockingly mistaken understanding of due process by Stephen Miller. It is likely this misunderstanding that is informing the President’s misunderstanding.

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Can they not even hear themselves over the "both sides"?

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

"The Constitution, all of the sudden, out of nowhere, has words."

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

If by "holding power to account" you mean "killing the Pulitzer Prize-winner's cartoon because it criticized the paper's owner," sure.

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Article II, Section 3: the president "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Oath of office: I "will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This is exactly what my syllabus warning on LLMs says, quoting Frankfurt.

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Sara B. @saraboboltz.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines”
Subheader:
“In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

So just to recap, the Transportation Secretary is scared shitless of public transport. The Education Secretary is being sued for enabling child sex abuse. The Health Secretary is bringing back measles. And the Defense Secretary is texting classified war plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

UVA being number 1 on this "campus free speech" list, when you had a former board member successfully lobby to suspend campus tours that addresses UVA's history w slavery, is evidence of how idiosyncratic and right-wing-coded the cosponsoring organizations' definition of "free speech" really is.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Two Naval Academy faculty members have resigned, and 18 more have taken early retirement. One was offered a place of honor at the annual dedication parade. He declined, telling the academy’s superintendent:

He cited a line all incoming students had to memorize when he began his studies there 55 years ago: “Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.”

“No matter what you have done before,” he wrote, “your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’”

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

"I am hereby reinstating" but it's Michael Scott yelling "bankruptcy!"

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

"They don't know how the economy works, and they won't obey the law."

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Ezra's opening started in on illiberalism and I thought "yeah fine, but maybe he should have Steve Hahn on to talk about this" so apologies to the dogwalkers terrified by my sudden cackle when he introduced his guest.

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Courage is contagious. Markey's not running for president, and he's not going to face a primary. This is because Van Hollen, Frost, et al. set a good example.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

passive voice, no less

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

We are in a dire place when this tiniest truth feels profound.

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Administration blather and the wishful thinking of right-wing scholars cannot disguise what Bethany Berger and Greg Ablavsky eloquently demonstrate here: "subject to the jurisdiction" means just what we think it does, and the history of Indian Law supports rather than undermines that meaning.

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

"...abandon all the concerns—rankings, donors, campus amenities—that preoccupy and distract them, and focus on their core mission: the production and dissemination of knowledge. Intellectuals have adopted this strategy to fight against autocrats in other countries. It works." tinyurl.com/yc54ptwt

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Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare

It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

"The [gov't] has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government’s contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run

The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This is a picture of a man who cannot bring himself to understand that he holds his office so that Trump can humiliate him at whatever moment suits him.

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A few years ago, the teenager in my household introduced me to the species of evil that is Andrew Tate, after the boys in her class tried to put his picture on their classroom door. Thanks to the Republican administration, he's out from under criminal investigation, and in the U.S.

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Male influencer Andrew Tate and his brother, facing sex crime inquiries, arrive in Florida from Romania

Male influencer Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist, arrives in Florida.

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

If there were an outbreak of the Black Death tomorrow, Trump would tweet "DEI!," RFK would fire all the rat-catchers, and Musk would demand a trillion-dollar contract to ship a saving remnant to Mars.

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Not unsubscribing (yet). But from this day forward no one should ever repost or even acknowledge the existence of the WaPo "opinion" page.

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Behold, anti-semitism's self-proclaimed nemesis, approvingly citing an infamous racist (published on her "free speech" platform) "contextualizing" Nazi salutes.

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

So many reasons to be grateful for Roberta Flack. For me, nothing tops this:

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YouTube video by Roberta Flack - Topic

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Someone please tell me who said "If you're not threatened to your very bones, you're not in a coalition" because we are going to need this coalition.

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Sassoon clerked for Scalia and is a Federalist Society member. In a moment when most movement conservatives will prove faithless to the rule of law, her resignation offers the hope that some will not comply.

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Hey Google, what will you do when Trump tells you to re-label the map "Judea and Samaria"?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/02/2025

this stuff makes perfect sense when you understand that these people have a slaveholder’s ideology and believe that liberty means the freedom to dominate others

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

"Stephen Kantrowitz [ @skantrow.bsky.social ], a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote 'Citizens of a Stolen Land,' chronicling this history and the creative ways that Ho-Chunk resisted removal through claiming land ownership and U.S. citizenship."-via Wisconsin Public Radio

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Ho-Chunk are part of Wisconsin’s living history

The Ho-Chunk Nation Museum and Cultural Center in Tomah seeks to preserve and promote the tribe's history and culture. "If it weren’t for Ho-Chunk people, we wouldn’t have the state as it exists today...

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Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This opinion piece, by a member of the board of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, describes Gazans as "fundamentally evil" and "collectively guilty." What the board does in response will tell us what it understands the lessons of the Shoah to be. www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...

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Let Donald Trump make Gaza great again - opinion

If he receives the international support he deserves, President Trump will succeed at making Gaza great again.

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