Gemma La Guardia Gluck (1881 – 1962). Sister of legendary NYC New Deal Mayor, Fiorello La Guardia, lived transatlantic life: settling in Budapest -> arrested
RT @Uptheleft: @adam_tooze A local fave for accompying 🦞, which local fishermen had to eat in abundance (so I was told).
RT @DEHEdgerton: The political economy of covid vaccine as a trial run for the future. Can global capitalism do it? Seriously though-provok…
New stuff out this week: The Vaccine Race for @ForeignPolicy World Order, Then And Now With The ChinaTalk Podcast @jordanschnyc Review of Daniel Yergin’s New
Yesterday we discovered the utterly extraordinary Nicholas Roerich house museum on the UWS! Russian artist, Diaghilev-collaborator, globe-trotting explorer, syncretic spiritualist and peace activist. If in
RT @AntonJaegermm: Wow twitter.com/MartinKulldorf… https://t.co/osI20Q5UNZ
RT @MartinKulldorff: In the United States, there is a now second front against lockdowns, from the left. Together with fellow Harvard infec…
Military history of mayonnaise: after French invasion of Menorca in 1756, Duke Richelieu acquired taste for local dressing made of eggs and olive oil. He
Space race (benchmarked by GDP) cost $700bn F35 prog initial cost = c. $700bn COVID Vaccine Operation Warp speed = $10bn. I wrote on the
RT @AntonJaegermm: Weber on Chicago: "The whole gigantic city . . . is like a man whose skin has been peeled off and whose entrails
Thank you @sebastianveghk A really choice endorsement this. Check out Sebastian's work for brilliantly insightful writing about China’s intellectual and political history. twitter.com/sebastianveghk…
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich Collage From the personal estate of Bernhard Wicki invaluable.com/auction-lot/du… https://t.co/Btz2cWMNaO
When a billionaire starts selling off his Richter's and his Gulfstream it creates waves! bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/nVQSuD4PaG
Following diplomatic tie up, Dubai and Tel Aviv, two of the world’s biggest diamond-trading hubs, agree to share expertise, open reciprocal offices and promote regional
RT @sebastianveghk: Very thought-provoking discussion, predictably enjoyed the part on C Schmitt and China; the limits of Schmitt's usefuln…
I didn’t know that noted Swiss author of the postwar period Friedrich Dürrenmatt also painted throughout his life! worldradio.ch/article/art-se… https://t.co/eCM8W0CSke
RT @AlexValchyshen: @adam_tooze: “progressive voices all over the world are arguing” = @FadhelKaboub @nssylla #MMT twitter.com/gustavahorn/st…
RT @SchwabeHenning: @adam_tooze rephrased @dhofstetter_x‘s #transition_capital as #anthropocenic_utilities to regenerate public goods v…
RT @i_aldasoro: Immunization to COVID-19 is supposed to solve our problems—but it's starting to trigger even bigger ones. https://t.co/s2GS…
RT @RPJSmith: @SDinPraxis @adam_tooze What an excellent and thought provoking article. As an accompanying piece (and VPN permitting) listen…
RT @soxgnasher: A view across the Thames of the City waterfront taken from a multi-storey stable building close to Southwark Bridge, c. 193…
@gitagovinda @jwassers @dbessner @ASPertierra Its kinda anachronistic to characterize any of the folks in these UK cohorts in terms of their “lack” of a PhD.
RT @clemente3000: The TDN-1 was a remote-controlled assault drone developed by the U.S. Navy in 1942 designed to operate from carriers and…
RT @SDinPraxis: Long read👇 "Each crisis will demand a combination of far-reaching responses-political, economic, social, cultural, & techni…
RT @rgpoulussen: One of the most moving pictures of Market Garden for me. Men signaling to transport planes. In vain, most of the supplies…
@count3rmeasure @dbessner @ASPertierra Oh dont misunderstand me, the problem was NOT Skinner!
@count3rmeasure @dbessner @ASPertierra In my time it was still a matter for discussion within the Cambridge Faculty: whether senior folks without PhDs were really best
@guess_got @yeselson @dbessner @ASPertierra Jack Plumb, a key figure in postwar Cambridge, got one in 1936. But it was apparently the only time his supervisor,
RT @bucephalus424: @ASPertierra @adam_tooze @dbessner Timothy Garton Ash doesn't have one either, though he did earn his bones through his…
RT @yeselson: @adam_tooze @dbessner @ASPertierra Or Edward Thompson.
RT @sk8asd123: @adam_tooze @ForeignPolicy I came to this tweet expecting a lot of comments. This article is spectacular and I don't even ag…
@dbessner @ASPertierra PhD became essential stepping stone in UK academic careers only in 1970s. Neither Schama nor Quentin Skinner did one. Check out "100 Years
Immunization to COVID-19 is supposed to solve our problems—but it’s starting to trigger even bigger ones. Faced with a pandemic that paralyzed the world, a
RT @olgatuleninova: Carl Vilhelm Holsøe (1863-1935) https://t.co/KfzzqXsZbF
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