C. E. Aubin?
@ceaubin
"A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian • Historian of Nazis & America @Yale • Host of @ThisGuySucked • THE HOMELAND @CambridgeUP • rep: @rebeccalitagent •
Reed college vindicated against all odd for refusing to ever open a “CS Department” and forcing every major to read the illiad
I am genuinely amazed at how quickly computer science has gone from being the generic major on campuses to something that pretty much no incoming student has any interest in majoring in.
Not sure why dunking on revered historical figures is so delightful. This Alexander the Great episode was a blast.
NEW @ThisGuySucked EPISODE: the wonderful Patrick Wyman @Patrick_Wyman on Alexander the Great — a guy who mostly just wanted to slam booze with his buddies and pretend to be Achilles, and didn’t care how many thousands of people died in the process. 👎
NEW @ThisGuySucked EPISODE: the wonderful Patrick Wyman @Patrick_Wyman on Alexander the Great — a guy who mostly just wanted to slam booze with his buddies and pretend to be Achilles, and didn’t care how many thousands of people died in the process. 👎
The White House’s discretionary budget includes a 93% cut to the Appalachian Regional Commission. This will be devastating to a region that is already falling behind the rest of the country.
Extremely important to recognize that Trump is the excuse, not the cause
The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.
Education is now about meeting students where they are instead of showing them where they need to be. Much follows from this.
Spent the weekend rectifying some glaring omissions in my vinyl collection
THURSDAY ON @ThisGuySucked: Everybody’s favorite history podcaster Patrick Wyman @Patrick_Wyman joins me to talk about a war junkie who was willing to sacrifice basically everyone on earth to get his fix. How fun!
They're reinventing the amphora
Japanese design firm Kenji Abe has designed a glass beer bottle that you can stick into the sand on the beach
Phillies debut the “Coldplay Kiss Cam”. Wait for it…
NEW @ThisGuySucked EPISODE: Kevin Schultz tells me all about Spiro Agnew, a guy so addicted to doing illegal stuff that he fumbled the literal presidency. Oof.
andrea gibson, from "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down."