S. I. Rubinstein
@si_rubinstein
Roving historiographer. “Brevity is... wit." Слава Україні!
My Imperial History Trilogy, for @EngelsbergIdeas 👇
It’s a matter of intelligence as well as courage — Peel got a double first from Oxford in mathematics & classics. We have a severe personnel problem.
Interesting, isn't it, that under a markedly undemocratic system, a Prime Minister (Peel) responded to public opinion by repealing the Corn Laws in a way that a system with universal suffrage etc has not over one of the biggest issues of the current age (immigration)
the basic problem with this analysis of “even in Copenhagen people move to the suburbs when they have kids!” is that Copenhagen *suburbs* are significantly denser than most American *cities*
One of the tweets I got dragged for the most was when I tweeted that "dense walkability" was code for "we don't want you to have kids" but I was, of course, totally correct. (Both @mattyglesias and @Noahpinion had meltdowns.) Apartments are antinatal: ifstudies.org/blog/more-crow…
Wild that apparently a full quarter of Germany’s adult male aristocrats died in the First World War (source: Stephan Malinowski’s Nazis & Nobles)
The literary depth and disciplined reading habits of early 20th-century miners easily surpass those of many contemporary students, including some with English degrees.
Likewise, one implication of the recent, obviously partial, Wikipedia definition of Zionism is that Menachem Begin, who returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, wasn’t a Zionist.
The key thing to understand about Wikipedia is whatever small faction cares most about a topic, tends to control it.
Another one to add to the British public love a ban list, by a 3-1 margin people back banning the sale of slushies to children. Parents of young children are the most supportive.
Slushies unsafe for children under 7, watchdog warns bbc.in/3GScckL
Entitlement is destroying the UK. Entitlement of nimbys, triple locked pensioners, tax avoiding rich, welfare fraudsters, corporations rigging the regulatory system, militant unions. Take on all vested interests simultaneously. And call it patriotism thetimes.com/article/a92365…
"London and New York are in deep decline" Meanwhile the average Israeli city:
From here in Israel, really looks like London and New York are in deep decline. Is there any major city in Europe or America that's still thriving?
.@holland_tom wasn’t lying — what an excellent museum!
> "New" British party forms > It's actually just another pensioners-first, everyone else last party
Jeremy Corbyn, "People are fed up with seeing cuts to their services, threats to PIP, continuing child poverty, WASPI women shortchanged by the government" "The only thing this Labour government can find money for is more weapons of war"
I must say, I hadn't taken time until recently to appreciate what an impressive track record of cowardice Justin Weinberg has (@DailyNousEditor). What puzzles me now is that the grounds for hosting a discussion about essays like mine and @d_kodsi's are those that should be…
Justin Weinberg @DailyNousEditor is refusing to publish a discussion on the Kodsi and Maier piece because it does not "merit attention". I was reminded yesterday that he also published this 😆dailynous.com/2019/06/05/tra…
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I don’t think @johnmaier_ and I fully captured this dynamic in our essay. For reasons @dani_errs touches on, a common kneejerk response to mentioning trans is “how vulgar”. This by people whose aesthetic sense is functioning on about the level of the average graffiti artist’s.
Everybody wants transgenderism to be a subject that's beneath them to discuss. they want it to be resolved with a handful of trite cliches about inclusion, a few shallow acknowledgments that parts of it went too far too fast. They want it to be a low salience issue that can be…
I was dining at a Calgary ‘Dairy Queen’ when a song called ‘Anxiety’ started playing. We elder Zoomers, the sound of the Summer of Gotye still ringing in our ears, will be taken aback by just how ‘prominently’ it ‘samples’ ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’. How is this allowed?!
The conservatives just love drafting awful legislation and then being shocked when it’s used