My disdain for Matt Yglesias knows few bounds (the feeling is mutual, I may be the only person he's ever blocked on Twitter). However, as much as it bugs me that he took the Slow Boring handle for his Substack because he misses the point...
nostalgia
I personally loathe nostalgia in a quite visceral way. I legitimately feel that a huge part of my job as a historian is a war on nostalgia, especially in the.
I suppose nostalgia is part of the human condition. But if so, then the human condition serves a distinctly politically conservative agenda because nostalgia is a no good horrible thing.
(Being the first of many of these I'll be producing this summer.) With summer here and only some online teaching duties to attend to—meaning that I can put the 2½ hours I don't have to commute to and from campus to better use—I've decided to address...
I suppose you're going to see a lot of these today, and read fewer... Summer courses at the University of Washington end in late August, and Fall courses don't begin.