The Pudding
Identifying Generational Gaps in Music
3 min · · Do you recognize songs from history more than people your age? · Shared by 194, including Joss Fong ❌, luis antónio santos, Neil Hart 💙, Matt Daniels, Joe Lencioni, ̗̀ ̗̀Manuel Marquina, Colin Wright, LoriBeth
HistoryExtra
12 Podcast Episodes About Medieval History You Won't Want To Miss
2 min · · What have you always wanted to know about medieval history? The chances are that your questions about life in the Middle Ages will be covered by these episodes of HistoryExtra podcast. From Katherine… · Shared by 53, including Marc Morris, LoriBeth, dewang mishra
The Atlantic
History Will Judge the Complicit
20+ min · · Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president? · Shared by 542, including Klaus Eck, Simon Kuper, Brian Stelter, Benedict Evans, Craig Spencer MD MPH, Jay Rosen, Andy Budd, Bill Hanage, Richard Dawkins, John Koetsier, Paul Graham, Anne Applebaum, Matt Zoller Seitz, Jeff Atwood, Brent Toderian, Alfie Kohn, Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈🗽🌹, Anne Thompson, Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡, Kai Kupferschmidt
The Washington Post
Analysis | The unluckiest generation in U.S. history
5 min · · They've had the worst economic luck in U.S. history. many Millennials will never recover. · Shared by 77, including Stefanie O'Connell Rodriguez, Max Roser, Walter Hickey, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Lam Thuy Vo, LoriBeth, Ste Davies, Johannes Lenz, Christina Farr, Michelle Singletary, Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯, Guy Kawasaki, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), 💥 Katie Martell, Karen McGrane
CBS News
Greenwood, 1921: One of the worst race massacres in American history
7 min · · In 1921, a thriving black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, burned, leaving hundreds dead. · Shared by 64, including Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, Mkay, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Rick Powell, LoriBeth, Michael Hyatt
The New Yorker
The History That James Baldwin Wanted America To See
5 min · · For Baldwin, the past had always been bent in service of a lie. Could a true story be told? · Shared by 247, including Clint Smith, LoriBeth, Hiroko Tabuchi, euthyphro.bsky.social
Aeon+Psyche
Carl Schmitt’s legal theory legitimises the rule of the strongman
12+ min · · Demagogues do not rise on popular feeling alone but on the constitutional ideas of Weimar and Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmitt · Shared by 157, including Jochen Burkhard, LoriBeth, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Matthias Lampe, Anita Leirfall, ExApologist
NBC News
Did you learn about Juneteenth in school? Many Americans don’t. Educators explain why.
5 min · · On the eve of Juneteenth, educators said the history of systemic racism in this country and the contributions of Black people have been erased. · Shared by 165, including Mike Allton, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, LoriBeth, 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙯 💡, Be A King
Boston Review
The Unfinished Project of Enlightenment
20+ min · · In a sweeping new history of Western philosophy, Jürgen Habermas narrates the progess of humanity through the unfolding of public reason. Missing from that story are the systems of violence and… · Shared by 377, including Liam Bright, LoriBeth, John Tasioulas, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Miguel Angel Escotet, Matthias Lampe, Jason Stanley, Robert Lepenies, Howard Getson
The Atlantic
This Is How Democracy Dies
5 min · · A court ruling against the Philippine journalist Maria Ressa illustrates the erosion of democratic norms, the corruption of institutions, and the compromises of decision makers. · Shared by 146, including LoriBeth, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), Mathew Ingram
Vox
Will he go?
10 min · · A law professor fears a meltdown this November. · Shared by 118, including Christian Fahrenbach, Jay Rosen, Steve Silberman, Ezra Klein, Jacqui Lough, Joe Peach, LoriBeth, Stephanie A Kowalski, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Josh Bernoff, William Gibson
The New Yorker
How Chris Hayes Makes Sense of the “World-Historical Cataclysm”
4 min · · The MSNBC host discusses #FireChrisHayes, how the coronavirus has changed the news environment, why Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic-primary race to Joe Biden, and recent upheavals at NBC News. · Shared by 35, including Akilah Hughes, Chris Sacca 🇺🇸, Jay Rosen, LoriBeth, Carly, Kevin M. Kruse
Open Culture
Bertrand Russell Remembers His Face-to-Face Encounter with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
3 min · · When the Bolsheviks seized control of Russia in the October Revolution of 1917, Bertrand Russell saw it as "one of the great heroic events of the world's history." A renowned philosopher and… · Shared by 80, including LoriBeth, Thomas Power, Luzius Meisser, Matthias Lampe, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine