Ugh, I'm on sabbatical. Why did I wander into a hornets' nest of online academics?!

And finally, who were the Pilgrims, and how did their early interactions with Indigenous peoples help create the Thanksgiving story? Rebecca Fraser joined us to explain the origins of the Mayflower passengers. #BFW #VastEarlyAmerica @lizcovart.bsky.social

In our newest episode, Michael Wise reveals the food systems and agricultural practices of North America’s Indigenous peoples. #BFW #VastEarlyAmerica @lizcovart.bsky.social

Part 2 of The World of the Wampanoag explores the period after English colonists landed near the Native village of Patuxet. #BFW #VastEarlyAmerica @lizcovart.bsky.social

This feels like a metaphor for academia, and all the more so if the guilty party is now an associate dean.

That definitely has a regular crowd that shuffles in.

I always enjoy well-chosen epigraphs even though--like most readers--I probably don't give them enough of my time and focus!

More positive vision of #America250. And his analysis centers a longstanding debate about what makes an American. There’s an opening here around which many can rally. (Also: note that in the WSJ comments he’s lambasted for being too woke in the essay…) /end

Fails when he tries to map his analysis of ideas and ideology onto social realities that are far too complicated to bear the burden. But: his analysis of the ideas (and coming broadly from the right as the piece is adapted from an AEI award ceremony speech) offers hints of how to offer a /3

It has some jarring and deeply upsetting notes—a call for capping the foreign-born population of a nation at 15% right at the top of the list. (Would my 7 great-grandparents who came through Ellis Island have made the cut?) To the extent that I have a broad critique of Wood’s work, it’s that he /2