Mark Rice
@markricehistory.bsky.social
Associate professor of history at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Author of Making Machu Picchu/Destino Machu Picchu. Fulbright scholar. Department chair.
https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/markrice1/
https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/markrice1/
Anytime anyone tries to rehabilitate Franco or Salazar, just show them this graph of GDP per capita from 1986. These fascists did so much damage, their countries were the only ones whose living standards were still similar to the sclerotic economies of eastern Europe. www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
November 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Anytime anyone tries to rehabilitate Franco or Salazar, just show them this graph of GDP per capita from 1986. These fascists did so much damage, their countries were the only ones whose living standards were still similar to the sclerotic economies of eastern Europe. www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Post a movie where you are from
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Post a movie where you are from
To get how the @nytimes.com continues to treat Epstien et al with kid gloves is to imagine them writing this about anyone else:
"Sammy The Bull" Gravano Wiretaps Reveal a Lost New York: The Disgraced Underboss's Recently Released Wiretaps Are Steeped in A Clubby World That's All But Gone
"Sammy The Bull" Gravano Wiretaps Reveal a Lost New York: The Disgraced Underboss's Recently Released Wiretaps Are Steeped in A Clubby World That's All But Gone
November 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
To get how the @nytimes.com continues to treat Epstien et al with kid gloves is to imagine them writing this about anyone else:
"Sammy The Bull" Gravano Wiretaps Reveal a Lost New York: The Disgraced Underboss's Recently Released Wiretaps Are Steeped in A Clubby World That's All But Gone
"Sammy The Bull" Gravano Wiretaps Reveal a Lost New York: The Disgraced Underboss's Recently Released Wiretaps Are Steeped in A Clubby World That's All But Gone
When people ask me why I continue to argue that hockey is the best sport, I’m just going to show them this headline
November 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
When people ask me why I continue to argue that hockey is the best sport, I’m just going to show them this headline
This analysis is perfect.
November 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This analysis is perfect.
I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten.
October 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten.
New arrival from @univnebpress.bsky.social! I highly recommend this innovative look on Peru’s history by Gonzalo Romero.
October 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
New arrival from @univnebpress.bsky.social! I highly recommend this innovative look on Peru’s history by Gonzalo Romero.
"The machinery is waiting. Feed it. Get them on the trains."
Reinhard Heydrich as played by Kenneth Branagh in the film "Conspiracy."
Reinhard Heydrich as played by Kenneth Branagh in the film "Conspiracy."
October 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"The machinery is waiting. Feed it. Get them on the trains."
Reinhard Heydrich as played by Kenneth Branagh in the film "Conspiracy."
Reinhard Heydrich as played by Kenneth Branagh in the film "Conspiracy."
I see that the new film "After the Hunt" is rebooting another weird obsession with wood-paneled offices and ivy-covered walls of elite academia.
But the only thing that has come close to accurately depicting the aestic of modern higher ed is (not even joking)...Community.
But the only thing that has come close to accurately depicting the aestic of modern higher ed is (not even joking)...Community.
October 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I see that the new film "After the Hunt" is rebooting another weird obsession with wood-paneled offices and ivy-covered walls of elite academia.
But the only thing that has come close to accurately depicting the aestic of modern higher ed is (not even joking)...Community.
But the only thing that has come close to accurately depicting the aestic of modern higher ed is (not even joking)...Community.
Arrived today from @dukepress.bsky.social!
October 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Arrived today from @dukepress.bsky.social!
Silicon Valley has decided that misinformation is $$$. The only chance of having a sane society will have to come from a massive expansion of publicly-owned media. Yet what little of it we have is being shuttered…
September 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Silicon Valley has decided that misinformation is $$$. The only chance of having a sane society will have to come from a massive expansion of publicly-owned media. Yet what little of it we have is being shuttered…
Thanks to @cnnipr.bsky.social @kimbrunhuber.bsky.social for hosting me to talk about recent conflicts over tourism and preservation at #MachuPicchu x.com/kimbrunhuber...
September 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Thanks to @cnnipr.bsky.social @kimbrunhuber.bsky.social for hosting me to talk about recent conflicts over tourism and preservation at #MachuPicchu x.com/kimbrunhuber...
I hope @usccbofficial.bsky.social are happy with themselves. US Catholic bishops forged a faustian bargain with the radical right over a mutual misogynistic obsession with abortion...
with dead Catholic kids, millions of Catholic migrants under threat, and anti-Catholic hate crimes as a result
with dead Catholic kids, millions of Catholic migrants under threat, and anti-Catholic hate crimes as a result
August 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I hope @usccbofficial.bsky.social are happy with themselves. US Catholic bishops forged a faustian bargain with the radical right over a mutual misogynistic obsession with abortion...
with dead Catholic kids, millions of Catholic migrants under threat, and anti-Catholic hate crimes as a result
with dead Catholic kids, millions of Catholic migrants under threat, and anti-Catholic hate crimes as a result
Tired: Tearing down your grain silos
Wired: Maintaining your grain silos for beer gardens, art, urban recreation, and for keeping on making Cheerios
#Buffalove
Wired: Maintaining your grain silos for beer gardens, art, urban recreation, and for keeping on making Cheerios
#Buffalove
July 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Tired: Tearing down your grain silos
Wired: Maintaining your grain silos for beer gardens, art, urban recreation, and for keeping on making Cheerios
#Buffalove
Wired: Maintaining your grain silos for beer gardens, art, urban recreation, and for keeping on making Cheerios
#Buffalove
Many elected NY Democrats have already endorsed Mamdani. This was just posted an hour ago...
June 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Many elected NY Democrats have already endorsed Mamdani. This was just posted an hour ago...
City of “hands up!” !?🤣 Can’t wait to hear the best and brightest* of business and media justify their support for this very well-thought-out campaign www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/26/e...
June 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
City of “hands up!” !?🤣 Can’t wait to hear the best and brightest* of business and media justify their support for this very well-thought-out campaign www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/26/e...
Well. At least the mask is off. By backing Adams, these guys couldn’t be more clear that they don’t care about actual quality of life in the city. www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/26/a...
June 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Well. At least the mask is off. By backing Adams, these guys couldn’t be more clear that they don’t care about actual quality of life in the city. www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/26/a...
This moron doesn't grasp that state run stores in the US were introduced in places where prohibitionist WASPS wanted to restrict the sale of liquor.
Thanks to being historically governed by Irish-American political machines, you can basically buy booze in New York almost anywhere at anytime.
Thanks to being historically governed by Irish-American political machines, you can basically buy booze in New York almost anywhere at anytime.
June 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This moron doesn't grasp that state run stores in the US were introduced in places where prohibitionist WASPS wanted to restrict the sale of liquor.
Thanks to being historically governed by Irish-American political machines, you can basically buy booze in New York almost anywhere at anytime.
Thanks to being historically governed by Irish-American political machines, you can basically buy booze in New York almost anywhere at anytime.
Uh...the @nytimes.com reporter covering local NY politics isn't really reporting accurately on how ranked choice voting works.
#HometownPaper indeed
#HometownPaper indeed
June 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Uh...the @nytimes.com reporter covering local NY politics isn't really reporting accurately on how ranked choice voting works.
#HometownPaper indeed
#HometownPaper indeed
What actor’s expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?
June 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
What actor’s expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?
