Patrick Halston
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Patrick Halston
@patrickhalston.bsky.social
DeMause scholar
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The AHA rightly condemned the Iraq war in 2007 and the Ukraine invasion in 2022. Blocking a resolution, overwhelmingly supported by members, to express solidarity with Gaza is cowardly at best and special pleading at worst.
January 12, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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A 🧵 about academic gatherings & mourning their lost, singular role.

Didn’t see everyone I’d hoped to at #MLA26 in Toronto (sorry!) but I was happy to reconnect with many people, and happier still that the Radical Caucus’ motion regarding the Palestinian exception to academic freedom was passed! 1/
January 11, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
January 1, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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one trend I've noticed is that gaming franchises like Magic and Warhammer tend to grow less whimsical and allusive over time. there's a growing tendency to make everything a battle-hardened warrior or a scary monster. You start to see less of guys who are just talking trees, etc.
December 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Piers Anthony in the 70s. Maybe he shouldn't have been rejected?
December 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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A new essay on the contradictory duties of tragedy and the comedy of shame in Gillian Rose's Love's Work and the Middle English romance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
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The Law of Shame in Gillian Rose’s Arthuriana and The Green Knight
The final chapter of Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work is its most fragmentary. After several chapters in the confessional mode, Rose diverts from the discussion of her life to a series of short reflectio…
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November 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Gene Wolfe's Death of Dr. Island and Virginia Giuffre: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
[Mature Content] From the genewolfe community on Reddit: Nicholas from Doctor of Death Island and Virginia Giuffre
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October 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Life with the Cave Canem, in Gene Wolfe's Fifth Head: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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September 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Personally, it wouldn't be such a bad thing if people actually read some Bruno Bettelheim.
September 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Why does Gene Wolfe's WizardKnight's Able "love" Disiri?https://www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/comments/1nnl6vk/why_does_able_love_disiri/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
September 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Sucks to quote post someone and not let them reply, but:

Miller has already gone on the radio and told his supporters to get all Democrats fired, as has Vance, and it's happening.
September 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The best people on earth are in danger of being murdered because they represent full individuation -- even though, all, socialists -- something that so many people read as the selfishness that cost them their mothers' love and favour. Murder them, and mommy might love u again.
September 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I made a couple of insightful comments on Gene Wolfe and female characters in this reddit thread: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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September 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
All will be made to fit our fantasy needs. If the facts aren't congruent, they will be elided or ignored. DeMause:
September 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Gene Wolfe is our Charlotte Brontë: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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September 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
August 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Conversation expands concerning Gene Wolfe and Jordan Carroll's Speculative Whiteness: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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August 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Gene Wolfe and Jordan Carroll's Speculative Whiteness: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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August 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Quick thoughts on ostensible appetite-to-vow sequence in Gene Wolfe's Land Across: www.reddit.com/r/genewolfe/...
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August 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Correction @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social

"STARVED TO DEATH BY ISRAEL"
August 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM