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Ilana: Reading about audit culture as a professor feels so much like a fish being told “notice this water.”  What inspired you to compare…

A best yet marston mat helicopter landing pad from the stranded bunnies section of Apocalypse Now Redux (2001 edition). Not in any of the other editions, for reasons you can guess if you’ve see…

This is a (hopefully) weekly update about events in Porgera. A few caveats: I’m not in Porgera and I’m only relying on my own knowledge of the valley and open sources. I am not a lawyer. I do my best…

This year I used StoryGraph to track my reading daily, and then I went back to LibraryThing to track my reading over time. LibraryThing is great: fully featured and non-evil. I also tried Paperback f…

Mit der neuen National Security Strategy kehren die USA zu einer Politik offener Machtdemonstration in Lateinamerika zurück. Doch die Wiederbelebung der Monroe-Doktrin offenbart weniger Stärke als vie…

At the 2025 AAA Meetings in New Orleans, APLA demonstrated its vitality as a section committed to both critical scholarship … More

On January 3 2026, after the strike on Venezuela, Trump called up what I assume is now his second most favourite programme Fox and Freinds to say: “I watched it literally like I was watching a …

Der Runde Tisch, an dem sich 1989 in Polen das sozialistische Regime und die demokratischen Opposition über einen schrittweisen friedlichen Systemwechsel verständigten, wurde vom aktuellen Präsidenten…

It would take a book to itemize and admire all of the vital tasks and key accomplishments that Amy Skillman realized during her year as American Folklore Society President-Elect (2023) and her two ye…

Written by John P. Ruehl The 2025 U.S. housing market presents a paradox. Home sales are down, and there are …