Twitter aside, I'm going to go with the time we went to Nobu for my birthday and David Hasselhoff was VERY LOUDLY holding court at the table next to us.
I was @kaj33’s faculty host when he got an honorary degree. I had all these questions about his activism but the seating arrangement meant I didn’t get a chance to talk much. When I did, I panicked and asked about the book tour he was on: “so, I guess you’ve been flying a lot?”
The nicest celebrities were probably @CobieSmulders and @TaranKillam, who we sat next to at the @iamsambee Not the WHCD event. Very nice, very normal, swapped kid pics. My only regret was not raving about TK’s Drunk History episode.
(Sam Bee, also nice as hell. Just great.)
Oh, it’s Twitter adjacent, but doing a Zoom with @Schwarzenegger and giving an impromptu 15 minute explainer on the Southern Strategy when he asked for one was pretty damn surreal.
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For all the article's claims that historians thought Biden would be another FDR, there's a link to a Doris Kearns Goodwin interview and ... that's it.
The take on the New Deal is wrong -- FDR wasn't laser focused on economic issues alone, but had programs for conservation, public power, the arts, etc. from the start.
If you’re wondering why this ad never mentions what the scary book was that she wanted to ban or what course it was used in, well, it was Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Beloved and the class was senior-year AP English.
If you think your high school senior can’t handle college-level novels in a college-credit course, maybe he shouldn’t take Advanced Placement English?
A lot of people are embarrassed for her son, but (unless I’m mistaken) he seems to be a 27-year-old Republican Party lawyer so he’s probably fine with all this?
I mean, here's how @julianzelizer and I covered the 2011 fight over the debt ceiling in Fault Lines.
Congress sort of looms large in this telling, as it should.
If you grab any work of American political history, even a work ostensibly about a presidency, and you'll still find a great deal of attention to Congress.
I'm teaching the New Deal now, for good or bad, Congress keeps coming up an awful lot in my lectures and our readings.
Look, I know a lot of people are saying @claudiatenney and I are “the greatest heroes in American history” fir our bold pro-dinner, pro-Christmas stances.
Are we better than Lincoln and Washington? Too soon to say, but I think its going to be close.
And listen, I don’t want to speak too soon, but I hear that @claudiatenney is going to insist she’s celebrating New Year’s Eve no matter what those bastards at Olive Garden and the Trilateral Commission have to say about it.