Happy Public Domain Day! An extensive of what notable works are entering the public domain in the USA today!

🧵 Starting with books: As I Lay Dying, The Maltese Falcon, The Murder at the Vicarage, the first Dick & Jane Books, Eliot’s Ash Wednesday, 42nd Parallel, Private Lives, Civilization and its Discontents, The Little Engine that Could, Vile Bodies, The Castle, & Crane’s The Bridge

This is just profoundly untrue? There’s much to criticize of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade, like the castration etc, but it was nowhere near as racialized as the Atlantic slave trade. This isn’t to say that racism towards Sub-Saharan Africans don’t exist in the Arab world, ofc

https://twitter.com/jathanasius1/status/2003375269701406832

The Atlantic Slave Trade was more systematic (more people shipped in a shorter period of time), more focused on plantation labor vs domestic labor/war service, and had more of an influence on Western economies while the Arab slave trade was more influential on social hierarchies

By the time Hitler came to power in 1933, Germany was experiencing serious *deflation* as a result of the Depression. By 1929, Weimar Germany had completely gotten over the pains caused by hyperinflation, and was on a sustainable path to paying off reparations w/ the Young Plan

https://twitter.com/generalpattons/status/2002022107900006436

Though many of the Nazi top brass were heavily concerned with animal welfare, they *incentivized* chemical testing on animals, using them as experiments to then do onto Jews. They happily infected mice w/ multiple sclerosis and tried to give rabbits epilepsy

This is actually a horrible definition of fascism? There is nothing “communistic” about Nazism. The Nazis took a lot of ideas from socialism, but so did a lot of other left and right wing groupings at the time; socialists were innovators in mass politics.

It’s too bad that Harris and her campaign didn’t try even once to satiate or appeal to Palestinian-Americans and their allies

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1957460714508960144

The Uncommitted Movement wasn’t a wrecker attempt to create chaos in the party. It was a serious venture by *Democratic Party operatives* who were trying to throw a Hail Mary to get the Dems to realize how much sympathy they had lost. The Dem Party didn’t care one bit

My advice to young humanities students:

1. Don’t be afraid to skip around the chapters in an academic history book non-linearly. As long as it’s not narrative, it’s fine as long as you read everything
2. Don’t be afraid to use Wikipedia. Its footnotes and sources are a goldmine 3. Don’t silo yourself into only studying in a narrow field. The humanities work in tandem, and making a hierarchy of them in importance to yourself is facile.
4. But on that same point, as Jameson always said, always historicize.

The point of Picasso’s Cubist period was to explore the different ways we perceive time and space via the canvas. He painted this at 16. His experimentation was a conscious choice

https://twitter.com/realcarola2hope/status/1948991658055573572

The point of art is not simply to express beauty, but also to express the breadth of the human experience in all its different avenues

I really don’t think what these men want are “positive masculinity”. Hasan Piker flexing while explaining neoliberalism wouldn’t lead them to radicalization.

What these men want are vengeance against a society where they feel they are losing their patriarchal privilege

https://twitter.com/ameliaelizalde/status/1854339027429892418

They don’t like Trump or Andrew Tate in spite of their sexual predation and misogyny. They like Trump and Andrew Tate *because* of it

Borders, as we know them today, being a modern invention is actually the consensus among academic historians. Before the advent of Westphalian sovereignty in the 1640s, the definitions of polities were amorphous; they were all one bretheren of Christendom (1/3)

https://twitter.com/Spoon_Esq/status/1766212192422990201

In the Roman Empire, for example, Emperor Caracalla famously granted citizenship rights to *every non-slave inhabitant of the empire*. Additionally, the Roman boundaries, the Limes, were not very fortified and the purpose of walls was to stop traders from evading taxation

actually insane that for 2 years conservative media has straight-facedly lied about a massive “invasion” of illegal immigrants and they’ve now been fully rewarded by having that lie become the mainstream narrative for one, there’s no truth to the claim that the constitution describes the current border situation as an “invasion”. using a literal originalist interpretation, invasion can only be declared in an operation of war