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Mischa Honeck
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Historian, United States, empire, childhood, gender. Professor, University of Kassel. Mostly nice.
Warum ist Lars Klingbeil hier abgebildet?
The Old Order is Gone – Progressives Must Decide What Replaces it
Newsletter featuring progressive analyses, events and publications
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February 13, 2026 at 1:57 PM
If there’s nothing else you can learn from history, then at least accept that phrases like “unlike anything ever seen” express either a shallow banality or a mendacious lie.
February 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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ICYMI
February 12, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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Schrödinger's humanities: Simultaneously too weak to fight for our own survival as a field, but also powerful enough to convert our students into full believers in gender theory and cultural Marxism.
February 12, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Memory is the black hole that is constantly trying to suck up history.
February 13, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Seems to me that just ten years ago pointing out that the history of concentration camps didn’t start in 1933 and end in 1945 generated far less controversy. I think this has to do with our supercharged politics of memory & not so much with poor historical knowledge.
I can think of several dozen historians who would be happy to lecture @jaketapper.bsky.social about why "concentration camp" is, in fact, an apt term.
God the gall of @jaketapper.bsky.social lecturing that Minneapolis small business owner about the meaning of the word "concentration camp" while people are being crammed into poorly resourced buildings by the thousands and shuttled off never to be heard from again
February 13, 2026 at 7:17 AM
Christopher Caldwell is pretty good at dolling up white nationalism and recasting it as gentility.
February 12, 2026 at 9:31 AM
The problem with slogans such as "Save Our Children" is not the general idea but the pronoun.
February 10, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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Zwei Sätze, die einem Historiker wie mir die nicht vorhandenen Haare zu Berge stehen lassen:

Amerika ist die älteste Demokratie der Welt.

Die Amerikaner haben den Deutschen die Demokratie beigebracht.
On the Big German transatlantic heartbreak : “The transatlantic relationship has a far more emotional foundation than in the UK or in France...The Americans taught the Germans democracy. It feels like a betrayal," says Claudia Major
www.ft.com/content/ef3c...
‘It feels like a betrayal.’ Germany’s painful estrangement from the US
The unravelling of transatlantic ties has shocked a country that had an emotional attachment to the relationship
www.ft.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Zwei Sätze, die einem Historiker wie mir die nicht vorhandenen Haare zu Berge stehen lassen:

Amerika ist die älteste Demokratie der Welt.

Die Amerikaner haben den Deutschen die Demokratie beigebracht.
On the Big German transatlantic heartbreak : “The transatlantic relationship has a far more emotional foundation than in the UK or in France...The Americans taught the Germans democracy. It feels like a betrayal," says Claudia Major
www.ft.com/content/ef3c...
‘It feels like a betrayal.’ Germany’s painful estrangement from the US
The unravelling of transatlantic ties has shocked a country that had an emotional attachment to the relationship
www.ft.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:37 PM
What an American slaveholder would have said about Frederick Douglass as he was touring England in the 1840s.
February 9, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Die bundesdeutsche Form der Don Quixotterie sind Talkmaster auf der Suche nach ihrem Frost-Nixon-Moment im Umgang mit der AfD.
February 9, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Sooschl Miedia!
February 8, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Caren #Miosga Redaktion: Demokratie ist, was im Parlament sitzt.
February 8, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Reposted by Mischa Honeck
I need this poster on my bedroom wall
February 8, 2026 at 4:10 PM
The 1976 Bicentennial looks so inclusive and progressive in hindsight, don't you agree?
February 8, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Demnächst im Ressort Streit der ZEIT: Soll man Trump einen Rassisten nennen?
February 7, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Anders als die AfD, die das Grundgesetz überwinden möchte, hat die extreme Rechte in den USA ein entspanntes Verhältnis zur Verfassung. Sie sind geübt darin, die Constitution umzuinterpretieren, der Originalism-Schule sei Dank. Also zurück in eine Zeit, in der weiße reiche Männer das Sagen hatten.
February 6, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Why, after all these years, is it so hard to understand that you don’t have to repost a racist video clip to condemn it?!?
February 6, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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Das ist das Szenario, auf das wir uns zubewegen, sollte die AfD auf Landesebene an die Macht kommen. Wir, und damit meine ich auch viele meiner Kolleg:innen, sind darauf nicht vorbereitet.
Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Scale is an indispensable category of historical analysis.
February 5, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Das ist das Szenario, auf das wir uns zubewegen, sollte die AfD auf Landesebene an die Macht kommen. Wir, und damit meine ich auch viele meiner Kolleg:innen, sind darauf nicht vorbereitet.
Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Wenn er könnte, würde Bezos nachträglich auch noch Carl Bernstein und Bob Woodward feuern.
February 5, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Kauft Jeff Bezos die New York Times als nächstes? Oder übernimmt das ein anderer Autokraten-Bro?
February 5, 2026 at 10:28 AM