Larry Glickman
@larryglickman.bsky.social
Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
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but that line is a fact. Objectively true.
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
but that line is a fact. Objectively true.
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The second season of Man on the Inside is not only really funny and touching, but it is also about how wealthy donors affect higher education. I've seen a lot of depictions of academics and this one is probably the most accurate I've seen.
Handing the keys of governance to unqualified billionaires and allowing them to far exceed the proper role of the Executive Branch in dictating to other agencies (i.e. Musk/DOGE) or institutions of civil society (as with Rowan/ Compact) sure does not seem "populist."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The second season of Man on the Inside is not only really funny and touching, but it is also about how wealthy donors affect higher education. I've seen a lot of depictions of academics and this one is probably the most accurate I've seen.
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Wrote a thing about this samuelscohen.com/2025/11/24/t...
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Wrote a thing about this samuelscohen.com/2025/11/24/t...
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You went into a coma in 2017.
You just woke up today.
You saw this headline.
You say, “That was a good night’s sleep.”
You just woke up today.
You saw this headline.
You say, “That was a good night’s sleep.”
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
You went into a coma in 2017.
You just woke up today.
You saw this headline.
You say, “That was a good night’s sleep.”
You just woke up today.
You saw this headline.
You say, “That was a good night’s sleep.”
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Having often given NYT headline-writers a hard time, let me be sure to congratulate whoever decided on "Tosses" for this breaking news.
Nicely done! Keep it up.
Nicely done! Keep it up.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Having often given NYT headline-writers a hard time, let me be sure to congratulate whoever decided on "Tosses" for this breaking news.
Nicely done! Keep it up.
Nicely done! Keep it up.
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Hemmer writes, ""the 1990s were a conservative era, but with each passing year, conservatives looked less and less like Reagan..."
I look forward to discussing the various ways one could periodize the "Age of Reagan," and what best arguments are for a "long" or "short" such age.
I look forward to discussing the various ways one could periodize the "Age of Reagan," and what best arguments are for a "long" or "short" such age.
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Hemmer writes, ""the 1990s were a conservative era, but with each passing year, conservatives looked less and less like Reagan..."
I look forward to discussing the various ways one could periodize the "Age of Reagan," and what best arguments are for a "long" or "short" such age.
I look forward to discussing the various ways one could periodize the "Age of Reagan," and what best arguments are for a "long" or "short" such age.
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This is the complaint of a child who has been given every gift imaginable for Christmas but is still not happy
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This is the complaint of a child who has been given every gift imaginable for Christmas but is still not happy
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The Trump administration inherited an economy that the Economist called "the envy of the world" in a cover story a week before the election and easily could've coasted on that success (again) but instead they set it on fire.
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The Trump administration inherited an economy that the Economist called "the envy of the world" in a cover story a week before the election and easily could've coasted on that success (again) but instead they set it on fire.
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Yea I just had my students reading about Rowan and his work to help contextualize his interests in higher ed
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Yea I just had my students reading about Rowan and his work to help contextualize his interests in higher ed
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That really calls for this gif
a man says okay but that 's worse in front of a woman
ALT: a man says okay but that 's worse in front of a woman
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
That really calls for this gif
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One thing I'll be interested in discussing is how conceptions of the "Age of Reagan" have changed since Sean Wilentz published his book of that title in 2008. I think we've gone from conceptualizing a long Reagan Age (~1974-2008) as framed here by Wilentz to a dramatically shorter one.
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
One thing I'll be interested in discussing is how conceptions of the "Age of Reagan" have changed since Sean Wilentz published his book of that title in 2008. I think we've gone from conceptualizing a long Reagan Age (~1974-2008) as framed here by Wilentz to a dramatically shorter one.
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This is a very difficult read.
NEW: President Biden commuted the death sentences of most people on the federal death row before exiting office.
President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports:
boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports:
boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
This story was produced by Bolts and published in partnership with The Nation. Inside the federal supermax tucked away in Colorado’s high desert, prisoners spend 22 to 24 hours a day... Read More
boltsmag.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This is a very difficult read.
fyi, @yalepress.bsky.social's holiday sale, which includes my book, FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY, has begun and extends through 5 December. U.S. and Canadian customers get 30% by using the discount code: GIFT30. Check out their other great books as well.
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Free Enterprise
An incisive look at the intellectual and cultural history of free enterprise and its influence on American politics Throughout the twentieth century, “f...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
fyi, @yalepress.bsky.social's holiday sale, which includes my book, FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY, has begun and extends through 5 December. U.S. and Canadian customers get 30% by using the discount code: GIFT30. Check out their other great books as well.
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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This is the world's first trillionaire in his own words discussing his proudest contribution to society
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is the world's first trillionaire in his own words discussing his proudest contribution to society
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Giving thanks today to Rosemary Feurer for this conversation on "The Wages of War" forum in the most recent issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social (no paywall!) with historians John Hall, Reena Goldthree and @tejnagaraja.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC-V...
See lawcha.org/2025/11/22/l...
See lawcha.org/2025/11/22/l...
Labor History and Military History: A Forum | LAWCHA
This recorded forum is an exciting follow-up to Justin Jackson's blog, The Specter of War in Labor History on the Labor: Studies in Working Class History
lawcha.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Giving thanks today to Rosemary Feurer for this conversation on "The Wages of War" forum in the most recent issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social (no paywall!) with historians John Hall, Reena Goldthree and @tejnagaraja.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC-V...
See lawcha.org/2025/11/22/l...
See lawcha.org/2025/11/22/l...
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If there's one thing the mainstream news media love to overlook, it's the impact of the mainstream news media. The petite Tea Party in all its elite-backed astroturfiness was hailed like a sacred comet; the historically huge No Kings was played down by the NY Times, among other publications.
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
If there's one thing the mainstream news media love to overlook, it's the impact of the mainstream news media. The petite Tea Party in all its elite-backed astroturfiness was hailed like a sacred comet; the historically huge No Kings was played down by the NY Times, among other publications.
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Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.*
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.*
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
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Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Every University needs to reform its board of trustees. In what universe should the wealthy govern learning?
Handing the keys of governance to unqualified billionaires and allowing them to far exceed the proper role of the Executive Branch in dictating to other agencies (i.e. Musk/DOGE) or institutions of civil society (as with Rowan/ Compact) sure does not seem "populist."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Every University needs to reform its board of trustees. In what universe should the wealthy govern learning?
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Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...
Handing the keys of governance to unqualified billionaires and allowing them to far exceed the proper role of the Executive Branch in dictating to other agencies (i.e. Musk/DOGE) or institutions of civil society (as with Rowan/ Compact) sure does not seem "populist."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Handing the keys of governance to unqualified billionaires and allowing them to far exceed the proper role of the Executive Branch in dictating to other agencies (i.e. Musk/DOGE) or institutions of civil society (as with Rowan/ Compact) sure does not seem "populist."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
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No, he could say: I made a terrible mistake
TAPPER: You were the deciding vote that allowed RFK Jr to ascend to the role of Health Secretary. Did you give him too much credit?
CASSIDY: The fact is the scientific community agrees that vaccines are safe. That's all I can say.
CASSIDY: The fact is the scientific community agrees that vaccines are safe. That's all I can say.
November 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
No, he could say: I made a terrible mistake
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So many things happening, I nearly missed the @newrepublic.com piece I was quoted in last week. It raises the possibility of continued political threats to SNAP, underscoring a point I make often: the best way to politically protect the safety net is to build the power of those who rely on it.
November 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
So many things happening, I nearly missed the @newrepublic.com piece I was quoted in last week. It raises the possibility of continued political threats to SNAP, underscoring a point I make often: the best way to politically protect the safety net is to build the power of those who rely on it.