Rob Rakove
@robrakove.bsky.social
Historian at Stanford University, author of "Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World" and "Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion." It's good to have options.
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Rob Rakove
@robrakove.bsky.social
· Jan 20
Some days you wrestle with big interpretive questions. Others, you try to determine when and how a few hundred tons of lambskin hides left Karachi.
One of my running theories of IR is that one shouldn't get the Czechs angry.
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
One of my running theories of IR is that one shouldn't get the Czechs angry.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Encountering the Peninsula Times Tribune in the archive:
a man with a beard says now that 's a name i ve not heard in a long time
ALT: a man with a beard says now that 's a name i ve not heard in a long time
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Encountering the Peninsula Times Tribune in the archive:
If Twitter never existed, I'd have no notion who this person is.
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
If Twitter never existed, I'd have no notion who this person is.
The Aljube Museum in Lisbon has a row of charts making this point emphatically, contrasting Salazar-era growth with what followed.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The Aljube Museum in Lisbon has a row of charts making this point emphatically, contrasting Salazar-era growth with what followed.
Biggest case since Mabo.
Australian murderer sues for right to Vegemite behind bars
Andre McKechnie argues the Vegemite ban in Victoria's jails denies him the right to "enjoy his culture".
www.bbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Biggest case since Mabo.
Spend a few thousand on movers and leave your friends and loved ones behind in a quest for cheaper eggs.
November 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Spend a few thousand on movers and leave your friends and loved ones behind in a quest for cheaper eggs.
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So much of our current era can be explained by the fact that the national press is filled with idiots.
Press is doing a great job of basically doxxing potential jurors
Belatedly: Judge Merchan dismissed Juror #2 this morning (just before the press admonishment at the top of my thread) after she said that on reflection she didn't think she could "avoid outside pressures." She said friends and colleagues had been asking her if she was a juror.
April 18, 2024 at 4:14 PM
So much of our current era can be explained by the fact that the national press is filled with idiots.
Something priceless was lost when we stopped using abstract codenames.
(nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...)
(nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...)
November 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Something priceless was lost when we stopped using abstract codenames.
(nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...)
(nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...)
In what other era would this meeting merit an entire op-ed?
November 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
In what other era would this meeting merit an entire op-ed?
Treating it as an "American proposal" is already a flight into fiction.
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Treating it as an "American proposal" is already a flight into fiction.
I have a strange hunch about his embassy of choice.
"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee
Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from presidential palace
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I have a strange hunch about his embassy of choice.
Arguably: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txrw...
The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter (Official Video)
YouTube video by TheBanglesVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Arguably: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txrw...
Legal limits on chapter length now
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Legal limits on chapter length now
Against all odds, Boebert is victorious.
November 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Against all odds, Boebert is victorious.
Maybe it's the wider analysis that matters most
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Maybe it's the wider analysis that matters most
The Netflix / Garfield series might be fun.
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The Netflix / Garfield series might be fun.
That one took up an entire vacation. It was worthwhile, but I might have taken some notes.
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
That one took up an entire vacation. It was worthwhile, but I might have taken some notes.
Former student of mine, hooray
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Former student of mine, hooray
That was my thought as well!
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 AM
That was my thought as well!
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Please take a few minutes to read this beautiful tribute to our friend and scholar Dr. Lloyd Ambrosius. Dr. Jeanette Eileen Jones, who authored the tribute, is hosting a panel on his legacy at the OAH in Philadelphia. More information can be found at the link.
blog.shgape.org/tribute-to-l...
blog.shgape.org/tribute-to-l...
Tribute to Lloyd Ambrosius - SHGAPE Blog
The following is a tribute to Lloyd Ambrosius (1941-2024) by Dr. Jeannette Eileen Jones, who will be chairing the panel "Lloyd Ambrosius and His Historical Legacies" at the 2026 meeting of the Organiz...
blog.shgape.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Please take a few minutes to read this beautiful tribute to our friend and scholar Dr. Lloyd Ambrosius. Dr. Jeanette Eileen Jones, who authored the tribute, is hosting a panel on his legacy at the OAH in Philadelphia. More information can be found at the link.
blog.shgape.org/tribute-to-l...
blog.shgape.org/tribute-to-l...
I'd settle for a xenomorph cameo.
November 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I'd settle for a xenomorph cameo.
Notionally historical
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Notionally historical