Dave Mazella
@davemazella.bsky.social
eighteenth-century scholar in Heatstroke, TX. let's see how this goes.
Book: Making of Modern Cynicism, now in paperback from UVA press: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2793/
Book: Making of Modern Cynicism, now in paperback from UVA press: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2793/
there's a great synthesis in Armitage and Braddick's British Atlantic World, which discusses "civility and authority" in between the early modern period to #18c.
January 28, 2026 at 10:13 PM
there's a great synthesis in Armitage and Braddick's British Atlantic World, which discusses "civility and authority" in between the early modern period to #18c.
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The problem imo is that polarization has just become the nominal bucket into which we've placed some of the most destructive developments of our time, and so is also the handle people reach for to manipulate them. The issue is of course that it's the wrong conceptual tool & is very misleading.
January 28, 2026 at 8:03 PM
The problem imo is that polarization has just become the nominal bucket into which we've placed some of the most destructive developments of our time, and so is also the handle people reach for to manipulate them. The issue is of course that it's the wrong conceptual tool & is very misleading.
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One of the things that is happening here is that the reason DHS is the preferred mechanism for the Steven Millers of the world is that it happens under much lower evidentiary and procedural standards, but median voters don't know that until they see it. Over and over again.
January 28, 2026 at 5:25 PM
One of the things that is happening here is that the reason DHS is the preferred mechanism for the Steven Millers of the world is that it happens under much lower evidentiary and procedural standards, but median voters don't know that until they see it. Over and over again.