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Peter C. Herman

H-index: 12
History 36%
Political science 20%
pherman.bsky.social
My new outdoor wok burner and the result. Serious wok hei! 🍽️ #ettp

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pherman.bsky.social
Another reason why kids hate Shakespeare.
pherman.bsky.social
Years ago, I was put in such a terrible classroom that a student came in a little late, looked around, looked at me, and said "who did you piss off?"

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Reposted by: Peter C. Herman

pherman.bsky.social
Very grateful to Patrick J. McGrath for his review of Early Modern Others in Milton Quarterly. "his is a valuable and timely work, one that offers a perspective on early modern literature and society rarely discussed..." doi.org/10.1111/milt...
Early Modern Others: Resisting Bias in Renaissance LiteraturePeter C. Herman. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 164pp. ISBN 13: 9781032293660. $49.99 (paper).
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
pherman.bsky.social
Very grateful to Patrick J. McGrath for his review of Early Modern Others in Milton Quarterly. "his is a valuable and timely work, one that offers a perspective on early modern literature and society rarely discussed..." onlinelibrary-wiley-com.libproxy.sdsu.edu/doi/10.1111/...
pherman.bsky.social
Good point. My guess is that Trump has in mind only the top-tier schools. From what I can tell, there's very little interest in colleges and universities farther down the academic ladder.
pherman.bsky.social
How is the Department of Education supposed to examine admissions if it's supposed to be dissolved?
pherman.bsky.social
Exactly right. We're not sliding into autocracy; we're there.

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nytimes.com
The chairman of the House Oversight Committee is planning to create a new subcommittee to work with the new Department of Government Efficiency, known as “DOGE,” and leading Republicans have agreed to allow Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to serve as its chairwoman.
Marjorie Taylor Greene to Lead ‘DOGE’ Panel and Work With Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy
The rise of the Republican representative from Georgia signals the ascendancy of the MAGA wing of the G.O.P. in Congress.
www.nytimes.com

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pherman.bsky.social
🍽️ Bucatini all’Amatriciana:
kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down.

Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.

There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
pherman.bsky.social
Conservatives say all profs mindlessly parrot "settler colonialism" slogans. That's not true. My book that shows how early modern authors challenged the biases and prejudices of their age. www.amazon.com/Early-Modern...
Early Modern Others
Amazon.com: Early Modern Others: 9781032293660: Herman, Peter C.: Books
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