Sir Winston Churchill is known for his heroic leadership in leading the campaign of resistance against Nazism & fascism. Unfortunately, he is under frequent attack by historically illiterate political activists. 🇬🇧🧵 Tearing apart the most common lies against the British Lion.

Afghanistan has one of the world's highest rates of childhood lead exposure, which causes permanent brain damage. Nearly all children here have significant lead poisoning. Researchers in the US have found the source of the lead. But nobody has told the Afghan public. Thread.

There are a few possible suspects. South Asia as a whole has the world's highest burden of lead poisoning. And in Bangladesh the problem turned out to be turmeric (زردچوبه). The spice was being adulterated with lead chromate, a pigment that makes it a brighter shade of yellow.

The hubris and ignorance in this podcast is breathtaking. He constantly refers to things "nobody is allowed to talk about" that historians have been talking about--and writing fat books about--for years. It's not that these historical discussions are not happening. It's that

I think part of the reason why many online 'content creators' go insane is simply the acceleration of the news cycle. In the past if you were famous for having strong views on a particular topic you might go on TV once a week or write a book once every 2 years. Today, however...

1/ Darryl Cooper is to WWII what Norman Finklestein is to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Cooper buries people in historical minutia knowing the average person isn't equipped with a deep enough understanding of WWII to properly contextualize the historical points Cooper uses.

Hope these guys’ wives/girlfriends are talking a lot of supplements, because feeding their babies *and* a full grown man is going to ruin their bodies.

A map of academics who write about 'degrowth'. (Further commentary seems unnecessary..)

Rightwing 1619 Project.

Feeling cute, might delete later

I'm always interested in how controversial historians and political scientists (on the left and right) selectively wield the concept of agency. The easiest way to revise history is to assume highest agency for your villain and lowest agency for your anti-villain. So you get -

Genuine question, is there a good analysis somewhere on why it appears that a disproportionate % of online far-right figures appear to be closeted gay men? NOT that there is anything wrong (or right) with that, I'm just not sure what they find so appealing there.

Garrison Lovely You can read some of my previous writing about this case at astralcodexten.com/p/model-city-m…… , but my impression is you're uncritically buying the Honduran socialists' propaganda version of this conflict. A more pro-Prospera/balanced version: investment courts are a useful vehicle to