Yep, bc the South developed industrial capacity by attracting military contracts w low wages and taxes instead of the Fordist route of investing in its populace, most of the middle class jobs created in the region since 1945 have gone to educated Northern migrants.

Bruce Schulman makes great points about American postwar prosperity being built much more upon military keynesianism than a welfare state (Corporations favored the former bc it gave them more power). Tim Barker 's revolutionary dissertation is the first to fully develop that arg

"But appointed Volcker." What is wrong with neolibs?

Just finished writing the most 2010s-coded history essay. Would be completely out of place in relation to questions and concerns today.

Great passage by historian John Darwin on the British Raj Civil Service (the Civilian Raj) as not merely agents, but partners in the Imperial project, an autonomous elite with its own traditions and origin story rooted especialyl in the memory of 1857.

The Revolutionary Mediterranean is so back:

"hagarism" is a hilarious book, it starts out with this thin gesture like "we are doing super sophisticated philology stuff; you wouldn't get it" and then 50 pages later it's like "we penetrated to the spiritual genius of the peoples by communing with their vibes"

One of the most underrated and unambiguously positive reforms under MBS has been the rationalization and opening of the Saudi archives. It's led to great new historical scholarship

can everyone start listening to the oh hellos again. but not soldier poet king. listen to constellations and bitter water. please

The funny thing about the n + 1 editor drama is that literally a week ago I was telling my friends I wanted to someday edit n + 1 or a similar magazine: