Just sent my new book "Illiberal America: A History" to press at Norton. Due out early 2024

COs have to review all photos and messages before they come in as a “security measure”. However, COs have been sharing incarcerated people’s family photos with other officers. COs huddle around their desks looking at peoples personal messages & family photos & ridiculing them.

Hey folks. Richard Bernstein's funeral will be live-streamed tomorrow at noon. So many of you reached out w/such wonderful memories of him, that I've posted the link below. Your kind words about Richard are deeply appreciated by his friends and family. dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/for…

One of the most beautiful and thoughtful pieces I've read about the trans panic -- and how it impacts the lives of trans people. Christopher Mathias is probably the best extremism reporter in America I think. Just read this. huffpost.com/entry/trans-so…

Morning, Tymofiy. As a Black American reporter who has covered uprisings (“riots”) in the US and lives in Ukraine covering the war, I think I can help. We're supposed to meet in person (hope you can make time this week), but your tweet requires a thoughtful response, my friend🧵

The problem with Florida's social studies standards isn't the one sentence that has everyone in an uproar. It's that the standards barely mention the enslaved as property (the word chattel does not appear at all). The bedrock defense of slavery was the property right.

⚡️Report: Half of Ukrainians held by Russians in Kherson Oblast tortured. Nearly half of Ukrainians held in Russian detention facilities in the liberated parts of Kherson Oblast were tortured when the territory was under Russian occupation, with many also being subject to sexual

The next step in Florida’s ongoing attempt to erase knowledge.

The Fault in Our Stars has been removed from the YA section in the suburbs of Indianapolis and is now considered a "book for adults." This is ludicrous. It is about teenagers and I wrote it for teenagers. Teenagers are not harmed by reading TFIOS. This is such an embarrassment

Religion is now an official excuse for sexism, bigotry, and discrimination in higher ed. This is unconscionable. U.S. Department of Education Have you seen this @SIfill_ ?

Hoping to include qualitative research in #lieschristianparentsbelieve project, but I would love to see quantitative research on this & other factors for overall well being, relationship to faith, etc. Anecdotally, what I 👀in church spaces: it had *enormous* impact. 1/3

It is actually happening. A history book is being hyped on YouTube. Everyone get on the book channels talking about The Wager and recommend more history!

1. 61 activists appeared in court yesterday on RICO charges related to their protest of Atlanta’s "Cop City" It's an extraordinary indictment Only a handful are accused of violence Others face 20 yrs in prison for non-violent protest & expression Here's how it works 🧵

Border walls don’t just block wildlife migrations — they block the flow of water, the dispersal of seeds & other natural processes. The border is 2,000 miles long, most of it rugged, wild & beautiful. This is no place place for destructive, useless, wildlife-killing barriers.

I woke up at 4:30 am. I was dreaming about yelling at Thomas Jefferson that slavery was systemized raping and pillaging.

out today press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

NEW: A Texas Supreme Court justice didn't recuse from a sex abuse lawsuit against Southern Baptist leader Paul Pressler and Jared Woodfill despite working at their firm for years – and while the plaintiff, a former employee, was allegedly abused. texastribune.org/2024/02/13/tex…

I started a book YouTube channel called Time Travel Reads. I'm reading American history from the colonial period to the present. I'm in the colonial period. I'd love to incorporate scholars' monographs.