Paul Lerner

I wrote this about teaching a fascism class in the age of Trump 🗃️ www.zocalopublicsquare.org/is-he-a-fasc...

I've seen bigger crowds at academic conferences

Damn it, not Walter Koenig too

At the point in my life/career where I can no longer listen when someone gets up there and just reads a paper without looking up

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We're hiring a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Modern Korean History! Please circulate widely. #academicsky #skystorians usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

We're hiring a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Modern Korean History! Please circulate widely. #academicsky #skystorians usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

More than 600 Jewish clergy from across the country are speaking out after a new Trump administration rule threatens to strip resettled refugees of their legal status and puts them at risk of deportation. Read their letter calling for refugee protection.

Rainy day cat

Launch day for Blackness in Interwar Germany! It looks absolutely smashing inside too—huge thanks to the team at Hurst for the beautiful production work!! @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

the most relatable thing he has ever said (history professor here)

Morning hummingbird patrol

Lynx is staying above the fray

when someone announces they got into a phd program

steamy

Dreamt I was screaming at Trump for his Ukraine policy with Putin in the background at a fancy meal. Soon a blonde spokesperson started lecturing to me in German & I remembered I needed to email a German colleague. Oh well

Coming soon: www.lbi.org/news/confere... #skystorians

Death in Venice Beach

At least someone is glad to see me

If you tried to create, in a lab, the link I'm least likely to click, the link I wouldn't click even if I'd consumed every other bit of content on the internet, you'd arrive at this.

Happening now #skystorians

Come on, Rusty, not helpful

Why not West Palm Beach?

The sit through a memorial service and not fixate on what people will say about you when you die challenge

Shockingly Carlson made me sympathetic to Jacob Rees-Mogg, damn it

A stunning cocktail of racism & antisemitism 👇👇👇

Not sure we’ll make it to 2030 for the AI to destroy us

Not so much to celebrate these days but

Tag der Einheit came early this year

jewschool.com/when-are-we-... great piece by @irmiklat.bsky.social

Fascinating discussion

The Professors are the Enemy: panel discussion at USC today

Again, Rusty!

Seriously, Rusty?

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your TA is most likely a grad student with thoughts, feelings, and even quite possibly, a name

Rusty, how’s it going with the slides for tomorrow’s lecture?

“Nobody Wants This”

Read the room dude

@jaygeller.bsky.social helpfully contextualizes the opposition to Stolpersteine 👇👇

Historian here: this argument is not working the way you think it is

Very excited to be part of this conference Vienna/NY: Urban Centers and the Rise of Democracy since 1848 🗃️ as.nyu.edu/research-cen.... If you're in NYC & interested in attending, please rsvp here: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Department meeting

Holy shit

Only Oliver Mayer pull something like this off: setting a 1942 antifascist Brecht/Feuchtwanger play in an oil field in LA -- under attack by the feds for being a sanctuary city. Powerful & stirring work plus discussion w/ @profmpastor.bsky.social & Béatrice Mousli. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmBg...

A Dutch grad student recommended I watch "The Boys" which I of course understood as him suggesting I read W.E.B. Du Bois (which actually made sense in the context.)

This was pretty wild