Stephen Powell (@sgeorgep86) 's Twitter Profile
Stephen Powell

@sgeorgep86

Historian and educator. Recovering academic.

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Because I am a glutton for punishment, I have decided to start a substack about the relevance of medieval history to modern issues and the odds and ends of the medieval past that persist in modern America. sgeorgep.substack.com/p/medieval-ame…

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#BookTwitter we need your help! I run Book Bodega, an Indy bookshop in Ramsgate. Winter is killing us, it’s soo quiet & we need to make £800 by Tuesday to pay our bills. This is my current view = no customers 🥹. Please shop with us and help us stay open! uk.bookshop.org/shop/bookbodega

#BookTwitter we need your help! I run Book Bodega, an Indy bookshop in Ramsgate. Winter is killing us, it’s soo quiet & we need to make £800 by Tuesday to pay our bills. This is my current view = no customers 🥹. Please shop with us and help us stay open!
uk.bookshop.org/shop/bookbodega
Lawrence H. Summers (@lhsummers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NYC spends $38k per pupil and most kids don’t learn at grade level and 100k a year drop out. There are similar stories across the country. This should be the focus of American education policy debate not the nuances of admissions policies at elite schools.

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In honor of the 75th anniversary of President Truman’s executive orders desegregating the federal workforce and the military, Executive Orders 9980 and 9981 are now on display at the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC, through July 31, 2023.

In honor of the 75th anniversary of President Truman’s executive orders desegregating the federal workforce and the military, Executive Orders 9980 and 9981 are now on display at the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC, through July 31, 2023.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain (@hahussain) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dear Ms. Johnstone, Please read a history book. The history of this conflict did not start in 2018. A century ago, when Jews started fleeing Europe to Ottoman provinces, which the British later made into Mandate Palestine, the Jews thought that if they built a modern economy

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Tearing down hostage posters is motivated by the same mindset that shouts down speakers at colleges. It's what you do when you're small-minded, too intellectually feeble to defend your position, and terrified that you might see or hear something that'll make you reexamine it.

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This piece resonates with me on many levels. It has become increasingly clear that modern secular liberalism seems so inadequate to face its challengers because it has lost touch with its moral and ethical foundations. unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-…

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Bahraini Prime Minister Condemns Hamas Actions at IISS Manama Dialogue Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Bahrain, condemned Hamas’ actions on the 7th of October. His condemnation came during his speech at the 19th IISS Manama Dialogue. He described