Tyson Leuchter

Out now from @FrenchHistoryUK, my article "Finance Beyond the Bounds of the Fiscal-Military State: Debt, Speculation and the Renovation of Nineteenth-Century French Financial Capitalism" academic.oup.com/fh/article/doi…

@Jesseewiak How dare he disrespect Carrie Coon that way

@inkybrained There's currently a prestige TV series covering that time period on HBO! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gilde…

Ah yes, the Wild West, the closing of the American frontier, the birth of cinema, automobiles, radio, professional baseball, basketball, and football, and the Roaring Twenties, all of which famously have never left any sort of cultural imprint

A good occasion to read @tmbejan's fantastic 2023 article "Hobbes and Hats" (which explains why the little figures in the frontispiece of Leviathan are wearing hats): cambridge.org/core/services/…

The goofy weirdness of baseball is one of the most endearing things about it

チーズ警察はいつでも貴方を見ています。

It's frankly infuriating that there's even a case against birthright citizenship being heard at all before the Supreme Court, but at least it appears to be going pretty poorly for the solicitor general

And then leaving the stadium like

Taught about modernity and tradition in Wales today, so I had to slip in a reference to Joe Calzaghe, naturally youtube.com/watch?v=3VSjzP…

@yourayx9 I love onigiri! I tried making some with umeboshi filling once. I'm no expert at the technique, but they were delicious. Gotta practice more

アメリカンバーベキューが非常に話題になっているようですね。 美味しそうだけど、もし行くならばこれを持っていく許可をいただきたい。

I say this having spent the last hour or so seeing if there’s any yakiniku places around here (yes, and I will be going there soon)

Cynicism be damned: the mutual Japanese-American enthusiasm that’s swept this site the past few days has been delightful. People connecting over food and cultural curiosity, it rules

One of those works you really have to see in person; there's a tactility to it that's incredible. Same with Central Meridian (The Garage), which, if I recall correctly, is nearby

@HistorianAbel Don't give Boston Dynamics any ideas

@inkybrained The countermeasure for these is literally any dog

I saw these things on a No Man's Sky planet once

New Yorkers, join us in the first ever Mayor’s Municipal Madness: a competition of city fixes where everyone wins. City workers fix thousands of tiny annoyances every year, from broken basketball rims to bike path bumps. This year, we’re highlighting 16 of those fixes. From the exacerbating eight to the frustrating four, every item in each round will be repaired…but you’ll be voting on which fix will be done by me on day 100 of our admin. Round one of voting starts right now: nyc.gov/madness

Munetaka Murakami hits a MOONSHOT for his first Major League home run 👏

@erikmbaker Congratulations!

I am extremely excited to share that my book Make Your Own Job received the 2026 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians. It is a real honor. oah.org/2026/03/26/oah…

Sorry my eyes have melted from looking at a few of the most beautiful people on earth it was a good run 👍🏼

At last, Pizza Man (1991) is getting its due

Checkout this new Modern Intellectual History article: “The Indigenous: A History of the Idea” by Timothy Vasko Abstract The Haitian Declaration of Independence famously refers to the revolutionary army as the Armée indigène. What did “indigenous” mean on the eve of the Haitian revolution? How and when was it adopted there? And how did its adoption there transform its meaning? This article answers these questions with an eye toward the politics of the term today. In early modern Europe, the indigenous named the relationship between land and nationhood. Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, the term especially came to connote ideas about Africa and the Americas. The Haitian revolutionaries domesticated and redirected these ideas toward anticolonial ends. Subsequent users in postcolonial Haiti struggled to sustain the meaning the revolutionaries intended, however. The itinerary of “indigenous” before, during, and in the wake of the Haitian Revolution reveals that it has connoted for a long time a critique of European imperialism, but has also enabled imperial government and ethnonationalist violence. cambridge.org/core/journals/…