Benjamin Fogel

"Amongst others, I am putting in my little oar & exerting my small strength."

[Benjamin Fogel @BA__Fogel]

There’s no greater argument against democracy than the 435 congressional “races” across America today

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

It's amazing that a top reason to send someone to Congress is "I am a tenant."

[Benjamin Fogel @BA__Fogel]

@CockyColombians

[Benjamin Fogel @BA__Fogel]

Miller Lite Match Ball son or Coors Light Taller Boy daughter?

[WHAT? @IloveSunBelt]

Missed out on the Miller Lite Match Ball and now the Coors light Taller Boy. When will it end?

[Benjamin Fogel @BA__Fogel]

Trump preventing Petro from meeting with Mamdani to discuss "democracy in the Americas" while the former actively undermines democracy in his own country is absolutely the right call. https://t.co/4ooTiVux4e

[Benjamin Fogel @BA__Fogel]

@John_Hudson "democratic socialist"

[Alejo Schapire⚡️ @aschapire]

🇨🇴Esto, de una cuenta universitaria de izquierda con casi medio millón de seguidores, es una caricatura antisemita digna de los años 30. Hoy, en nombre del "antisionismo", el antisemitismo más burdo y clásico ha sido naturalizado por la izquierda.

[Benjamin Fogel @BA__Fogel]

Gee I wonder how he died

[Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @IrishUnity]

Frank Ryan died 82 years ago today. RIP

“Viva la Quince Brigada”

[Luis Angel @luisangelgd]

Gloria Arizabaleta, exesposa de Roy Barreras y militante de un partido fundado por Roy Barreras, impulsa la suspensión de Petro.

Justo hoy, el día de su discurso ante la ONU. Qué coincidencia tan conveniente.

Harán cualquier cosa por llegar al poder.

[Benjamin Fogel @BA__Fogel]

Something sad and wicked about a nobody journalist trying to tarnish the memory of a great man and scholar. Is there anything more pathetic than cutting down the poppy?

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

Slightly taken aback by the Guardian's Gordon Wood obituary. I can find one reference to Wood saying he'd read the opening essay of the 1619 Project and objected to it (not quite "I haven't read most of it"). What follows seems to me to be a guilt-by-association shoehorning.

[Benjamin Fogel @BA__Fogel]

It’s been true since at least 2016 but money doesn’t buy you elections

[Rob Pyers @rpyers]

Between his run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States and his 2026 run for California governor, Tom Steyer will have spent $557,781,638 for 0 delegates and a 3rd-place primary finish, respectively.

[Benjamin Fogel @BA__Fogel]

Well yeah, Bailyn was Wood's advisor.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

I’d actually recommend (for a non-Wood 1776 book) The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn.

Read it and you’ll understand why they revolted over infringements far less than what many put up with on a daily basis today.

[Bob Elder @southernphd]

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him.

In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over.

Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I used to call my mother every Sunday to catch up. Lots of times, we ended up talking about what I was reading that week in my grad seminars or for leisure. Mom had an omnivorous mind, and she was always looking for something else to read. She was a true intellectual—curious about almost everything, always eager to integrate new arguments or ideas into her existing schemas of how the world worked or to have those schemas challenged and changed.

When we talked that particular Sunday, I think I tried to describe to her part of Wood’s argument about the relationship between the state constitutions during the Articles of Confederation era and the federal Constitution. Maybe I was tired, maybe I didn’t completely understand her questions, but the end result of the conversation was that Mom had questions about Wood’s argument that I didn’t answer satisfactorily. I told her that she should probably just read the book, and we said goodbye.

She did eventually read the book, but the next Sunday, Mom started our conversation by saying, “Well, I had a lovely conversation with Gordon Wood this week.” For a split second, I thought she was joking, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. I started to sweat. “How?” I asked. A whole variety of unlikely scenarios in which the foremost historian of the American Revolution and my mother, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, might have met ran through my mind. “Oh, I just looked up his office phone number on Brown’s website and called, and he picked up!” Mom said. I decided I would have to find another profession.

As it ended up, Gordon Wood spent about an hour on the phone with my mother answering her questions about the Constitution. Ever since, I’ve had a soft spot for the man when I imagine him picking up the phone in Providence and finding Becky Elder from Wichita on the other end of the line. His generosity in that moment spoke very well of him.

Rest in peace, professor.

[Benjamin Fogel @BA__Fogel]

Why does he walk like he has hemorrhoids

[may @maybellinaa]

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[Benjamin Fogel @BA__Fogel]

Cepeda announces he's learned of an impending assassination attempt on Abelardo . . .

. . . by Abelardo himself.

[Iván Cepeda Castro @IvanCepedaCast]

COMUNICADO
Bogotá D. C., 8 de junio de 2026.

Me permito informar a la opinión pública que pondré en conocimiento de las autoridades competentes información que he recibido en las últimas horas relacionada con la contienda electoral.

Por distintas vías, se me ha hecho saber que en la campaña de Abelardo de la Espriella se estaría fraguando un montaje para realizar un autoatentado controlado del candidato con el propósito de incidir en los resultados definitivos de la elección. Este montaje tendría lugar en los días previos al próximo 21 de junio, fecha de realización de los comicios de la segunda vuelta.

Ante esta circunstancia, anuncio que pondré en conocimiento de este hecho a la Fiscalía General de la Nación para que adelante las verificaciones del caso.

De igual forma, entrego esta información a la Unidad Nacional de Protección para que, de ser necesario,
refuerce las medidas de protección de De la Espriella y su fórmula vicepresidencial.

[Benjamin Fogel @BA__Fogel]

Donald Trump? The Spanish bullfighter?

[Benjamin Fogel @BA__Fogel]

Always be your own biggest fan.

[De La Espriella Presidente @AbelardoPTE]

Tranquilo @petrogustavo, eso se arregla con una llamadita. 😉

Abelardo Presidente. 🐅

[Benjamin Fogel @BA__Fogel]

When a gay journalist dares to criticize you…

[Gustavo Petro @petrogustavo]

Heil Hitler

[Gustavo Petro @petrogustavo]

Heil Hitler

[Benjamin Fogel @BA__Fogel]

For math majors, Abelardo's firm was less than two years old and they were pulling in 11 million pesos per month. The contract was worth 2 billion pesos.

[Benjamin Fogel @BA__Fogel]

Anyways, here's Abelardo de la Espriella wearing a keffiyeh on stage less than a year after the second intifada with a demobilized paramilitary commander campaigning against extradition to the United States.

[Benjamin Fogel @BA__Fogel]

The students were bussed in for this event and Abelardo's press release notes that he made many female college students swoon.

He became the richest lawyer in Colombia six months later for a contract to represent bidders (the Char clan) in a tender for Bogotá's intl airport.