"The commonest question I get at the moment is which Roman emperor is Donald Trump like?"
Author Mary Beard's new book explores the link between the ancient past and the present
@SophyRidgeSky and @WilfredFrost ask how the Romans can help us understand the leaders of today
This👇is quite extraordinary, showing how much Trump is uniting Europeans on all sides 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 him
Elly Schlein, Leader of Italy's largest opposition party, (herself 50/50🇮🇹🇺🇸) furiously condemns Trump's attacks on her opponent Meloni. The whole Chamber stands up to applaud the whole time. My English s/t👇
"Italy is a free and sovereign country. Our Constitution is clear - Italy repudiates war. No foreign Head of State has the right to attack, threaten or disrespect our country or government. We are opponents in this Chamber, but we are all Italian citizens and Italian MPs. We are asking for unanimous condemnation of these attacks and threats"
"You know that Kevin gets to replace all those people, right?" - @Heritage President @KevinRobertsTX's friend @EricTeetsel, helpfully explaining Kevin's view that the Heritage Foundation Board of Trustees answers to *him* and not the other way around
Where's the annual meeting of the Reagan Alumni Association usually held in DC in the first week of February (RR's birthday)? It's usually at The Heritage Foundation. Could that be the problem?
Gordon Jones, founder of John Adams College, former Heritage Foundation vice president, and Utah native has passed away at age 83. His greatest legacy is the liberal arts college he established in Provo. https://t.co/S3142vX1Nh
Today's staff walkout at Heritage is the latest in a series of incidents that together show serious instability on the "New Right." https://t.co/zOic17CaDT
"The story of Carlson’s stranglehold on an aging conservative think tank is part of a larger saga of how multiple institutions on the political right have suffered from an identity crisis in the age of Donald Trump." | @michaelrwarren
https://t.co/pxpX1pvzrn
Wow, big behind-the-scenes tension between conservatives and post liberals at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute- one of the flagship conservative education organizations.
Our @FreeBeacon piece now includes a video of the Heritage Foundation all staff meeting today and the Q&A is very much worth watching - https://t.co/GAf6FLjexd
Yale historian David Blight has announced that he is reaching agreement with historian Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, to hold in February a public discussion of current practices in teaching American history. Dates to be announced.
After the news of Harvard cutting its history PhD program by 60% we are opening/making free this article: "The Contraction of History PhD Programs in the Midwest," Middle West Review (Fall 2024) https://t.co/lNBCPjSoQb @chronicle@insidehighered@MwHWG
Check out my ‘customer review’ of “Karl Marx in America” by Andrew Hartman (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2025). It’s Costco-style on https://t.co/XajPa1pmMX: instantly online with no editor.