Bartle Bull

Author most recently of Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000 Year History of Iraq. Former editor, Middle East Monitor and foreign editor, Prospect Magazine.

[Bartle Bull @bb_bull]

A very nice review of my new book LAND BETWEEN THE RIVERS in the New York Times.

"Conceptual originality and laudable ambition... inspired by firsthand experience of the region. A sweeping history."

https://t.co/8qSvQ9JK5Z

Professor van de Mieroop is a giant in his field and I'm honored.

@nytimesbooks @groveatlantic @atlanticbooks

[Bartle Bull @bb_bull]

Back in 1992, being taught by the world's leading philosophy professor in a Harvard lecture hall, I never dreamed I would be appearing next to him in the world's best magazine. What an honor.
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@newcriterion @rogerkimball

[Bartle Bull @bb_bull]

The United States is now the world's #1 oil exporter.

https://t.co/MHCLiY6r1x

[Distracted Film @distractedfilm]

“Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.”

- David Bowie

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Straits of Hormuz are named after Ahura Mazda from Zoroastrianism

[The New Criterion @newcriterion]

“But as Muhammad’s system allowed no difference between religion and politics, and as Mamoun was the ruler of the faith-empire, it was a worldly struggle too.”

Read “A dream of reason,” by Bartle Bull. @bb_bull

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[Bartle Bull @bb_bull]

@RoyKAltman The four standards in the Montevideo Convention of 1933 are a formalization, in 20th century treaty language, of the key Westphalian criteria from 1648, which ended the 30 Years War that killed ~5m Europeans.

Westphalia also included external independence and mutual recognition.

[Bartle Bull @bb_bull]

@AaronBMacLean Waiting for MoDo

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Today, we remember a legend.

On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline.

Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme.

He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.

Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.

Gone, but never forgotten.
Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸

May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016
Forever in our hearts.

[Bartle Bull @bb_bull]

@RupertLowe10 @DPJHodges Whichever side you're on it should be clear that informed "Reform" voters will prefer Restore.

1) It is not possible to like, or trust, Farage. Everyone knows this, it's just a fact of life.

2) Most of the cabinet that oversaw the Boris Wave is now in Reform.

[The New Criterion @newcriterion]

“Despite rapid Westernization, Russia before the 1860s more closely resembled a premodern Eastern steppe empire than a European state.”

Read “One steppe at a time,” by Warren Frye. @yalepress

https://t.co/AOPbqTwZEI

[Mr. T @MrT]

God Bless America, the Land that I love! We pause to Honor all those who made the Ultimate Sacrifice! Yes, All Gave Some, but Some Gave All! #MemorialDay

[Bartle Bull @bb_bull]

@peterfrankopan For a Byzantinist, Professor Frankopan has always been a remarkably high-minded individual.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Moral panics of the 1980s included teens drinking, teens having sex, teens driving, teens smoking, teens watching television, teen movies, teens playing RPG’s, teens listening to music, teens playing video games.

[American Revolution Institute @AmRevInstitute]

The Society of the Cincinnati was founded #OTD by officers of the Continental Army as the nation’s oldest patriotic organization: created not to govern, but to preserve and transmit the lived memory, ideals, and legacy of the American Revolution.

[Douglas Ollivant @DouglasOllivant]

I’m Doug Ollivant and I’m running for Congress in Virginia’s 7th District.

After serving my country abroad, I’m ready to fight and work for you here. Because Virginia deserves better.

Service leadership you can trust.

Please retweet!

And visit https://t.co/IrUyOpti2G.

[Bartle Bull @bb_bull]

@zatzi He is appealing to his base.

[Bartle Bull @bb_bull]

All true, well said @MsMelChen
And let us not forget this part:
At China's current fertility rate of TFR=0.93, the population halves every 25 years.
(Net migration is of course dramatically negative.)
China lost 1.4m people in 2024 and 3.4m in 2025 as the negative curve steepens...

[Bartle Bull @bb_bull]

@realMaalouf People can make of this pattern what they will, but this is indeed the timeline.

(Perhaps two tiny quibbles on dates, eg. Battle of Tours 732)

[Bartle Bull @bb_bull]

@tedfrank I don't think that's why. They can't afford to admit that these are all in essence the same.