Christopher Mingo

History PhD student @cornell studying Italian fascism - formerly @columbia

[Christopher Mingo @chrisemingo]

@broderly I can’t be the only one who’s noticed all the English language coverage of her started with a Bloomberg profile a few weeks ago. It feels more like liberal aspects of international finance have found an acceptable and eager centrist alternative to Meloni than just self-promotion

[Christopher Mingo @chrisemingo]

I complimented an old man’s PCI pin on the Rome metro and he told me that Bella Ciao is becoming the song of democracy across the world and that we’ll even be singing it in the US in a few months

[Christopher Mingo @chrisemingo]

@BrankoMilan Buchanan and Lawlor recently argued it’s the US entry into the war in late 41 early 42 that made it a world war because the US was the only belligerent with both the capacity and political will to intervene in all fronts and shape what would come after the war

[Christopher Mingo @chrisemingo]

Now compare this to his late colleague Arno Mayer who sued his landlord on behalf of the whole building for better living conditions when he was 95 https://t.co/FxVP2LcbhH

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

In Princeton NJ, where the median home costs $1 million, residents are fighting a plan for 238 apartments on the grounds of a former seminary. Leading the resistance: historian Sean Wilentz. "We are being accused of being racist," he said.
@timcraigpost: https://t.co/tK09K2aWuf

[Christopher Mingo @chrisemingo]

It’s remarkable how dumb and ideological the right has become. Any ghoulish operative can see how this type of scholarship could indicate new modes of domination. The problem of the US left is that the two party system has forced us into coalition with whatever such ghouls remain

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

"Why did you identify this as one of the craziest grants?"

"Because it references feminist and queer insights into prison abolition and LGBTQ studies."

"Any other reasons?"

"No."

Legendarily based. 😆

[Christopher Mingo @chrisemingo]

This is cool for already digitized documents but that cost can’t possibly encompass the immense human labor necessary to process, organize, and scan whole archives which will again come out of the funding of the archives themselves, no?

[Noah Dasanaike @dasanaike]

Social scientists working with materials requiring digitization can only study what machines can read. In practice, that means printed Latin-script documents from well-funded archives. In a new working paper, I show that Vision Language Models used zero-shot outperform every existing OCR system across every script evaluated, and I propose a pipeline for deploying them on new collections. I apply it to six archival collections spanning 1.8 million pages across six countries for under $1,900.

[Christopher Mingo @chrisemingo]

4th grade numbers are nice but they diverge again in 8th grade:

Mississippi: 253
Louisiana: 257
New York: 262
California: 259

It’s also telling that your criticism is funding instead of curricula. It shows that your ends are to cut spending rather than better outcomes

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

This is a really astonishing claim:

Students in Mississippi & Louisiana score higher on reading tests than students in California & New York despite spending way less money per pupil and having higher child poverty rates.

Decided to double check the data because, if true, this should be alarming for blue state leaders.

And yup, it checks out.

Reading performance (NAEP 2024, Grade 4 reading, average scale score):

Mississippi: 219
Louisiana: 216
New York: 215
California: 212

Child poverty (SAIPE; “estimated percent of people age 0–17 in poverty,” 2023):

Louisiana: 25.2%
Mississippi: 24.3%
New York: 18.6%
California: 15.0%

Per-pupil spending (public K–12 “current expenditures per pupil,” FY2023, inflation-adjusted to FY2023 dollars)

New York: $29,588
California: $18,568
Louisiana: $14,822
Mississippi: $12,238

It should be unacceptable to spend that much more taxpayer money while delivering worse results for students.

[Christopher Mingo @chrisemingo]

$2 chairman Gonzalo would be a great insult for an armchair revolutionary academic

[braden🇵🇸🇨🇺 🚩 @bandtistbraden]

You have $20 to build the ideal socialist party 🌹🚩

[Christopher Mingo @chrisemingo]

I’m sure it’s a good review of a good book, but the advertising raises the question of whether we’ve forgotten Casablanca

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

Maurice Samuels on the “anguished itineraries” of Hannah Arendt, Heinrich Mann, and scores of European intellectuals on their escape from the Nazis through Marseille https://t.co/lpxHuiIEJJ

[julián gómez-delgado @juliangomezdel]

New School University is shutting down programs, PhD admissions have been paused, and faculty are now receiving emails to resign.

Of course, this isn't the first crisis, BUT the administration's response hasn't always been like today's revamped austerity "shock therapy.” 👇🏽

[Dominique Kirchner Reill @DominiqueReill]

In "Imperial Afterlives," @cristinamflorea discusses what has come back to life in studying the lands + peoples of the "dead" Habsburg Empire. Learn more about the exciting new work she heard at the 2025 Vienna Central European Convention that excited her: https://t.co/4r58PhAhv6

[AISPE @AISPE_2021]

Cari/e, condividiamo questo ulteriore articolo sul problema della chiusura di tutti i dottorati specificamente dedicati alla storia dell'economia, firmato Gianni Del Vecchio.

https://t.co/UenyK2wbHU

[Christy Thornton @llchristyll]

Exactly this - another nail in the coffin of the historical profession. I did not think that AHA leadership would be this short-sighted and choose to alienate the membership in this way.

[Christopher Mingo @chrisemingo]

This is the product of the Carnegie Foundation dropping its requirements for disciplinary spread in PhD offerings for R1 status coupled with uni admin anticipation of a Trump labor department that’ll be hostile to unionization in general. The first of many such cuts I fear

[Justin Feldman @jfeldman_epi]

BU isn't accepting PhD students in humanities this year, blaming the union for requiring PhD students be paid what a full-time McDonalds crew member would make in Boston. https://t.co/6UuOXdXs9R

[Christopher Mingo @chrisemingo]

An excellent review. The question of preventative vs reactionary fascism reminds me of Arno Mayer’s argument that counterrevolutions occur when elite’s perceive there to be a revolutionary threat even if it doesn’t materially exist in “Dynamics of Counterrevolution in Europe”

[Lauren Kaori Gurley @LaurenKGurley]

NEWS: 1k+ Cornell University workers with the UAW are now on strike.

The union says the university has failed to bargain in good faith, and has not offered fair pay.

[Christopher Mingo @chrisemingo]

I can’t be the only one who thinks Achille Starace (secretary of the PNF) looks like Stanley Tucci

[Christopher Mingo @chrisemingo]

I really hope wkcr is recording this broadcast. These students deserve a Pulitzer. I’m awed by their professionalism in the face of such brutality

[Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine @ColumbiaSJP]

TO BE CLEAR, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HAS CALLED THE COPS ONTO ITS OWN STUDENTS FOR THE SECOND TIME IN TWO WEEKS, ON THE 56TH ANNIVERSARY OF WHEN THEY LAST CALLED THE POLICE ONTO CAMPUS TO ARREST OVER 700 PROTESTING THE VIETNAM WAR & HARLEM GENTRIFICATION ON APRIL 30TH, 1968

[Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum]

Proud to be an alumnus of this department. If you’ve lost Chris Brown….