William Everdell

Euro-American retired schoolteacher, author, End of Kings (1983), First Moderns (1998), Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment (2021). Ex-Republican republican.

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@fred_guttenberg @JDVance Musk is revealing himself to be a racist, libertarian counterrevolutionary.

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HAVEN’T WE BEEN HERE BEFORE? 2, by @EverdellWilliam https://t.co/7aqHdBamjx

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@JudiciaryDems How should I reply to news that the owner of X undoubtedly thinks is bad and misleading, when what I think is that Senators like Durbin are all that keeps my country, now hanging by a thread above a bottomless oligopolist pit of hell, from going down in it?

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Hope to reach Gopnik and others who know and care about du Châtelet with a piece I wrote and published obscurely long ago and now republish here: https://t.co/1iJo4rnYRY

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Does the Enlightenment’s Great Female Intellect Need Rescuing? https://t.co/84cMAhT7UU

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X's transactionalist, right-wing algorithm seems to have struck out this link: You might try https://t.co/sRtuOJSQRE

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It Can't Happen Here:, by @EverdellWilliam https://t.co/2crAhgX5bU

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Decided to distill my post-election disappointment to a quatrain:
We’ve elected the felon, Hurrah! Hurrah!
And gave him both Houses of Congress, Ha Ha!
Our children will live with a fascist dictator
And the end of Ukraine and Taiwan will come later!

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@WilliamHogeland My favorite terrorist--Sam Adams. But some just think he was a brewer.

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@WilliamHogeland It is indeed discouraging, Bill. No wonder they're closing down History Departments.

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@Retrievals1 Except in some neighborhoods, especially in dictatorships.

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@RadioFreeTom Perfect projection. The median IQ of a truly democratic electorate is, of course, 100.

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@JeffAndDonkeys I'm even older. Graduated HS in 1959. Never thought I'd live to see the day either. What has happened to so many of our fellow citizens?

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@jimstewartson Classic Freudian projection—again!

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@RonFilipkowski As The Duke of Wellington replied to the man who addressed him, “Mr. Jones, I believe,”
“If you believe that, you’ll believe anything.”

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@nicholasbirns Wieland Schulz-Keil is a name I think I do know–but not well. OTOH, Hartmut Keil was my St Paul's classmate, class of 1959 (centuries ago). He's now (still, I think) a professor in Germany. He returns for major SPS Reunions, where I see him & he mentions liking The End of Kings.

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@benoitmelancon Merci beaucoup. -Bill

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@elonmusk They overthrew the Consitution's protections of slavery and white propertied citizenship by Civil War, and after that War by amending the Constitution. Too bad they left the Electoral College and the two Senators per state rules. Those may not be constitutionally overthrowable.

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@LindaRMonkJD @carolinepennock @classroomtools @agordonreed @jbf1755 @ThatHistorian @HC_Richardson @outofthetowerh The question I'm still trying to answer after a book and two articles is: "What is a republic?" After pretty careful examination I feel sure that every single member of the U.S. Republican Party is mistaken about the answer.