Joel Marcus

[Joel Marcus @jmarcus51]

@RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret Do the guests on Leading ever get mad at you for deconstructing them after they leave the presence?

[Joel Marcus @jmarcus51]

@RestIsPolitics do the guests on Leading ever get mad at you for the way you deconstruct them and their answers after they leave the show? And do you do so immediately or do you let the interview percolate a bit first?

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He argues that slavery is sometimes practiced in situations in which it is not economically advantageous

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@EmpirePodUK what do you think of the thesis of Orlando Patterson in *Slavery as Social Death* that, even more than by economics, slavery cross-culturally is energized by the honor that accrues to the slave owner through the dishonoring of the enslaved?

[Joel Marcus @jmarcus51]

I think Patterson would disagree with the optimism of the *Dawn of Everything* Davids (as Mary Beard also seemed to). For him slavery is a universal phenomenon rooted in the need to dominate.

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@NYTGames I can’t find today’s Acrostic in the online Crossword section. I’ve gotten used to solving this online! Has NYT taken that away?

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@NYTGames

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@TheKingCenter can you tell me about parking near the King Center?

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@ArkadyMartine do imagos only reach back one generation? Mahit draws on Yskandr’s memories but not on those of any of his predecessors

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@sccarlson I never know whether that’s a recommendation or a pan

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@ArkadyMartine really enjoying Memory Called Empire, but I have a question. Why do Teixcalaanlitzlim need to send infofiches? Couldn’t they just send each other emails through their cloudhooks? Or is their a narrative need for infofiches?

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@GLA_Airport Okay, thanks

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@GLA_Airport what time should I get to the airport for the 605 am flight to Amsterdam on Delta/KLM on Saturday?

[Joel Marcus @jmarcus51]

@GLA_Airport I thought the airport was shut until 6 am

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Liking James Shapiro’s Shakespeare in a Divided America. Didn’t know that Ulysses S Grant, posted to Corpus Christi during the Mexican American War, was cast as Desdemona in a production of Othello because of his “girlish” features and diminutive frame https://t.co/8GYzEMUHts

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@EmilBrunner1 I would have thought that chapter would be shorter

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@LauraRbnsn I hate to be a pedant (well no, not really) but I think it should be “garbage chute”

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@MattThiessenNT The cast of Schmigadoon?