Like, the fuck do people expect him to say?

The kid has to learn to take a Pedigree properly if he ever wants to make it in the world.

Maybe quit kicking your nephew in the stomach, dick.

Los Angeles County (at 10+ million, the nation’ s most populous by far) is filled with people between 18 and 60 who left the very rust belt cities and states mentioned and never went back.

Your podcasts are good and you should feel good!

This is one of the biggest things that irked me in my ex-wife’s PhD studies (in English/rhetoric). It would create a superiority complex among her peers because the writing was specific for academia and not for the general person. I can appreciate that you shouldn’t “dumb down” arguments for the common person to…

The ancient buildings first fell into disrepair from disuse. Christians weren’t interested in keeping the old temples swept out or kept up, except for the ones they appropriated, like the Pantheon or the Temple of of Antoninus and Faustina on the Forum. Think what would happen if the Empire State Building was…

Could you extend this a bit?

Once dry philology stops raking in the fresh faced undergrads by the thousands THEN you can complain about stifling and outdated norms.

Honest question: if you could go back in time, copy one historical document, and bring it forward to the present, which document would you copy?

As an academic who has tenure: Because it doesn’t count toward tenure. We have been battling for years to get non-academic, yet on-topic popular writing/media production to count toward tenure, but it has never taken hold because of 1. OLD TRADITIONS and 2. the inherent anxiety that baby boomer professors have when…

Professor here. It’s a bizarre misapplication of peer review. Yes, if you have compelling new findings that contradict previous scholarship, you have to submit the data and your interpretation of it for peer review. This submission will probably be dense and likely only be understood by specialists, and that’s…

After spending some time in the world of journalism, I figured I should go and do that poli sci MA I had long dreamed of. After enrolling, I had at least three profs tell me my writing was far too “journalistic” or lacked in “sophistication.” One encouraged us to “write what we read,” which he felt should be arcane…

For the hell of it I took a course on the rise of the Roman Empire one semester. Turned out to be one of the most interesting courses I’d ever take. Awesome podcast.

They had an excellent advertising system: Fat guy with a huge double chin shouting at the top of his lungs.

Just wanted to give the podcast a recommendation. Through episode 6. Well thought out and structured.

This is my favorite part of these articles:
I’m Patrick Wyman, and I just finished my PhD on the end of the Roman Empire. It seems pretty silly to me that professional historians don’t actually talk to the general public—why would you spend decades working on something if you don’t want to tell people about it?—so…