Dexter Fergie
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In Bloomberg, I make the case that World War II did not end in 1945. It simmered far into the future. And this should change how we view the conflict. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
World War II Didn’t End in 1945
A new history of the war lengthens the conflict’s timeline and argues that its “ragged ends” complicate the neat morality tale we still tell today.
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September 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
In Bloomberg, I make the case that World War II did not end in 1945. It simmered far into the future. And this should change how we view the conflict. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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New at PB: Dexter Fergie reviews Richard Beck’s “Homeland” (@CrownPublishing), a meditation on the ways the war on terror transformed American life, politics, and culture, from SUVs to ICE to tactical baby gear.
Forever Wars, Forever Forgotten
As the war on terror expanded abroad, paradoxically, it faded further into the American background.
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July 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
New at PB: Dexter Fergie reviews Richard Beck’s “Homeland” (@CrownPublishing), a meditation on the ways the war on terror transformed American life, politics, and culture, from SUVs to ICE to tactical baby gear.
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With even less news coming out of Gaza due to an internet blackout & crowding out effects due to Israel's attack on Iran, it's essential to keep asking where things are, especially amid claims that aid is getting in via the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Reporting confirms analysts' worst fears.
Reporting confirms analysts' worst fears.
EXCLUSIVE: American Security Contractor Unloads On US-Israeli ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’
I thought I was signing up for an aid mission. But what I've witnessed in Gaza is horrific.
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June 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
With even less news coming out of Gaza due to an internet blackout & crowding out effects due to Israel's attack on Iran, it's essential to keep asking where things are, especially amid claims that aid is getting in via the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Reporting confirms analysts' worst fears.
Reporting confirms analysts' worst fears.
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This would include the tribal colleges in Connecticut. Just devastating and utterly racist. This while Linda McMahon is threatening New York State with education funding cuts unless they restore racist indigenous mascots. www.propublica.org/article/trib...
June 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This would include the tribal colleges in Connecticut. Just devastating and utterly racist. This while Linda McMahon is threatening New York State with education funding cuts unless they restore racist indigenous mascots. www.propublica.org/article/trib...
It appears that my exhibit has been resurrected at the UN headquarters. The online is still available too. www.un.org/en/exhibits/...
May 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It appears that my exhibit has been resurrected at the UN headquarters. The online is still available too. www.un.org/en/exhibits/...
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'I did not complete a customs declaration for frog embryos (...) this would normally result in a warning or fine. Instead, my visa was revoked & I was sent to a detention center in Louisiana, where I have spent the past 3 months with roughly 100 other women. We share one room w dormitory-style beds'
Opinion | I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.
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May 14, 2025 at 4:27 AM
'I did not complete a customs declaration for frog embryos (...) this would normally result in a warning or fine. Instead, my visa was revoked & I was sent to a detention center in Louisiana, where I have spent the past 3 months with roughly 100 other women. We share one room w dormitory-style beds'
I haven't been on here in more than a year. But I popped back on to share an essay on the US-UN relationship I just published for Bloomberg Weekend Edition. (Email me if you need a copy.) 🇺🇳 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The United Nations Is Losing Favor With Its Former Cheerleader
The UN was once celebrated by both Democrats and Republicans in the US. In Trump’s America, that's no longer the case.
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May 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I haven't been on here in more than a year. But I popped back on to share an essay on the US-UN relationship I just published for Bloomberg Weekend Edition. (Email me if you need a copy.) 🇺🇳 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
merry christmas
New post about the market for history professing: After a brief rebound in 2021 and 2022 from the pandemic lows, it appears that 2023-24 will be once again be a historically bad year for hiring in history. Feel free to share with your local awarder of history PhDs.
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December 26, 2023 at 10:53 PM
merry christmas
Ok, so apparently the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library was renamed Prime Ministers Museum and Library Society, and I cannot find any information on its archival holdings any more. Anyone know of anything?
December 15, 2023 at 9:49 PM
Ok, so apparently the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library was renamed Prime Ministers Museum and Library Society, and I cannot find any information on its archival holdings any more. Anyone know of anything?
Had to download a PDF of an academic book to check a reference. Turns out that my copy, which may or may not have been acquired from a less than reputable website, also came with a copy of this book.
December 8, 2023 at 10:25 PM
Had to download a PDF of an academic book to check a reference. Turns out that my copy, which may or may not have been acquired from a less than reputable website, also came with a copy of this book.
Democracy Now put together a tribute on Refaat Alareer, whom Israel killed yesterday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Ra...
Remembering Refaat Alareer, Gaza Scholar & Activist Killed by Israeli Strike
Support our work: https://democracynow.org/giveAn Israeli airstrike in Gaza has killed the acclaimed Palestinian academic and activist Refaat Alareer, along ...
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December 8, 2023 at 5:47 PM
Democracy Now put together a tribute on Refaat Alareer, whom Israel killed yesterday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Ra...
Wertheim on the pathology of primacy.
December 8, 2023 at 5:33 PM
Wertheim on the pathology of primacy.
Robert Pape: "Even judged purely in strategic terms, Israel’s approach is doomed to failure—and indeed, it is already failing." www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israe...
Israel’s Failed Bombing Campaign in Gaza
Collective punishment won’t defeat Hamas.
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 8, 2023 at 5:21 PM
Robert Pape: "Even judged purely in strategic terms, Israel’s approach is doomed to failure—and indeed, it is already failing." www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israe...
I'm thinking about Refaat Alareer--a Palestinian poet, translator, literature professor, and dad. Israel killed him, along with his family, in a bombing earlier today. My heart hurts for him, his family, and the other 17,177 Palestinians that Israel has murdered since Oct. 7.
December 7, 2023 at 8:30 PM
I'm thinking about Refaat Alareer--a Palestinian poet, translator, literature professor, and dad. Israel killed him, along with his family, in a bombing earlier today. My heart hurts for him, his family, and the other 17,177 Palestinians that Israel has murdered since Oct. 7.
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, works of art & culture from 1928 will enter the public domain in the US, meaning they can be remixed & reused in new creative works. And 1928 was a big year, thanks to a famous mouse...
Join our celebrations: blog.archive.org/2023/12/05/w...
Join our celebrations: blog.archive.org/2023/12/05/w...
December 6, 2023 at 6:28 PM
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, works of art & culture from 1928 will enter the public domain in the US, meaning they can be remixed & reused in new creative works. And 1928 was a big year, thanks to a famous mouse...
Join our celebrations: blog.archive.org/2023/12/05/w...
Join our celebrations: blog.archive.org/2023/12/05/w...
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a note to Washington Post readers: On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes.
A letter to our readers
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December 5, 2023 at 4:55 PM
a note to Washington Post readers: On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes.
The Amalek plan in action: x.com/hrw/status/1...
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December 4, 2023 at 5:41 PM
The Amalek plan in action: x.com/hrw/status/1...
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I'm now soliciting pitches for the new International Policy Journal. If you have ideas or know anyone who has ideas about progressive/left/internationalist foreign policy and might want to get paid to write about them, I'm accepting pitches at this link: forms.gle/MU1VsqYnsPdk...
International Policy Journal Contact Form
Interested in pitching the International Policy Journal? Fill our this short form and our Chief Editor will get back to you.
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December 1, 2023 at 8:24 PM
I'm now soliciting pitches for the new International Policy Journal. If you have ideas or know anyone who has ideas about progressive/left/internationalist foreign policy and might want to get paid to write about them, I'm accepting pitches at this link: forms.gle/MU1VsqYnsPdk...
It seems like there has been a historical shift from assassination on foreign soil being a weapon used by civilian orgs against states to a weapon used by states against civilians. I'm thinking of the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and, more recently, India. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/n...
U.S. Says Indian Official Directed Assassination Plot in New York
A Manhattan indictment says the agent orchestrated a hit job on a Sikh separatist, a plan linked to a killing in Canada. The man prosecutors called the agent’s go-between was arrested in the Czech R...
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November 29, 2023 at 11:15 PM
It seems like there has been a historical shift from assassination on foreign soil being a weapon used by civilian orgs against states to a weapon used by states against civilians. I'm thinking of the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and, more recently, India. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/n...
Going to assign this comic on the origins of chemical weapons next year for my week on WWI.
Two comics my students are really responding to.
2) Emil Friis Ernst, "Why We Don’t Use Chemical Weapons" (2018)
thenib.com/why-we-don-t...
2) Emil Friis Ernst, "Why We Don’t Use Chemical Weapons" (2018)
thenib.com/why-we-don-t...
Why We Don’t Use Chemical Weapons | The Nib
World War I exposed the world to the horror of gas attacks. But why do we draw the line there when other methods of killing prove so much more effective?
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November 29, 2023 at 11:09 PM
Going to assign this comic on the origins of chemical weapons next year for my week on WWI.
love to be in the middle of writing an email, only to be interrupted several times by the ping announcing the arrival of more emails in my inbox.
November 29, 2023 at 6:59 PM
love to be in the middle of writing an email, only to be interrupted several times by the ping announcing the arrival of more emails in my inbox.
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