The constant emphasis on protecting the interests of “high-skilled” workers neglects everyone else and reveals the myopic biases of some migrants, argues anthropologist Stanley Thangaraj.
Category Archive: conservatism
“Dunking” is a way of fighting back against those seeking to delegitimize our profession, argues historian Chris Deutsch.
Social movements from Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter to #metoo have through their activism rejected the inheritances of the past and created new ways of understanding our contemporary world and acting in the present.
A week of truly epic, virtuosic horse-shit reached its tragic crescendo today, with the murder of at least […]
The senator from Nebraska pretends to be both a thoughtful intellectual and a horny-handed son of toil, but he’s pretty much neither.
While it is true that most history professors are somewhere on the left end of the political spectrum, there are a number of problematic assumptions at the heart of the discourse of objectivity that warrant further investigation.
Tropics of Meta may be a good, clean, family blog about historiography, but we do occasionally stray into […]
Why the culture of college debate explains Cruz’s greatest strength — and his greatest weakness