Paul Tree
@paultree10
it’s still a pun on "paltry” do you get it
Not as good as his Stalingrad or Berlin books — maybe a little *too* detailed — but still good
Not to add another chart to Chart Discourse but this one is just completely inexplicable by any rational information enviornment:
The Pursuit of Power was excellent. An insane amount of information but very well structured and readable
He’s said this a couple times now, too bad it’s illegal for anyone in the press to ask him when, where, and how specifically he thinks communism began
Apropos of nothing, an interesting fact is that the top historical expert on Nicholas Poussin — probably the most important French painter of the entire 17th century — is Anthony Blunt (formerly, Sir Anthony Blunt), one of the Cambridge Five. Also, he was the Queen’s art curator
Sort of darkly funny that one of the reasons the Cambridge 5 weren’t even more effective is the soviets couldn’t quite believe how shitty British counterespionage was and thought the intelligence from especially Philby was too good to be true.
I think people don’t really realize how much things have changed. This was Emmer talking specifically about Somali-Americans in 2016:
Just started but on the top of the right hand page there’s a little couple word summary of what is being covered on that page (like, “Council of Nicaea”) along with a date (“325”) 😍
Republican voters seem to want from their representative a lot of hyperbolic whining and not much else
And also beware of early summer polls. My “polling is probably right” prior does not kick in until like Labor Day