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- About
A high school French teacher who came to it the long way, by way of a doctorate left near the finish and three and a half years in Tunisia. - AI
I use it every day, and I'm not sure the verb points the right way: what I've trained these systems to do, and what they're doing to me. - Blogroll
The personal sites I read, in the rough order they found me, reached by following links rather than searching. - Bookmarks
Links worth keeping, organized by when I found them. - Canon
The concepts that stayed, and the works that carried them. - Hills
Convictions I have lived my way into, and would defend at a cost. - Now
A monthly reflection on the month that came before: what I did, made, and thought about. - Service
Where the rest of the week goes: a teen center, a crisis center, a county historical society. - Someday
Not a bucket list: things I'd like to do, make, see, and become, no longer sorted by which I'll reach. - Teaching
French, at the school that taught it to me, and what a classroom gives that isn't transmission. - Uses
It starts with a pen; everything else in the house is machinery for what the pen produces. - Why
What I care about, and why the rest of the site takes the shape it does.
Field Notes
Undeveloped ideas and observations, arranged by theme.
Library
2026
2025
- On #Accelerate
- On a Brief History of Ancient Astrology
- On a Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature
- On a Companion to Assyria
- On a Companion to the Ancient Near East
- On a Nick Land Reader
- On a Political Economy of the Middle East
- On a Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
- On After Dark
- On After Shock
- On Alchemy
- On an Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa
- On an Introduction to Arabic Literature
- On an Introduction to the Study of Mysticism
- On an Oral History of Atlantis
- On Anthropocene or Capitalocene?
- On Arab Society
- On Arab Stories
- On Ariel
- On Astrology
- On Be Here Now
- On Blank Space
- On Blue Machine
- On Born for This
- On Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
- On Build for Tomorrow
- On Classical Arabic Stories
- On Coming Back
- On Count Zero
- On Dark Night of the Soul
- On Desert Tracings
- On Digital Minimalism
- On Do What You Are
- On Dopamine Nation
- On Doppelganger
- On Driven to Distraction
- On Dynamics of the Unconscious
- On Either/Or
- On Elsewhere
- On Enlightenment
- On Exit Strategy
- On Feel the Fear ... and Do It Anyway
- On Fugitive Telemetry
- On Futureproof
- On General Intellects
- On Gifts Differing
- On Grand Union
- On Haiku
- On Healing Pluto Problems
- On Horoscope Symbols
- On How Infrastructure Works
- On How to Do Nothing
- On If It Bleeds
- On If We Burn
- On Infinite Jest
- On James
- On Labyrinths
- On Let Me Tell You What I Mean
- On Linked
- On Love in Color
- On Lyrical Ballads
- On Meditations
- On Modern Arab Art
- On Mona Lisa Overdrive
- On Moral Ambition
- On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia
- On Network Effect
- On Next!
- On Northern Bull
- On Old Babes in the Wood
- On One World
- On Opinions
- On Orbital
- On Patchwork
- On Paul and Jesus
- On Political and Social Thought in the Contemporary Middle East
- On Political Economy of the United States
- On Quietly Hostile
- On Rise of the Machines
- On Salomé
- On Sardines and Oranges
- On Self-Confidence
- On Sensitive
- On Shadows of Carcosa
- On Shamanism
- On Sleepless Nights
- On Social, Emotional, and Psychosocial Development of Gifted and Talented Individuals
- On Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
- On Speculative Modernism
- On Spirits Abroad
- On Strategize to Win
- On Superintelligence
- On Surfaces and Essences
- On System Collapse
- On Taking Charge of Adult ADHD
- On Tales of Juha
- On Technics and Civilization
- On Technofeudalism
- On Tenth of December
- On the Best American Short Stories 2024
- On the Book
- On the Book of Jade
- On the Cambridge Companion to Freud
- On the Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
- On the Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People
- On the City of Mist
- On the Complete Book of Numerology
- On the Creative Act
- On the Development of the Personality
- On the Disenlightenment
- On the Divine Within
- On the Dream Hotel
- On the End of the End of the Earth
- On the End of Your World
- On the Gay Science
- On the Gift of Not Belonging
- On the Gifted Adult
- On the Golden Road
- On the Heavenly Spheres
- On the INFJ Revolution
- On the Inner Planets
- On the Interpretation of Dreams
- On the Introvert's Edge to Networking
- On the Italian
- On the Lathe of Heaven
- On the Life You Were Born to Live
- On the Literature of Modern Arabia
- On the Luminaries
- On the McKinsey Way
- On the Middle East in the World Economy
- On the New Oxford Annotated Bible
- On the Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative
- On the Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology
- On the Oxford Handbook of Qurʾanic Studies
- On the Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible
- On the Oxford Handbook of the Prophets
- On the Oxford Handbook of Wisdom and the Bible
- On the Plains
- On the Routledge Handbook of Consciousness
- On the Saint of Bright Doors
- On the Secrets of Alchemy
- On the Study Quran
- On the Terrible Paradox of Self-Awareness
- On the Untethered Soul
- On the Wisdom of the Desert
- On the World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
- On Think
- On Thinking in Systems
- On Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
- On Thunder Song
- On Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- On Traditional Astrology for Today
- On Ways of Being
- On We're Alone
- On Weavers, Scribes, and Kings
- On What Is Real?
- On What to Listen for in Music
- On Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
- On Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
- On You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!
- On You Need a Budget
- On Your Rainforest Mind
2024
- On a Hacker Manifesto
- On a New Earth
- On a Prayer for the Crown-Shy
- On a Psalm for the Wild-Built
- On All Systems Red
- On Call Us What We Carry
- On Capitalist Realism
- On Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
- On Consider the Lobster
- On Crush
- On Cultivating Stillness
- On Death's End
- On Egress
- On Flatland
- On Flatline Constructs
- On Four Futures
- On Freud
- On Future Shock
- On Gaza
- On Gaza Writes Back
- On Ghosts of My Life
- On How To
- On How to Do the Work
- On How to Read Literature
- On How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- On In a Flight of Starlings
- On In the Presence of Absence
- On Introducing Philosophy
- On Invisible Planets
- On K-Punk
- On Kafka
- On La marche de l'incertitude
- On Le Petit Prince
- On Life in Five Senses
- On Light in Gaza
- On Marx
- On Math Without Numbers
- On Men in the Sun
- On milk and honey
- On Mural
- On Neuromancer
- On Nietzsche
- On Palestine +100
- On Perdido Street Station
- On Personality Shaping Through Positive Disintegration
- On Postcapitalist Desire
- On Presocratic Philosophy
- On Reality
- On Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
- On Stories of Your Life
- On Tao Te Ching
- On the Anatomy of Anxiety
- On the Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
- On the Birth of Tragedy
- On the Case Against Reality
- On the City and the City
- On the Communist Manifesto
- On the Complete Stories
- On the Dark Forest
- On the Dawn of the Arab Uprisings
- On the Edge of the Sky
- On the Heartbeat of Trees
- On the House at Pooh Corner
- On the Hundred Years' War on Palestine
- On the Memeing of Mark Fisher
- On the Myth of Sisyphus
- On the Paper Menagerie
- On the Power of Now
- On the Prophet
- On the Secret Life of Saeed
- On the Stranger
- On the Tao of Pooh
- On the Trial
- On the Waste Land
- On the Weird and the Eerie
- On the Wild Places
- On This Is Water
- On To Be Taught, If Fortunate
- On Under Alien Skies
- On What Is Tao?
- On Winnie-the-Pooh
2022
- On "myne Owne Ground"
- On 12 Years a Slave
- On a Concise History of Modern Europe
- On a Concise History of Revolution
- On a Cure for Serpents
- On a Fistful of Shells
- On Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- On African Dominion
- On African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean
- On Albion's Seed
- On Ambivalent Conquests
- On American Slavery American Freedom
- On Bárbaros
- On Bewilderment
- On Beyond the Asylum
- On Black Majority
- On Bourbon Spain
- On Caste
- On Children of the Father King
- On Coercion and Market
- On Colonial Latin America
- On Defining Nations
- On Divided Rule
- On Eloquence Embodied
- On Empires of Vice
- On Errand into the Wilderness
- On Facing East from Indian Country
- On France's Purveyors of Hatred
- On From Colony to Superpower
- On Genealogical Fictions
- On Gold Dust
- On Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century
- On Hiding the Guillotine
- On How to Write the History of the New World
- On Imperial Spain
- On Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- On Indians and English
- On Inhuman Bondage
- On Insurrection or Loyalty
- On Inventing the People
- On Life on Mars
- On Little Women
- On Lord Cornbury Scandal the Politics of Reputation in British America
- On Managing Transition
- On Many Thousands Gone
- On Maus
- On Mediterranean Encounters
- On Mescaline
- On Miners of the Red Mountain
- On New Worlds for All
- On Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest
- On Puritan Family
- On Pursuits of Happiness
- On Ramona
- On Red Gold
- On Religion in the Andes
- On Remembering Dixie
- On Reversing Sail
- On Revolutionary Thought After the Paris Commune
- On Ruling the Savage Periphery
- On Second Class Citizen
- On Selected Poems
- On Slave Counterpoint
- On Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic
- On Subjects Unto the Same King
- On Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society
- On the Atlantic in World History
- On the Body of the Conquistador
- On the Bostonians
- On the Columbian Exchange
- On the Fall of Natural Man
- On the First America
- On the Gates Ajar
- On the Golden Rhinoceros
- On the Green Book
- On the Haitians
- On the Hidden Hand
- On the Independence of Spanish America
- On the Indians' New World
- On the Inside Scoop on Eating Disorder Recovery
- On the Invasion Within
- On the Jamestown Project
- On the King's Three Faces
- On the Making of Modern Libya
- On the Men of Cajamarca
- On the Middle Ground
- On the Midnight Library
- On the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
- On the Origins of American Politics
- On the Ottoman 'Wild West'
- On the Oxford Book of American Short Stories
- On the Peopling of British North America
- On the Pioneers
- On the Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative
- On the Politics of War Powers
- On the Portuguese Seaborne Empire
- On the Psychology of Eating
- On the Puritan Dilemma
- On the Sentence
- On the Sum of Us
- On the Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America
- On Tobacco and Slaves
- On Tobacco Culture
- On Trade and Navigation Between Spain and the Indies
- On Trading Roles
- On Under the Cope of Heaven
- On Under the Tripoli Sky
- On Upholding Justice
- On Vermeer's Hat
- On Visible Saints
- On We People Here
- On Weaving the Past
- On When the War Came Home
- On White Over Black
- On Why the Constitution Matters
- On Wind, Sand and Stars
2021
- On 1913
- On 1968
- On a Consumers' Republic
- On a Fierce Discontent
- On a Nation Under Our Feet
- On a Son of the Forest and Other Writings
- On Abiding Courage
- On Africa First!
- On After Nationalism
- On After the Fall
- On Ages of Discord
- On America for Americans
- On America on Fire
- On American Babylon
- On American Crucible
- On American History Now
- On an Introduction to Poetry
- On Art of Poetry Writing
- On At America's Gates
- On Battle Cry of Freedom
- On Beautiful World, Where Are You
- On Becoming Mexican American
- On Between Race and Ethnicity
- On Beyond the Melting Pot, Revised
- On Black Identities
- On Black Milwaukee
- On Boston's Immigrants
- On Burning at Europe's Borders
- On César Chávez
- On Changes in the Land
- On Chants Democratic
- On Charlotte Temple
- On Chicago's New Negroes
- On Choosing War
- On Clotel
- On Colonizing the Body
- On Contagious Divides
- On Dark Force Rising
- On Daughters of the Shtetl
- On Eight Hours for What We Will
- On Electric News in Colonial Algeria
- On Emigrant Nation
- On Empire of Liberty
- On Ethnic Options
- On Evangeline
- On Family Connections
- On Fault Lines
- On For Bread with Butter
- On For the Soul of Mankind
- On Forced Founders
- On Founding Mothers & Fathers
- On Freedom from Fear
- On From Ally to Enemy
- On From Ellis Island to JFK
- On From Munich to Pearl Harbor
- On From the Other Side
- On Generations of Captivity
- On Grand Expectations
- On Heir to the Empire
- On Historians' Fallacie
- On Honored by the Glory of Islam
- On Hope Leslie
- On I've Got the Light of Freedom
- On Ibn Khaldun and the Medieval Maghrib
- On Immigrant Life in New York City
- On Impossible Subjects
- On Issei, Nisei, War Bride
- On It Can Happen Here
- On Italian Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period
- On Italy's Sea
- On James Madison
- On Jews, God, and History
- On Kenobi
- On Killing for Coal
- On Land of Hope
- On Leaves of Grass
- On Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America
- On Little Germany
- On Making a New Deal
- On Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World
- On Medieval Philosophy
- On Mussolini's Nation-Empire
- On Mussolini's Propaganda Abroad
- On Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
- On Nativism and Slavery
- On Nature
- On Nature's Metropolis
- On New York Before Chinatown
- On No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies
- On Not for Profit
- On Origins of the New South
- On Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing
- On Philosophy in the Islamic World
- On Pierre or The Ambiguities
- On Places of Their Own
- On Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight
- On Postwar Immigrant America
- On Poverty and Progress
- On Prisoners Without Trial
- On Rainbow's End
- On Reconstruction
- On Restless Giant
- On River of Dark Dreams
- On Roll, Jordan, Roll
- On Rulers of Empire
- On Sheppard Lee
- On Shopping for Identity
- On Sing, Unburied, Sing
- On Slaves on Horses
- On Special Sorrows
- On Still the Golden Door
- On Strangers in the Land
- On Suburban Warriors
- On the Anglo-Saxon Age
- On the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- On the Avoidable War
- On the Avoidable War
- On the Belle Époque
- On the Best American Essays 2021
- On the Best American Poetry 2021
- On the Best American Short Stories 2019
- On the Best American Short Stories 2021
- On the Blithedale Romance
- On the Chinatown Trunk Mystery
- On the City of Tunis
- On the Coffin Ship
- On the Comanche Empire
- On the Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
- On the Elusive Republic
- On the French Colonial Lobby
- On the Future Is Asian
- On the Glorious Cause
- On the Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
- On the History of Love
- On the History of the Medieval World
- On the Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
- On the Indian Slave Trade
- On the Indispensable Enemy
- On the Last Command
- On the Last of the Mohicans
- On the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
- On the Madonna of 115th Street
- On the New Chinatown
- On the New York City Draft Riots
- On the Other Bostonians
- On the Piazza Tales
- On the Political Crisis of the 1850s
- On the Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism
- On the Politics of Our Time
- On the Radicalism of the American Revolution
- On the Republic for Which It Stands
- On the Sacco and Vanzetti Case
- On the Second Gold Rush
- On the Silk Road and the Cities of the Golden Horde
- On the Southern Diaspora
- On the Succession to Muhammad
- On the Tragedy of American Diplomacy
- On the Transplanted
- On the Uprooted
- On the Urban Crucible
- On the Wages of Whiteness
- On the World of Late Antiquity
- On This Republic of Suffering
- On Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism
- On Uncle Tom's Cabin
- On Unequal Freedom
- On Urban Exodus
- On Vital Crossroads
- On Walden & Civil Disobedience
- On War Without Mercy
- On Warfare State
- On What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean?
- On What Hath God Wrought
- On When Affirmative Action Was White
- On White Flight
- On Whiteness of a Different Color
- On Wieland
- On Woman in the Nineteenth Century
- On Women and the City
- On Working-Class Americanism
2020
- On a Bubble in Time
- On a History of Ukraine
- On a Little History of the World
- On a Peace to End All Peace
- On a Rage for Order
- On All the Pasha's Men
- On Are Numbers Real?
- On Between East and West
- On Book of the Moon
- On Corsairs of Malta and Barbary
- On Dark Matter
- On Destiny Disrupted
- On Final Solutions
- On Global Rift
- On How the Internet Happened
- On How the South Won the Civil War
- On How to Finish Your Dissertation in Six Months, Even if You Don't Know What to Write
- On Ibn Khaldun in Modern Scholarship
- On Islam and the Third Universal Theory
- On Islamic State
- On Look Away!
- On Manufacturing Consent
- On Modern Algeria
- On Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
- On Prelude to Protectorate in Morocco
- On Qaddafi, Terrorism, and the Origins of the U.S. Attack on Libya
- On Refuting ISIS
- On Roman North Africa
- On Snow
- On Strange Rebels
- On the Basque History of the World
- On the Colonial Harem
- On the Global 1930s
- On the Great Influenza
- On the Heartland
- On the ISIS Apocalypse
- On the Killing of History
- On the Origins of the Morocco Question
- On the Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- On the State and Social Transformation in Tunisia and Libya
- On the United States and North Africa
- On the Wealth and Poverty of Nations
- On Tunisia
- On Tunisian Peasants in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- On Yemen
2019
- On a History of Islamic Philosophy
- On Algeria
- On Desert War
- On France in the World
- On Free French Africa in World War II
- On Homo Sacer
- On Immediate Family
- On Kill All Normies
- On La Méditerranée fasciste
- On Lord of the Flies
- On Merchant Kings
- On Mother Words
- On One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- On Plagues and Peoples
- On Political Belief in France
- On the Algerian Insurrection
- On the Call of Cthulhu
- On the Catcher in the Rye
- On the Cold War
- On the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- On the Family of Man
- On the Global 1920s
- On the Harkis
- On the Idiot
- On the Martian
- On the New Arabs
- On the Origins of the Libyan Nation
- On the People from Nowhere
- On the Return of the King
- On the Road
- On To the Lighthouse
- On Tunisia
- On Tunisia - Culture Smart!
- On Tunisia Since Independence
- On Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day
2018
- On 14-18
- On 1848
- On a Heart Turned East
- On a History of Modern Tunisia
- On a People's Tragedy
- On a River in Darkness
- On Accounting
- On Africa in Time-Perspective
- On Aftershocks
- On All the Light We Cannot See
- On American War
- On Ancient Rome
- On Barbarians
- On Building the Railways of the Raj
- On Burning the Veil
- On Cambodge
- On Central Europe
- On Divide and Conquer or Divide and Subdivide?
- On Economic Sentiments
- On Environmentalism
- On Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
- On Exile to Paradise
- On Family Fortunes
- On Fantasyland
- On Fascism and Big Business
- On Fascism and Political Theory
- On Fascism and the Right in Europe
- On Fascism in Europe
- On Fascist Economic Policy
- On Glenn Beck's Common Sense
- On Global Economic History
- On Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia
- On Hitler's Willing Executioners
- On In the Aftermath of Genocide
- On India
- On Indochina
- On Interpretations of Fascism
- On Inventing Eastern Europe
- On Iraq
- On Jews, Germans, and Allies
- On Languages of Labor and Gender
- On Liberal Fascism
- On Lost Kingdom
- On Mosquito Empires
- On Murder in Amsterdam
- On North Africa
- On Ordinary Men
- On Pachinko
- On Paris Noir
- On Parité!
- On Provincializing Europe
- On Racism in Europe
- On Revolution of the Mind
- On Revolutionary Dreams
- On Revolutionary Iran
- On Rites of Peace
- On Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold
- On Sapiens
- On Sleepless Nights
- On Starlight
- On State, Society and Mobilization in Europe During the First World War
- On Strangers
- On Suspensions of Perception
- On the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy
- On the Balkans
- On the Bleeding of the Stone
- On the China Wave
- On the Cold War and the New Imperialism
- On the Colonial Present
- On the Colonizer's Model of the World
- On the Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe
- On the Dynamics of Global Dominance
- On the End of Empire in French West Africa
- On the End of the Old Regime in Europe
- On the Gifts of the Jews
- On the Good Soldier Švejk
- On the Great African War
- On the Habsburg Empire
- On the Image of Man
- On the Jewish Century
- On the Last Utopia
- On the Maghreb in the Modern World
- On the Making of English National Identity
- On the Mughal State
- On the Pillar of Salt
- On the Pursuit of Italy
- On the Radetzky March
- On the Revolt of the Masses
- On the Right in France from the Third Republic to Vichy
- On the Routledge Companion to Fascism and the Far Right
- On the Russian Civil War
- On the Settler Colonial Present
- On the Shia Revival
- On the Soviet Experiment
- On the Struggle for Modernity
- On the Taste of Ashes
- On the Templars
- On the Transformation of European Politics
- On the Unbearable Lightness of Being
- On the United States of Europe
- On the War Against Catholicism
- On Train to Pakistan
- On Tunisia
- On Tunisian Revolutions
- On Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire
- On War Is a Racket
- On What is Neoreaction
- On Your Death Would Be Mine
2017
- On a Colony of Citizens
- On Barricades
- On Becoming a Barbarian
- On Between Worlds
- On Colonialism/Postcolonialism
- On Empire
- On Flatland
- On France and Its Empire Since 1870
- On France since 1870
- On Insurgent Identities
- On Napoleon's Egypt
- On Only Paradoxes to Offer
- On Paris Reborn
- On Peasants into Frenchmen
- On Restoration and Reaction
- On the Birth of Fascist Ideology
- On the Cartoon Introduction to Economics
- On the French Intifada
- On the French Second Empire
- On the Man in the High Castle
- On the Ottoman Empire
- On the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe
- On the Pacific in the Age of Early Industrialization
- On the Perilous Crown
- On the Second French Republic
- On Transnational France
- On Violence and Colonial Dialogue
- On What Is Global History?
- On Writings on Empire and Slavery
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