David A. Bell
@DavidAvromBell
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Historian, writer, teacher, author of Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution.
Princeton, NJ
Joined January 2012
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We collected over 4000 remote viewing sessions, and made them publicly available for anyone to see! 20% of these are recorded on-chain in a way that any skeptic in the world can validate the experiment is double blind. Here is a walkthrough of the data we collected, which
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Goldstein was always a traitor and we are at war with Eastasia.
TRUMP: The economy is as strong as it's ever been INGRAHAM: Then why are people saying they're anxious about the economy? TRUMP: I don't know they are saying that. The polls are fake. We have the greatest economy we've ever had
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The idea of the modern self rests on a paradox: people "loudly protesting their individuality even as they are swept along by the passion of the crowd." @DavidAvromBell in @BooksandtheArts
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How did the idea of the individual come into being?
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Bold choice going with a strategy of "we are losers."
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My newest review, of Lynn Hunt's "The Revolutionary Self," in The Nation: https://t.co/wDncJMevf7
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How did the idea of the individual come into being?
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If the airlines are still in chaos in the days before Thanksgiving, just imagine what the highways are going to be like.
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Fun fact: one milliliter of neutronium weighs approximately 400 million tons: the mass of a decent-sized mountain.
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At this speed, it could reach the nearest star as early as 77,094 AD.
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Penn Station on yet another day of commuting misery. Many, many people to blame for this, but first and foremost Chris Christie and Donald Trump.
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@samuelmoyn did she read your book? Nancy Pelosi announces she will not seek reelection to Congress after nearly 40 years in Washington.
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Nancy Pelosi, the first and only female speaker of the US House of Representatives and one of the most powerful figures in Democratic politics for decades, has announced she will not seek reelection.
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Opinion | Why Harvard Students Are Afraid of B’s
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For many students at elite colleges, anything less than excellence feels like failure.
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Candidate whose positions would identify him as moderate center-left in Western Europe elected Mayor of New York City.
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TSA wait times 3++ hours in Houston today as employees who aren't getting paid aren't showing up for work. Expect this to spread to other airports tomorrow. Complete mess. I'm guessing the government reopens by Wednesday.
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New column: On grade inflation and university culture today. https://t.co/jWyfNHtSSs
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“Wheatley @natasha_wheatl, an Australian-born professor at Princeton University, has a penchant for metaphor and an inventive flair that make her legal histories come alive.” Fantastic kudos from the great @lindakinstler.
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World War I set the stage a century ago for new ways of thinking about where states come from and what happens when they disappear.
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Just saw “House of Dynamite” and looking guesses to being wide awake staring at the ceiling at 4:00 am.
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The students quoted here seem unable to grasp the point that good grades are not simply a reward for putting in a lot of effort.
Harvard students pushed back against a new University report condemning grade inflation, arguing that it misrepresented their academic experience and would add pressure to an already demanding campus. @wzrenwick and @nirjatriv report. https://t.co/ljeVF8lV1T
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