Profile avatar
samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social
religious studies professor in Kansas. modern Jewish thought (philosophy, theology, politics, economics, interfaith). new yorker by birth, father of two kansan children by the grace of god. union guy. אֱהֹב אֶת הַמְּלָאכָה, וּשְׂנָא אֶת הָרַבָּנוּת, וְאַל תִּתְוַדַּע לָרָשׁוּת:
2,557 posts 3,122 followers 2,290 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter

“I’m going to take advice about antisemitism from this Nazi” - Congress and every state legislature, probably

this is why anarcho-capitalism is a self-contradicting ideology. to be an anarcho-capitalist you have to deny that wealth = power, full stop.

this guy for Senate. primary every single Dem with someone like this unless they do what he says here

🎼 when we hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree, I’ll sit beneath the leaves and weep 🎶

:::BlueSky pep talk::: Ok gang, I know things look bad now, but here’s the deal: we are gonna do Reconstruction 2 and this time Thaddeus Stevens is gonna win

This is the whole entire point, really. If you treat politics as something you’re observing, that follows “laws,” you are already opting out. This goes for scholarship as well a journalism

In case you missed it yesterday.

Calling yourself a king doesn’t make you a king. Being able to cure scrofula through the power of touch does.

the Trump/Musk coup hits Lawrence, KS: they fired ONE-THIRD of the workers at Haskell Indian Nations University. (Haskell is run out of the BIE inside the BIA, so it's federal.)

exiles return to diaspora

"king" is an extremely weak title to affect a claim to in the politics of the united states of america, and i don't think this is controversial

once again i have written a poem about a kind of god, kind of. it's in the latest issue of LETTERS, which is so goddamn good i could pray www.lettersjournal.com/winter-2025/

more and more people are saying this

“Settler colonialism falls into the category of concepts that may provoke guilt in a certain type of liberal and fury in a certain type of conservative.“ @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social on the mystifications and distortions of Adam Kirsch’s recent book, On Settler Colonialism:

My critique of Adam Kirsch's "On Settler Colonialism" is out in the Boston Review. Kirsch uses every trick in the book to try to dismiss what he calls "the ideology of settler colonialism," by which he means the idea that settler colonialism exists and is bad. 1/