2025 - CONTINGENT

Academic Bureaucrats and Sensitive Townspeople

I expected to side with the academics.

Despite calls for its elimination, the DV Lottery persists.

There are so many wonderful opportunities in this field. Sometimes, you create your own.

When I tell people I’m a consulting public historian, this is how they respond.

“I was fortunate to do graduate school during the height of academic blogging.”

“I do not understand why you take the trouble to consume this bulk material to sustain yourselves.”

Even within an uncaring government bureaucracy, one person could make a difference.

How someone already convinced of a conspiracy theory reads non-conspiratorial sources.