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What the Middle Ages Can Tell Us About Racial Reconfiguration and Political Realignment Today
We are living in an era of renewed “flexible definitions,” when everything old is new again — “a moment in which cultural race and racisms, and religious race, jostle alongside race-understood-as-somatic/biological determinations — uncannily renews key medieval instrumentalizations in the ordering of human relations.” The Welsh weren’t the first cornered into renouncing their identity to…
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Saying Goodbye to America, and Finding Our Town in Cymru

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Americans are the frog in the pot, part I: Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids is a weird place to call home. Today it’s all breweries and hipsters and weed dispensaries and overpriced apartments. But growing up, it was Bland Rapids. A place so boring and unimaginative that corporations would come to town to trial new products. If the straight-laced, God-fearing people of Grand Rapids, Michigan, will buy…
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Thoughts from the 60th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies

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America, and the joy of missing out


