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I am extremely excited to share that my book Make Your Own Job received the 2026 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians. It is a real honor. oah.org/2026/03/26/oah…
Erik Baker
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Erik Baker
@erikmbaker
I teach history of science & labor at Harvard. Senior editor @thedrift_mag. Buy my book MAKE YOUR OWN JOB: amazon.com/gp/product/067…
Joined June 2019
- Yeah I'll be real that's basically what I assumed it was up toShocking images reveal Titanic is disintegrating on the ocean floor
00:00 - It's so funny that Severance is succeeding by rediscovering the forgotten ancient knowledge that audiences enjoy it when things happen on the TV shows they watch
- Legitimately stunning to watch Disney transform practically overnight into a supervillain for conservatives. It's hard to overstate just how important Disney was to the project of conservatism - culturally, socially, even economically - for nearly a century.
- We may no longer live in a societyOver the last few months, I’ve been advising @bookprotectors: a new app for ordering an on-demand security detail. Or more simply: Uber with guns. Today, they’re debuting in Los Angeles and NYC at No. 3 on the App Store. If you have a hot date this weekend, pick her up in a
- So seriously, what is the deal with this? I can't ever recall a bigger discrepancy between both critical and audience reception and awards-circuit acclaim. Is Netflix threatening voters' families??The 13 nominations for Emilia Pérez is the second most for any film ever, tying: Gone with the Wind From Here to Eternity Mary Poppins Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Forrest Gump Shakespeare in Love The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Chicago The Curious Case of
- At first I thought it was just poor impulse control but it's possible that DeSantis legitimately did not realize that he was picking a fight with the most litigious entity in human history
- I'm gonna be real with you, I'm not looking forward to learning what he's talking aboutJUST IN - Trump says tomorrow will be the "biggest announcement medically" in the history of U.S., "I think we've found an answer to autism."
00:00 - Cannot believe how badly Bernie and AOC fucked this up. Never want to hear about their "political instincts" again
- I wrote a book reconstructing the development of this ideology over 150 years in deep contextual detail and explaining how it eviscerated our society and he just tweeted it outI'd say it's more like this:
- I believe the Norman Rockwell Museum is a pleasant way to spend a drizzly afternoon in western Massachusetts
- I'm obsessed with him. He's like a Hitchcock villain, a vortex of queer negativityGeorge Santos just left Tim Burchett’s office with a baby in his arms. When asked if it was his baby, he said “not yet.”
- Among the many failings of the Jedi in the waning hours of the Republic, perhaps the most fateful was their invention of the dreaded "hybrid meeting format"
🚨Breaking: @Harvard just announced massive cuts to dozens of its PhD programs, citing “financial pressure.” - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German
