Anti-Social Studies

Anti-Social Studies

A Historian's Existential Crisis

If history is "doomed to repeat" then why am I still trying to stop it?

Jan 17, 2026
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I promise my mind isn’t in as dark as place as that headline makes it sound. But I am feeling unsure of what type of content I should even be making at this point.

For a decade now I have provided historical context to help us understand what’s going on in our current world and that has felt really helpful. Meaningful. But now it just feels… anxiety-indu…

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