Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪）
Assistant Professor at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA. 19th century US | capitalism | immigration. Author of Flowering Gold: American Capital and the Opium War (forthcoming with Yale University Press). YNWA.
- Not sure if it’s a testament or condemnation of my culinary skills that my six-year-old’s favorite dish that I make is uotmil (oatmeal) 😂
- Reposted by Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪）I recently became acquainted with "Osanaetoki Bankokubanashi" 童絵解万国噺, a Japanese illustrated history of America from 1861. The retelling of the revolutionary era is quite something. Here, for instance, is John Adams wielding a sword in mortal combat with a gigantic serpent.
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- I’m delighted to be featured in the SSRC’s latest issue of Frontiers in Social and Behavioral Science. Working on my article made me rethink of opium not as a social “vice” but as a resource for managing epidemic risk, explaining its prevalence on the high seas and the Chinese coolie trade.
- Historians don’t always get to visit the places they write about, but I’m so glad I did!
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- RIP Diogo 🥺 You were always one of my favorites.
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- I’m delighted to share that my article, “The Opiated Ocean” is out today in the #AHR: doi.org/10.1093/ahr/.... For those curious, here’s how the article came about🧵 (1/5)
- I was researching Chinese coolie voyages (la trata amarilla or “the yellow trade”) when I stumbled into a weird finding. In Hong Kong and Havana, authorities were noting cases of passengers that died from smoking opium (Spanish: “resultas de anfion”) while at sea. (2/5)
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- My firstborn daughter graduated kindergarten today. Where has all the time gone 😭
- Reposted by Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪）BREAKING - A 3-judge panel of the US Court of International Trade has just INVALIDATED Trump's tariffs. Says Trump CANNOT use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to unilaterally impose tariffs; that power belongs to Congress. MORE TK storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- I’m pleased to share that “The Opiated Ocean” will appear in this June’s #AHR issue as the opening article. For those interested in drug, labor and commodity history—stay tuned!
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- ELF final: stoppable force meets moveable object
- Reposted by Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪）Today's front page.
- An alarmist take, but mostly correct. Over the last two years, I have seen how robots have not only eaten my students’ homework, but the concept of homework itself. The only check left is convincing my students that outsourcing one’s thinking is a bad idea. Some will agree; most will not.
- So many final papers missing this semester. But my students can’t help it if Biden keeps eating their homework!!!
- Reposted by Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪）personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down
- WE DID IT #YNWA
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- The dingo ate my panel
- feminism in 2025: literally blasting women into space
- This is also what destroyed the Embargo of 1807. Jefferson had also campaigned against a strong federal government (aka “deep state”), but without a strong government, who is there to enforce customs?
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- “Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people.” -Ronald Reagan, radical leftist
- Me waking up to financial markets tomorrow
- all taxes, no representation
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- So who’s ready for Black Thursday tomorrow
- I used to wonder how Jack Bauer pulled a 24 hour shift without taking a piss even once. Then I met Cory Booker.
- Reposted by Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪）I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
- starting every lecture now with the Ballad of Ambrose and Gunnel.
- make Marbury v. Madison great again
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[Not loaded yet] - recessions and their causes, a history: 1929: Black Thursday 1973: OPEC oil embargo 2008: subprime CDOs 2020: COVID-19 2025: let’s go Brandon
- Reposted by Alastair Y. Su（苏源豪）Trump’s Sec of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the solution to high egg prices for Americans is to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard.
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- from pax americana to pox americana
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- When will the plain folk come to learn The cure was worse than the disease?
- live scenes from the Trump-Zelensky meeting
- stop woke, go broke
- Today I had scrambled eggs for breakfast using FARM FRESH eggs and now I know what it feels like to be a billionaire in this economy
