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Here is the latest entry to my Antiwar/Non-violence series for Foreign Exchanges: "A Technocratic Vision of Peace: The Pan-Europe Movement": www.foreignexchanges.news/p/a-technocr...

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Looking forward to diving into Greg Grandin’s forthcoming book: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747326...

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The historian David Hollinger has has working paper that available to the public: "The Evangelical Capture of the Republican Party and Its Implications for Academia": history.berkeley.edu/sites/defaul...

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New op-ed from my colleague Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti: "For many, going to college is the very definition of the American dream. Relieved from familial burdens and toil work: it is a brief and precious period of freedom": www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Here’s the latest entry into my antiwar/non-violence series for Foreign Exchanges, which is on Tolstoy: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/tolstoys-p...

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There has been much talk of anti-incumbency sentiments in recent elections. The focus has been on inflation; not enough attention has been paid to persistent pandemic pain. Suggestions how to confront what are often politically toxic legacies, including the uses and abuses of citizen assemblies:

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The great Geoff Mann reviews for Modern Intellectual History Dipesh Chakrabarty’s recent books on Climate and History www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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I highly recommend this new Modern Intellectual History article by George Steinmetz on Durkheim and Colonialism: “How does Durkheim's thought relate to colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonial theory?” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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"Historical comparisons are always partial, and each civilization must understand and solve its own problems. But the comparisons can be instructive, if they bring out the differences as much as the analogies." Raymond Aron, 1941

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I’ve organized this event at City College on the Crisis of the Constitution which is open to the public (February 11th). Speakers include Aziz Rana, Zephyr Teachout, Julie Suk and Daniel Ziblatt. Please register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-crisis...

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I’ve organized this event at City College on the Crisis of the Constitution which is open to the public (February 11th). Speakers include Aziz Rana, Zephyr Teachout, Julie Suk and Daniel Ziblatt. Please register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-crisis...

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Historians, let's make a solemn pact, no resistance grifting this time hey where'd everybody go

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Interesting interview with Peter Gordon about his new book on Adorno www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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"The basic orientation of critical theory is to develop a better insight into the structural pathologies of modern society that cause pervasive suffering and block the emergence of a genuinely free and rational society." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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Please read my latest interview for The Nation which is with the intellectual historian, Peter Gordon: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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I teamed up with @tparsi to analyze a possible silver-lining in the next four years of foreign policy for the @latimes — rejecting the neo-imperial “rules-based international order” meme of recent years, in favor something better rather than worse. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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Grateful to Becca Rothfeld for this very generous review of Make Your Own Job in the Washington Post! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

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Here is the latest entry into the non-violence/antiwar series that I’m writing for Foreign Exchanges, which takes a critical look at the French philosopher and anti-colonialist Félicien Challaye, who defended “unarmed peace even in the face of Hitler.”” www.foreignexchanges.news/p/integral-p...

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If you are interested in the antiwar/nonviolence poltical tradition, please checkout my new series. Here’s the first entry: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/the-anti-w...

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Stefan Eich: “Are we all dead in the long run? John Maynard Keynes and the politics of time”: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

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Hope to commission about a dozen reviews/essays for Modern Intellectual History in 2025–especially interested in new books/essay ideas focusing on Asia, Africa and South America but open to all ideas. Do reach out if you have one: cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Checkout Danilo Scholz’s new article on Alexandre Kojève which tries come to terms with the least researched aspect of Kojève’s career, which also happens to be the one he was most proud of: his role in global trade negotiations in the 1960s: www.e-flux.com/journal/150/...

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Hope to commission about a dozen reviews/essays for Modern Intellectual History in 2025–especially interested in new books/essay ideas focusing on Asia, Africa and South America but open to all ideas. Do reach out if you have one: cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Checkout Danilo Scholz’s new article on Alexandre Kojève which tries come to terms with the least researched aspect of Kojève’s career, which also happens to be the one he was most proud of: his role in global trade negotiations in the 1960s: www.e-flux.com/journal/150/...

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I’ve greatly enjoyed being a Moynihan Fellow at City College this academic year. The application is now open for next year’s Public Scholars and Postdoctoral Fellowship: moynihancenter.ccny.cuny.edu/programs/pub...

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Pundits: losers of the election must demonstrate empathy for Trump voters. Democratic theory: voters for the winner must demonstrate that they did not want an autocratic kleptocracy. Only way to restore what one might call specifically political trust (as idealistic as that thought is...).

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Excellent @andrewhartman.bsky.social review of @jcherniss.bsky.social and my books on Cold War liberalism www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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I contributed to this Foreign Exchanges Election Roundtable. The piece by Mike Brenes was particularly illuminating for me: open.substack.com/pub/fx/p/for...

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Judith Shklar name-checked for first time since… www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/o...

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Latest article by Michael Sonenscher "The Age of Melancholy: The Imagination in the History of Modern Political Thought" doi.org/10.1086/733430 @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social

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Here's the latest entry into my antiwar/non-violence series at Foreign Exchanges: "How was pacifism, as exemplified by French politician Marcel Déat, twisted into a defense of Nazism?" www.foreignexchanges.news/p/the-collab...

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The preview of Udi Greenberg’s groundbreaking forthcoming book is now up at HUP: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

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Excellent review of @JamesChappel's masterpiece on American old age newrepublic.com/article/1867...

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Just received in the mail yesterday the paperback version of the collection I edited on the so called fascism debate: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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New review of "The Greatest of all Plagues" by @mattpolprof.bsky.social in the @jacobinmag.bsky.social. "It succeeds in taking figures who many of us might think we are familiar with, and shows us that we didn’t know them that well at all." I'll take it!

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Essay in Architectural Theory Review on debates about "right-wing spaces" (is there such a thing really?) and far-right populism in relation to the built environment:

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The Abolitionist Movement in the United States faced a contradiction: whether a non-violent movement could employ violence in defense of the enslaved. How did its leading thinkers address it? www.foreignexchanges.news/p/the-abolit...

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If you are interested in the antiwar/nonviolence poltical tradition, please checkout my new series. Here’s the first entry: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/the-anti-w...

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If you’re at NYU next Friday, come join us for a conversation about authoritarian law? I promise no contemporary relevance!!!

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Analogies always appear twice: First as categorical imperative (You must resist!) and then as comfort blanket (Folks, this is just democracy, tyrants and demagogues can be elected...).

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