Exposure Therapy What could bridge the gap between the culture of elite higher education and red America? One possibility involves extending the logic of the Fulbright program.

New piece by me which makes the case for a domestic version of the Fulbright program: www.commonwealmagazine.org/fulbright-sc...

Extraction by Thea Riofrancos is really good—and beautifully written.
It’s refreshing to see a warning about the risks of mining for decarbonization that is neither bad-faith fossil propaganda nor a call for fatalism and hard degrowth. @triofrancos.bsky.social

Conscription for Peace What peaceful equivalent of war could generate the same sense of urgency and solidarity? William James had an answer.

This is fucking interesting
www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...

Conscription for Peace What peaceful equivalent of war could generate the same sense of urgency and solidarity? William James had an answer.

"What kind of people do we have to become in order to achieve peaceful cities, societies, and states?"

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins revisits William James's prescription for national conscription www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...

Conscription for Peace What peaceful equivalent of war could generate the same sense of urgency and solidarity? William James had an answer.

"a compulsory..conscription program in which the children of both the rich &poor would spend part of their youth serving the community—would be a thoroughly democratic way to address inequality & rechannel the energies that feed the war machine" Ihttps://www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription-peace

Conscription for Peace What peaceful equivalent of war could generate the same sense of urgency and solidarity? William James had an answer.

I wrote a piece for Commonweal Mag on William James’s ‘moral equivalent of war’ a hundred years later. www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...

@ekphrastictactic.bsky.social has a new review article, "Field Work," in Modern Intellectual History. Just finished this morning over some coffee. An insightful piece that examines one work I'm intimately familiar with one that I'd never read before.

Discussing these two essential monographs

Is It Too Late to Remake American Democracy? A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People.

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Economic democracy is required for true democracy to exist, is perhaps the most interesting concept discussed in the fairly short interview.

Is It Too Late to Remake American Democracy? A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People.

My latest interview for The Nation is with Osita Nwanevu and concerns why the US has never been a democracy and what it must do economically and politically to become one: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

My brand new article on the idea of the West and the European project in Modern Intellectual History

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Timothy Scott Johnson reviews for Modern Intellectual History:

1. Amín Pérez’s “Bourdieu & Sayad against Empire”

and

2. George Steinmetz’s “The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire”:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Future of Magazines… and the World A conversation with Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.

"What were the Abraham Accords if not partly a way for Israeli and Arab elites to agree to share in their need for (and immiseration of) migrant labor from South Asia in a more rationalized fashion."

@thenation.com with @grantamag.bsky.social's Thomas Meaney
www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Future of Magazines… and the World A conversation with Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.

www.thenation.com/article/cult...? Thx DS for discovering this gem

The Future of Magazines… and the World A conversation with Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.

This one is truly amazing www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Future of Magazines… and the World A conversation with Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Future of Magazines… and the World A conversation with the Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.

My latest interview for The Nation is with Tom Meaney, editor of Granta: “I am a fortunate son of the American empire, born during Reagan’s Second Cold War in the garrison state of South Korea. The dictator Chun Doo-hwan—“our son of a bitch”—lived down the street.”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

I wrote an essay for @mihjournal.bsky.social on two very different books on planetary politics, each enlightening in their own way. Both contribute substantially to the discussion within the planetary turn. The piece can be found here:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Thank you and thanks for the suggestion!

The Problem of Green Capitalism A conversation with Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction and the hidden cost and obscured history of the capitalist push to monetize the energy transition.

It was a pleasure to interview Thea Riofrancos for The Nation about her important and very well written new book: “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

‼️ EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism will be out in the UK with Icon Books on 25 September ‼️

The Coming Ecological Cold War Decarbonization isn’t just about technology and markets—it’s a geopolitical revolution.

We are on the verge of a new Cold War, defined not by an ideological contest over the proper relationship between politics and the economy, but over the metabolic basis of modernity. Call it the Green Entente vs. the Axis of Petrostates. My latest: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...

Stefan Link asks "does economic nationalism have a philosophy"; summarizes two recent histories of economic nationalist thought; juxtaposes thinkers from the US, Germany, India, and China; and argues that the dots do connect into a "tradition" worth thinking about

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Must read Modern Intellectual History review by Stefan Link of:

1. Eric Helleiner’s ‘The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History”

2. Marvin Suesse’s “The Nationalist Dilemma: A Global History of Economic Nationalism, 1776–Present”

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My colleague Ulrich Plass has written a nuanced review of the new Princeton edition of Marx’s “Capital: Vol 1”—translated by Paul Reitter. Very well worth reading: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope — Harvard University Press A landmark reinterpretation of the civil rights movement that challenges reductive heroic narratives of the 1950s and 1960s and invigorates new debates and possibilities for the future of the struggle...

Brandon Terry's long-awaited book on the tragic vision of the civil rights movement has a website, cover, and blurbs. Out in October!

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Neoliberalism and Race | Stanford University Press Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal ideology. Using the methods of intellectual history and drawing on insights from critical race studi...

Very exciting to see that my book has its own page on the SUP website now

Should be hitting shelves in October!

www.sup.org/books/theory...

Soccer Solidarity For the French political thinker Raymond Aron, sports fandom was one of the few things that defied modern atomization and isolation.

Thanks to Commonweal Magazine for letting me write about PSG’s Champions League victory and its aftermath: www.commonwealmagazine.org/sports-franc...

Katrina Forrester · ‘I appreciate depreciation’: Dynastic Capitalism Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of...

I had the pleasure of writing about the inimitable @melindacooper.bsky.social’s Counterrevolution for @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...