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Randall Kennedy · You must do something: John Lewis fights for freedom John Lewis and his peers wanted ‘Freedom Now!’ – freedom from the limitations imposed on their parents and freedom...

‘John Lewis doubted whether the ideology of Black Power could deliver the broad public support that would be needed if the huge impediments faced by African Americans were to be overcome.’

Randall Kennedy on the congressman, community leader and civil rights veteran: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

honestly crazy how obsessed conservatives are with committing child abuse, it’s like their favorite thing

Andy Beckett · Almost Alone: Tony Benn’s Beliefs What exactly was Tony Benn’s significance? He was certainly an unusually clear analyst and critic of the distribution...

‘Benn saw the way senior civil servants, the City of London, its contacts in the press and ever more cautious Labour prime ministers could obstruct and undermine any politician who tried to push through radical left-wing reforms.’

Andy Beckett on Tony Benn: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Stephen Buranyi · Folding and Unfolding: Protein to Prion How and why do proteins, which are produced by our body to build structures (such as skin and muscle) or carry out tasks...

‘It is now believed that every known neurodegenerative disease – from Alzheimer’s to Parkinson’s to ALS to Huntington’s to general dementia – involves a prion-like protein.’

Stephen Buranyi on the folded proteins that, amongst many other things, cause mad cow disease: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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...

‘Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of public wealth to private wealth is a choice.

Is abundance possible for all? Melinda Cooper thinks it is.’

Katrina Forrester reviews her new book: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Joanna Biggs · Beneath the White Scarf: On Marguerite Yourcenar Twenty years of writing, reading, thinking and travelling went into Memoirs of Hadrian. Several drafts were burned. But...

‘The work of the first woman to be appointed a defender of the French language is an intoxicating mixture of erudition and freedom.’

Joanna Biggs on the life and work of Marguerite Yourcenar: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

David Runciman · Hokey Cowboy: Is Hayek to blame? Hayek suspected that nothing about the vindication of neoliberalism was likely to be straightforward. Some magical...

‘Ethnopolitics doesn’t just mean an ethnostate with ruthlessly policed borders. It can also mean an ethnoeconomy in which the market works its magic for the people who understand how to make best use of it.’

David Runciman on paleolibertarianism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

himbo era is over btw we’re back to pining after smart, brooding, antisocial hotties

Stefan Collini · Agent of Influence: Christopher Hill’s Interests Christopher Hill devoted his attention almost exclusively to 17th-century England; he wrote far more about intellectual...

‘It must be doubted whether MI5 ever intended to provide invaluable assistance to future historians, but its obsessive logging of various suspects’ everyday doings has resulted in a small goldmine of sources in the National Archives.’

Stefan Collini on Christopher Hill
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Pepe Mujica, 1935–2025 - Dissent Magazine The late Uruguayan president had an unmatched connection with popular sectors and the courage of his enduring convictions.

Former guerrilla and former President of Uruguay Pepe Mujica died on Tuesday at age 89. New in @dissentmag.bsky.social: an essay of remembrance by Uruguay's leading historian, Gerardo Caetano www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Why did corporatism take root in postwar Germany but not in the U.S.? In the first article of this special issue, @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social explores how both countries shared surprising similarities in the 1940s–50s—before diverging sharply in labor relations models. doi.org/10.1215/1547...

highkey the best part of bsky is not dealing w a horrendous contingent of midwit transphobes and RW gays camped out in my followers list. you are not yukio mishima you are an annoying unfuckable fag w a BA from a second tier liberal arts college and spiraling credit card debt

i've always felt like i was at the end. looking back

i'm like george bailey but without all the stuff to live for