A Tailor of Ulm

Tariffs Hit Canadian Auto Sector Already in Decline Passenger vehicles and light trucks assembled in Canada • General Motors Honda • Stellantis Toyota 2.5M 2.0 1.5 1.0 - 0.5 2016 '17 18 19 '20 '21 T '22 '23 '24 2025 Source: Trillium Network calculations based on Automotive News data Bloomberg

Auto manufacturing in Canada is already a majority Japanese operation

Need to figure out how to talk to students in the Fall about the strategy of tension and various discussions of the deep state that come with the Cold War and this is actually somewhat useful as a contribution

Classic tell for if someone is a Marxist academic - referring to the Nobel prize in economics as the "Riksbank prize"

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

Last year around Liberation Day, everyone with their hair on fire in the financial community kept taking time out of their day to tell journalists and interviewers that they all thought Scott Bessent was a very intelligent and level-headed person

We’re out here every day. Watching over our streets. Making sure our kids get to school safely. Delivering groceries to our neighbors. We’re doing everything we can to protect one another.

But it’s not enough. On Friday Jan 23, we shut MN down. No work. No school. No shopping. ICE out of MN now.

I could not have imagined feeling empathy for the Davos crowd at any point in my life but I think having to hear Donald Trump say "call me daddy" directly in front of you functions kind of like a curse by God. No one should have to hear that. No one

Love going on boglehead forums because their response to literally everything is the same. You can post about the threat of a hot war between the US and the EU and they'll just tell you it's fine if you've been diversifying into VXUS

There are also airports, this is mostly a joke about how expensive Sardinia is

I've been accepted to a panel at AAIS in Sardinia this year! Giving a talk on the Italian Communist Party's involvement in suppression of the far left in the 1970s.

Now to figure out how to get to Sardinia

I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.

I'm halfway to venmoing my longtime twitter mutuals ten dollars to move onto this site full-time, as a totally unhelpful solution

Banning medical care for trans kids doesn’t stop them from being trans. It just makes their lives into a horrible nightmare.

The broader political change is important to understand though and Cockburn's article addresses that well but I'm skeptical of these attempts to read all of it through Charlie Kirk himself, which just adds to his posthumous aura, and is only interesting if you really think the Mossad killed him

Seemingly little in this article that deepens the understanding of Kirk's supposed about-face: a slow & reluctant move on his part that was perhaps more about how annoying his rich Jewish donors were for wanting him to stop hanging out with Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson than about genocide

Hundreds Rally Against Sweeping Cuts at New School Around 40% of full-time faculty were offered buyouts and programs are on the chopping block as the university faces a $48M deficit.

"The New School is the only university in the country with a world-recognized art and design school and a Research 2 designation. By gutting the humanities, the administration is eliminating what makes the school unique."

- Heather Davis, AAUP The New School

@newschoolaaup.bsky.social

Your students were real for this

Former Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer

Incoming mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani

Died 1984. Born 1991.

Welcome back Enrico Berlinguer

Judged entirely by his transition team and meeting with Trump, Zohran Mamdani seems to be doing the Historic Compromise in one city. My new article for Jacobin Magazi-

Have we ever talked about Enzo Traverso's Fire and Blood?

We should get to have a non-pedophile government, as a treat

Mazel tov!

My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, will be published by Verso next year.

It's now listed, which makes it feel that bit more official!

The Communists also tracked attacks on party offices. They listed their own, the "other democratic parties" and then the neofascist MSI. Whether they counted attacks on the MSI separately because all the vandalism and antifa violence messed up the stats or just because they cared less, I don't know

Pasta seems like it would actually be a very easy W for tariff-based import substitution.

As someone who buys multiple pounds of Italian pasta a week, though, I am ready to eat a shotgun blast over this news

Similar feeling to referring to Capital as Das Kapital, only even weirder, you know like

I am aware this position existed for him but the weird context around it is kind of what I mean - it would be deeply weird for someone to refer to him as "Generalissimo Stalin" even if it would technically be accurate.

Has... has generalissimo *ever* had leftwing cultural connotations?

...But it is important that our defence in court, which will be fought with the appropriate technical­ political means, is paralleled by a wider debate in the movement, among the social subjects who have been the real protagonists of the "great transformation" of these years."

"That we have nothing in common with armed terrorism is obvious. That we have been "subversive" is equally obvious. Between these two truths lies the key issue at stake in our trials...