David Waldstreicher

Pretty much every article about the Putin-Kushner-Witkoff summit in Moscow yesterday fails to mention that Kushner is simultaneously accepting tens of millions in annual payments from the Saudis and other foreign governments.

Seems like a key detail!

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“Most of our political evils may be traced to our commercial ones, as most of our moral may to our political.”
--James madison to thomas jefferson, 1786

Episode 127: Phillis Wheatley: A Black Evangelical Poet in Revolutionary America Podcast Episode · The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life. · 11/04/2025 · 55m

On Phillis Wheatley, check out our recent podcast interview with Wheatley biographer David Waldstreicher: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.

Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

The only reason Trump got away with it with the Mueller Report is that the press rushed out to publish "Mueller finds no wrongdoing!" headlines. Will they do the same thing with Epstein? (Yes, they will.)

'This isn’t “gotcha” anti-Americanism. It’s an argument that the Revolution created three incompatible projects—republican, capitalist, and imperial—that we’ve spent 250 years pretending are the same thing. They’re not. And our refusal to face that fact is why we’re still fighting about 1776.'

What Ken Burns Won’t Tell You About How 1776 Built a Democracy—and an Empire Founding Myths vs Founding Realities

"The real question for the Semiquincentennial isn’t whether we can celebrate the Revolution, but whether we can finally afford to understand it—not the comforting mythology Burns offers, but the history scholarship reveals: disturbing, illuminating, and indispensable."
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YouTube video by BPLvideos Vivian Gornick, Robin D.G. Kelley & David Waldstreicher on Boston Review at 50.

What an honor to sit between Robin Kelley and Vivian Gornick, so a reading, discuss, & celebrate the Boston Review! Thanks to Brooklyn Public Library too (recording linked below)

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farkokta, farfalle.

Yes! We must remember BILL whenever possible!

Recent book on Jews and the American Revolution by Adam Jortner, A Promised Land (2024) & essays by my colleague John Dixon, who's finishing a book about Jews in the early Americas with a caribbean emphasis, provide much insight into the field--listed on his website www.csi.cuny.edu/campus-direc...

Excellent - next let's do Meyer London!
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Joe Robinette Bidet has a certain ring to it
of course there is Don John Dump

be there and get a square!

I guess he didn't read Steven Hahn. But then Steve also says it wasn't really a nation, either?

Why we’re holding a teach-in about American history at the Smithsonian | Kellie Carter Jackson and Nicole Hemmer Podcasters, professors, journalists and ordinary citizens will gather in Washington as the Trump regime wages war on history

In today’s Guardian with @kcarterjackson.bsky.social, explaining why teach-ins (like the one we’re holding Sunday!) are a vital part of activism.

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BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes.

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🔇Fourth Annual Judith S. Stein Lecture in Political Economy.
✨Speaker: Robin D. G. Kelley✨

📍Hybrid event - RSVP:
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It’s not just people outside NYC who are clueless about what taking transit is like in New York City. Manhattanites who haven’t stepped foot on it in decades keep telling me how dangerous it is. Meanwhile I keep getting places faster and more pleasantly than they do.

This is almost literally what the English Civil War was fought over.

Vivian Gornick, Robin D.G. Kelley & David Waldstreicher on Boston Review at 50, with Gianpaolo Baiocchi | Brooklyn Public Library Join BPL Presents as we celebrate the legendary Boston Review, as it turns fifty this year—with appearances by Vivian Gornick, Robin D.G. Kelley, David Waldstreicher, moderator Gianpaolo Baiocchi, and...

November 6:
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Hey, remember in 1783 how Philadelphia built a triumphal arch to celebrate the end of the Revolution and then God used the celebratory fireworks to burn it down and kill people and injure its designer, who came to regard it as punishment for his hubris? Anyway.

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Vice-Presidents these days....

I don’t know how to make it matter but I want to pay a lot more attention to the people who refuse along the way than the little fascists destroying everything. The student editors, this fired director. People who rise to the ethical challenges before them, for no glory.

Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions, by Katlyn Marie Carter A book about secrecy and transparency in politics needs to be both subtle and hard-hitting; when it is also comparative, treating both the American and Fre

David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social reviews 'Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions', by Katlyn Marie Carter

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This is correct but that era of prestige & good pay was v short, a mid-century blip—much like it was for auto workers in the US. Prior to WWII the professoriate was white-male dominated and moderately high prestige, but by no means “well paid”. It’s most prosperous days were the immediate postwar.