Is it that many New Yorkers find the field disappointing per NYT or rather NYT finds the preferences of many voting New Yorkers disappointing?
16.06.2025 16:26 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Christopher Hillβs Revolutions
The radical life and work of the historian.
Peter Linebaugh and I just published an essay about the life & work of Christopher Hill, one of the greatest historians of the 20c, in @thenation.com: βIn 1965, [Hill] was elected master of Balliol College. History from below had arrived at the Oxford high table.β
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
14.05.2025 10:53 β π 38 π 18 π¬ 1 π 0
Heβs got the grannies
30.05.2025 11:49 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
What is Close Reading?
By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to transform postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art form?
I wrote about close reading. What it is, why it matters, and what John Guillory gets right and wrong in his recent On Close Reading. Offers a sneak peek of a little of what @johannawinant.bsky.social and I are up to in our forthcoming Close Reading for the 21C
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
12.05.2025 13:02 β π 371 π 93 π¬ 30 π 20
Not a drill: *THE VIVIAN GORNICK* reviewed our new book βGoing Around: Selected Journalismβ by Murray Kempton, edited by Andrew Holter, for @thenation.com
11.04.2025 14:23 β π 16 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
I would say more broadly that as policy you really shouldnβt allow government officials to accuse people of *terrorism* anonymously.
11.04.2025 14:17 β π 14782 π 3163 π¬ 383 π 66
Agnes Callard and the Examined Life
In her new book, Callard makes the case that we should all live more philosophically but where does politics fit in?
"The very first line of Open Socrates admonishes the reader, βThere is a question you are avoiding.β For Callard, that question is: Why are you living this way? But this only points to a host of questions that Callard herself avoids..."
me for @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
08.04.2025 13:26 β π 357 π 73 π¬ 20 π 33
Donald Trumpβs Long Con
Trumpβs βArt ofβ trilogy may be full of willful exaggeration but the books also reveal how the 1980s and 90s formed his dog-eat-dog worldview.
"You could call the business model Trump developed a kind of personality arbitrage." @lioneltrolling.bsky.social in @thenation.com's Spring Books on how the 1980s and 90s made Trump www.thenation.com/article/soci...
07.04.2025 17:05 β π 17 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
The Making and Remaking of Karl Marxβs βCapital.β
The making and remaking of Capital. Epic piece by Alyssa Battistoni in latest @booksandthearts.bsky.social / @thenation.com on Marxβs masterpiece, the history of its translations, and what it means to read it today www.thenation.com/article/soci...
10.02.2025 17:05 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The Worlds of Noam Chomsky
If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, itβs almost certainly Chomsky.
Daniel Bessner in the new @thenation.com on Chomsky and Nathan Robinson's The Myth of American Idealism and the politics of anti-imperialism www.thenation.com/article/cult...
14.01.2025 18:24 β π 28 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
What Do We Want From Bob Dylanβs Story?
In James Mangold's film A Complete Unknown, we get a cautious and reverent story of a musician who has always sought to transcend the limits imposed upon him.
In "A Complete Unknown," James Mangold offers a faithful, reverent, and cautious account of a musician who always tried to be anything but these qualities.
09.01.2025 16:14 β π 29 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
The Worlds of Noam Chomsky
If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, itβs almost certainly Chomsky.
Daniel Bessner in the new @thenation.com on Chomsky and Nathan Robinson's The Myth of American Idealism and the politics of anti-imperialism www.thenation.com/article/cult...
14.01.2025 18:24 β π 28 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
The Worlds of Noam Chomsky
If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, itβs almost certainly Chomsky.
If the left ever hopes to change US foreign policy, it needs to move beyond the shibboleths of the past. We must stop fetishizing information politics and mass protests and instead must develop an institutionalist understanding of how state power functions.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
14.01.2025 10:45 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
The Worlds of Noam Chomsky
If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, itβs almost certainly Chomsky.
Noam Chomsky is the most famous critic of US empire in the world. How have his views on empire and anti-imperialism change?
13.01.2025 20:18 β π 74 π 23 π¬ 8 π 1
Fady Joudahβs Poetry of Dislocation
In his new volume of poetry, [β¦], the poet, translator, and ER doctor explores Palestiniansβ experiences of exile and displacement as well as the difficulties of healing amid the protracted and ongoin...
"I write for the future / because my present is demolished. / I fly to the future / to retrieve my demolished present / as a legible past." Even in their silence, these poems call us to act. Hussein Omar in Books and the Arts @thenation.com on Fady Joudah www.thenation.com/article/cult...
14.01.2025 14:48 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
The Brutalist and the Hidden Work of Architecture
A film about survival, creativity, the hypocrisies of high art, The Brutalist tells a story about an architect who does not exploit and manipulate others to achieve his grand vision of the world but i...
"The Brutalist provides its audience with a window onto a side of architecture that is always lurking in the shadows: who makes it, and for whom." The always great @katewagner.bsky.social in @BooksandtheArts on why The Brutalist might be the best film of the year www.thenation.com/article/cult...
18.12.2024 16:33 β π 39 π 8 π¬ 0 π 1
David Montgomery and the Vitality of Labor History
From his first book to his landmark account of the politics of the pre-WWI labor movement, Montgomery explored how peopleβs experiences of work shaped their political horizons.
Kim Phillips-Fein in latest @BooksandtheArts on the incredible David Montgomery--his early radicalization, his years as a UE worker, his time in the CP, and his histories of work and the vital message they still impart www.thenation.com/article/soci...
18.12.2024 12:49 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
What Happened to the Democratic Party?
The squalid state of our present political institutions points to a failure of not just individuals but the system as a whole.
Trump's success in politics "never existed in isolation. It was a fundamental expression of a host of unresolved pathologies." Chris Lehmann in @BooksandtheArts on the long unraveling of the Democratic Party www.thenation.com/article/poli...
17.12.2024 14:54 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The idea that class is what you are born into (or what education you have) and not something defined by social relations and experience is one of the more pernicious aspects of US discourse
13.12.2024 15:22 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
Despite what you might hear on the Ezra Klein show, Manchin is not some kind of avatar of a moderate working-class electorate; heβs just a politician who will sell his own base short day in and day out
12.12.2024 00:55 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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