Sam Klug

Three Million Doors w/ Tascha Van Auken Featuring Tascha Van Auken on how Zohran’s campaign mobilized an army of 100,000 volunteers to knock three million doors. Van Auken has been an architect of NYC-DSA’s field operation and its general e...

Tascha didn’t just build a volunteer team of more than 100,000 people, she built a community across our city.

And there’s no one better suited to tell you how she did it than her.

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Those who have admitted that they were wrong: Andrew Miller

Those who haven't admitted they were wrong then but now claim they would do things differently today: Jake Sullivan, Jon Finer, and Phil Gordon

Those who haven't admitted anything, wouldn't change anything, & praise Trump: Blinken, McGurk

Crypto Reels From a $200 Billion Crash as Casino Crowd Moves On Cryptocurrencies beyond Bitcoin have been hit hardest in the market downturn that kicked off early October. A MarketVector index tracking 50 mid- and micro-cap tokens has fallen nearly 70% this year,...

Ironic. Having opened the door to making everything unregulated gambling, crypto seems to be getting left behind as it becomes easier to bet on just about anything (prediction markets) and to get less regulated exposure to traditional assets (tokenization).

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What a great idea, Mo! Thrilled to see The Internal Colony included!

Very honored that my essay, "Who's Afraid of Frantz Fanon?" was selected as a notable essay in the Best American Essays 2025!

Opinion: DCPS middle-schoolers should be reading novels Many parents like myself were shocked by a recent change to the English curriculum at Alice Deal Middle School.

Staff at Alice Deal Middle School made the decision this year to remove all full-length novels from the 8th grade curriculum.

It's a mistake, current parent @aaronweso.bsky.social writes, arguing that "reading full novels has real and important benefits for middle school-age children and in life."

Extraordinary text by Honora Spicer, situating context & origins of horrors of contemporary migrant detention at Fort Bliss in El Paso ("Camp East Montana"), exemplifying systematic abuses of Trump 2.0's campaign of persecution & terror vs migrant communities
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No End to the Spanish Civil War? - Public Books Latin America's own conflicts over land, Church, labor, and democratization, were played out, across the Atlantic, for all to see.

New at PB: @kirstenweld.bsky.social on why, 50 years after Franco's death, Latin America will never forget the Spanish Civil War.

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Coincidentally, "strong floor, no ceiling" was also the scouting report on me as a point guard in 8th grade

Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88

Oof. He was truly a master, from Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern to Arcadia to Leopoldstadt—just a lifetime of tremendous, thought-provoking, hilarious work. RIP. www.bbc.com/news/article...

On major questions of university governance, a 99.3% majority vote of the faculty means nothing to the people who are actually in charge. This is a fact all of us need to take much more seriously.

Cannot believe I just saw a reputable museum (of African American History, no less!) posting a reel of its “Frederick Douglass AI” on Instagram. Cursed.

Sam’s book (and lots of other Chicago books) is/are really damn good!

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The Internal Colony An explication of how global decolonization provoked profound changes in American political theory and practice.   In The Internal Colony, Sam Klug reveals the central but underappreciated importance...

My book and all other @uchicagopress.bsky.social titles are 30% off through December 3rd with the code HOLIDAY25. Get yourself and your friends a copy or twelve!

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Make Thanksgiving Radical Again The holiday’s real roots lie in abolition, liberation, and anti-racism. Let’s reconnect to that legacy.

I hope you're having a happy Thanksgiving. Here's a great piece from @kaliholloway.bsky.social on how Turkey Day was long opposed by white evangelicals as a holiday for woke Yankees www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Loved your piece, thanks for sharing! What an awesome movie.

A ★★★★★ review of Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Tocqueville wrote that America’s aristocrats were “at the bar and on the bench.” Having authored the law through popular sovereignty, he argued, Americans ceded their authority over it to those who sp...

Sometimes I watch movies and write little things about them
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I have an unusually strong memory of reading Ryan Lizza's profile of Michele Bachmann while sitting at my makeshift desk as an intern at CAP. I remember thinking, this is so vapid, but this is what everyone here thinks is important, so I probably shouldn't work at a place like this.

So, despite facing heavier workloads due to hiring freezes, about 75% of teachers in the sector where AI has been most heavily marketed do not use it.

I agree, but I also think academia is unique insofar as: a) a larger part of the job is interacting with one's juniors; and b) elite status is seen as proof positive of one's "ideas," not one's abilities to do x, y, or z. I think this is why the academic crash out has a special timbre

Excited to share some advance reviews for The United States and the Ends of Empire from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @samuelmoyn.bsky.social and Tim Shenk for their generous comments. Check them out below or via the link!

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This is a great bit, keep it up

I have an unusually strong memory of reading Ryan Lizza's profile of Michele Bachmann while sitting at my makeshift desk as an intern at CAP. I remember thinking, this is so vapid, but this is what everyone here thinks is important, so I probably shouldn't work at a place like this.

Oh, wow! I didn't know this review existed. Will read it with some trepidation.

This isn't something long-form (sorry, Annie, I would love to if I had the time), but the name Rita Koganzon should become more prominent as conservative voices that link great books arguments w/ parental rights arguments gain greater traction

The Harvard Crimson Throughout the seven months of correspondence reviewed by The Crimson, Summers and Epstein referred to the woman Summers was pursuing in some messages by the code name "peril" but never used her name in messages directly describing the relationship. On at least two occasions, the two men discussed Jin's emails to Summers, which he forwarded to Epstein. In later messages, the two men appeared to joke about the probability that Summers would have sex with the woman, apparently Jin.

gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender…

When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

Not a good enough reason to approvingly quote DW Griffith I'm afraid