Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.

Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"

Freelance journalist. Formerly: EIC at Jezebel, politics columnist at The Cut, senior reporter at HuffPost. Brooklyn via South Louisiana 🐊

Radical educator, writer, father, partner, professor, old school hip hop head. Some books I wrote: Asian American Racialization and the Politics of US Education (Routledge), Unequal By Design (Routledge), and A Marxist Education (Haymarket).

Excel Queen (ooh there’s a spreadsheet for that!), gardener, amateur birder, volunteer, news/politics junkie. Lover of cats.

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