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This was the most astonishing thing about teaching freshmen at Cornell this fall: students who had never read anything longer than a reading comprehension excerpt for the SAT.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

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After eight years on the academic job market, I'm thrilled to be joining @Stanford as the inaugural Harold Hohbach Historian at the Silicon Valley Archives. Come visit me in the Bay! I start this winter, and there's so much to be done.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

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Every time states cut university funding by 10 percent, universities employ 4.4 percent more adjuncts.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

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Next year I'll be a visiting assistant professor at Cornell. My first class just went on the books: "Disassembling Silicon Valley: A People's History of High-Tech America across Race, Gender and Empire." Sign up and help me strip the Valley down for parts.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

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@marxforcats Absolutely.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

2 months

Thinking about another Stanford undergrad's account of campus politics, ca 1965: "They've got to find a new niche … And one of the niches is this civil-rights-student activist niche they fit into. As soon as they're there their independent thought stops."

Stanford--The True Source of Knowledge (1965)

This film concerns the student experience at Stanford University in the mid 1960s and includes interviews with faculty and students. Subjects discussed inclu...

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

Excited to announce that I have mentally and spiritually moved on from the desire for a job in the academy.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

New syllabus just dropped! "Capitalism: Theory and Practice." Would be v grateful for suggestions on the readings—it's a bit of a trick matching up historical studies with chapter and verse from 'Capital', and I'd love for this to be less Atlantic-centric.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

6 months

The only truly great historian on the standard US history general exams list — which is why everyone just reads the intro and conclusion. Will never forgive Daniel Rodgers for doing Republicanism dirty.

JGA Pocock: an ancient among the moderns

How the historian’s historian transformed the study of the past.

www.newstatesman.com

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

This is half my conversations with @CoreyRobin . It's a brilliant point, and gets to the root of today's fascism debate—which was *exactly the same* in the 1950s, when academics were certain the US was on the road to fascism, with McCarthyism the first act.

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@CoreyRobin

1 year

Just as an instructive episode in intellectual history, someone should tell the story, in a popular venue that is sure to be read, how all the leading scholars of the 1950s thought McCarthyism was motivated exactly by this term—"status anxiety"—which they opposed to

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

Try reading Ellen Meiksins Wood aloud in any history department these days and watch as everyone's brains explode: "We are not obliged to accept a Manichaean choice between determinism and contingency. The real alternatives to both is history.”

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

Last time I wrote for my substack, @Stanford had to put together an entire internal task-force, publish a 75-page report, and issue a public apology. This time, I'm taking on my own profession, the Supreme Court, and the right-wing anti-woke machine. 🤞🤞

Everything We Know about the History of Diversity Is Wrong

And Historians Aren't Exactly Helping in the Harvard Case Currently Before the Supreme Court

makehistory.substack.com

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

7 months

Just screened "Legally Blonde" for the final meeting of my "Meritocracy in America" class at Cornell. Absolutely perfect film.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

2 months

Meanwhile, here's another Stanford undergrad talking about being beaten by segregationists during Freedom Summer.

Stanford--The True Source of Knowledge (1965)

This film concerns the student experience at Stanford University in the mid 1960s and includes interviews with faculty and students. Subjects discussed inclu...

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

10 months

Next up: "Disassembling Silicon Valley: A People's History of High-Tech America," which ends with a staged battle between @margaretomara and @BigMeanInternet . Who will win? Only my zoomer students can decide.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

Twitter may prefer 'Meritocracy in America', but the students have spoken. This summer at Deep Springs I'll be teaching 'Capitalism: Theory and Practice'. For theory, we'll read 'Capital'. For practice, we'll read historians putting Marx's ideas to work.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

This summer I'm teaching at Deep Springs College, where the inmates run the institution. The interview was a student committee and one dean, who didn't speak. It's a long time dream. Faculty submit three courses and the students choose what you teach. What gets your vote? 1/2

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1 year

What could go wrong

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

5 months

Can someone explain the material forces behind the FT sucking less than any other newspaper in the English-speaking world? Are the editors elsewhere being targeted by Cuban microwave attacks or is there some better explanation? @adam_tooze , @_TimBarker , @simontorracinta

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

11 months

Shot: 6,200 feet of climbing. Chaser: 6,200 calories.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

This summer I'm teaching at Deep Springs College, where the inmates run the institution. The interview was a student committee and one dean, who didn't speak. It's a long time dream. Faculty submit three courses and the students choose what you teach. What gets your vote? 1/2

Meritocracy in America

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

Shots fired. This may sound crazy, but historians believe colleges began considering "diversity" in admissions as a cover story for excluding "non-diverse" Jewish students. You see this everywhere from the NYT to the Supreme Court. And it's totally wrong.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

5 months

Like Gödel's incompleteness theorem but for all of positivist social science.

Megan Stevenson

@MeganTStevenson

5 months

So pleased to see my paper out in the BU Law Review! This paper surveys 50+ years of randomized control trials in criminal justice and shows that almost no interventions have lasting benefit -- and the ones that do don't replicate in other settings. 1/

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

7 months

The fakest discipline is History. No methodology, only borrowings; no subject matter, short of all time and space. The past may be a foreign country but even area studies is more legit as a discipline—at least then you have a shared geographic space.

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@focusfronting

7 months

What is the most fake academic discipline? I’m tired of seeing fights about electrons, let’s have a fun one

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

10 months

Let's see ChatGPT deal with this.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

7 months

@Stanford Also, I don't know hardly anyone in the Bay Area, so if there's someone I should meet or you're out there — get in touch!

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

8 months

If you need to teach the Great Society nothing will blow students' minds like Lisa Nakamura on Navajo trainees making microchips for Silicon Valley and Amy Offner on modernization theory coming home via the Bureau of Indian Affairs—the origin of "Corporate Responsibility."

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

6 months

Stanford still lets new employees choose their usernames like it's 1999 or something. Trying incredibly hard not to go with my AIM username or my MySpace login.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

11 months

New spiritual home just dropped

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

There is no theory of change, short of martyrdom. To dramatically increase fossil fuel costs you'd need a movement of a scale that could never survive the modern security state, short of mass insurrection. I don't see it.

Tim Barker

@_TimBarker

1 year

Before they/we get down to this, I'm curious (sincerely) what the strategic vision is in which blowing up a pipeline makes sense. PIRA wanted to blow things up until British left and Loyalists lost/abandoned state power. What are the next steps in the pipeline theory of change?

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

4 months

If you're an undergrad looking for a thesis topic or a grad student looking for a seminar paper, the Charles Reich papers and the Theodore Roszak papers are both now open for research.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

6 months

No big deal, just the most important event of the twentieth century.

Matthew Yglesias

@mattyglesias

6 months

It’s an interesting sign of the (changing?) times that you might just assume any educated person should be familiar with decolonization theory. It’s not something I personally heard much about until recently.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

Tfw every winner of the top prize in your field in the last four years has failed to land a tenure track job — or even, as far as I know, get a campus visit.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

Call it 'Cost Disease Socialism'. Bravo, @abenanav .

Aaron Benanav, A Dissipating Glut?, NLR 140/141, March–June 2023

Can Biden’s green fiscal stimulus kickstart a sustained dynamic of capital accumulation? Replying to critics of Riley and Brenner’s ‘Seven Theses’, Aaron Benanav defends and extends Brenner’s account...

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

11 months

Animal Collective, Sleigh Bells, (late) Death Cab — the dream of indie rock ca 2010 is alive and well in Bishop, California, where graying Millennials go to climb, and presumably to die.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

7 months

. @nplusonemag 's annual Bookmatch quiz is here and the questions and the recommendations are as ingenius as ever. Thanks @embot for this winter's reading! Take the quiz now to get your own personalized recs.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

2 months

This week at the Silicon Valley Archives: @MoiraDonegan in conversion with @AnnaShechtman on her astounding new book, "The Riddles of the Sphinx." Not to be missed!

Silicon Valley Talks: Anna Shechtman

Join the Silicon Valley Archives in welcoming Anna Shechtman and Moira Donegan as they discuss The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle on April 4, 2024, at...

events.stanford.edu

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

10 months

Finalizing my reading for the fall semester. First up: "Meritocracy in America," from Plato's "Republic" to "Legally Blonde."

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

9 months

An astounding discovery, not to mention larger account. The kind of thing that you makes you believe in scholarship as a life's work.

Behind the Angel of History: An Interview with Annie Bourneuf

By Benjamin Beese and Matthew Johnson

www.jhiblog.org

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

7 months

Tfw you have to explain Unite Here to your therapist.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

10 months

Tfw your students walk right through each door of your lesson plan and the first class ends with a bang. At the end of my meritocracy class a first-year turned to me and said, "Well this gave me a lot to think about." ❤️❤️❤️

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

8 months

Why is the number one sign that someone's Gen X the refusal to identify as part of a generation? My take on "Gen X Erasure" and what it would mean to put the most anti-historical generation back into history.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

8 months

Are you ready for my History of Silicon Valley mid-term oral exam?

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

Today's project: lining my dirtbag climbing van with cork insulation. #proustlife

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

Back to planning my life around the maybe 20 libraries in the US with collections large enough to write a serious book. If this ruling stands, historians will be stuck with the research methods of the 1970s, essentially in perpetuity.

Publishers Weekly

@PublishersWkly

1 year

BREAKING: A federal judge has decided in favor of four publishers in the long-awaited copyright case Hachette v. Internet Archive. "There is nothing transformative about IA's copying and unauthorized lending of the works in the suit," the judge writes. This story is developing.

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'Early' retirement, i.e. at 65, has been strangely absent from discussions of the humanities jobs crisis. Here's Kant scholar Paul Guyer on why he decided to step aside at, well, 75.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

9 months

I think Burning Man is basically fine. Plenty of the world's worst people but no more than your average trip to the Metropolitan Opera. Like the Met we'll keep it around after the revolution, only with better drugs and more equitable seating.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

2 months

Decided my forties are going to be the decade of savory pastries.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

4 months

. @_TimBarker , as devastating as usual.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

5 months

Apologies to whomever has to sit next to my bloodied unwashed self on this flight after five straight days of climbing in Joshua Tree.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

Most useful thing I've learned at Deep Springs: when your home is invaded by moths, it's best not to kill them with your copy of the New York Review of Books, which is effective but whose loud thwack sets the whole room aflight. Just use your bear hands, silent and deadly.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

4 months

1. Training for rock climbing 2. Indie rock 2002-2009 3. Editorial fights at n+1 4. The history of the 20th century social sciences 5. Dating an analytic philosopher

Philip Nation

@philipnation

4 months

What are five topics you can talk about for 30 minutes with zero prep? Mine are: 1. Christian publishing 2. The SBC's design and work 3. Leadership theory and implementation 4. The MCU 5. Late 19th Century British literature

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

4 months

Every morning I wake up in disbelief that I get to live in San Francisco. And that people who could live here choose to live in some placed called Palo Alto instead.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

4 months

Sold out Tarkovsky screening at the Roxie in SF while some sports game plays at a bar across the street — I think I've found my people.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

9 months

Looks stunning.

Virtue Capitalists

Cambridge Core - Global History - Virtue Capitalists

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

7 months

Lol, no. Kristol first said a neoconservative was a liberal who had been mugged by reality after he split with "the Left" over voting for Reagan in 1980!

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

4 months

Biking home through the Mission and I assume everyone is honking about Tarkovsky's unmatched mis-en-scène.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

4 months

Sold out Tarkovsky screening at the Roxie in SF while some sports game plays at a bar across the street — I think I've found my people.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

6 months

In general I side with @samuelmoyn in a preference for overt politics (read: "democracy") against law, but curious what if any acts Trump could have taken that would lead Moyn to agree that a court should bar him from the ballot. Is there a line in the sand? Or none?

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

5 months

Claudine Gay shouldn't have been fired but also I struggle to imagine any plagiarism I wouldn't find highly disturbing.

Eli Cook

@Eli_B_Cook

5 months

Was it the kind of plagiarism that you, as an academic, find highly disturbing?

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

Instead of the 1920s, the origins of "diversity" in college admissions can be found in the real integration of white ethnics into the WASP elite in the 1950s. And this is why "diversity" was so easily repurposed for the inclusion of non-white groups in the 1960s.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

. @gabrielwinant : millennial in the streets; boomer at the keyboard. Anyone under the age of 50 knows a terabyte is table stakes for working historians today.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

7 months

As OpenAI burns through billions, I'm starting to suspect ChatGPT is the Gen Z equivalent of the "Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy." We got cheap rides in Ubers — my students get badly written essays. Neither comes close to the actual cost of production.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

Best academic bio on the internet?

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

4 months

Entering the Zone. #Stalker

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

Counterpoint: history *is* a social science.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

7 months

One funny thing about Napoleon is that film critics keep saying "these battles are huge" and historians are like "why is the Battle of Waterloo, waged by 200,000 men, the size of a playground brawl?"

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

5 months

I can't believe I have to use a Dell until my Stanford MacBook finally materializes ... but also the keyboard on this POS feels amazing. Could Apple just once choose utility over design? Jobs is dead guys.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

9 months

Guys 'The Two Faces of American Freedom' is so brilliant. Someone could do a whole season of a podcast just based on this book and still blow everyone's minds.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

5 months

@BigMeanInternet Breederitis

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

Teaching Marx and the students of course start by asking me about the difference between alienation and exploitation, which brings me back to this classic.

William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸

@MarxinHell

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@JKandiyali @alexgourevitch @daraghjgrant @theoryhack I think the big difference between alienation people and anti-alienation people is that the former think people resenting or not understanding what they're doing sounds terrible while the latter think it sounds like Tuesday & is just not a big deal.

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@_TimBarker "Mostly an era without monopolies" wtaf. No more monopolized and less competitive time than the US in the 1950s.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

7 months

No, it's not a cult … Yes, everyone I know is in it …

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

6 months

Handout for today's class at Cornell

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

For the rest of the story, check out my new post, with more to come in the next few weeks.

Everything We Know about the History of Diversity Is Wrong

And Historians Aren't Exactly Helping in the Harvard Case Currently Before the Supreme Court

makehistory.substack.com

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

Even if it were to work (has it ever?) the theory of change for symbolic political terror requires a populace weighed down by the yoke of autarky, which suddenly sees violence as a way out. That's not exactly a description of the US public's relationship to, say, Exxon.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

6 months

My summary of "Republicanism: The Career of a Concept": Oh, you all just skimmed 50 pages from a 550 page book? Maybe instead of actually reading it you should just never talk about it again.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

8 months

More on all my favorite people: the inventors of the very idea of "leadership" in academia and industry and their friends in social science and the first HR offices. Now with special guest star—the most iconic Big Man on Campus in the history of the university—Herbert Hoover! 🗃️

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

1 year

This couldn't be more true. But the elite capture of the culture industries and a small subset of business sectors (law firms, consulting) leads to the mistaken impression that elite degrees confer lifelong financial advantages — which is totally mistaken.

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I felt like such an idiot when I realized in my 30s that the key to getting a job at, say, the NYT was a Harvard BA. How did I not already know that?

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The paired readings are Aziz Rana on Obama as meritocrat and Gabe Winant on "Kids These Days" and human capital. Last class is going to be … a lot.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

7 months

Just screened "Legally Blonde" for the final meeting of my "Meritocracy in America" class at Cornell. Absolutely perfect film.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

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My take on Napoleon is that Barry Lyndon and Master and Commander are good movies but they are not the same movie. You can't have your hero be an upwardly mobile idiot savant wandering the 18th Century and a military genius sitting astride the modern age.

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

5 months

What if Gen Z actually has an intuitive understanding of solidarity more advanced than any American generation since the 1930s?

Yoni Appelbaum

@YAppelbaum

5 months

This, from @robinsonmeyer , is an interesting thesis about Biden's struggles with younger voters:

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

6 months

Running my dissertation through TurnItIn just to see what happens

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Iconic

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I believe @nplusonemag was started with $1,000 from each of the four founding editors.

John Merrick

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1 year

If you were to, say, start a London-based left literary/cultural magazine — a British n+1 or something like it — how much initial money do you reckon you’d need?

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AOL Instant Messenger

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Not only do the citations in Karabel's work not hold up, the actual history reveals a very different story.

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Is the point symbolic political terror? Basically, assassinating the Tsar? An anarchist blowing up Archduke Ferdinand? Then the targets should be human, not physical infrastructure. But symbolic political terror is supposed to produce a mass uprising, not just intimidate rulers.

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To be clear, this is why I love History. And hate it.

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Nothing more shocking for my students than learning that it's legal to fire someone just because you don't like them.

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10 months

Students telling me they can't turn in their assignments on paper because it will cost too much. The assignments this semester run to 25 pages; the printing fee is 7 cents a page.

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Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.

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9 months

I'm sorry to disappoint but the answer is that labor is weak, so the president doesn't have to appear to be picking sides — one side is barely a side.

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Did Biden become the first US president to visit a picket line because labor is …

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@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n

8 months

Ace of Base, "The Sign." Split the cost with my sister @annehelen , who then promptly laid claim to the CD.

Discogs

@discogs

8 months

On the 41st anniversary of the release of the world's first CD player, share the first CD you ever purchased.

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Version Two — now with fewer white guys, more witches, among other crucial figures.

Capitalism — Theory and Practice.pdf

Shared with Dropbox

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1 year

Imagine if the entire econ profession were churning out work this good.

Isabella M. Weber

@IsabellaMWeber

1 year

Corporate concentration is a possible explanation of price and profit hikes driving inflation. But concentration was high before inflation. So, why can firms hike prices in an emergency? We explore this question in a new working paper. A 🧵

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Is it normal for students to ask for a selfie with the professor at the end of the last class? Or is this a new Gen Z thing?

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1 year

Can someone explain to me why Marx starts talking about 'value' as such midway through the first chapter of 'Capital'? Is this concept distinct from 'exchange value'? How? This is maybe the sixth time I've read this section and I've never really understood it.

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@CoreyRobin I'm sympathetic to the alternative sources for the fascism comparison in the Black radical tradition. (Also hilarious TK in the link here!)

The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism - Boston Review

A debate is roiling about the aptness of comparing Trump to European fascists. But radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.

www.bostonreview.net

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1 year

And they say men won't watch three hours of modern dance.

Richard Beck

@Richard__Beck

1 year

Saw the new John Wick last night and the all the fight scenes gave me the exact same kind of cinematic pleasure I get from the dancing in Singin’ In the Rain.

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Thinking Deep Thoughts c/o PowerPoint