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1 year

My dear friends Ryan S. Jeffery and Norman Palm made a trailer for Crack-Up Capitalism with nods to our shared fealty to Adam Curtis. Spot your favorites!

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First instance I’ve noticed of “antiwar” rather than “pro-Palestinian,” feels like a shift

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“We don’t think that we are at war” would be a great title for a book about the US since 1945

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Q: "Is it now fair to say that the US is at war in Yemen?" Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh: "We don't think that we are at war." Q: "We've bombed them five times now...If this isn't war, what is war?" Singh: "We are not at war with the Houthis."

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Mélenchon with a slogan for our times

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When Saudi Arabia killed one journalist, there was international outcry. Tensions were strained between the kingdom and North Atlantic nations for years. Israel has killed 79.

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This has happened only three times before: the Congo Crisis (1960), Iranian-American embassy crisis (1979) and Lebanese civil war (1989).

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I've just invoked Art.99 of the UN Charter - for the 1st time in my tenure as Secretary-General. Facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, I urge the Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe & appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared.

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The Crow story is mostly being played for laughs but the fact that Charles Murray literally dedicated his latest effort to revive race science to him suggests it might go a bit deeper.

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people love to create images like this to help clear up disinformation

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a lot of you

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I had it explained to me without irony by a German academic that because the Bundestag had passed a resolution against BDS, disinviting speakers who supported BDS wasn't an ethical or political decision--it was simply following the law.

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In May, I was invited to give the keynote address at an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Regensburg (Germany) to present my new book. Two days before the talk this month I was informed this invitation had been rescinded, due to pro-Palestine posts on social media

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My hot take is a historian’s professional training can be replicated by reading a ton of books—the problem is getting the years to read them unless you’re born rich.

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Early 90s Russian phrasebook when the bonanza began

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slouching through the supply chains to be born

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Assuming fifty years from now the universities will be ashamed of their actions mistakes the regime of accumulation we are entering for the last one.

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these seem to be presented as three roughly equivalent incidents

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The scandalization on thin grounds of actions on university campuses is a near-repeat of the late 60s. Then as now, Marcuse was at least half right: students (of a certain shrinking class) are dangerous because they are not yet bound to a workplace and can associate freely.

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Switching "blockchain" in every 2022 article for "AI" and republishing to see if anyone notices

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incredible ad

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A common criticism of the intellectual history of neoliberalism is its diffusionism: ideas roll downhill from white guys on a Swiss mountaintop and "take over the world." This is why @DieterPlehwe & I edited our just-published book Market Civilizations. 1/

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Very hard to think of this as anything but the arrogance of empire

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White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby calls South Africa’s 84-page suit accusing Israel of genocide “meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever.”

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probably a good week to start reading @claraemattei 's book on interwar British and Italian fiscal policy and the road to fascism...

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@mqudsi "Pro-Palestinian" was the standard descriptor for the last seven months

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Using the same rigorous methodology to discover capitalism did not exist until the 1890s

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@xanlpz @zeithistoriker It's a myth, at least until about 1990 when academics decided it was the new bogeyman for everything they dislike.

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Half of NPR’s podcasts from 2006-18 will have to be retracted in the wake of the Ariely/Gino revelations. Lewis-Krauss investigates

They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie?

Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino became famous for their research into why we bend the truth. Now they’ve both been accused of fabricating data.

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One tic of academia is claiming to be interested in Third World socialism then largely ignoring the work that is published. Here’s a small selection of excellent books from the last few years

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niece: what’s Marxism I keep hearing about it me: there was a guy called Karl Marx who lived in the 19th century— niece: is this going to be a long story?

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Professor Quinn Slobodian believes that free markets must lead to tyrannical abuse of workers, so socialism is the only solution.

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Professor Quinn Slobodian believes that free markets must lead to tyrannical abuse of workers, so socialism is the only solution. His logic, as David Gordon points out, is, well, illogical.

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Live shot of Boris

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Schwab praising Milei for "introducing a new spirit to Argentina, making Argentina more related to free enterprise, entrepreneurial activities and to bring Argentina back to the rule of law."

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He's going to love the book I'm finishing on how the Right has returned to sociobiology, race psychology, and eugenics to anchor its claims about natural inequality in recent years

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6 months

Among many other things we are witnessing is the end of the era of human rights as a consensus language.

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Feeling bad for Peter Slobodian, the Telegraph doesn’t like his book

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🚨 Matt Taibbi claims all his Twitter Files have been "removed"

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just make all books look like this again

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The rare non-despair-inducing hockey stick graph

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The absence of decade thinking in the new millennium is really striking. There’s been no real crystallization of the sense of the 00s, 10s, 20s.

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Al Jazeera has it at 90. Here are their names.

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2 years

More than anyone Mike Davis showed me you could write history politically without apology

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The irony is that AI itself is a plagiarism machine

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Huh

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@johndhaskell Beyond its descriptive accuracy, I think 'anti-war' is the only category with a slim chance of legitimacy for the modal BLM-sympathetic US reader/viewer

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Americans love to think politics is about giving a good speech

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the font every germanist wants on their gravestone

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Had my say on Trussonomics in @nytimes

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Maybe obvious but a lot of animal studies and new natural history seems to repeat the tics of 90s social and cultural history, finding "resistance" and "agency" everywhere, only this time it's animals, moss, water, rocks, etc doing the resisting.

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I actually had to double check that this was real. It can only mean one of two things (or both): close intellectual camaraderie or hefty financial support.

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Capitalism having been strictly rational before Nakamoto’s White Paper

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It’s interesting to see the unalloyed praise of private power and condemnation of phantom socialisms welcomed and rewarded at this high level, confirms the hunch behind my book that neoliberal ideology is not vanishing but radicalizing.

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Milei got a nice round of applause for his final words addressed to the gathered businesspeople.

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Had not heard until now that Milei plans to meld ministries of education, health, and labor into a single Ministry of Human Capital

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Blank-slate urbanism is the through line between Kushner, Trump, MBS and every hedge fund manager and Silicon Valley VC. At root of it is a disgust with humanity as it actually exists.

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Bill Ackman dreams of turning Gaza into another Neom

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Every European city has a neighborhood of maybe ten blocks with a handful fewer white people and a handful more used cell phone shops that right-wing politicians have been obsessively talking about for decades.

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I wrote about zones for @nytimes

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covers that go hard

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Ink is dry so I guess I can announce I’ll be joining a wonderful set of new colleagues as professor of international history at @BUPardeeSchool in January 2024! Planning on having this tattooed.

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A lot of the anti-ecosocialist discourse seems to boil down to the fact that hippies are annoying which as a child of the West Coast I must admit is a compelling argument.

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Opeds: Neoliberalism‘s dead German chancellor Olaf Scholz: Hold my Krug

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Großartige Veranstaltung heute in Berlin zu #Hayek , organisiert von Jens #Weidmann , u.a. mit dem @Bundeskanzler , @c_lindner & @kajakallas . Es ging um die Frage, wie Hayeks Prinzipien in die heutigen nationalen und internationalen Kontexte zu übersetzen sind.

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Charles Murray also dedicated "Human Accomplishment" (2004) to Crow along with Charles Krauthammer and Irwin Stelzer: "It turns out I had brothers after all," he wrote.

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Human Accomplishment, dedicated to Harlan Crow, is an unintentionally hilarious effort to show through "science" like the below that some populations have more inherent genius than others. It was dismantled well by @NathanJRobinson

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what stage of not being able to imagine the end of capitalism is this

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live laugh it’s easier to imagine the-

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Normal blurb from Thiel on the Hanania/Hoste book from @HarperCollins

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Just finished this book I should have read years ago. Brilliant take on the marketplace for sovereignty in the 19c and a retelling of the Berlin Conference by way of the place that shadowed and shaped it: Borneo.

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yes @TobiasBuckFT

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Why to read the financial press

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Pub day for The Thing! Will be at @HarvardBooks to launch it April 13 with my friend @moiragweigel . Come along!

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Nancy Fraser’s letter of un-invitation from a guest professorship in Cologne because of her support for the statement “Philosophy for Palestine”

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The director’s letter

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Carl Marx

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Love that Hobbes's Leviathan only has 3.7/5 on Goodreads

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rejected designs for the european flag

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To paraphrase a German student of mine: Germans are chronically critical of the government but deferential to the state.

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Nancy Fraser’s letter of un-invitation from a guest professorship in Cologne because of her support for the statement “Philosophy for Palestine”

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they did it

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Turns out I'm literally checking proofs today on an article out soon from @a_capitalism that covers the whole backstory on this. Stay tuned...

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Don’t know why people get into these GOT/LOTR fantasy worlds when the Spanish Civil War exists

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This is a striking cover but always worth remembering Clinton started building the border wall within years of the top photo. The neoliberal order always treated people differently than money and things.

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Monday Mises

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Everything you always wanted to know about Ordoliberalismus but were afraid to ask, out in November

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How does this keep happening we’ll never know

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praxis hired a guy who was been described as a central figure in white power, accelerationist movements. they recommended employees read pro-fascist and racist, writer bronze age pervert. curtis yarvin was lurking in the background of all this

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@la_leere @AyeshaASiddiqi takes you back to the old days of the atlantic when people were described as having eyes "like egg yolks"

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Milton Friedman and @FukuyamaFrancis explain neoliberalism’s shortcomings

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Thank goodness Marx was not academically influential until 1917 though

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This was a Harvard class taught exclusively for labor activists.

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City within an airport

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Saudi Arabia's city within an airport is set to revolutionise air travel Click the image to read the full article Partner Content by PIF

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I like this because it looks like we are opening for Amon Düül

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You wonder if your sense that every student is doing a computer science major is exaggerated and then you see this

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Such an amazing book by @Stephen83802580 (and such a handle) describing Germany’s multiple energy transitions since 1945, the role of the state in each, and how they all only worked by linking to larger visions of a shared future.

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The ten nations voting for the bombing to continue: Austria Czechia Guatemala Israel Liberia Micronesia Nauru Papau New Guinea Paraguay USA

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BREAKING: UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution demanding immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, as well as immediate and unconditional release of all hostages FOR: 153 AGAINST: 10 ABSTAIN: 23 LIVE COVERAGE

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Heading to New York this weekend to get a sense of what people will be wearing in Boston in ten years

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Pub day for Brett Christophers’s latest great one

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As @GavJacobson observed, France only has two global intellectual celebrities left: Houllebecq and Piketty. I wrote about the charms and limits of statistics as politics and what it means that Piketty keeps trying to outflank his critics from the left

How Thomas Piketty found politics

Ten years after publication, Capital in the Twenty-First Century remains a landmark study of inequality. Did it change anything?

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Hauling the passive tense to the Hague

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I think one of the charms of Dawn of Everything for average readers is being introduced to the diversity of scholarly debates. This is contra the received wisdom that non-specialist audiences want narratives delivered straight in a god-like voice.

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“I work 14 hours a day at least. When there are Israeli strikes, I sleep in the bakery,” he said. “I can’t see a hungry child and do nothing about it.”

Flatbread for thousands: how a war-torn Gaza bakery is fighting hunger

Workers bake through the night to feed vast queues of people in besieged territory

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Enjoyed @adam_tooze ’s account of his emergence as public intellectual but was missing some reflection on online media as content vampire: it’s the insatiable demand for Fresh Takes from multiple and overlapping platforms (the polyplatform?) that makes Hypertoozification possible.

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Number one sign you're speaking truth to power is when you praise the world's richest businesspeople as the "true protagonists of this story"

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Lots of people still scratching their heads over Javier Milei's self-description as an anarcho-capitalist. I offer this compact definition in my book by way of Rothbard, who Milei admires and cites. We can think of the anarcho-capitalist polity as an "anti-republic."

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Wrote about the colonial origins of the EU with reference to recent work by @GKBhambra @MeganHist @KojoKoram Tendayi Achiume, Fred Cooper & Jane Burbank

The delusion of a new European empire

Old forms of thinking about world order are mutating in new conditions.

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Insofar as it exists, it’s helpful to think of “post-neoliberalism“ not as negation or reversal but as building on top of institutions, incentives and idioms that neoliberalism has already put into place, less antithesis than synthesis.

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Extraordinary generation gap

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