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An unbelievable essay on Celan that simply must be read (not only because it tells you you simply must read Anna Arno’s biography too)
Lucy Ives on Paul Celan: "A writer who had contemplated and understood something about modern warfare, technocracy, and globalization that nobody else had, by which I mean he had understood something about how language itself was affected by these things." poetryfoundation.org/article…
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Hobsbawm Discourse reaches new heights as Adam Tooze devotes *half* of one of his @OnesandToozePod podcasts to Hobsbawm and my book! Plus it's a really interesting and smart analysis. Do I just retire now..?
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Come for Olivia Oldham's smart and personal take on YUPPIES; stay for the essays by @gabrielwinant, @maidinoff, and many, many others.
very proud of ARTIFICIAL FUTURES, the technology issue we've put together at @DissentMag — featuring Brian J. Chen, @veenadubal, Katie Wells, @jerometenk, @maidinoff, JS Tan, @ClarissaRedwine and many more! (cover by @thetolerantweft)
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Publication day!
(For the US edition, at least - UK edition coming in a couple of weeks...)
Thank you to everyone who helped along the way ☺️
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I wrote about Locke, the liberal establishment, and the role of universities for Persuasion—
With many thanks to Luke Hallam and @Yascha_Mounk!
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“Gold conquers the strongest citadels,
Turns friends into traitors and liars;
Persuades the noblest to acts of infamy,
Betraying their leaders to the enemy;…
Even scholarship at times has been bought,
Blinding discernment and impartial thought.”
—Camões, The Lusiads, Canto Eight
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brutally mogged by a catalog model in today's @nytimes Styles section
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It's here! After so many years!
I wasn't entirely sure this book would really happen, until I opened the box. Now, perhaps, it's time to let go of it and see what others think..?
Thanks to @Harvard_Press and everyone else who followed me in this journey.
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Heartbroken to learn that we have lost Tom Conley, indefatigable seiziémiste, film scholar, exegete and translator of de Certeau, Deleuze, Jean-Louis Schéfer and many more. In an age of complacency in the humanities, he always maintained the exacting standards and élan of the 70s
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This is the piece on 1776 you want to be reading today ⚖️
When the Declaration of Independence was written, the word “equal” had many different definitions. The expansiveness of the concept helps explain its endurance—but what happens next is up to us, @tmbejan argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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The Age of Hobsbawm @emile_chabal now available for pre-order!
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‘Hobsbawm’s canonization was a Western tribute to a great historian who had erected a monument to Europe amid its decline, when the lights and shadows of its civilization appeared, in retrospect, as a vanished past, as impressive as it was tragic.’ theideasletter.org/essay/the…
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"The secret is to allow the language to flow, to possess you."
Mitchell Abidor explores three new books by and about Romanian poet Paul Celan: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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Vishal Verma interviews Luna Sabastian about her recent book, “Fascism in India” which traces the emergence of Hindu nationalism—with its corresponding ideas of religion, race, and caste—to "the global fascist moment" of the interwar years. @Harvard_Press bit.ly/4dUOdPD
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Great essay from @JulianGewirtz on Trump-Xi summit:
As President Trump lands in Beijing for his high-stakes summit with Xi Jinping, I write in the New York Times today on the risks of the current period of strategic stalemate — and how China's approach to the United States is shaped by the enduring resonance of Mao Zedong's On Protracted War:
nytimes.com/2026/05/13/opini…
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Rebecca Kobrin reveals how lending within Jewish immigrant communities enabled both migration and economic mobility in early 20th-century America, in a conversation led by Annie Polland.
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YUPPIES taking over New York (again).
Happy happy pub day @dygottlieb 🥂
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Windowshopping at the newish @mcnallyjackson around the corner from the office where my dad banked his way through the 80s to be able to send his kids to private school 💵💷💴👔🍣
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“What happens when yuppies realize they could be headed toward extinction? One hope is that they recognize that they have more in common with…workers than w/ corp. elite…Zohran coalition(downwardly mobile yuppies w/ working-class strivers)is sign this may already be occurring.”
In today's @nytimes, I went deep on yuppies -- the young professionals who are now so ubiquitous that we've ceased to notice them.
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First time, long time -- a treat to join @DougHenwood on Behind the News.
fresh audio product (announcement delayed, but podcast has been circulating since Thursday):
• Dylan Gottlieb on yuppies
• Ervand Abrahamian on Iran
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Three cheers for Marla Ramirez, author of Banished Citizens!
Three cheers for @dygottlieb, author of Yuppies.
Three cheers for our editors @emsilk10, @pompqmoq (not at #OAH2026 this year but you can always pitch him!), and Sana Mohtadi.
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