RISE AND FALL OF THE RELIGIOUS LEFT USIH @Ideas_History/@IUPUI Community Scholar + @RutgersCCA Words: @ReligPolitics @MadebyHistory @LAReviewofBooks @CNNOpinion
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On Quinn Slobodian's latest for the @LAReviewofBooks and how we study the relationship between the Alt Right and American neoliberalism since the 1990s.
"The sooner we stop intellectually profiling the Right and its myriad complexities, the better."
lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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The winner of the JHI’s inaugural Martin Jay Article Prize is Nayeli L. Riano for “The Pueblo and the Politics of History and Historiography in the Writings of Andrés Bello and Francisco Bilbao.”
web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/20…
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Wrote a post about resources for teaching the history of now: historyofnow.substack.com/p/…
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"it wasn’t the radicalism of the 1960s that made neoconservatives, but preexisting conservative ideas embedded in Cold War liberalism – above all a preoccupation with national security and national defense as the basis of a healthy nation.": cambridge.org/core/books/col…
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Some people asked for the syllabus, here is its last iteration.
I'll be teaching this course at BISR beginning November 18. We'll be reading Aimé Césaire, Ghassan Kanafani, Lorraine Hansberry and thinking about "the entry of the chorus, of the ex- slaves themselves, as the arbiters of their own fate" (C.L.R. James).
thebrooklyninstitute.com/ite…
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Harper is used to writing for @TheAtlantic, where all one needs is a deliberately and manipulatively worded "controversial" claim of some sort to produce an article. It's clear that Johnson's rebuttals are making his head spin, the poor thing.
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Anton Jäger with a new piece on what comes after hyperpolitics: jacobin.com/2026/10/hyperpol…
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Yankees fans often get told they’re not allowed to complain, so we tried to digest what went down last night in Tampa on the show. S/O to @JakeAsman for pulling up.
youtube.com/live/nI-S8PA71C8…
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i didn’t realise that this interview had been released!
read it if you wish to hear my thoughts on method and the Muppets:
thesiseleven.com/2026/09/23/…
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Losing baseball player. Only positive of the Yankees season ending is Jazz won’t be on the team anymore. Zero accountability ever.
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We didn’t want to say it after the loss to the Packers. And “at least they looked competitive against the Lions.” But we’re back and better than ever: Same Ol’ Jets on this Moral Victory Monday. Discussed on the show this AM.
youtube.com/live/C804A2F4P7E…
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i’m going to be eating up the big apple in a single gulp at the end of the month!
join me on oct 26th where i get some cool and interesting people to say cool and interesting things about my book (while i probably just make muppets references and try to drag ppl to karaoke)
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I’m on @ESPNNewYork from 3-6PM prior to Game 1 of the ALDS. We’ll hit on this, of course. And I’ll tell you why Game 1 is a must win game for Tampa! Streaming live on YouTube!
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Stuart Hall et al in ”Policing the Crisis” (1978):
”Britain in the 1970s is a country for whose crisis there are no viable capitalist solutions left, and where, as yet, there is no political base for an alternative socialist strategy.
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Going live on @ESPNNewYork the moment Game 1 of Yankees/Red Sox is over. Pull up! We will be on YouTube as well.
As usual the 1970s are where it's at 🤣
