Historian and author, THE ATLANTIC REALISTS @Stanfordpress; Sr. Fellow, Inst. Euro. Studies@UCBerkeley; editor @HistJrlTheory; lecturer in History@SantaClaraU
Joined July 2009
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Preparing my remarks for a roundtable on Laura Field’s impressive book on New Right intellectuals—at the European International Studies Association conference in Lisbon, September 1.
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I am very happy to announce the publication of my special cluster in the Journal of the History of Ideas on midcentury brain science. This collection is based on a workshop I put on at UCLA and was edited with Andreas Killen, and features a bunch of great new scholarship.
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There's no more pretense.
The shameful truth is now clear.
By withholding critical Intel and Internet services, and lifting sanctions on Russia to replenish Putin's war machine, @realDonaldTrump & @elonmusk are now fully complicit. They're on Putin's side.
nytimes.com/2026/10/14/world… via @NYTimes
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Finally it’s been said: Putin is not winning this war, but him not winning is not good enough for us
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The precedent set by this action is chilling; raids on political candidates just days before an election are now fully in the cards, despite decades of DOJ precedent barring any such actions in criminal cases.
BREAKING: Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) home was raided by the Feds this morning as part of an ongoing criminal investigation.
DOJ spox to @FoxNews:
“Today in the Washington, D.C. area, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice. This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.”
foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-o…
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“Among editors who rely on freelance writers, it has become common knowledge that our inboxes and pitch forms are absolutely inundated with AI slop of one form or another” cjr.org/analysis/fake-caroli…
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This was such a great conversation, I highly recommend Hannah's new book, THE OPPORTUNISTS
Tonight at IPK: Hannah Gurman discusses her new book The Opportunists: The Post-Liberals and the Reinvention of Reactionary Politics with @MatthewSitman.
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Very grateful for this conversation. I enjoyed it enormously, and could not imagine better and smarter readers.
Very lively conversation at @RemarqueNYU about @GuilhotNicolas’ CONSPIRACY: The History of a Political Obsession, out from Belknap this Tues.
hup.harvard.edu/books/978067…
Every author hopes for interlocutors as sharp as these — @nikhil_palsingh, @jenszalai, and Stefanos Geroulanos.
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Are you an early-career scholar whose research bears directly on American grand strategy? The applications for @AWConsortium pre- and post-doctoral fellowships are now open. Come join us next year at the @ClementsCenter. Apply below: awconsortium.org/opportuniti…
Fantastic news, and cover! Congrats @PhilippLenhard #CriticalTheory
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Latest news: 2 of my sociology colleagues, John Levi Martin & Geoff Wodtke & I each wrote separate reviews of the Vanderbilt-Wash U Report on Sociology by A. Rubin. For my brief opinion and links to all 3 reviews, see this blogpost: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/0…
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In case you want to come hear @BrankoMilan, Nancy Fraser, and me discuss (de-)globalization and economic nationalism in NYC on October 14th newleftreview.org/events/new…
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Professor Sues New School, Claiming Tenure Has Been Dismantled nytimes.com/2026/09/24/nyreg…
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LOL! Best Hitler-bunker-scene rendition so far!
“You didn’t tell me these were the same Persians that defeated the Romans.”
"Have Bari Weiss write why high oil prices are actually a good thing..."
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Eleanor Davey - L'idéalisme sans frontières
La gauche révolutionnaire française et l'essor de l'humanitaire
À paraître en février aux PUR
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Just a reminder that in two weeks I'll be giving a talk at LSE, co-hosted by @lea_ypi and @Equatormag. It's on socialism after AI. Details: lse.ac.uk/events/ai-socialis…
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New review just published online in the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books:
Caleb Fridell on Benjamin Kohlmann's Revolutionary Subjects: A Radical History of the Bildungsroman
marxandphilosophy.org.uk/rev…
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I enjoyed talking with @wesleyan_u alum @ianbassin ’98, Ho... of @protctdemocracy about the responsibility of #HigherEd to defend #AcademicFreedom and #FreeSpeech @ACEducation @aacu @TheFIREorg @AAUP youtu.be/rPKqYFEeo24?si=8J8F… via @YouTube
Exciting book conversation in NYC ⬇️ with one of my favorite scholars, @GuilhotNicolas!
Thrilled to be in conversation with @jenszalai and @nikhil_palsingh on October 2 at @RemarqueNYU! Two voices I admire.
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Free new book on fascism for 2 weeks! The Fascist Zeitgeist. Authoritarian Legacies and the Iberian Far Right, by Lucca Manucci is out and free download for the next two weeks. Series "The History and Politics of Fascism". @CUP_PoliSci @CambridgeUP cambridge.org/core/elements/…
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"A much-needed antidote to prevailing misconceptions about the Frankfurt School’s relationship to the New Left and its place in political history. A must-read for anyone interested in this tradition of Marxist thought."
--A.J.A. Woods (@adubwoods)
Available for pre-order now!
