Historian and author, THE ATLANTIC REALISTS @Stanfordpress; Sr. Fellow, Inst. Euro. Studies@UCBerkeley; editor @HistJrlTheory; lecturer in History@SantaClaraU
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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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Leading theoretical physicist Miranda Cheng on the possible impacts of AI on her field:
-The end of human-led mathematics
-The beginning of the end of human-led intellectual pursuit
-A golden age of mathematical science
"Which outcome becomes reality depends on what we do now."
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There’s been a lot of talk about the crisis of American men, but Trump seemed to steer them less toward college or new employment than gambling and crypto.
Almost every job created in his second term has gone to women, with employment growing only in sectors coded as female.
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Senator @ChrisMurphyCT reveals that war plan briefings by the administration show that Trump and Israel are planning an extreme escalation to win the war of choice wth Iran.
Murphy calls the plan "insane." Not only will it fail, but it will also lead to "the likely destruction of our commitment to the rule of law."
What Sen. Murphy says here is that Trump and Israel are planning a military campaign that violates every rule of war, including every American law regarding the conduct of war.
It is not a war plan; it's a war crimes plan.
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A warm #mossewednesday congratulations to Dr. Keith Baker, winner of this year's AHA George L. Mosse prize for his book "Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror"!
@UWHistoryDept @ESatUWMadison @AHAhistorians
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Do you work on some aspect of international political economy? Want to live by the ocean and driving distance from Peter Jackson, James Cameron, and those Flight of the Concords guys? Shoot your shot and come work with me! jobs.ac.uk/job/DTJ580/lectur…
Keen to read this @JPScarfi !
En mi universidad (#UdeSA) tienen esta excelente iniciativa llamada “Academia Abierta” y publicaron esta breve nota basada en mi review essay del libro de Greg Grandin, America, América (2025) publicada hace un par de semanas en la revista Diplomatic History:
El papel de las Américas en la construcción del orden mundial👇
udesa.edu.ar/noticias/el-pap…
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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..."
