Historian @CUNY. Editor @NewLeftReview. Author of Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist
New York, NY
Joined August 2019
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Liberalism at Large is now a lot lighter. The paperback version of my book is out in stores and from Verso for 30% off: versobooks.com/books/3090-li…
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A truly fantastic new Modern Intellectual History article by Alexander Zevin on why empire went missing from the so called French liberal revival of the 1970s: "Ferry Retrouvé: Leaving the History of Empire Out of the “Liberal Moment” in France": cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Will help lead this discussion on Sunday with Equator and Verso on Mike Davis’s Late Victorian Holocausts. Link below if you’d like to sign up
This is happening next week. Over 500 of you have already signed up to join but we’d love to see more of you there. Sign up here (pay-what-you-can): equator.org/events/late-vict…
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NLR 160 is out now.
Featuring Benjamin Kunkel on the ‘new national question’; Carlo Ginzburg's correspondence with Perry Anderson; Mao Jian on new cultural forms in China; Donald Sassoon on the British Labour Party, plus book reviews...
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NLR 159 is out now.
Featuring Anton Jäger on elite political culture, Javier Moreno Zacarés on American capitalism and an interview with Thea Riofrancos on the state of world climate politics.
Also in NLR 159: Régis Debray on cultural transformation and Christian Sorace and David Sneath on Mongolia; plus book reviews – Jack Copley on rentierism, Katie Ebner-Landy on Rahel Jaeggi and Tom Mertes on the War on Terror.
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New Left Review will be hosting a talk and drinks for the release of its latest issue on 27 May in NYC. Sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-left-…
For NLR I wrote about Trump’s war in Iran and how to situate it wrt past US interventions in the Middle East newleftreview.org/issues/ii1…
Speaking at the Université Libre in Brussels today at 6pm on the US left and foreign policy followed by a conversation with @DanielZamoraV. Come by if you’re in Brussels institut-liebman.be/index.ph…
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I spoke to a senior figure within Iran’s state media for @NewLeftReview about his experience of the bombing of Tehran; the dynamics of the war; the economy; Western news coverage; and the appointment of the third Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic newleftreview.org/sidecar/po…
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In NLR 157: Trump Abroad.
Susan Watkins analyses the political logics behind the strategic cacophony of Trump’s fifth year.
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Important piece from @roblucas on the cruel intensification of the US embargo on Cuba - with fresh insights into its history, politics, and energy sources newleftreview.org/sidecar/po…
Looking forward to moderating this panel for the launch of NLR 154 on what post-capitalist planning could look like: with Aaron Benanav, Nancy Fraser, and Geoff Mann. Sign up here for the Oct 2 event in NYC: eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-left-…
Could NYC once again become an ‘island of social democracy’ in the US? My piece sets Zohran’s win in historical perspective going back to Henry George’s near-victory in 1886, and the long battle for Home Rule in New York newleftreview.org/sidecar/po…
Join us on Tue, 27 May at Verso’s NYC office for the launch of NLR 152. David Harvey, Alyssa Battistoni and Tim Barker will discuss the contradictions of contemporary capitalism. Issues and subs online and at the door. Sign up here (space is limited)
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I’ll be moderating this discussion in NYC on April 9. Please join (if it’s not already full up) and subscribe
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George Steinmetz’s Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought is a meticulous study of the links btw the social sciences & the French empire. In my review, I suggest a need to think decolonization as a deeper process of social transformation
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What path forward for socialism at the end of history? I wrote about historian Eric Hobsbawm’s complex relationship with liberalism at the moment of its apparent triumph in the 1990s newleftreview.org/issues/ii1…
‘From Sartre I learned to look beyond surfaces. He also made me a leftist long before I knew what that was. Reading Sartre steered me to Fanon, and to Henri Alleg’s book…Reading about France and Algeria woke me up to what kind of country I was living in’
A very abbreviated interview with Gary and some memories of him newleftreview.org/sidecar/po…
“I came to realize that the people who really seemed to know what they were doing were the communists,” Rossanda remembered in her memoir. They were “resolutely realistic . . . special kinds of people.” jacobin.com/2024/03/rossana-…
