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Is It Too Late to Remake American Democracy?

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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 15h

My latest interview for The Nation is with Osita Nwanevu and concerns why the US has never been a democracy and what it must do economically and politically to become one: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People.

The Bear in the Room and the Civilizing Process | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 21h

My brand new article on the idea of the West and the European project in Modern Intellectual History

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Bear in the Room and the Civilizing Process

Field Work | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 20h

Timothy Scott Johnson reviews for Modern Intellectual History:

1. Amín Pérez’s “Bourdieu & Sayad against Empire”

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2. George Steinmetz’s “The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire”:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Field Work

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Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social · 6d

"Everything that happens in our society—war, conquest, science, consumption, love, and child-rearing—are marked by the fact that they happen in capitalist time".

Good interview w/ Thomas Meaney:

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

A conversation with Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.

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Nabil Salih @nabilsalih.bsky.social · 6d

"What were the Abraham Accords if not partly a way for Israeli and Arab elites to agree to share in their need for (and immiseration of) migrant labor from South Asia in a more rationalized fashion."

@thenation.com with @grantamag.bsky.social's Thomas Meaney
www.thenation.com/article/cult...

A conversation with Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.

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Merve @merverlag.bsky.social · 6d

www.thenation.com/article/cult...? Thx DS for discovering this gem

A conversation with Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.

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Ferenc Laczo @ferenclaczo.bsky.social · 6d

This one is truly amazing www.thenation.com/article/cult...

A conversation with Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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Philipp Hölzing @philipphoelzing.bsky.social · 7d

A conversation with Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.

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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · 7d

My latest interview for The Nation is with Tom Meaney, editor of Granta: “I am a fortunate son of the American empire, born during Reagan’s Second Cold War in the garrison state of South Korea. The dictator Chun Doo-hwan—“our son of a bitch”—lived down the street.”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

A conversation with the Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.

Governing the Miracle | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

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Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · 20d

I wrote an essay for @mihjournal.bsky.social on two very different books on planetary politics, each enlightening in their own way. Both contribute substantially to the discussion within the planetary turn. The piece can be found here:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Governing the Miracle

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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · Sep 24

Thank you and thanks for the suggestion!

The Problem of Green Capitalism

dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · Sep 23

It was a pleasure to interview Thea Riofrancos for The Nation about her important and very well written new book: “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

A conversation with Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction and the hidden cost and obscured history of the capitalist push to monetize the energy transition.

The Coming Ecological Cold War

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · Sep 2

‼️ EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism will be out in the UK with Icon Books on 25 September ‼️

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · Sep 2

We are on the verge of a new Cold War, defined not by an ideological contest over the proper relationship between politics and the economy, but over the metabolic basis of modernity. Call it the Green Entente vs. the Axis of Petrostates. My latest: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...

Decarbonization isn’t just about technology and markets—it’s a geopolitical revolution.

foreignpolicy.com

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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · Aug 29

Stefan Link asks "does economic nationalism have a philosophy"; summarizes two recent histories of economic nationalist thought; juxtaposes thinkers from the US, Germany, India, and China; and argues that the dots do connect into a "tradition" worth thinking about

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Does Economic Nationalism Have a Philosophy? | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

Does Economic Nationalism Have a Philosophy?

Does Economic Nationalism Have a Philosophy? | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · Aug 29

Must read Modern Intellectual History review by Stefan Link of:

1. Eric Helleiner’s ‘The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History”

2. Marvin Suesse’s “The Nationalist Dilemma: A Global History of Economic Nationalism, 1776–Present”

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Does Economic Nationalism Have a Philosophy?

More Marx, Less Marxism? Reconsidering Capital, Volume 1, Retranslated by Paul Reitter | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · Aug 19

My colleague Ulrich Plass has written a nuanced review of the new Princeton edition of Marx’s “Capital: Vol 1”—translated by Paul Reitter. Very well worth reading: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

More Marx, Less Marxism? Reconsidering Capital, Volume 1, Retranslated by Paul Reitter

Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope — Harvard University Press

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Sam Klug @samklug.bsky.social · Jul 29

Brandon Terry's long-awaited book on the tragic vision of the civil rights movement has a website, cover, and blurbs. Out in October!

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

A landmark reinterpretation of the civil rights movement that challenges reductive heroic narratives of the 1950s and 1960s and invigorates new debates and possibilities for the future of the struggle...

www.hup.harvard.edu

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Lars Cornelissen @lcornelissen.bsky.social · Apr 24

Very exciting to see that my book has its own page on the SUP website now

Should be hitting shelves in October!

www.sup.org/books/theory...

Neoliberalism and Race | Stanford University Press

Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal ideology. Using the methods of intellectual history and drawing on insights from critical race studi...

www.sup.org

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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thanks to Commonweal Magazine for letting me write about PSG’s Champions League victory and its aftermath: www.commonwealmagazine.org/sports-franc...

Soccer Solidarity

For the French political thinker Raymond Aron, sports fandom was one of the few things that defied modern atomization and isolation.

www.commonwealmagazine.org

Katrina Forrester · ‘I appreciate depreciation’: Dynastic Capitalism

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Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social · Jul 14

I had the pleasure of writing about the inimitable @melindacooper.bsky.social’s Counterrevolution for @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of...

www.lrb.co.uk

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dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social · Jul 11

A question about Hegel that I posed to Habermas that didn’t make it into the published version of my recent Nation interview with him: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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Philipp Hölzing @philipphoelzing.bsky.social · Jul 7

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Jürgen Habermas Still Believes in Modernity

A conversation with the German theorist about the history of Western philosophy and more.