Sam Klug
@samklug.bsky.social
Historian and teacher. Author of THE INTERNAL COLONY: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo238821158.html
On major questions of university governance, a 99.3% majority vote of the faculty means nothing to the people who are actually in charge. This is a fact all of us need to take much more seriously.
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
On major questions of university governance, a 99.3% majority vote of the faculty means nothing to the people who are actually in charge. This is a fact all of us need to take much more seriously.
Cannot believe I just saw a reputable museum (of African American History, no less!) posting a reel of its “Frederick Douglass AI” on Instagram. Cursed.
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Cannot believe I just saw a reputable museum (of African American History, no less!) posting a reel of its “Frederick Douglass AI” on Instagram. Cursed.
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Sam’s book (and lots of other Chicago books) is/are really damn good!
My book and all other @uchicagopress.bsky.social titles are 30% off through December 3rd with the code HOLIDAY25. Get yourself and your friends a copy or twelve!
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The Internal Colony
An explication of how global decolonization provoked profound changes in American political theory and practice. In The Internal Colony, Sam Klug reveals the central but underappreciated importance...
press.uchicago.edu
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Sam’s book (and lots of other Chicago books) is/are really damn good!
My book and all other @uchicagopress.bsky.social titles are 30% off through December 3rd with the code HOLIDAY25. Get yourself and your friends a copy or twelve!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Internal Colony
An explication of how global decolonization provoked profound changes in American political theory and practice. In The Internal Colony, Sam Klug reveals the central but underappreciated importance...
press.uchicago.edu
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
My book and all other @uchicagopress.bsky.social titles are 30% off through December 3rd with the code HOLIDAY25. Get yourself and your friends a copy or twelve!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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I hope you're having a happy Thanksgiving. Here's a great piece from @kaliholloway.bsky.social on how Turkey Day was long opposed by white evangelicals as a holiday for woke Yankees www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Make Thanksgiving Radical Again
The holiday’s real roots lie in abolition, liberation, and anti-racism. Let’s reconnect to that legacy.
www.thenation.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I hope you're having a happy Thanksgiving. Here's a great piece from @kaliholloway.bsky.social on how Turkey Day was long opposed by white evangelicals as a holiday for woke Yankees www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Sometimes I watch movies and write little things about them
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A ★★★★★ review of Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Tocqueville wrote that America’s aristocrats were “at the bar and on the bench.” Having authored the law through popular sovereignty, he argued, Americans ceded their authority over it to those who sp...
letterboxd.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Sometimes I watch movies and write little things about them
letterboxd.com/samklug/film...
letterboxd.com/samklug/film...
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I have an unusually strong memory of reading Ryan Lizza's profile of Michele Bachmann while sitting at my makeshift desk as an intern at CAP. I remember thinking, this is so vapid, but this is what everyone here thinks is important, so I probably shouldn't work at a place like this.
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I have an unusually strong memory of reading Ryan Lizza's profile of Michele Bachmann while sitting at my makeshift desk as an intern at CAP. I remember thinking, this is so vapid, but this is what everyone here thinks is important, so I probably shouldn't work at a place like this.
So, despite facing heavier workloads due to hiring freezes, about 75% of teachers in the sector where AI has been most heavily marketed do not use it.
About 25 percent of faculty members have used AI to save time in creating more engaging in-class activities or generating quizzes and other assessments. Yet talking about AI use is taboo in some quarters. https://chroni.cl/4rjLxQp
Why Professors Are Using AI in Course Design
Some believe in the technology’s promises; others are simply desperate for help.
chroni.cl
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
So, despite facing heavier workloads due to hiring freezes, about 75% of teachers in the sector where AI has been most heavily marketed do not use it.
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Excited to share some advance reviews for The United States and the Ends of Empire from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @samuelmoyn.bsky.social and Tim Shenk for their generous comments. Check them out below or via the link!
www.bloomsbury.com/us/united-st...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/united-st...
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Excited to share some advance reviews for The United States and the Ends of Empire from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @samuelmoyn.bsky.social and Tim Shenk for their generous comments. Check them out below or via the link!
www.bloomsbury.com/us/united-st...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/united-st...
I have an unusually strong memory of reading Ryan Lizza's profile of Michele Bachmann while sitting at my makeshift desk as an intern at CAP. I remember thinking, this is so vapid, but this is what everyone here thinks is important, so I probably shouldn't work at a place like this.
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I have an unusually strong memory of reading Ryan Lizza's profile of Michele Bachmann while sitting at my makeshift desk as an intern at CAP. I remember thinking, this is so vapid, but this is what everyone here thinks is important, so I probably shouldn't work at a place like this.
This isn't something long-form (sorry, Annie, I would love to if I had the time), but the name Rita Koganzon should become more prominent as conservative voices that link great books arguments w/ parental rights arguments gain greater traction
I really would like to read something long-form on the Phoenix Declaration from someone more qualified than I am to weigh in on what it means to transmit “American tradition” in schools— www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/13/f...
Florida Becomes First State to Adopt Phoenix Declaration to Renew Education
Florida just became the first state to adopt the Phoenix Declaration, a declaration that seeks to restore excellence to American schools.
www.dailysignal.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This isn't something long-form (sorry, Annie, I would love to if I had the time), but the name Rita Koganzon should become more prominent as conservative voices that link great books arguments w/ parental rights arguments gain greater traction
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gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender…
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Not a good enough reason to approvingly quote DW Griffith I'm afraid
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Not a good enough reason to approvingly quote DW Griffith I'm afraid
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Helen Vendler would never
November 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Helen Vendler would never
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NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
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Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
prospect.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
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Marxism has caught a lot of flak for some of its most aggressively modernist claims and practices. Some of the criticism was fair and some wasn't, and as a hardcore modernist I would like to see some self-reflection by those who replaced the critique of capitalism only with critiques of modernity.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Marxism has caught a lot of flak for some of its most aggressively modernist claims and practices. Some of the criticism was fair and some wasn't, and as a hardcore modernist I would like to see some self-reflection by those who replaced the critique of capitalism only with critiques of modernity.
Helen Vendler would never
November 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Helen Vendler would never
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This book is out today. It was a pleasure and an honor to help a little bit in the process of creating it. REFLECTIONS tells the story of Roger Deakins' life and storied career in his words—with a lot of behind-the-scenes details and, of course, many pictures.
Reflections - Roger A. Deakins
In REFLECTIONS: On Cinematography, Deakins offers his fans and film enthusiasts the improbable journey of the “boy from Torquay, England” to Hollywood.
www.rogerdeakins.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This book is out today. It was a pleasure and an honor to help a little bit in the process of creating it. REFLECTIONS tells the story of Roger Deakins' life and storied career in his words—with a lot of behind-the-scenes details and, of course, many pictures.
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A great interview with Professor Mahmood Mamdani in which he discusses his new memoir, the shortcomings of the boycott as a political tool and its implementation in the anti colonial movement, academic freedom, libraries, and the relationship between scholarship and politics.
No talk of Zohran!
No talk of Zohran!
Mahmood Mamdani Doesn’t Want to Talk About Zohran
The Columbia scholar, and father of the mayor-elect, on politics, academe, and antisemitism.
www.chronicle.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
A great interview with Professor Mahmood Mamdani in which he discusses his new memoir, the shortcomings of the boycott as a political tool and its implementation in the anti colonial movement, academic freedom, libraries, and the relationship between scholarship and politics.
No talk of Zohran!
No talk of Zohran!
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November 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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here we are indeed.
(additional context for fans of other sports: Arsenal is currently at the top of the Premier League)
(additional context for fans of other sports: Arsenal is currently at the top of the Premier League)
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
here we are indeed.
(additional context for fans of other sports: Arsenal is currently at the top of the Premier League)
(additional context for fans of other sports: Arsenal is currently at the top of the Premier League)