Aaron Wistar
@aaronwistar.bsky.social
Associate Editor, @beaconpress.bsky.social
Words in Jacobin, LA Review Of Books, Current Affairs, and elsewhere.
Words in Jacobin, LA Review Of Books, Current Affairs, and elsewhere.
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Aaron Wistar
@aaronwistar.bsky.social
· Sep 8
Happy to announce that I’ve joined the amazing team at @beaconpress.bsky.social as Associate Editor. Starting today, I’ll be acquiring in history, political economy, parenting, and urban studies.
Send me your book proposals!
Send me your book proposals!
It really was like that!
December 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It really was like that!
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I will take every reason i can to post this
December 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I will take every reason i can to post this
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Did Disney simply not see the Dall-E images of Nintendo characters doing another 9/11?
Why are they signing up for this?
Why are they signing up for this?
December 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Did Disney simply not see the Dall-E images of Nintendo characters doing another 9/11?
Why are they signing up for this?
Why are they signing up for this?
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If you are an author who is writing about reproductive justice, well I have good news. The University of Iowa is launching a special book series focused on RJ and we are looking for contributors. Details on the website and a kick off event tomorrow! lrj.sites.uiowa.edu
Locating Reproductive Justice Book Series | The University of Iowa
lrj.sites.uiowa.edu
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
If you are an author who is writing about reproductive justice, well I have good news. The University of Iowa is launching a special book series focused on RJ and we are looking for contributors. Details on the website and a kick off event tomorrow! lrj.sites.uiowa.edu
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A+ work here from Penn's student paper.
December 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
A+ work here from Penn's student paper.
Larry Summers might be canceled, but Harvard is still towing the Larry Summers line when it comes to pushing out people who express the bare minimum of decent, human concern for Palestinian life.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Dismisses Director of FXB Center for Health and Human Rights | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard forced out the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights — another shakeup at a center whose programming on the Israel-Palestine conflict has been a flashpoint...
www.thecrimson.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Larry Summers might be canceled, but Harvard is still towing the Larry Summers line when it comes to pushing out people who express the bare minimum of decent, human concern for Palestinian life.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Asad Haider was a towering presence who not only broadened my thinking but also got me more deeply involved in organizing. He will be missed.
viewpointmag.com/2017/02/12/t...
viewpointmag.com/2017/02/12/t...
The Shadow of the Plantation - Viewpoint Magazine
It remains to be seen what kind of politics can be built on the foundation of the notion of racial capitalism. To determine what organizational and practical activity can be derived from this analysis...
viewpointmag.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Asad Haider was a towering presence who not only broadened my thinking but also got me more deeply involved in organizing. He will be missed.
viewpointmag.com/2017/02/12/t...
viewpointmag.com/2017/02/12/t...
Great review from @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social — now we just need to wait a few months for a 1,344 page review from Robert Brenner, serialized in NLR special editions
jacobin.com/2025/12/beck...
jacobin.com/2025/12/beck...
Sven Beckert’s Chronicle of Capitalism’s Long Rise
Capitalism is a global economic system, so a proper chronicle of its rise to dominance has to examine the entire world, as historian Sven Beckert does in his massive new book, Capitalism: A Global His...
jacobin.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Great review from @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social — now we just need to wait a few months for a 1,344 page review from Robert Brenner, serialized in NLR special editions
jacobin.com/2025/12/beck...
jacobin.com/2025/12/beck...
Big Jim McClain (1952), in which John Wayne stars as a HUAC investigator hunting down communists among labor unions in postwar Hawaii.
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Big Jim McClain (1952), in which John Wayne stars as a HUAC investigator hunting down communists among labor unions in postwar Hawaii.
Reposted by Aaron Wistar
"When ‘reformism’ judges change,it makes change impossible:it denies the contradictions and undermines comprehension of them by the working class and undermines the potential of the working class for transformative activity."
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"When ‘reformism’ judges change,it makes change impossible:it denies the contradictions and undermines comprehension of them by the working class and undermines the potential of the working class for transformative activity."
The year is 2031. ShamWow guy and My Pillow guy trade barbs in the Republican primary as the Newsmax moderator struggles to get a word in edgewise. The team at Pence-Harris HQ is getting nervous…
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The year is 2031. ShamWow guy and My Pillow guy trade barbs in the Republican primary as the Newsmax moderator struggles to get a word in edgewise. The team at Pence-Harris HQ is getting nervous…
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Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place
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Ruining great art with the nano banana pro command “Make this much more cheerful with as few changes as possible”
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Ruining great art with the nano banana pro command “Make this much more cheerful with as few changes as possible”
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Leave it to David Fucking Brooks to bothsides the Epstein Files. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | The Epstein Story? Count Me Out.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Leave it to David Fucking Brooks to bothsides the Epstein Files. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
After dutifully listening to the soundtrack of k-pop demon hunters every day for six months, I think it’s time to switch gears. Tonight I will be showing my kids DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE, so we can listen to Bruce’s intimate classic NEBRASKA every day for the next six.
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
After dutifully listening to the soundtrack of k-pop demon hunters every day for six months, I think it’s time to switch gears. Tonight I will be showing my kids DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE, so we can listen to Bruce’s intimate classic NEBRASKA every day for the next six.
In an email to Summers in December 2018, Epstein volunteered that Trump was “borderline insane,” compared to Dershowitz, who was “a few feet further from the border but not by much.”
thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…
thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
In an email to Summers in December 2018, Epstein volunteered that Trump was “borderline insane,” compared to Dershowitz, who was “a few feet further from the border but not by much.”
thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…
thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…
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Great news everybody
November 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Great news everybody
Great news everybody
November 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Great news everybody
So glad to see the rest of the world catching up with Naomi Klein and @claudia-sahm.bsky.social
In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
So glad to see the rest of the world catching up with Naomi Klein and @claudia-sahm.bsky.social
Reposted by Aaron Wistar
In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
Reposted by Aaron Wistar
This lede is an entire article on its own. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This lede is an entire article on its own. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
If the California Ideology grew out of the collision of the computer industry and the counterculture, the Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity. @fredturner.bsky.social
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
The Texan Ideology | Fred Turner
The Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity.
thebaffler.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
If the California Ideology grew out of the collision of the computer industry and the counterculture, the Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity. @fredturner.bsky.social
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
With declining birth rates slowly depopulating rich northern countries and climate change making poorer southern countries increasingly uninhabitable, the 21st century will likely see the biggest global movement of peoples in history. @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
With declining birth rates slowly depopulating rich northern countries and climate change making poorer southern countries increasingly uninhabitable, the 21st century will likely see the biggest global movement of peoples in history. @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...