Thomas Chatterton Williams
@chatterton.bsky.social
Writer (The Atlantic). Current 📕: SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT (Knopf). Non-resident fellow (AEI). Senior fellow, visiting prof. of humanities (Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College). Representation (APB; Wylie). Student & Teacher. Instagram: @chattertonwilliams.
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I want to thank from the bottom of my heart everyone who has gone out and bought a copy of Summer of Our Discontent or spread the word about it. It’s reaching readers on Amazon and beyond, and I am profoundly grateful 🙏🏽
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The left’s embrace of moralized rhetoric might seem harmless, but to win back power, Democrats will need “precisely the kind of introspection and self-criticism that moralism precludes,” @chatterton.bsky.social argues.
The Left’s New Moralism Will Backfire
Under Trump, progressives have embraced the rhetoric of “moral clarity.” It won’t help their cause.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The left’s embrace of moralized rhetoric might seem harmless, but to win back power, Democrats will need “precisely the kind of introspection and self-criticism that moralism precludes,” @chatterton.bsky.social argues.
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»Camus hätte dieses Buch geliebt.« Mehr zu »Toxische Gerechtigkeit« von Thomas Chatterton Williams (übersetzt aus dem Englischen von Stephan Kleiner):
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October 30, 2025 at 7:22 AM
»Camus hätte dieses Buch geliebt.« Mehr zu »Toxische Gerechtigkeit« von Thomas Chatterton Williams (übersetzt aus dem Englischen von Stephan Kleiner):
www.hanser-literaturverlage.de/buch/thomas-...
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My conversation with the brilliant
Coleman Hughes is now available at
@thefp.com and wherever you get your podcasts.
www.thefp.com/p/the-great-...
Coleman Hughes is now available at
@thefp.com and wherever you get your podcasts.
www.thefp.com/p/the-great-...
The ‘Great Awokening’ and the Death of Nuance with Thomas Chatterton Williams
The social commentator on how America’s racial optimism gave way to moral panic.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
My conversation with the brilliant
Coleman Hughes is now available at
@thefp.com and wherever you get your podcasts.
www.thefp.com/p/the-great-...
Coleman Hughes is now available at
@thefp.com and wherever you get your podcasts.
www.thefp.com/p/the-great-...
Really an extraordinary pair of lectures and public conversation on the subject of joy in dark times between Roger Berkowitz and Teju Cole at the @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social at Bard this morning.
October 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Really an extraordinary pair of lectures and public conversation on the subject of joy in dark times between Roger Berkowitz and Teju Cole at the @hannaharendtcenter.bsky.social at Bard this morning.
My conversation with Jon Haidt at the 92NY. This was one of my favorite discussions so far: youtu.be/iVDi9T5Rwj0?...
Thomas Chatterton Williams with Jonathan Haidt: Summer of Our Discontent
YouTube video by The 92nd Street Y, New York
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October 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My conversation with Jon Haidt at the 92NY. This was one of my favorite discussions so far: youtu.be/iVDi9T5Rwj0?...
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A few days ago, I finished reading #SummerOfOurDiscontent by @chatterton.bsky.social.
Let’s just say that I found myself quoting C+C Music Factory in my write-up, and that is not a bad thing.
Thoughts & quotes ⬇️.
#books #ThomasChattertonWilliams
Let’s just say that I found myself quoting C+C Music Factory in my write-up, and that is not a bad thing.
Thoughts & quotes ⬇️.
#books #ThomasChattertonWilliams
October 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A few days ago, I finished reading #SummerOfOurDiscontent by @chatterton.bsky.social.
Let’s just say that I found myself quoting C+C Music Factory in my write-up, and that is not a bad thing.
Thoughts & quotes ⬇️.
#books #ThomasChattertonWilliams
Let’s just say that I found myself quoting C+C Music Factory in my write-up, and that is not a bad thing.
Thoughts & quotes ⬇️.
#books #ThomasChattertonWilliams
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What does cancel culture mean in the year 2025? Michael Moynihan chats with @chatterton.bsky.social and John Wood Jr. at #freespeechsummit2025
October 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
What does cancel culture mean in the year 2025? Michael Moynihan chats with @chatterton.bsky.social and John Wood Jr. at #freespeechsummit2025
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October 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Spoke for three hours with Anna and Dasha🎙️🍷 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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“Just as the left used [George] Floyd’s death to justify and hasten all manner of political ends, the right is invoking [Charlie] Kirk’s name to advance illiberal aims and silence opponents,” @chatterton.bsky.social argues:
MAGA Finds Its George Floyd
Charlie Kirk isn’t the first martyr to be used as a cudgel.
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October 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“Just as the left used [George] Floyd’s death to justify and hasten all manner of political ends, the right is invoking [Charlie] Kirk’s name to advance illiberal aims and silence opponents,” @chatterton.bsky.social argues:
I wrote about Charlie Kirk and George Floyd: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
MAGA Finds Its George Floyd
Charlie Kirk isn’t the first martyr to be used as a cudgel.
www.theatlantic.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I wrote about Charlie Kirk and George Floyd: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Search his name for yourself. Just endless examples without a single dissenting statement between them. You can scroll and see dozens and dozens of responses that all come to the same conclusion. As toxic as Twitter really is, I’ve never seen a dozen posts in a row with zero disagreement.
September 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Search his name for yourself. Just endless examples without a single dissenting statement between them. You can scroll and see dozens and dozens of responses that all come to the same conclusion. As toxic as Twitter really is, I’ve never seen a dozen posts in a row with zero disagreement.
Very hard to understand Trump and MAGA’s animus towards Comey. He’s the decisive factor in there ever even being a president Trump. You’d think he’d never have to buy a drink for the rest of his life in MAGAland.
September 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Very hard to understand Trump and MAGA’s animus towards Comey. He’s the decisive factor in there ever even being a president Trump. You’d think he’d never have to buy a drink for the rest of his life in MAGAland.
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It's easier to win an argument with a genius than an idiot.
September 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It's easier to win an argument with a genius than an idiot.
(dark) blue sky
September 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
(dark) blue sky
Ahead of the October publication of Summer Of Our Discontent (Toxische Gerechtigkeit) in Germany, thank you @zeit.de Magazin for the spread 🙏🏽: www.zeit.de/zeit-magazin...
Thomas Chatterton Williams: "Ein Klima, in dem viele lieber schwiegen. Das machte Woke so wirksam"
Woke ist vorbei – aber woher kommt die neue rechte Härte? Der Autor Thomas Chatterton Williams sagt: Was 2020 schief lief, verfolgt uns bis heute
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September 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Ahead of the October publication of Summer Of Our Discontent (Toxische Gerechtigkeit) in Germany, thank you @zeit.de Magazin for the spread 🙏🏽: www.zeit.de/zeit-magazin...
In a nutshell
September 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
In a nutshell
I’ve spent half of my adult life living in one foreign country or another and I don’t think I’ve ever felt so estranged from the surrounding culture as I am from the aesthetics and sensibilities of this movement. Not even a criticism, I just feel more at home in Greece than in these images.
September 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I’ve spent half of my adult life living in one foreign country or another and I don’t think I’ve ever felt so estranged from the surrounding culture as I am from the aesthetics and sensibilities of this movement. Not even a criticism, I just feel more at home in Greece than in these images.
The effort to turn Kirk into a saint is genuinely bizarre. And it should go without saying that the impulse to resist this propaganda in no way excuses or condones the horrific violence.
September 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The effort to turn Kirk into a saint is genuinely bizarre. And it should go without saying that the impulse to resist this propaganda in no way excuses or condones the horrific violence.
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"25 percent of the black male vote he got. This is the least racially polarized election since the 1970s. He has a multiethnic coalition behind him." And at least some of it is driven by the toxicity of the Democratic brand and not love of Trump.
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September 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"25 percent of the black male vote he got. This is the least racially polarized election since the 1970s. He has a multiethnic coalition behind him." And at least some of it is driven by the toxicity of the Democratic brand and not love of Trump.
@chatterton.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social
@chatterton.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social
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"It's one of the most hair-raising things I've heard from an elected politician, the vice president telling Americans to inform on each other....things are moving so fast."
@chatterton.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
@chatterton.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
September 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"It's one of the most hair-raising things I've heard from an elected politician, the vice president telling Americans to inform on each other....things are moving so fast."
@chatterton.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
@chatterton.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
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I'm so proud of my husband @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, who puts up with a lot of unmerited criticism but also has moments like this.
He writes the truth, which resonates with reasonable people across partisan lines. May we all one day be united again.
(gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...)
He writes the truth, which resonates with reasonable people across partisan lines. May we all one day be united again.
(gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...)
September 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I'm so proud of my husband @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, who puts up with a lot of unmerited criticism but also has moments like this.
He writes the truth, which resonates with reasonable people across partisan lines. May we all one day be united again.
(gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...)
He writes the truth, which resonates with reasonable people across partisan lines. May we all one day be united again.
(gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...)