@dsj2110.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Wesleyan University
Interview series for The Nation
Essays and reviews editor at
Modern Intellectual History
Interview series for The Nation
Essays and reviews editor at
Modern Intellectual History
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The intellectual historian Camilla Boisen has written an extensive review article of my and Lauren Benton‘s books on war and genocide, bringing different fields into conversation. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 16, 2026 at 11:50 AM
The intellectual historian Camilla Boisen has written an extensive review article of my and Lauren Benton‘s books on war and genocide, bringing different fields into conversation. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The latest episode of the podcast I cohost with Nick Tabor is now available. We interviewed Molly Worthen, a leading historian of American religion, about her new book: Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump": www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/amer...
American Charisms
In the second episode of 'Of This World,' a special podcast series co-hosted by 'Commonweal,' contributors Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Nick Tabor speak with Molly Worthen, author of 'Spellbound.'
www.commonwealmagazine.org
January 15, 2026 at 9:59 PM
The latest episode of the podcast I cohost with Nick Tabor is now available. We interviewed Molly Worthen, a leading historian of American religion, about her new book: Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump": www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/amer...
Thanks to Nathan Guez—a very sharp student at Sciences Po—for interviewing me: paulloussot4.wixsite.com/le-monde-d/p...
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Cold War liberalism: an attempt to reconcile the liberal project with the traumas of the 20th century.
Par Nathan GuezDaniel Jenkins is a professor at Westlane University specializing in intellectual history. Influenced by Samuel Moyn, his work focuses on the concept of Cold War liberalism—an intellect...
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January 11, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Thanks to Nathan Guez—a very sharp student at Sciences Po—for interviewing me: paulloussot4.wixsite.com/le-monde-d/p...
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The Donroe Doctrine: Extortion, Extraction, Exploitation (and Extradition, if needed).
The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state | Jan-Werner Müller
The Venezuela incursion is in line with this logic, made even plainer as the US eyes Greenland
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January 7, 2026 at 2:00 PM
The Donroe Doctrine: Extortion, Extraction, Exploitation (and Extradition, if needed).
Thrilled to have Alden Young join Modern Intellectual History as an editor: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Editorial board
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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January 6, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Thrilled to have Alden Young join Modern Intellectual History as an editor: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Wen Stephenson, Thea Riofrancos, and Andreas Malm discuss the "deadly silence and denial" creating a veil around the climate crisis.
https://bit.ly/4seE6dE
https://bit.ly/4seE6dE
What Justice on a Burning Planet?
Andreas Malm and Thea Riofrancos joined The Nation’s Wen Stephenson in an urgent conversation about the left and the climate emergency.
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January 5, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Wen Stephenson, Thea Riofrancos, and Andreas Malm discuss the "deadly silence and denial" creating a veil around the climate crisis.
https://bit.ly/4seE6dE
https://bit.ly/4seE6dE
Hope to commission about a dozen reviews/essays for Modern Intellectual History in 2026–especially interested in new books/essay ideas focusing on Asia, Africa and South America but open to all ideas. Do reach out if you have one: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Book reviews
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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December 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Hope to commission about a dozen reviews/essays for Modern Intellectual History in 2026–especially interested in new books/essay ideas focusing on Asia, Africa and South America but open to all ideas. Do reach out if you have one: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
My last Nation interview for this year is with Alyssa Battistoni and concerns her important new book, “Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Capitalism’s Toxic Nature
A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about the essential and contradictory nature of capitalism to the environment and her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.
www.thenation.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
My last Nation interview for this year is with Alyssa Battistoni and concerns her important new book, “Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Here's the table of contents of The Story of Capital:
December 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Here's the table of contents of The Story of Capital:
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"You can't own part of the moon, but you can own the stuff that the moon contains." — Wesleyan University's @mjrubenstein.bsky.social joins @marketplace.org to discuss who has a right to the moon economy #space
Who has a right to the moon economy? Whoever gets there first.
“You can't own part of the moon, but you can own the stuff that the moon contains,” said professor Mary-Jane Rubenstein.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"You can't own part of the moon, but you can own the stuff that the moon contains." — Wesleyan University's @mjrubenstein.bsky.social joins @marketplace.org to discuss who has a right to the moon economy #space
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Issue 47.22 is now online, featuring:
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the green energy transition and North-East England
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on American post-liberalism
and Maureen N. McLane on Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the green energy transition and North-East England
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on American post-liberalism
and Maureen N. McLane on Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Issue 47.22 is now online, featuring:
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the green energy transition and North-East England
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on American post-liberalism
and Maureen N. McLane on Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the green energy transition and North-East England
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on American post-liberalism
and Maureen N. McLane on Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel.
Read online at www.lrb.co.uk
New piece by me which makes the case for a domestic version of the Fulbright program: www.commonwealmagazine.org/fulbright-sc...
Exposure Therapy
What could bridge the gap between the culture of elite higher education and red America? One possibility involves extending the logic of the Fulbright program.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
New piece by me which makes the case for a domestic version of the Fulbright program: www.commonwealmagazine.org/fulbright-sc...
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Extraction by Thea Riofrancos is really good—and beautifully written.
It’s refreshing to see a warning about the risks of mining for decarbonization that is neither bad-faith fossil propaganda nor a call for fatalism and hard degrowth. @triofrancos.bsky.social
It’s refreshing to see a warning about the risks of mining for decarbonization that is neither bad-faith fossil propaganda nor a call for fatalism and hard degrowth. @triofrancos.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Extraction by Thea Riofrancos is really good—and beautifully written.
It’s refreshing to see a warning about the risks of mining for decarbonization that is neither bad-faith fossil propaganda nor a call for fatalism and hard degrowth. @triofrancos.bsky.social
It’s refreshing to see a warning about the risks of mining for decarbonization that is neither bad-faith fossil propaganda nor a call for fatalism and hard degrowth. @triofrancos.bsky.social
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This is fucking interesting
www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...
www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...
Conscription for Peace
What peaceful equivalent of war could generate the same sense of urgency and solidarity? William James had an answer.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is fucking interesting
www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...
www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...
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"What kind of people do we have to become in order to achieve peaceful cities, societies, and states?"
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins revisits William James's prescription for national conscription www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins revisits William James's prescription for national conscription www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...
Conscription for Peace
What peaceful equivalent of war could generate the same sense of urgency and solidarity? William James had an answer.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"What kind of people do we have to become in order to achieve peaceful cities, societies, and states?"
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins revisits William James's prescription for national conscription www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins revisits William James's prescription for national conscription www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...
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"a compulsory..conscription program in which the children of both the rich &poor would spend part of their youth serving the community—would be a thoroughly democratic way to address inequality & rechannel the energies that feed the war machine" Ihttps://www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription-peace
Conscription for Peace
What peaceful equivalent of war could generate the same sense of urgency and solidarity? William James had an answer.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"a compulsory..conscription program in which the children of both the rich &poor would spend part of their youth serving the community—would be a thoroughly democratic way to address inequality & rechannel the energies that feed the war machine" Ihttps://www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription-peace
I wrote a piece for Commonweal Mag on William James’s ‘moral equivalent of war’ a hundred years later. www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...
Conscription for Peace
What peaceful equivalent of war could generate the same sense of urgency and solidarity? William James had an answer.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I wrote a piece for Commonweal Mag on William James’s ‘moral equivalent of war’ a hundred years later. www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...
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@ekphrastictactic.bsky.social has a new review article, "Field Work," in Modern Intellectual History. Just finished this morning over some coffee. An insightful piece that examines one work I'm intimately familiar with one that I'd never read before.
Field Work | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Field Work
www.cambridge.org
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
@ekphrastictactic.bsky.social has a new review article, "Field Work," in Modern Intellectual History. Just finished this morning over some coffee. An insightful piece that examines one work I'm intimately familiar with one that I'd never read before.
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www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Economic democracy is required for true democracy to exist, is perhaps the most interesting concept discussed in the fairly short interview.
Economic democracy is required for true democracy to exist, is perhaps the most interesting concept discussed in the fairly short interview.
Is It Too Late to Remake American Democracy?
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.
www.thenation.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Economic democracy is required for true democracy to exist, is perhaps the most interesting concept discussed in the fairly short interview.
Economic democracy is required for true democracy to exist, is perhaps the most interesting concept discussed in the fairly short interview.
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...
Is It Too Late to Remake American Democracy?
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.
www.thenation.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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...
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”:
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1. Amín Pérez’s “Bourdieu & Sayad against Empire”
and
2. George Steinmetz’s “The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire”:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Field Work | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Field Work
www.cambridge.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Timothy Scott Johnson reviews for Modern Intellectual History:
1. Amín Pérez’s “Bourdieu & Sayad against Empire”
and
2. George Steinmetz’s “The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire”:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
1. Amín Pérez’s “Bourdieu & Sayad against Empire”
and
2. George Steinmetz’s “The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire”:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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"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...
@thenation.com with @grantamag.bsky.social's Thomas Meaney
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Future of Magazines… and the World
A conversation with Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.
www.thenation.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"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...
@thenation.com with @grantamag.bsky.social's Thomas Meaney
www.thenation.com/article/cult...