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November 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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The push to revive American industry is an ideological project fusing techno-libertarian ambitions with conservative frontier mythology. Our open-access article of the week dissects the "Silicon Prairie."
By Matthew Darmour-Paul in @distinktionjournal.bsky.social
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By Matthew Darmour-Paul in @distinktionjournal.bsky.social
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November 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The push to revive American industry is an ideological project fusing techno-libertarian ambitions with conservative frontier mythology. Our open-access article of the week dissects the "Silicon Prairie."
By Matthew Darmour-Paul in @distinktionjournal.bsky.social
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By Matthew Darmour-Paul in @distinktionjournal.bsky.social
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November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This essay can be found in this week's edition of the Best of Journalism: buff.ly/4yYZl15
The four-decade endurance of Brazil’s MST (Landless Workers’ Movement) is a patient, durational politics woven through everyday life. Our video of the week positions MST as a model of grassroots resilience and prefigurative politics.
Feat. Alex U. Flynn
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Feat. Alex U. Flynn
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November 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The four-decade endurance of Brazil’s MST (Landless Workers’ Movement) is a patient, durational politics woven through everyday life. Our video of the week positions MST as a model of grassroots resilience and prefigurative politics.
Feat. Alex U. Flynn
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Feat. Alex U. Flynn
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This essay is featured in this week's edition of the Best of Journalism: buff.ly/4yYZl15
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Governments and companies worldwide are increasingly investing in solar radiation management as a "fix" to global warming. Our podcast of the week explores how billionaire-backed research has normalized geoengineering.
With Sofia Menemenlis on @poltheoryother.bsky.social
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With Sofia Menemenlis on @poltheoryother.bsky.social
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November 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Governments and companies worldwide are increasingly investing in solar radiation management as a "fix" to global warming. Our podcast of the week explores how billionaire-backed research has normalized geoengineering.
With Sofia Menemenlis on @poltheoryother.bsky.social
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With Sofia Menemenlis on @poltheoryother.bsky.social
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The story of the Green Revolution is more than one of plant breeding and genetics. From Fordist production and the welfare state to Toyotism and neoliberalism, our Portuguese pick of the week unpacks the capitalist dynamics of agri-food systems.
By Mariana Homem de Mello Reinach
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By Mariana Homem de Mello Reinach
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November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The story of the Green Revolution is more than one of plant breeding and genetics. From Fordist production and the welfare state to Toyotism and neoliberalism, our Portuguese pick of the week unpacks the capitalist dynamics of agri-food systems.
By Mariana Homem de Mello Reinach
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By Mariana Homem de Mello Reinach
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Rejecting nostalgic accounts of the nation-state in postcolonial India, our essay of the week foregrounds the contradictions in elite formation, English’s ambivalent role, and the legacy of Marxist and subaltern thought.
With Sanjay Subrahmanyam in @grantamag.bsky.social
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With Sanjay Subrahmanyam in @grantamag.bsky.social
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November 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Rejecting nostalgic accounts of the nation-state in postcolonial India, our essay of the week foregrounds the contradictions in elite formation, English’s ambivalent role, and the legacy of Marxist and subaltern thought.
With Sanjay Subrahmanyam in @grantamag.bsky.social
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With Sanjay Subrahmanyam in @grantamag.bsky.social
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Google has quietly constructed an empire spanning more than 6,000 firms via acquisitions, investments, and partnerships, dwarfing its big tech peers. Our hidden gem of the week exposes Google’s unchecked digital dominance.
By Aline Blankertz et al. at @harvardkennedy.bsky.social
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By Aline Blankertz et al. at @harvardkennedy.bsky.social
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November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Google has quietly constructed an empire spanning more than 6,000 firms via acquisitions, investments, and partnerships, dwarfing its big tech peers. Our hidden gem of the week exposes Google’s unchecked digital dominance.
By Aline Blankertz et al. at @harvardkennedy.bsky.social
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By Aline Blankertz et al. at @harvardkennedy.bsky.social
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Drawing on the Boggs’ cybercultural analysis, our book of the week reveals how Black radical thinkers traced automation’s roots to colonialism and slavery, seeing cyberculture as a site where labor, ecology, and race collide.
By Brian Bartell on @uminnpress.bsky.social
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By Brian Bartell on @uminnpress.bsky.social
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November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Drawing on the Boggs’ cybercultural analysis, our book of the week reveals how Black radical thinkers traced automation’s roots to colonialism and slavery, seeing cyberculture as a site where labor, ecology, and race collide.
By Brian Bartell on @uminnpress.bsky.social
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By Brian Bartell on @uminnpress.bsky.social
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November 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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As voters went to the polls in Argentina last month, the legislative elections made the US dollar a referendum on authority versus social rights. Our open-access article of the week traces the long history behind Milei's dollarization.
By Ariel Wilkis & Mariana Luzzi
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By Ariel Wilkis & Mariana Luzzi
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November 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
As voters went to the polls in Argentina last month, the legislative elections made the US dollar a referendum on authority versus social rights. Our open-access article of the week traces the long history behind Milei's dollarization.
By Ariel Wilkis & Mariana Luzzi
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By Ariel Wilkis & Mariana Luzzi
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November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This podcast is part of this week's edition of the Best of World: buff.ly/SZQ3cF1
Though often dismissed as rigid, mathematics acts as a bridge, sharing creativity with the arts while underpinning scientific understanding. Drawing on music, our video of the week highlights the aesthetic potential of mathematical structures.
Feat. @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social
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Feat. @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social
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November 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Though often dismissed as rigid, mathematics acts as a bridge, sharing creativity with the arts while underpinning scientific understanding. Drawing on music, our video of the week highlights the aesthetic potential of mathematical structures.
Feat. @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social
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Feat. @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social
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This essay is featured in this week's edition of the Best of World: buff.ly/SZQ3cF1
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This essay is featured in this week's edition of the Best of World: buff.ly/SZQ3cF1
The reduction of collective life by both capitalist and state-socialist economies to a single criterion excludes the possibility of addressing human needs. Our podcast of the week instead theorizes a "multicriterial economy."
W/ @abenanav.bsky.social on @futurehistories.bsky.social
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W/ @abenanav.bsky.social on @futurehistories.bsky.social
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November 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The reduction of collective life by both capitalist and state-socialist economies to a single criterion excludes the possibility of addressing human needs. Our podcast of the week instead theorizes a "multicriterial economy."
W/ @abenanav.bsky.social on @futurehistories.bsky.social
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W/ @abenanav.bsky.social on @futurehistories.bsky.social
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Marking 50 years since the killing of Pier Paolo Pasolini, our Italian pick of the week revisits Pasolini's Rome, its subproletarian circuits and literary milieu, then sketches his Marxist, anti-consumerist work across his novels, poetry, and films.
By Francesca Torrani
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By Francesca Torrani
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November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Marking 50 years since the killing of Pier Paolo Pasolini, our Italian pick of the week revisits Pasolini's Rome, its subproletarian circuits and literary milieu, then sketches his Marxist, anti-consumerist work across his novels, poetry, and films.
By Francesca Torrani
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By Francesca Torrani
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The 1990s “Californian Ideology” has soured, producing the very inequality its barons now flee. Our essay of the week charts the rise of a "Texan Ideology" that connects digital plunder with oil, Christian nationalism, and racial hierarchy.
By Fred Turner in @thebaffler.com
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By Fred Turner in @thebaffler.com
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November 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The 1990s “Californian Ideology” has soured, producing the very inequality its barons now flee. Our essay of the week charts the rise of a "Texan Ideology" that connects digital plunder with oil, Christian nationalism, and racial hierarchy.
By Fred Turner in @thebaffler.com
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By Fred Turner in @thebaffler.com
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Rejecting the argument that reducing inequality constrains growth, our hidden gem of the week finds that equality rose because of "social-democratic" institutions like universal public services, labor rights, and democracy.
By @marie-andreescu.bsky.social et al. at @wid.world
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By @marie-andreescu.bsky.social et al. at @wid.world
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November 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Rejecting the argument that reducing inequality constrains growth, our hidden gem of the week finds that equality rose because of "social-democratic" institutions like universal public services, labor rights, and democracy.
By @marie-andreescu.bsky.social et al. at @wid.world
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By @marie-andreescu.bsky.social et al. at @wid.world
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In rejecting liberalism’s core values and the Reagan-Buckley legacy, the New Right provides the ideological fuel to Trumpism. Our book of the week maps the internal contradictions of the figures reshaping US politics.
By @lkatfield.bsky.social on @princetonupress.bsky.social
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By @lkatfield.bsky.social on @princetonupress.bsky.social
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November 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
In rejecting liberalism’s core values and the Reagan-Buckley legacy, the New Right provides the ideological fuel to Trumpism. Our book of the week maps the internal contradictions of the figures reshaping US politics.
By @lkatfield.bsky.social on @princetonupress.bsky.social
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By @lkatfield.bsky.social on @princetonupress.bsky.social
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November 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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While the failures of Soviet-style planning have led left critics to aim for “market socialism” via cooperative ownership, our article of the week argues that the formal structure of cooperatives offers fewer truly transformative incentives than often believed.
By Joseph Heath
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By Joseph Heath
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November 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
While the failures of Soviet-style planning have led left critics to aim for “market socialism” via cooperative ownership, our article of the week argues that the formal structure of cooperatives offers fewer truly transformative incentives than often believed.
By Joseph Heath
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By Joseph Heath
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