
Eric Klinenberg
@EricKlinenberg
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Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science at NYU. Director @nyu_ipk New book in Feb 2024: *2020: ONE CITY, SEVEN PEOPLE, AND THE YEAR EVERYTHING CHANGED*
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Four years ago today, the @WHO declared COVID a global pandemic. We were wrong about what happened to America in 2020, and we've yet to register how much it has changed us, as individuals and as a society. 🧵.
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The answer, only now coming into view, explains why that awful year still has us in its grip.
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Why are economists in the US today uniquely able to exercise such sway over the state? What kind of policies would we get if legislators paid attention to the other social sciences, too?. Brilliant essay from @caitlinzaloom in @nybooks
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Why are economists are in the US today uniquely able to exercise such sway over the state?
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RT @jburnmurdoch: We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat. So….
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Americans have a will not to know what happened here during 2020, and our collective denial of the nation’s bungled response to that year’s cascading crises is a massive political gift to Donald Trump. It’s time for a reckoning. Four years ago the US was in a lethal free fall.
TRUMP: I'd like to begin by asking a very simple question. Are you better off now than you were four years ago?. CROWD: *Noooooooooo!*. TRUMP: The answer is no. (They must really like out of control pandemics)
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Mexico City is building out a new form of social infrastructure: Little Utopias, each one a gathering place, a playroom, a gym, a senior center, a service hub, a restaurant, a cultural haven, and a recovery space. What a brilliant idea. via @citylab.
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CDMX’s new mayor built 15 centers offering free services and care to residents of her under-served neighborhood. Now she plans to build 100 citywide.
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RT @ElizKolbert: I wrote about the power of climate feedbacks for @NewYorker. The piece came out today, just as #Hurricane Milton became….
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What the fate of Greenland means for the rest of the Earth.
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RT @NbergWX: 8PM EDT: This is nothing short of astronomical. I am at a loss for words to meteorologically describe you the storms small eye….
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RT @billmckibben: For the first time ever recorded, October finds three hurricanes spinning simultaneously in the Atlantic. Hot new world h….
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As the planet warms, storms like Helene will only become stronger and more frequent. They will hit places, like the mountains of North Carolina, that were never exposed to such extreme weather. We can't afford to elect more climate change deniers.
My friend went to Chimney Rock to help with the ground effort recovery. He just sent me videos. The town is gone. And this is what it looks like across dozens of mountain communities. Helene is officially the 2nd deadliest hurricane in the last 50 years.
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A short and simple proposal for saving lives as the planet warms: We need to name heat waves. It won’t even cost a dollar. @nytopinion podcast
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Podcast Episode · The Opinions · 09/17/2024 · 8m
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RT @jayvanbavel: Trump just said he did a great job on the pandemic but that's a complete lie. We have a new paper analyzing how he handle….
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RT @nytopinion: Heat waves are America’s deadliest weather events, but the danger they do isn’t widely appreciated or remembered, @EricKli….
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Heat waves are America’s deadliest weather events. It’s time we name them.
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NEW POSTDOC AT @nyuniversity @nyu_ipk . Cities, Communities, and Social Infrastructure. Open to applicants with PhDs in the social sciences, humanities, public policy, and design fields. We're reviewing applications now. Please share. @ASAnews
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RT @astradisastra: If you are in NYC, please join us for a discussion about social solidarity. I'll be in conversation with the brilliant @….
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Me listening to @nytimes The Daily podcast on the history of AC, when the reporter recalls how heat in Chicago was no big deal in the 1990s because people could just hang out in their cool brick apartment building. Was her family at their beach house in 1995?
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