I think I know quite a few Europeans who would disagree

JOB College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge https://t.co/rlWjosCOnl

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Forthcoming from Carla Hesse: "The People’s Justice: Revolutionary Law and the Founding of the French Republic." A major new interpretation of the French Revolution that brings to life the criminal tribunals at the heart of the republic’s political culture https://t.co/I6MUenn9Sg

Forthcoming from Princeton UP: "The King's Slaves: The British Empire and the Origins of American Slavery Holly Brewer A provocative account of how empire and absolutism institutionalized slavery in America":

Forthcoming from Princeton UP: Cold War City: A History of West Berlin David E. Barclay The untold story of West Berlin, the island city deep inside the Soviet bloc that withstood the decades-long confrontation between the USSR and the West https://t.co/M6l86pO0hG

"The Roots of the Neoliberal Subject: Margaret Thatcher and the Creation of Homo Oeconomicus":

Infrastructure disaster in the engineering state.

I think it's pretty safe to say that Greenland will not be taken over by the US, nor will Canada become the 51st state.

"When Angola gained independence in 1975, the Cuban military came to the new government’s defense. The mission had global reverberations, from hastening the fall of South African apartheid to reshaping Cubans’ own identity and worldview.":

"Fifty years ago today, Angola gained its independence after centuries of Portuguese domination. But US officials like Henry Kissinger were already working hard to orchestrate a devastating proxy war that snuffed out the hopes of national liberation.":

The Demographic Trends That Shaped Mamdani’s Win: Moderate Black voters and young progressives favored Zohran Mamdani for mayor, while Andrew Cuomo won many wealthy New Yorkers and Trump voters. https://t.co/MMD0j50BtU

Hedges really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Plenty of repressive, egotistical, thugs in US history that paved path to Trump, no need to use and abuse Latin American history is crassly. Trump has more in common with Clinton than with Somoza.

Brilliant interview with the historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam in Granta. Agree or disagree, he always makes you think. 🔗

The unconscious is back. What follows? Next month I am giving an @LRB Winter Lecture on psychoanalysis and radical politics. (In-person tickets are sold out but live-streaming tickets are available:) https://t.co/JRCWP4CyUB

In defense of Trump and Abundance:

"Rethinking Nuremberg for the 21st Century":

The idea of the modern self rests on a paradox: people "loudly protesting their individuality even as they are swept along by the passion of the crowd." @DavidAvromBell in @BooksandtheArts

"The early-20th-century socialist and New York mayoral candidate Morris Hillquit saw liberalism and democracy as providing a foundation for a transition to socialism. Alongside Eugene Debs, he helped to forge a distinct American socialist tradition.":

If a TRILLION war budget really supported the troops, we wouldn't have: -Tens of thousands of homeless vets -Hundreds of thousands of vets going hungry -Defense contractor CEOs making $20M+ This is just another war industry lie.