Matthew Specter
@spectermatt
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Historian and author, THE ATLANTIC REALISTS @Stanfordpress; Sr. Fellow, Inst. Euro. Studies@UCBerkeley; editor @HistJrlTheory; lecturer in History@SantaClaraU
Joined July 2009
Today, I joined 500+ researchers from 70 countries in calling on world leaders to create an International Panel on Inequality modelled after the IPCC— as recommended by the G20 Committee on Inequality led by @JosephEStiglitz. Help us spread the call. 🔗 https://t.co/R6mNpSUxMT
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🚨 HAPPENING NOW: Massive anti-Trump protest outside the White House as protesters demand the resignation of President Trump following the release of Epstein emails.
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If you couldn’t make it to our event on what Zohran can learn from Latin America’s Left in power, you can now listen to it on the @latam_cities podcast! 👇
Season 7 launches 🔥 and we open with a recording of a live event about *What Zohran Can Learn from Latin America's Pink Tide*. Check it out! https://t.co/ul8ITBhobE
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BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law
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Postdoc alert at the Warren Ctr at Harvard: "We are interested in applications in Global American Studies which relate to the nation’s life during or as a consequence of war, and/or concern the history & promotion of ideas and practices of social justice."
academicpositions.harvard.edu
The Charles Warren Center, Harvard’s research center for North American history announces its Global American Studies postdoctoral fellowship. This postdoc position, distinct from the Center’s...
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Billionaire MacKenzie Scott has gifted another $38 million to Atlanta’s Spelman College, bringing her total donations to 8 HBCUs to $387 million in the past 30 days. She has been donating billions of her wealth every year since her divorce from ex-husband Jeff Bezos in 2019.
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Friday in NYC! Higher ed labor orgs are picketing one of the authors of Trump’s authoritarian ‘compact’ for higher ed. Join us at 11am at 9 W 57th St to stand up for academic freedom and security.
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When Americans fly in from across our land to JFK & LaGuardia and hear over the loudspeaker, "I am Mayor @ZohranKMamdani, welcome to NYC," they will look to their children filled with pride and say, "In NY any dream is still possible!"
Arriving visitors will "hear in the airports over the loudspeaker, ‘I am your mayor, Zohran Mamdani, welcome to New York City,’ they will look at their children filled with pride,” @RoKhanna said. “They will say, ‘In New York any dream is still possible." https://t.co/BIbroFyTBr
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Well, well, well, if it isn't the best day of the year—@nplusonemag's Bookmatch is back! Donate any amount to the magazine and get 10 book recommendations based on your answers to a deranged personality quiz. Recs from excellent writers, editors, thinkers:
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Make any donation to n+1 before December 3 and we’ll make you a personalized reading list. n+1 needs your support to continue publishing urgent political and lite...
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New online: Robert Pippin, @AgnesCallard, @jonnythakkar, @BaskinJon, @dadsein, Ben Jeffery, @TBartscherer, Laura Baudot, Leon Wieseltier and J.M. Coetzee remember Jonathan Lear. https://t.co/0EsmSsZV4Q
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Jonathan Lear, who died last month at his home in Hyde Park, Chicago, was, in addition to being a distinguished professor in the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought and the author of...
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BREAKING NEWS: The Last Republican — the new documentary from Meidas Studios about former GOP Congressman Adam Kinzinger — has debuted as the #1 documentary on Apple TV. This is BIG!
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Quinn Slobodian spoke to our virtual seminar series yesterday about “A Global History of Elon Musk” (drawing from a forthcoming book) and it was brilliant and deeply grim. Check it out (along with our other virtual seminars) here:
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No Smith, Hayek, Keynes, Marx, Malthus, Piketty or any combination that would remotely encourage people to think in different ways about the economy-let alone think for themselves. Just John Galt and Milton Friedman the whole way down.
This winter, UATX President Carlos Carvalho will lead his seminar "On Capitalism"—a deep dive into the ideas that built the modern world.
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Trump Org’s income in the first half of 2024 was $51 million. In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million. A massive percentage came from foreigners. It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics. But few even care. https://t.co/LOycrcd3Ha
reuters.com
The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found. Much of that cash came from foreign sources.
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Gott sei Dank.
Huge news for US literature. A new Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10
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To mark three decades since the untimely passing of British-Jewish philosopher Gillian Rose, the MSCP and Thesis Eleven are hosting a special event on her life, death and philosophical legacy. 6:30pm Fri 14 Nov in Brunswick. Details and registration: https://t.co/cQ3OwETD3o
mscp.org.au
A Commemoration of Gillian Rose.
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Baffler no. 81, “After Words,” is online now, with work from @lehmannchris, Brace Belden, @BruceRobbins6, Noah McCormack, @quailty, Sophie Pinkham, @mina_tav, Gabriel Winslow-Yost, and more. Click below to start reading. https://t.co/atsfAIiUAE
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I’m about to drop a piece that rebuts this view, which, if true, I would welcome. But it’s vastly overstated. Watch the Pentagon budget. Watch Rubio’s justifications for interventions in Latin America. Watch the hawkish China pundits. It’s all anti-China fetish stuff, still
"Trump is poised to end Washington’s decade of the China Hawks," writes @semaforben. Smart column, including a sneaky jab at members of the China pundit class who have never been to China https://t.co/oYMITtpLgT
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