Elisabeth Zerofsky
@zerofskaya
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Contributing writer @NYTmag. Traipsing Mitteleuropa and Mittelamerika. Working on a book for @fsgbooks.
Berlin/NYC
Joined May 2014
For this week's @NYTmag I profiled the historian Robert Paxton, who talked to me about the social roots of Trumpism, and why he changed his mind about the movement https://t.co/vUhXA9Nejl
nytimes.com
Robert Paxton thought the label was overused. But now he’s alarmed by what he sees in global politics — including Trumpism.
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Have been back in the US for a few days and I’m freezing my @$$ off
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When Henry Miller moved back to the US from Paris he wrote a book called “The Air-conditioned Nightmare.” Now I understand how he was feeling
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Great piece by @zerofskaya. We are accustomed to the geopolitics of Pushkin statues - those that stand and those that fall. We get introduced here to a tangled story of Pushkin texts, disappearing from libraries, becoming contraband and crossing borders. https://t.co/yfiQSGpBLI
economist.com
Nearly 200 volumes have gone missing from libraries across Europe. Some suspect it is another “special operation”
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Is the Russian state behind a recent rash of rare book thefts? Read @zerofskaya's great new piece digging in to the mystery:
economist.com
Nearly 200 volumes have gone missing from libraries across Europe. Some suspect it is another “special operation”
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such a fun piece by @zerofskaya, with everything you could want in a feature: Georgian gangsters, clever heists, rich Russians, and, naturally, post-colonial theory... https://t.co/I0zvjAh9JB
economist.com
Nearly 200 volumes have gone missing from libraries across Europe. Some suspect it is another “special operation”
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However this part is incorrect, and to find out why you'll have to wait for my book
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Beloved while she was Chancellor, Angela Merkel is getting a rethink as Germany faces crisis after crisis. In her long awaited autobiography she explains — sort of, a little. My review for @nytimes
https://t.co/ZCUgSqd7xh
nytimes.com
In her memoir, the former German chancellor reflects on her political rise and defends her record as the outlook for her country turns grim.
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Elon Musk effectively admits that posts with links are throttled. If you've been wondering why your posts with links to journalistic articles haven't been getting nearly the engagement you would expect, this is why. I have less and less reason to be here.
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"What we have, for now, is just the sense of an ending, the realization that the former world has passed away." @DouthatNYT you'll be happy to know that I'm writing an entire book on this topic https://t.co/L2qvXqN4ca
nytimes.com
The post-Cold War era has ended, and we’re not going back.
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Do we really need Freud to understand the desire to dominate? How about starting with Nietzsche https://t.co/1BQJQHuiWE
theatlantic.com
Who else but Sigmund Freud to help explain?
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"Could it be that the interests of the working class don’t align with the interests of what is known as 'labor'?" Don't agree with the conclusion of this piece but at least it begins to formulate the right questions https://t.co/mDdtx1oOf9
compactmag.com
On Sept. 8, 2021, President Biden told a room full of labor leaders, workers, and government officials that he intended “to be the most pro-union president leading the most pro-union administration...
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As far as I know @oren_cass is the only intellectual in Vance world to acknowledge that one of their top policy objectives improved more under Biden than Trump https://t.co/X6qzdfEkMd
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Maybe the end of history is not Marxist socialism, or Fukuyamian liberal democracy, but conservative nationalist populism of the working classes.
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L''historien américain Robert Paxton, grand spécialiste du régime de Vichy, était réticent à comparer le trumpisme au fascisme. Aujourd'hui, il n'a plus d'hésitations : "c'est exactement ça". Article de l'excellente @zerofskaya à lire dans le @nytimes en attendant le dénouement.
For this week's @NYTmag I profiled the historian Robert Paxton, who talked to me about the social roots of Trumpism, and why he changed his mind about the movement https://t.co/vUhXA9Nejl
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Au début du trumpisme, l'historien américain Robert Paxton, grand spécialiste du régime de Vichy, était réticent à le comparer au fascisme. Aujourd'hui, il n'a plus d'hésitations : "c'est exactement ça"
nytimes.com
Robert Paxton thought the label was overused. But now he’s alarmed by what he sees in global politics — including Trumpism.
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So glad to contribute a few quotes to this superb essay by @zerofskaya on the history of fascism and the complicated wealth of analogies it provides for understanding our present moment. Among other things, this essay is homage to a great historical mind. https://t.co/NeVakSdpmb
nytimes.com
Robert Paxton thought the label was overused. But now he’s alarmed by what he sees in global politics — including Trumpism.
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