Aaron Wistar
@aaronwistar.bsky.social
Associate Editor, @beaconpress.bsky.social Words in Jacobin, LA Review Of Books, Current Affairs, and elsewhere.
Finally someone is speaking up for vulnerable men living in their mom’s pied-à-terre because their girlfriends are too depressing
Heaven help us. Over the past week I have received thirteen different AI-driven scamming emails from fictive people who say they want to feature one or another of my books in reading clubs. I hope no one out there is falling for this kind of thing.
Happy UK paperback release day to our book! www.penguin.co.uk/books/468070... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social
Which campus panic decade are you anti #MeToo/BLMer, 10s post-9/11 patriot, 00s anti PC future billionaire, 90s neocon, 80s anti affirmative action racist, 70s imperialist war hawk, 60s second red scare anticommunist, 50s libertarian, 40s patriotic mother, 30s fundamentalist, 20s >>
Especially true of historians. Precious few willing to consider that the course of history was fiercely contested—and hardly inevitable.
John Attridge@johnattridge.bsky.social · 2w agoHumanities academics tend to propose monocausal explanations for complex phenomena. This tendency is responsible for the crisis of the humanities
Add this book to your wishlist, we will need it in the near future when we rebuild
Isabella M. Weber@isabellamweber.bsky.social · 4w agoThey say an author is "pregnant" with a book. As a new mum, I can confirm the analogy doesn't stop there: books have a postpartum period too — copy-edits, page proofs, sleep deprivation and all. Anti-fascist Economics has reached the final pass at @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social! Out in October!
I’m not scared to say it: Every adjunct professor should have to pass their GED BEFORE cashing their $79.95 paycheck.
If any twins who play roller derby follow me, I think you should call yourselves Scary Kate and Slashley. Ok thank you for your consideration
I’m not scared to say it: Every adjunct professor should have to pass their GED BEFORE cashing their $79.95 paycheck.
New dads often imagine that they are not biologically “wired” to care for their kids in the same way that moms are. In Dad Brain, @darbysaxbe.bsky.social shows nothing could be further from the truth. An amazing, necessary book!
Some recent titles from the NYT nonfiction bestseller list: - All-American Patriotism - The Case for America - Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World - America, USA
Some recent titles from the NYT nonfiction bestseller list: - All-American Patriotism - The Case for America - Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World - America, USA
Against Money by @jwmason.bsky.social and Arjun Jayadev A few thoughts on completion: An interesting and provocative take on money and its role in society from a lefty and macro perspective...
I've got a new article for the August cycle called Police Takeovers. It centers on the long history of state controlled policing in St. Louis, where the state retook control over the police force last year. It argues that such takeovers are a new and more aggressive version of hyper preemption.
Everyone is required to preorder Delio Vásquez's amazing new intellectual biography of Huey P. Newton, which works from dozens of unpublished manuscripts to establish Newton as a profound and original philosopher. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Huey P. Newton: I am We
Huey P. Newton: I am We, Huey P
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“Women also lost access to credit if they became estranged from their husbands, who ran ads in newspapers instructing tradesmen to cut them off.” www.ft.com/content/6bc0...
What wealth meant to Americans in 1776
Land, credit and enslaved people made up people’s fortunes on the eve of revolution
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Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s quasi memoir of his parents time in the Weather Underground is fantastic—absolutely worth reading—but Emmett Rensin’s review in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social captures exactly what is wrong with it.
So proud to have edited this amazing book! With roving gangs of students terrorizing university towns, scholars accused of secretly baptizing cats, and hedges designed for spying administrators to peer over, it’s got something for every contemporary university creature
Stuart Elden@stuartelden.bsky.social · 7mo agoWilliam Whyte, The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood - @harvardpress.bsky.social, August 2026 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
The fastest warming continent,with vulnerable elderly.. Who is going to be Europe's Lee Kuan Yew? “Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics..."- LKY
Great article on why hegemonic decline will not be enough to dethrone the dollar. Moving from sterling to USD in the 1960s required a massive multilateral effort, including Britain itself. Hard to imagine a similar coalition emerging today to move to Euro or RMB. @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
