Anne Garland Mahler

@annegarlandmahler.bsky.social

“Anne Garland.” She/her. Author. Books with @Duke and @Routledge.

If you’re looking for a good read for these final days of summer, I strongly recommend Addie Citchens’s Dominion, a novel about a Black Pentecostal church in the Mississippi Delta that deals with how women often enable the patriarchal structures that facilitate their abuse.

I’ve been promoted to Professor. I want to sincerely thank all of the anonymous external reviewers who took the time to read my work and write letters. And deep thanks to all the friends who have supported me along the way! 💙💙💙

Belated post to congratulate Daniel Doncel Martín on the successful defense of his dissertation, "Colonialism Come Home: The Spanish Civil War and the Global South." It was an absolutely brilliant dissertation (perhaps the best I've ever read) that will become an important book!

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As a public service, I am reading Scott Beardsley’s book on higher education. Just as Beardsley sacrificed a lucrative career at McKinsey to take a $700k a year job as Dean of Darden on his way to the very sketchy appointment as UVA president, I paid $12 for the kindle edition of “Higher Calling.”

The Rise of Nontraditional
Leaders in Academia
HIGHER CALLING
SCOTT C.
BEARDSLEY
ONE PERSON'S JOURNEY FROM MCKINSEY TO MONTICELLO

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Good morning. You are waking up to the irony of a convicted felon president, who spent years avoiding his own criminal trials, capturing the president of a sovereign nation and holding him captive for criminal trials.

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

Remember that the US *does not care* about the people of Venezuela. It is not about "narcotrafficking", or "democracy", or whatever propaganda they have going. It is *explicitly* about US control over oil, capital accumulation, and geopolitical power.

Two truths and a lie: US-sponsored regime change never ends well US-sponsored regime change is paid for by American taxpayers but brings them no benefits US-sponsored regime change promotes democracy