@dsj2110.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Wesleyan University Interview series for The Nation Essays and reviews editor at Modern Intellectual History
Started a Substack called "The History of Now." Features new/forthcoming books, interviews, my podcast and academic work. etc. Here's the 1st post. The 2nd will be an interview with Duncan Kelly about his important new book on WWI: open.substack.com/pub/historyo...
The History of Now
A Resource for New and Forthcoming Books, New Articles, Interviews, Podcast, Archival finds and more...
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Checkout the new issue of Modern Intellectual History. Pieces by Anton Jäger, Jennifer Pitts and Michael F. Suarez, S.J., Ahmed Dailami, Ilnyun Kim, Théophile Deslauriers and others: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Modern Intellectual History
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A pleasure to have on "Of This World" podcast Greg Grandin/@GregGrandin to discuss his thinking about Pope Leo, and the history of Catholicism in Latin America: www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/worl...
‘Of This World’—The Church Against Empire
A conversation with historian Greg Grandin about Catholicism in the New World and why the Church under Pope Leo XIV may be the only global force capable of offering a moral challenge to Trumpism.
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How Historians Took Over Liberal Punditry newrepublic.com/article/2117... via Me in @newrepublic.com on how liberals fell for their own version of American exceptionalism, amplified by a class of intellectuals-cum-influencers such as Heather Cox Richardson: newrepublic.com/article/2117...
How Historians Took Over Liberal Punditry
The hottest resistance talking aheads during Trump 2.0 are academics. What happened?
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New publication! Earlier this week, my new paper was published in @mihjournal.bsky.social: 'Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial' It's Open Access! 1/ doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial
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“Questions of just how much reading and writing students actually do, which had hardly come up during my time in Gainesville, are uncomfortable, but they concern the essence of education.” Ann Manov on civic centers and the future of the liberal arts. harpers.org/archive/2026...
Republican Machines, by Ann Manov
Can the GOP save the humanities?
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Pleased to see my article "Prudently Heating the Planet: Tracing the Legal Logic Bolstering Fossil-Fuel Investments" published in @mihjournal.bsky.social. In short, it explores the relationship between financial law, Chicago school theory, and continued fossil-fuel investments. 1/
Prudently Heating the Planet: Tracing the Legal Logic Bolstering Fossil-Fuel Investments | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Prudently Heating the Planet: Tracing the Legal Logic Bolstering Fossil-Fuel Investments
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A pleasure to interview Anton Jäger for The Nation about his important new book, “Hyperpolitics”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Do We Live in the Age of “Hyperpolitics”?
A conversation with the historian Anton Jäger about political polarization, the stagnation of the West, the collapse of mass politics in the 20th century.
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Pope Leo and the ‘Babel Syndrome. ‘Magnifica humanitas’ challenges Silicon Valley’s Promethean pretensions. My take in @commonwealmagazine.org www.commonwealmagazine.org/spadaro-leo-...
Pope Leo and the ‘Babel Syndrome’
What Leo XIII did for wages and the right of association, Leo XIV does for the human person in the era of the algorithm.
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Had on the podcast Elise Ann Allen, the Rome correspondent for Crux, about her new book, Pope Leo XIV: The Biography (Penguin Random House). Talked a fair bit about Prevost’s time in Peru: www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/cove...
Covering Pope Leo
A conversation with journalist Elise Ann Allen
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Dawn of the Electric World Order: Global shockwaves from the war on Iran are accelerating the energy transition “What makes this shock different from the 1970s? As analysts at Ember put it: “this is the first energy shock with a superior alternative.” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...
Was a real pleasure to have my old professor, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri—a leading scholar on the history of Islam in the US—on the podcast to discuss religion and Mamdani, the Muslim community’s response to ICE raids in Minnesota, and the war in Iran.” www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/worl...
'Of This World'—Minnesota, Mamdani, and Iran
A conversation with historian of Islam Kambiz GhaneaBassiri about the Muslim community's response to ICE raids in Minnesota, the faith-based coalition behind Zohran Mamdani's mayoral victory in New Yo...
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In our age of authoritarian certainty, divinity schools have an important role to play in constructing a liberal vision of human flourishing. Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins writes in defense of divinity schools:
A Treasure Hidden in Plain Sight
In our age of authoritarian certainty, divinity schools have an important role to play in constructing a liberal vision of human flourishing.
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'Magyar’s landslide victory in Hungary has triggered a global outpouring of commentary that sometimes reads like a trashy banner ad: “This one secret technique will make your far-right populism problem disappear!” [But] lessons are more subtle...and some may not be applicable to larger countries.'
A Hungarian Playbook for Defeating Populists?
Jan-Werner Mueller says that the lessons from Péter Magyar’s recent election victory are more subtle than many have assumed.
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Wrote a small piece inspired by my visit to the University of Chicago’s famous Department of Economics : www.commonwealmagazine.org/divinity-sch...
A Treasure Hidden in Plain Sight
In our age of authoritarian certainty, divinity schools have an important role to play in constructing a liberal vision of human flourishing.
commonwealmagazine.org
A pleasure to talk with Gavin Jacobson about Equator Magazine, and in particular the motivations behind its recent founding as well as the magazine’s vision: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
A pleasure to have Branko Milanovic/@BrankoMilan on the podcast to discuss his important new book: “The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World”: www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/worl...
'Of This World'—The New Economic Order
A conversation with economist Branko Milanović about the end of the neoliberal era and the future of capitalism
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Vincent Garton has written an excellent review for Modern Intellectual History of two new books on Alexandre Kojève by Marco Filoni, (The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève) and Boris Groys, (Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography). Read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Alexandre Kojève as Inevitable Philosopher | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Alexandre Kojève as Inevitable Philosopher
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‘As Europe’s leading self-declared “illiberal” statesman, Orbán has built a whole intellectual infrastructure, from glossy magazines to think tanks and international conferences, to spread his philosophy.’ New: @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on Hungary’s upcoming elections www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...
Jan-Werner Müller | At a Budapest Scruton Café
Tourists might stumble into a Scruton café in quite different parts of Budapest: one is on the second floor of a...
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"A hallmark of Lerner’s fiction is the very particular way that politics encroaches, or rather doesn’t, on the life of the protagonist: It is there as a backdrop, a marker of time and place but not much else." Tara Menon in @thenation.com's Spring Books www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Ben Lerner’s Novel of Fathers and Sons
His most experimental and unsettling book, Transcription as us whether art is futile or the most important weapon we have.
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'As the president reassured anyone suspecting that he might fill a glitzy edifice with boring papers and books: “I don’t believe in building libraries or museums.” These are clear signals about wanting to avoid accountability.'
Two Trump moves last week could kill off future accountability for his deeds | Jan-Werner Müller
The Trump ‘library’ and an attack on the Presidential Records Act have more in common than it might seem
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A great moment tonight at Wesleyan University as we were joined by Cornel West and Robert P. George for a conversation about the need to bridge differences to find our common humanity in this age of such unrest.
Open Access @universitypress.cambridge.org!
Avi Lifschitz @diderotesque.bsky.social · 4mo agoCan the common people be enlightened? How should cultural elites and political leaders embark on the task? A new article on the 18thC debate, re-assessing Gadamer's claim that the Enlightenment harboured a “prejudice against all prejudices.” doi.org/10.1017/S147...
It was a pleasure to organize this engrossing H-Diplo round table devoted to Grey Anderson’s collection: “Natopolitanism: The Atlantic Alliance since the Cold War.” Participants include Rajan Menon, Jonathan Hunt, Olena Lennon and Peter Rutland: issforum.org/roundtables/...
Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-31 on Anderson, ed., Natopolitanism
H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 17-31 Grey Anderson, ed., Natopolitanism: The Atlantic Alliance since the Cold War. Verso, 2023. ISBN 9781804292372.
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A pleasure to interview Sophia Rosenfeld for The Nation about her book: “The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Hidden History of Free Choice
A conversation with Sophia Rosenfeld, about her recent book, on the roots of the concept of choice.
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In light of his passing, Le Grand Continent has published en français the full version of my recent interview with Jürgen Habermas: legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...
Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026) : le dernier philosophe de la modernité
Le philosophe allemand le plus traduit au monde vient de s'éteindre à Starnberg, en Bavière. Nous publions aujourd'hui la version inédite de l'un de ses derniers grands entretiens — une défense sans ...
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RIP to Jürgen Habermas. I had the privilege of interviewing him around this time last year for The Nation: thenation.com/article/cult...
