Caleb Zakarin
@calebzakarin.bsky.social
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Editor at New Books Network, mostly posting about books, education, higher ed, and edtech
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Rudolf Thomas INDERST (he|him)
3 months ago
We’ve hit a new milestone! 1 5 0 members in our
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
podcast host group over on LinkedIn! A big welcome to everyone who's recently joined. It's amazing to see a space for
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enthusiasts to support each other. Excited to learn from all of you and see where we go next!
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Noel Rubinton
6 months ago
@calebzakarin.bsky.social
, editor of the
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
, interviewed me for a podcast about my John McPhee book. It's a wide-ranging conversation, including talking about what makes McPhee so extraordinary and the many discoveries in the book.
bit.ly/3SyEvXT
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Ideas Podcast: Looking for a Story
Looking for a Story is a complete reader’s guide to McPhee’s vast published work, documenting much rarely seen or connected with McPhee, including remarkable early writing for Time magazine published ...
https://bit.ly/3SyEvXT
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Prof. Eric Heinze, author and academic
7 months ago
Great to see my new book "Coming Clean" (@mitpress) highlighted by
@calebzakarin.bsky.social
, Editor of the
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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newbooksnetwork.com/coming-clean
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Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/coming-clean
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Noel Rubinton
6 months ago
Thanks to
@princetonupress.bsky.social
and to
@calebzakarin.bsky.social
, a terrific interviewer.
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What Substacks should I subscribe to?
8 months ago
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The Art of the Book Deal
How professor Samuel G. Freedman has helped more than a hundred students get coveted book contracts.
https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/art-book-deal-samuel-freedman-columbia-journalism
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This will be a boon for elite, non-American institutions. Classes are better when the student body is internationally diverse. We make education in America more parochial at our own peril.
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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Colleges Fear Decline in International Student Enrollment
International students are a financial lifeline for many colleges, and enrollments are just recovering from the pandemic. The Trump administration is pushing them away.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/international-students-us/2025/03/19/colleges-fear-decline-international-student
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Middle class families are often squeezed the hardest by higher ed tuitions. I imagine the high fees, without a clear return on investment especially for parents, are a major source of the backlash against elite institutions.
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Harvard expands financial aid — Harvard Gazette
New effort ensures that more undergraduates, especially from middle-income families, will receive support.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/03/harvard-expands-financial-aid/
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"Ultimately, the transition beyond single title purchase models for ebooks seems to be picking up, suggesting a sort of second digital transformation for the monograph..."
@rschon.bsky.social
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/19/s...
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A Second Digital Transformation for Scholarly Monographs?
Today, Roger Schonfeld examines several key drivers transforming the monographs marketplace and reflects on strategic opportunities ahead.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/19/second-digital-transformation-scholarly-monographs/
9 months ago
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Europe courts US scientists after cuts
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Europe courts US scientists fleeing Donald Trump crackdown
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Europe courts US scientists fleeing Donald Trump crackdown
Cambridge university among institutions seeing chance to hire talent unsettled by US spending cuts
https://on.ft.com/41xIOqy
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New Books Network
10 months ago
TEA TIME! Read the latest edition of our newsletter every Thursday.
newbooksnetwork.substack.com/p/tea-time
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Tea Time
Featuring the 6th Annual African American Book Festival in San Antonio, Episodes on Tea, Talking Thai Politics, Meet a Host, and the NBN YouTube channel
https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/p/tea-time
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I’ll be at odd lots trivia tonight
10 months ago
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The electric red pill acid test
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Luke Goldstein
10 months ago
I wrote up what happened to the CFPB this weekend, made possible by a years long lobbying campaign by Wall St and a recent push by Silicon Valley. Plus, a bunch of under the radar recent actions the Bureau took that enraged the business world
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The Deregulation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
One of the Right's long running projects is now being enacted with help from Silicon Valley and Wall St.
https://exilesonmainst.substack.com/p/the-deregulation-of-the-consumer?r=l2m5l
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David Dayen
10 months ago
Just wrapped our weekly roundup show with
@lukewgoldstein.bsky.social
, where we broke the news: this is the final day of his 2-year fellowship with
@theprospect.bsky.social
. It was a great run and we look forward to seeing his career continue. Congratulations!
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I've listened to a few interviews with Lionel Barber about his new book on Masayoshi Son, including his profile in the
@financialtimes.com
. I might have to buy the book...
newbooksnetwork.com/gambling-man
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Lionel Barber, "Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son" (Atria, 2024) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/gambling-man
10 months ago
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An interview I recently did with Rumu Sarkar on international development. Seems relevant.
newbooksnetwork.com/internationa...
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Rumu Sarkar, "International Development Law: Rule of Law, Human Rights & Global Finance" (Springer, 2020) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/international-development-law
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Douglas Irwin
10 months ago
If there is any doubt that tariffs are passed through to consumers, the cost of propane to heat my house just went up by the amount of the tariff
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11 months ago
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◥◤American Ruhroh
11 months ago
A modern home in Pacific Palisades survived the fire while all the homes around it burned. It was luck, but also it was made to withstand a wildfire, and it did. I spoke with the architect who designed it, plus other architects, about designing for disaster:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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roxanne panchasi
11 months ago
In 2013, I started a French Studies channel on the New Books Network & hosted it solo for over a decade. This interview w/Emily Marker re: BLACK FRANCE, WHITE EUROPE is my last official episode (for now, anyway). Biggest gratitude to all the authors & listeners out there. I had the best time!✌️
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Emily Marker, "Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era" (Cornell UP, 2022) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/black-france-white-europe
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If you read anything at all about the LA fires, please read this:
burningdownthehouse2025.blogspot.com/2025/01/burn...
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Burning Down The House
1057 Chautauqua Blvd. (After) Our house burned down in the Palisades fire. There. I said it. It’s real now. I guess. Not 100% sure why ...
https://burningdownthehouse2025.blogspot.com/2025/01/burning-down-house.html
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The iconic Los Angeles neighbourhoods reduced to ashes
Home of Hollywood struggles to cope after thousands of homes and businesses are destroyed
https://www.ft.com/content/940000cd-f748-4383-bb24-2f9c32192cdc
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Nitzan Shalev
11 months ago
NEW PODCAST 📚🎙️ | Explore the Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (2024). Spanning up to 600 CE, this 6-volume set bridges NT studies & patristics, linking Judaism, ancient history & philosophy.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/brill-encyclopedia-of-early-christianity-6-vol-set
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Brad DeLong
11 months ago
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I get to try to teach incoming economics graduate students how to gain a much deeper and richer understanding of preferences, market structures, supply, demand, equilibrium, and surplus by looking behind them at the processes of historical development... 1/
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Thinking About Teaching Economic History to the First-Year Economic History Graduate Students This Forthcoming Semester
We economists know preferences, market structures, supply, demand, equilibrium, and surplus. Half at least of economic history is using what we economists know to understand history in the very...
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/thinking-about-teaching-economic
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freecialis
11 months ago
with advances in AI and deepfakes we are proud to announce that Pagliacci will soon be able to attend a reasonable facsimile of his performance, likely curing him forever
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My resolution in 2025 is to find 5-10 books that deserve multiple re-reads. I’m currently on my second read through of
@michaelpettis.bsky.social
’s Trade Wars are Class Wars, and I find that many of the insights are only starting click for me now. What are other books that deserve this approach?
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“This is the great lesson of Smoot-Hawley: countries with large trade surpluses have them only because they cannot consume all they produce, which makes them extremely vulnerable to a decline in international trade.” (Trade Wars are Class Wars)
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Shawn Donnan
12 months ago
Doug has a whole big book full of America trying alternative trade policies -
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Every time I open it up it's a reminder of how the current debate echoes ones America has had since its birth. There's really nothing new about tariffs...
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My resolution in 2025 is to find 5-10 books that deserve multiple re-reads. I’m currently on my second read through of
@michaelpettis.bsky.social
’s Trade Wars are Class Wars, and I find that many of the insights are only starting click for me now. What are other books that deserve this approach?
12 months ago
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Erich Hatala Matthes
12 months ago
If you'd liked to learn more about What to Save and Why, check out my interview with
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
#philsky
newbooksnetwork.com/what-to-save...
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Erich Hatala Matthes, "What to Save and Why: Identity, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Conservation" (Oxford UP, 2024) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/what-to-save-and-why
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