Drawing on Hume to rethink Right and Left: "Landholder vs stockholder" @catherinenichols.bsky.social @aeon.co (Plus- Pascal's "Provential Letters") Sorting the Whigs from the Tories: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/23/s...

Do yourself a solid and read my friend @clnichols6 on Hume and Marx, and the roots of our conception of politics as left/right. Catherine is one of the smartest thinkers I know, and this is the product of months of work and years of thoughtful analysis

I wrote about the political left and right, and why class analysis falls short of explaining how they operate. aeon.co/essays/why-h...

A dazzling essay from a young American writer, on why Hume is better than Marx at explaining the landholder/stockholder divide and why Right and Left don't always neatly align with class. Read it. Share it. It will change the way you think. aeon.co/essays/why-h...

I wrote about the political left and right, and why class analysis falls short of explaining how they operate. aeon.co/essays/why-h...

@greatplacebooks.bsky.social courses are back! With a seminar on the short novels of Muriel Spark. www.greatplacebooks.com/spark

Brooklynites: with SNAP benefits expiring as of today, here are two ways you can help feed neighbors: donate to CHiPS, the food pantry/ women's shelter in Park Slope: www.chipsonline.org. Or leave food in the community fridge on 6th Street between 4th and 5th avenues, next to the Postmark Cafe.

Lay it on me/Correction: lay it on me

Beyond thrilled to share that I'm writing my next book, AT HOME IN THE STARS. It's about the human expansion into space and space as a human environment. Think Carl Sagan meets Robert Macfarlane. 🪐✨🧑‍🚀🌱 If you want updates / news when the book is (someday) out: jaimealyse.behiiv.com

I cannot recommend @andreapitzer.bsky.social's work highly enough. Clear, motivating, and genuinely useful. If you're feeling demoralized with the state of our country, listen to her.

This year, I started what has been my actual dream job, teaching in an incredible MFA program at Rutgers-Camden. Last month, our funding was unilaterally pulled, threatening the MFA's very existence. Please consider signing this letter in support of saving our program docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New book is out in 3 weeks and I've got some events planned. Hope to see some of you at some of these places

ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.* short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

A month out from 3/11 pub day. If you’re looking for a book about New York City, the art world, and state-sanctioned violence, smash that preorder button. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

While preordering BUZZ KILL, you'll want to get HARD GIRLS as well so you're all ready to read the sequel when it arrives.

Big Q: What’s a science book that changed how you think about the world?

Forgot to mention: goodreads folks, my publisher is giving away 10 copies of THE MAN NOBODY KILLED. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

Happy New Year! We are OPEN for electronic submissions, through January. Send us your fiction, poetry, essay, comics, and translations. We pay between $100 and $500 depending on length. epoch.submittable.com/submit

Heyyyyy the ebook of THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE is $3.99 today only, across retailers! It's a best book of the year according to the Washington Post, Esquire, Scientific American, and my mom <3

This is beyond heartbreaking news. Obituary and funeral details are here:

I wrote about Jezebel and the terrifying state of women’s media. www.thehandbasket.co/p/rip-jezebe...

Unpaywalled link. wapo.st/470gGgS

After reporting on the Armenian genocide, Zabel Yesayan wrote My Soul in Exile (1922), an enigmatic, joyful book about art and love. Sally Foreman and Catherine Nichols discuss it: lithub.com/sally-forema...

November 21! Catch me and the great Zoe Kazan in conversation to celebrate the paperback release of THE METHOD! Admission is free but reservations are strongly encouraged: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cbh...

Dearth of sarcasm alert, very happy about this www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2023/10/0...

Folks, we've got LOSING MUSIC author @johncotter.bsky.social teaching memoir! Register today! greatplacebooks.com/memoir

attn audiobook freaks, THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE is on big sale today: $2.99 as Audible's Daily Deal, and $12.99 at Libro.fm if you prefer to get your books from there. I recorded it myself and am pretty damn proud of the result. www.audible.com/pd/The-Possi... libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Have you registered for the virtual launch of BLOCKS WORLD? Emma Catherine Perry will be in conversation with Elisa Gabbert! Register here: bit.ly/tybgpb

4/23/24. Mark your calendars…or preorder it now, forget you did, and get a surprise in the mail eight and a half months from now https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723318/reboot-by-justin-taylor/

Is there a reason no one ever attributes the Trolley Problem to Philippa Foot, the way there’s Plato’s cave or Descartes’s Cogito? Is it because “Foot” doesn’t sound like a name?