TOC, "Gerontocracy in America" (June 2026) us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Seizing the opportunity to reimagine the presidency, after Americans of all stripes built its authority over a century, is critical — which means a plan and promise to make Congress great again,” Samuel Moyn writes.

The imperial presidency wasn’t built in a term - my latest Comment, denounce, retweet! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

The imperial presidency wasn’t built in a term - my latest Comment, denounce, retweet! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

Sigh www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

“Wheatley‬⁩, an Australian-born professor at Princeton University, has a penchant for metaphor and an inventive flair that make her legal histories come alive.” Fantastic kudos from the great ⁦‪Linda Kinstler‬⁩. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

🚨🚨New Pod!! 🚨🚨 We have @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social on the pod!!! @samuelmoyn.bsky.social and I talk with John about his amazing and must read new book, The Radical Fund podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Democrats reckon with how they are implicated - wow newrepublic.com/article/2023...

New book, coming soon! Duncan Bell & Douglas Mao, Utopia (Oxford UP, 2026) It's a short interdisciplinary volume in the recently launched OUP Literature and Politics series. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Apparently there is “a structural weakness of law as a check on the American presidency.” And it took Donald Trump to reveal it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

The Radical Fund is optimistic about cross-camp creativity, but its deeper moral is institutional. Build power with pluralism in mind, or the answer to “who decides” will, all too quickly, become “the powerful.” balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Epic and necessary. We have traveled light years from the premature analyses 2016-17. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

‘The tactical choice to center Trump in advertising in 2025’s closing stretch left party strategists concerned about a missed opportunity to forge a more forward-looking vision. “I worry Trump is like crack cocaine for our party,” said a pollster.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Attend the launch of the great New York Area Legal History Consortium, this time on @JohnFabianWitt’s masterpiece, October 30 at 5:30 p.m. RSVP below. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Excellent with the great Hussein Agha and Rob Malley podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Great piece www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

Twenty years separates these books (12 years as HoD and PVC) both are very different but the need to defend a humane liberal egalitarianism and challenge it’s critics is a urgent as ever @lsegovernment.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social - thanks Jon Cruddas and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social

Chilling verfassungsblog.de/the-neocons-...

Congrats dailynous.com/2025/10/13/s...

This will be cool www.suhrkamp.de/epub/postlib...

Excellent review revue.alarmer.org/laffaire-tre...

Some edits to this op-ed www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

He added: “A lot of the people who do this are history professors, because they have a lot of experience, or diplomats. It’s just different being deal guys — just a different sport.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Penn historian Ben Nathans with an op-ed in our campus newspaper: "No self-respecting university that values its autonomy and the integrity of its teaching and research should sign the compact."

Brandon's book is terrific www.jhiblog.org/2025/10/08/w...

Good democracyproject.org/posts/judici...

June

Excellent review jacobin.com/2025/10/lea-...

"This wasn’t just a toy tugboat—this was an enemy combatant tugboat that needed to be taken out for the safety of U.S. citizens." Increasingly difficult to distinguish this administration's justifications for US military actions from @theonion.com.

Paradox: Resistance stances were less needed when they were more prominent; only when the threat is far more salient do people proclaim the limits of the stances. Explain? Is this a learning process?

“For all the talk of red lines and points of no return, the modern United States has had democratic crises and authoritarian turmoil before. The language of break-glass, fire-alarm emergencies looks at our increasingly brittle existing modes of political organization and cannot see beyond them.”

Political violence, post-pandemic one-party rule, vast economic inequality, and immigration backlash? The 2020s are the 1920s all over again--and that may show us a way out. Adapted from my book, to be published next week. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

Excellent review lms.hypotheses.org/23038

Joey Fishkin on the compact balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Interesting democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/...

Interesting jacobin.com/2025/10/fore...

Excellent www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

“‘Russ worked for me as a child, and I’m proud of what he’s doing now,’ said Mr. Gramm, who retired from the Senate in 2002.” It’s fascinating how consistent with the familiar Republican Party Vought is. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u... via @NYTimes

Tim is the best. All in. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...

I didn’t expect it to gain immediate acceptance-but I did hope to elicit the multiple question marks. electionlawblog.org?p=152207

🟣14 New from @samuelmoyn.bsky.social “Voting Our Way Out of Gerontocracy” Part of the Democracy Project’s @nyulaw.bsky.social 100 Ideas in 100 Days series Read here ➡️ democracyproject.org/posts/voting...

🌍 In light of the recent International Day of Peace, we are revisiting the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law’s first ever Focus Section, centred on Samuel Moyn’s "Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War" (2021).

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

One photograph. A honeymoon in 1941. And a firestorm that tore through Albanian social media. @leaypi.bsky.social tells Pete Hoskin why she spent years hunting for the truth about her grandmother:

🚨New Pod!!🚨Sam Moyn and I kick off a new season of Digging a Hole by talking with the great Bob Bauer about the law and politics of executive power podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Must-read book newrepublic.com/article/1997...

‘The A.C.L.U., he asserted, “did more to contribute to Trump’s victory than many conservative groups.”He also criticized the Center for American Progress, the leading Democratic think tank, as “100 percent pure uncut resistance drivel.”’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

#AfS: Erwartbar kontroverse Rezensionen habe das Buch von Samuel Moyn erhalten, sagt Riccardo Bavaj, und schließt an: Die "elegante, fein gemeißelte Prosa" biete starke Argumente für Moyns grundsätzliche Kritik am "Cold War Liberalism": library.fes.de/pdf-f...