These guys are all undisciplined thugs

Very thrilling!! I loved @lioneltrolling.bsky.social's When the Clock Broke.

Yeah okay I'll read a book

When the Clock Broke reviewed alongside @lkatfield.bsky.social's terrific "Furious Minds" in the NYRB.— www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

In which I call for a Brown Scare and a left-wing McCarthyism.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-coming...

A lecture at the University of Chicago.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/whats-happ...

I'm loving this Pope.

The weekly round-up.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/after-gaza...

Appeared on Odd Lots with Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway to talk about the Japan Panic. www.unpopularfront.news/p/unpopular-...

You don't understand the difference between government, movement, and regime.

The weekly round-up.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/more-on-at...

😏

Can't recommend John Ganz's When the Clock Broke enough. Finally someone has written a Rick Perlstein-style book that serves as a "fossil record of Trumpism". This one covers Bush 41's Administration and I really hope he's working on another volume for the rest of the 90s and the Clinton Presidency

New online: John Ganz (@lioneltrolling.bsky.social) interviews Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

I interviewed Dylan Riley about Trump, fascism, and civil society for @dissentmag.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

I interviewed Dylan Riley about Trump, fascism, and civil society for @dissentmag.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

new convo between me and @lioneltrolling.bsky.social on hegseth and that weird display in quantico www.patreon.com/posts/unclea...

Episode 4 — www.patreon.com/posts/unclea...

I missed this really thoughtful and detailed review in American Political Thought last spring. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

In this week's round-up, I spoke to essayist Pankaj Mishra about his most recent book The World After Gaza. — www.unpopularfront.news/p/talking-to...

Unpopular Front is going to start doing some author interviews. Today I recorded with essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra, which will hopefully be up on Sunday, and I'm recording with sociologist Dylan Riley on Monday

new episode of the pod on the kimmel situation www.patreon.com/posts/139673...

Episode 3 www.patreon.com/posts/unclea...

I jotted down some quick notes about where things stand post-Kimmel: www.unpopularfront.news/p/notes-on-t...

if you want to put in melinda cooper terms you could note that paramount-skydance and sinclair are both family-controlled firms while disney is one of the archetypal public companies of the era

On the spectacle and reality of power.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/drawing-ou...

The first actually useful application of AI has been proposed

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

The round-up.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/reflection...

“‘A new age of anti-politics was dawning, in which the adoption of substantive political positions or policy pledges was a risk, and the best a professional politician could do was remain likeable but vague on specifics, talking as little as possible about ‘politics’.”

“This is all feeling awfully like home,” a friend of mine from Russia texted me yesterday evening. www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

"Politics is not the nursery." www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

ganz and i talked charlie kirk on the pod www.patreon.com/posts/unclea...

Thank you Will! A very thoughtful and revealing reading of the book.

Also in this issue: @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the Reform conference @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the Pearl Manuscript @will-davies.bsky.social on John Ganz’s When the Clock Broke Abigail Green on John Singer Sargent @jrobertlennon.com on Elmore Leonard Emily Berry on the novelist Ben Pester…

When the Clock Broke reviewed in @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Opinion | John Ganz's "When the Clock Broke" argues that the 1990s were the origin point for our present “politics of national despair.”

I'll be giving a talk at U Chicago in October, more details to follow

[email protected] and I have started a weekly politics show attached on the @unclearpod.bsky.social patreon. — t.co/1C7jvpo2R1

Sparta-Schmarta.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/israel-as-...

I think Charlie Kirk made the country a worse place. I believe his murder makes the country even worse Why Charlie Kirk was killed, by John Ganz

I join the now abundant discourse about Abundance. A good book but more importantly a bellwether book for the orientation of the center-left. But like many, they hope we can engineer a way around politics and put things back in the hands of competent technocrats...I am not so sure...

"When the clock broke" by @lioneltrolling.bsky.social on the foreshadowing of Trump in 90s US politics is just 99p on Kindle today. You can read my interview with him about the book here: samf.substack.com/p/when-the-c...

If it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Then shut up about it.

I wrote about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/reflection...

wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america

Had a fun discussion yesterday with @maxread.info! www.unpopularfront.news/p/talking-to...

My Nation column: Trump as classical tyrant www.thenation.com/article/soci...

LIVE on substack right with @lioneltrolling.bsky.social talking AI, the trump tech summit, epstein, and more open.substack.com/live-stream/...