We just published the 50th anniversary edition of THE CHEESE AND THE WORMS by Carlos Ginzburg in April. What an honor it has been to be his American publisher--this book changed everything. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Puts me in mind of the famous Eric Williams quote, “British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it”

The HEADLINE is about being "Pro-Palestinian". The ARTICLE is 95% about antisemitism. Palestinians = well, what? Nothing? Cannon-fodder? A handy folk-demon? A blank slate to project insecurities onto? Human rights, schmuman rights...

‘“I no longer consider Columbia University a safe place to work for Jews who dare to dissent from the political agenda of its most ardently pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian donors and trustees,” wrote Joseph Howley, a classics professor, in his claim.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

More than 1 billion Africans walk or cycle every day. Yet many roads remain unsafe for those who use them On #BicycleDay, see how African cities are investing in cycling infrastructure to improve health, ease congestion & cut pollution #NowForClimate: https://ow.ly/zowT50Z6Nwa#BicycleDay#NowForClimate#WorldEnvironmentDay

Perhaps when we stop posing binary rhetorical questions such as this, we might begin to make meaningful assessments.

“He might have seemed humble in office, but in his post-presidential, Netflix-producing afterlife, Obama has erected the largest, costliest and most audacious complex [presidential library] of them all. Behold the $850m Obamalisk – or, as it sometimes feels morbidly like, the Obamausoleum.”

On Mabo Day, we remember Eddie Koiki Mabo and the generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who refused the lie of terra nullius. Land, memory, law, and dignity are connected. Justice begins by telling the truth. Learn more: www.nma.gov.au/defining-mom...

Because it was time to address the dark clouds overhead at #RolandGarros: I wrote about how Alexander Zverev is almost certainly going to win the French Open, and how people around the sport are feeling about that likelihood. Read here: www.benrothenberg.com/p/alexander-...

Week in review: @veenadubal.bsky.social and @azizaahmed.bsky.social on how feminists transformed the law and science of AIDS, @lookheron.bsky.social on market governance in Trumpworld, and @abalasub.bsky.social on the misnomer of modern Indian capital. Plus, the best of LPE from around the web 🧵

Really honored to have my new @harvardpress.bsky.social book be part of an @lpeblog.bsky.social symposium! I am deeply grateful to @lpeproject.bsky.social colleagues for the opportunity, and to my respondents @maggor.bsky.social, @abalasub.bsky.social & Amy Cohen for engaging with my work. 🙏

Today, @abalasub.bsky.social continues our symposium on *Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry.* Given that Indian firms spend virtually nothing on R&D, he asks, how we should understand the modernity of so-called “modern Indian capitalists”?

Bringing together stories of environment and Empire, genocide and ecocide, war and peace – Sunil Amrith's The Burning Earth is a razor-sharp study of accountability for the climate crisis. The Burning Earth is shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize. Learn more here https://bit.ly/3WsTunW

Beyond ridiculous decision www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

On modern China, see press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Found Rule of Experts overrated but @adamtooze.bsky.social’s Statistics and the German State is outstanding and so worthy of being retaught and re-read. Prob my favorite of his books after Wages

Private consultants are taking control of how public universities are evaluated and run. My submission to the Senate university governance inquiry raises concerns about the impact of Nous Group and their dodgy UniForum data on our universities. www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor... A thread

And let me take this opportunity to say again: WHITE PPL ARE NOT OPPRESSED IN SOUTH AFRICA

Celebrating my beloved, brilliant colleague Prasenjit Duara on the occasion of his 75th and his retirement. “Colleague” doesn’t quite encompass my fondness and gratitude. Prasenjit has been mentor, teacher, friend, and teammate. I am so happy we will be toasting and roasting him for two whole days!

thank u to @itihaasnaama.bsky.social for recommending my new book The Future That Was alongside these amazing authors @kalramnath.bsky.social @abalasub.bsky.social 🥰💕 youtube.com/shorts/S99MW...

All cuts, at all Unis, should be stopped until the rot at the top of every single one of them has been thoroughly examined. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

8/8 The issue ends with a second regular review by Raheel Bashir (Jawaharlal Nehru University) on "Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India" (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2023) by @abalasub.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC' FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it? WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

This map shows how unevenly Nobel Prizes have been distributed across the world.

Taylor Fritz is getting clowned by players like Shelton and Tiafoe about a video in which he couldn't do basic multiplication, but there's a bigger story about how tennis players are being set up to succeed—and fail—on social media videos. Read it at Bounces: www.benrothenberg.com/p/taylor-fri...

There is a special place in hell for T&F

This is based on an interview I did last week. For days, I’ve been anxious about repercussions for speaking to media. I was totally overwhelmed to discover today that my colleagues have all stuck their necks out with me. I have the best colleagues! www.canberratimes.com.au/story/901572...

Honours student, Pippa, spoke about her thesis on the history of higher education in Australia which was about “universities and governments putting profits over people.” She said she would like to see Vice Chancellor Bell, “demanding more public funding.” www.canberratimes.com.au/story/901699...

What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky. So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵

I just texted a friend that celebrity culture in academia should die but every rule has exceptions. Friends, Romans, the woman who gave us Life as Surplus, Family Values, Counterrevolution and more has joined and made this platform worth it. Welcome, Melinda! Follow her!! @melindacooper.bsky.social

Comrades! Friends! Nemeses! The CfP for the annual meeting of Australian Progressive Legal Studies is open until next Friday, 11th of July. Send us your abstracts on all things law, political economy and modern authoritarianism. The one and only Melinda Cooper (!!!) will deliver the keynote.

Breaking news: Former New York state governor Andrew Cuomo has conceded to progressive rival Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary for New York City’s next mayor www.ft.com/content/e4b8...

Hello recent History PhDs! My School is supporting applications to the BA postdoc fellowship scheme (and selected applications to the Leverhulme). If you've always wanted to work with me or my super colleagues, get in touch! We have an excellent grants team to help you write your application.

there are a million reasons not to vote for cuomo but let’s start with the fact that he doesn’t fucking live here

""I honestly don't feel like we've had anything from the university executive apart from gaslighting, from day one, it's really demoralising," one attendee said." @nteunion.bsky.social stands with #ANU staff. Things cannot continue as they are. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/899465...

Seems fitting that Trump named his social network after Pravda.

Super chuffed to get an AHR review! academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

Read it and weep on.ft.com/3FGos7B

i uploaded A Night of Knowing Nothing and the short films of Payal Kapadia onto the internet archive. archive.org/details/a.-nig…

The great historian of Southeast Asia, Anthony (Tony) Reid, died yesterday in Canberra, aged 85. His studies transformed our understanding of Indonesia and the region. A professor at the ANU for many years, he also founded institutes at UCLA & NUS. And he was a lovely person

On Coco Gauff and her parents, a feel-good story in a sport full of cautionary tales, who were the big winners today at #RolandGarros. www.benrothenberg.com/p/coco-gauff...

Super excited for this. Yay Durba!!