I was at the Sierra Club during the period described in this article and although I have my criticisms, it gets the issues in the Club fundamentally wrong. A 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

now this is some convincing marketing copy, I want to learn from a guy with an ardent Thirst for Astronomic Knowledge (from the cover of a 1775 almanac series published by Solomon Southwick in Newport, RI)

‘The US military is now carrying out extrajudicial executions on the high seas of people who in the past would have been put on trial and, if found guilty, given a federal prison sentence. Gone is any semblance of due process.’ A.S. Dillingham on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

in most disciplines you would become a pariah for even suggesting this is worth researching, but in business schools apparently phrenology is alive and well

We *know* shockingly little about prehistory—we *speculate* about it, in ways that tend to reaffirm our own assumptions and biases, and then these speculations become sage wisdom about human nature, but only to the exact extent that they assert that women evolved to make sandwiches.

We’re hiring! Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda. Could that be you? Apply using the link below. transition2025.com/apply

[An excursus: if you're not already familiar w/ Hannah Barker's super essay, published in 2021, dispelling the story of alleged "biological warfare" involved in the siege of Caffa in 1346, treat yourself to some excellent scholarship: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

high modernism (laudatory)

i have a lot of these, only a few of which made it into the book manuscripts. highlights include samuel nearly dying in a cave because he was obsessed with finding new rocks, inventing a worm-boat-train for catherine that I don't think she used, and a disastrous love affair

The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on coasts is now out! If you click on the link and scroll down a bit, the very eclectic table of contents is visible. Pleased to be a part of this. #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🗃️ muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

This is Queen Mary and Queen Anne erasure

at least in economic contexts, "you can just do things" is Keynes's "anything we can actually do, we can afford" adapted for modern vernacular

Ok, I finally got around to writing something for the new blog. It's about what else I've been doing with my time lately! buttondown.com/cutterham/ar...

Friends, I could not be more excited to let you know that my book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World, is out today from Penguin. I’m super proud of it and super grateful to all the scholars whose work informs it. I hope you’ll take a peek and spread the word! amzn.to/4nHkziG

New Job Posts Like: Candidate should have expertise in anglophone literature and be able to teach classes ranging from the medieval period to postmodernism. Some fields of especial interest are econometrics, quantum physics, anesthesiology, kinesthesiology, the early works of John Ruskin, and

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

coming May 26; I think this is the first high-quality image I've been able to share of the cover

Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12

baseball is such a ridiculous and beautiful mess of a game

ICYMI, my latest essay in @thedriftmag.com, which also serves as a postscript of sorts to Make Your Own Job www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...

it’s time

read theory (this one's old but it's a great overview and the kind of thing I mean when I say reading transnationally can do a lot for you conceptually even if your work doesn't always cross national boundaries)

🎵 There lived a certain man Who could not stop for Death He was big and strong And he kindly stopped for me We slowly drove away Without terror or fear And he knew no haste He was such a lovely dear 🎵

Due to an overwhelming amount of Nonsense going on in the US farm sector, I am in need of a half-time to full-time video editor Anybody know someone who is 1) real good at it and 2) not heinously overemployed already?

Halloween newsletter post is on Grexit and Brexit: learn about the "confidence fairy" and the "Prince of Darkness" in Greece, malign contraptions in Britain, and what they mean for you buttondown.com/anotherway/a...

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

listened to this interview and came away genuinely kind of unsettled by the amoral worldview at the core of it all. these guys need to all be in jail www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

t is baffling and alarming to me that Kalshi is legal. "ah, but what if we called betting futures contracts" is not a strategy any functioning regulator or judicial system should allow to work

“information” bothers me here

This is a plea to Massachusetts residents, particularly Cambridge residents and Harvard grads. I've spend the last 3 years looking at old maps of western Jamaica while researching the history of absentee sugar planters who lived in Massachusetts while enslaving thousands of people in Jamaica.

somehow I still have the hubris to put "historiography of capitalism" as a bullet point on a slide and not expect it'll take me 20 minutes

Ok, it's not exactly Danish Marxism, but there are some Danish (post)Maoists and Fourth Internationalists in here! My new article on the overlooked Copenhagen riots at the 1970 World Bank/IMF annual meeting is out, open-access, in Journal of Global History.

Every episode of Douthat's podcast is like, "Today I interviewed Vlad Tepes on his new book, his real estate investments in London, and the sweet music that the children of the night make."

This Day in Labor History: October 30, 1837. Nicholas Farwell, a train engineer toiling for the Boston and Worcester Rail Road Corporation fell off a train while at work and had his hand crushed by the train. Farwell sued the company for damages. Judge said, nope! Nothing for the injured workers!

buttondown.com/anotherway/a... how to anger your family at Monopoly, get good at online Pokemon, and run an economy are surprisingly related questions I ponder in this issue of my newsletter

We updated our paper on the effects of monetary policy on output and prices (thanks for great feedback). We show that results reported in the literature are plagued by p-hacking and publication bias, leading to inflated effects of interest rate hikes.

you will have to pry my sentences ending in prepositions from my cold dead hands

buttondown.com/anotherway/a... how to anger your family at Monopoly, get good at online Pokemon, and run an economy are surprisingly related questions I ponder in this issue of my newsletter

looking forward to CBS News's interview with Bari Weiss's second choice, Nicolas Cage

Policymakers are stuck in a 1960s view of economic hardship, where poverty (and program eligibility) comes from lack of employment. We have 70 years of evidence: bad jobs with unpredictable schedules and variable earnings are a larger source of hardship. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

It’s officially pub day for Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America‘s First Opioid Crisis! Available at a bookshop near you. Thanks to everyone who made it possible to bring this research to life! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968953...

“The boat strikes constitute murder,” Eugene R. Fidell told me. He used to be a JAG in the Coast Guard and is now at Yale Law School. The entire operation amounts to “treating the world as a free-fire zone,” he said.

The playbook for 22nd Amendment nullification is already being written with the attack on birthright citizenship: a group of unscrupulous right wing lawyers are going to hastily write some papers to make a “growing body of literature” claiming that the constitution doesn’t say what it plainly does.

teacherbot shouting ON PROGRAM at kids who look away from the screen www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

michal kalecki bosses choose pain over workers' demands to keep power in-hand

everything I'm seeing about this is apocalyptic. is anyone on here fundraising around this already / know the best Jamaican orgs to support atm? abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

the Benthams' correspondence is a treasure trove. just the other week I found an outlandish scheme for defeating Napoleon with an invincible fortress which has given me an entirely new book idea, and that was just forwarded correspondence by Samuel

letter from Jeremy Bentham to his brother Sam in September 1775 telling him, basically, don't be afraid to speak French in front of Dad, your French certainly can't get any worse than it already is

democracy without pluralist empiricism isn't democracy