I wrote an essay for @mihjournal.bsky.social on two very different books on planetary politics, each enlightening in their own way. Both contribute substantially to the discussion within the planetary turn. The piece can be found here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It was a pleasure to interview Thea Riofrancos for The Nation about her important and very well written new book: “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

‼️ EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism will be out in the UK with Icon Books on 25 September ‼️

We are on the verge of a new Cold War, defined not by an ideological contest over the proper relationship between politics and the economy, but over the metabolic basis of modernity. Call it the Green Entente vs. the Axis of Petrostates. My latest: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...

Stefan Link asks "does economic nationalism have a philosophy"; summarizes two recent histories of economic nationalist thought; juxtaposes thinkers from the US, Germany, India, and China; and argues that the dots do connect into a "tradition" worth thinking about www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Must read Modern Intellectual History review by Stefan Link of: 1. Eric Helleiner’s ‘The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History” 2. Marvin Suesse’s “The Nationalist Dilemma: A Global History of Economic Nationalism, 1776–Present” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My colleague Ulrich Plass has written a nuanced review of the new Princeton edition of Marx’s “Capital: Vol 1”—translated by Paul Reitter. Very well worth reading: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Brandon Terry's long-awaited book on the tragic vision of the civil rights movement has a website, cover, and blurbs. Out in October! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Very exciting to see that my book has its own page on the SUP website now Should be hitting shelves in October! www.sup.org/books/theory...

Thanks to Commonweal Magazine for letting me write about PSG’s Champions League victory and its aftermath: www.commonwealmagazine.org/sports-franc...

I had the pleasure of writing about the inimitable @melindacooper.bsky.social’s Counterrevolution for @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A question about Hegel that I posed to Habermas that didn’t make it into the published version of my recent Nation interview with him: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

An Essay on Trumpism, international order, geopolitics, Carl Schmitt's Nomos of the Earth:

My latest interview for The Nation is with Jürgen Habermas and concerns the recent 3 volume translation of his history of Western philosophy titled, “Also a History of Philosophy”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

A great Modern Intellectual History article by Anin Luo “This article historicizes the emergence of nonhuman personhood by showing how Christopher Stone, Peter Singer, etc., tried to dismantle liberalism’s anthropocentrism at a dynamic time in humanist politics.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The World Wolfgang Streeck Wants www.thenation.com/article/cult...

My latest interview for The Nation is with the German sociologist, Wolfgang Streeck. We discuss immigration, Sahra Wagenknecht, the war in Ukraine, Russia and European military defense, Donald Trump, Adam Tooze and more: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Two new essays on President Trump's first 100 days "endeavor to develop a new framework and a new conceptual vocabulary to apprehend our dismal moment." One is titled "A Modern Counterrevolution," the other "Reflections on an Inverted Revolution." Read here: www.theideasletter.org/issue/the-we...

An immense honor - so grateful to @asecsoffice.bsky.social for the recognition of “The Archive of Empire” asecs.org/awards-grant...

"The background noise to the official letters has been a steady stream of social media posts from the president, throwing invective at Harvard instead of conducting the serious government business of maligning Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift."

Midge Decter writing to Raymond Aron in 1980--trying to convince him to become the honorary chairman of the Committe for the Free World: " We are all, as Norman has said, ‘Aronistes’. What better way for us to commence the war of ideas we are determined to declare – especially in the United States"

One of the signature intellectual opportunities of our historical moment is learning how people rationalize cowardice.

Listen! My interview w/ @jlmelenchon.bsky.social, leader of left-wing French party @lfi.bsky.social: how radical left defeats far right in France and everywhere. New @thedigradio.bsky.social episode conducted before an audience at @nplusonemag.com Brooklyn office. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/a-co...

Plus: an intense interview by the brilliant Leonard Benardo @lbenardo.bsky.social turning the tables, as it were, on the legal historian Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social : www.theideasletter.org/essay/intell...

Excellent interview with my friend Danny Steinmetz-Jenkins on the state of intellectual history in the academy and the world: 🗃️https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/intellectual-historians-confront-the-present/

Many thanks to Leonard Benardo for interviewing me for “The Ideas Letter”: www.theideasletter.org/essay/intell...

For this Earth Day and in celebration of my commitment to the bit that my book makes it to With Love, Meghan I made a step and repeat for it with @uchicagopress.bsky.social gift wrap. You can buy a copy or request your library purchase one, please. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/vi...

My latest interview for The Nation is with the historian Greg Grandin, and concerns his incredible new book, “America, América: A New History of the New World”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

A Conversation with Isaac Chotiner about autocracy, mafia states, and why liberals' conventional ways of thinking about Trump voters serve to flatter liberals:

My take on the implications of Trump’s tariffs for developing countries www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/o...

Vanity Affair interview with Jason Stanley about fleeing fascist America. "99.8% of academics cannot move. And even though I’m a very distinguished academic, honestly speaking—I mean, nobody would regard me as distinguished, that’s not my persona—" www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Very much looking forward to Ed Barring's new book, which I'm sure will be great: "Vulgar Marxism: Revolutionary Politics and the Dilemmas of Worker Education, 1891–1931": press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Managed to get another 50 free eprints: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3CSAK... Otherwise DM me for a pdf

High Praise for Thea Riofrancos’s forthcoming book: theariofrancos.com/extraction

An excellent piece by Daniel Bessner devoted to the eternally annoying fascism debate--hard to refute a number of the points made here, imo: jacobin.com/2025/03/trum...

Checkout the latest issue of MIH with pieces by Geoff Mann, Lucia Rubinelli, George Steinmetz, Talbot Imlay, Jenny Andersson, Michael C. Behrent and others: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

After having tried populism and fascism, some observers are now tempted by Caesarism as the right category to understand Trumpism (especially after a supposed Napoleon quote by the President). Are they on to something? New column for Project Syndicate:

“The Americans…have a tendency to be impulsive; sometimes they reverse their policy unexpectedly.” Raymond Aron, “From "Allies - Not Satellites !" in the American Mercury, 1952

Here is the latest entry to my Antiwar/Non-violence series for Foreign Exchanges: "A Technocratic Vision of Peace: The Pan-Europe Movement": www.foreignexchanges.news/p/a-technocr...

Looking forward to diving into Greg Grandin’s forthcoming book: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747326...

The historian David Hollinger has has working paper that available to the public: "The Evangelical Capture of the Republican Party and Its Implications for Academia": history.berkeley.edu/sites/defaul...

New op-ed from my colleague Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti: "For many, going to college is the very definition of the American dream. Relieved from familial burdens and toil work: it is a brief and precious period of freedom": www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s the latest entry into my antiwar/non-violence series for Foreign Exchanges, which is on Tolstoy: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/tolstoys-p...

There has been much talk of anti-incumbency sentiments in recent elections. The focus has been on inflation; not enough attention has been paid to persistent pandemic pain. Suggestions how to confront what are often politically toxic legacies, including the uses and abuses of citizen assemblies:

The great Geoff Mann reviews for Modern Intellectual History Dipesh Chakrabarty’s recent books on Climate and History www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I highly recommend this new Modern Intellectual History article by George Steinmetz on Durkheim and Colonialism: “How does Durkheim's thought relate to colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonial theory?” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"Historical comparisons are always partial, and each civilization must understand and solve its own problems. But the comparisons can be instructive, if they bring out the differences as much as the analogies." Raymond Aron, 1941

I’ve organized this event at City College on the Crisis of the Constitution which is open to the public (February 11th). Speakers include Aziz Rana, Zephyr Teachout, Julie Suk and Daniel Ziblatt. Please register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-crisis...