My last Nation interview for this year is with Alyssa Battistoni and concerns her important new book, “Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Here's the table of contents of The Story of Capital:

"You can't own part of the moon, but you can own the stuff that the moon contains." — Wesleyan University's @mjrubenstein.bsky.social joins @marketplace.org to discuss who has a right to the moon economy #space

Issue 47.22 is now online, featuring: @jamesmeek.bsky.social on the green energy transition and North-East England Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on American post-liberalism and Maureen N. McLane on Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk

New piece by me which makes the case for a domestic version of the Fulbright program: www.commonwealmagazine.org/fulbright-sc...

Extraction by Thea Riofrancos is really good—and beautifully written. It’s refreshing to see a warning about the risks of mining for decarbonization that is neither bad-faith fossil propaganda nor a call for fatalism and hard degrowth. @triofrancos.bsky.social

This is fucking interesting www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...

"What kind of people do we have to become in order to achieve peaceful cities, societies, and states?" Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins revisits William James's prescription for national conscription www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...

"a compulsory..conscription program in which the children of both the rich &poor would spend part of their youth serving the community—would be a thoroughly democratic way to address inequality & rechannel the energies that feed the war machine" Ihttps://www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription-peace

I wrote a piece for Commonweal Mag on William James’s ‘moral equivalent of war’ a hundred years later. www.commonwealmagazine.org/conscription...

@ekphrastictactic.bsky.social has a new review article, "Field Work," in Modern Intellectual History. Just finished this morning over some coffee. An insightful piece that examines one work I'm intimately familiar with one that I'd never read before.

Discussing these two essential monographs

www.thenation.com/article/cult... Economic democracy is required for true democracy to exist, is perhaps the most interesting concept discussed in the fairly short interview.

My latest interview for The Nation is with Osita Nwanevu and concerns why the US has never been a democracy and what it must do economically and politically to become one: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

My brand new article on the idea of the West and the European project in Modern Intellectual History www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Timothy Scott Johnson reviews for Modern Intellectual History: 1. Amín Pérez’s “Bourdieu & Sayad against Empire” and 2. George Steinmetz’s “The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire”: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"Everything that happens in our society—war, conquest, science, consumption, love, and child-rearing—are marked by the fact that they happen in capitalist time". Good interview w/ Thomas Meaney: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

"What were the Abraham Accords if not partly a way for Israeli and Arab elites to agree to share in their need for (and immiseration of) migrant labor from South Asia in a more rationalized fashion." @thenation.com with @grantamag.bsky.social's Thomas Meaney www.thenation.com/article/cult...

www.thenation.com/article/cult...? Thx DS for discovering this gem

This one is truly amazing www.thenation.com/article/cult...

My latest interview for The Nation is with Tom Meaney, editor of Granta: “I am a fortunate son of the American empire, born during Reagan’s Second Cold War in the garrison state of South Korea. The dictator Chun Doo-hwan—“our son of a bitch”—lived down the street.”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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...