Geertje Bol (Ghent University) argues that if we want to do justice to the feminist aim of including past female thinkers in the HPT, we need to look beyond feminist thought, to afeminist, even anti-feminist thought: tandfonline.com/eprint/ZX35GJM…

For Aeon Magazine—I wrote about the St. Louis Hegelians, the Illinois Platonists, and what these associations (and others like them) can teach us what philosophical study might look like after the university: aeon.co/essays/how-pra…

Back in the day the solution to fascism was the welfare state—today it is “Bush Era Republicans”

"There are times in political life when discreet expression becomes unbearable. We feel the need to say everything, or rather to shout out what we feel, what we think. Far from being ashamed of the emotions you're feeling, you're angry at yourself for not feeling them. Even if

“The 1930s saw the biggest labor upsurge in US history. Just like today, there was economic discontent and a general pro-labor atmosphere. But labor didn’t just passively benefit. Instead, it saw its opportunity to act, building unions for the long haul.” jacobin.com/2024/09/cio-wo…

“Her father’s a Marxist professor”—sadly true of a number of leading neoliberals

The Regime of Capital: An Interview with Paul North and Paul Reitter on the new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, Vol. 1 - J. History of Ideas blog jhiblog.org/2024/09/10/the… Details of the new translation from Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s are here. press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Manuscript submitted. Coming 2025.

The coup against Allende and the neoliberal economics introduced by the Pinochet dictatorship teach us an enduring lesson: elites will always support a capitalist dictatorship over a socialist democracy. tribunemag.co.uk/2023/09/why-co…

Opinion: The vice-president has shut down lingering fears of her inadequacy for the fight ahead, writes Edward Luce on.ft.com/4e9SYCm

Will Trump’s debate performance against Harris cost him the election?

Joan Walsh—Presidential race is most likely over due to Taylor Swift endorsement and Harris winning the debate: thenation.com/article/politi…

The drama of TNR:

Guardian: “His apocalyptic pontificating about AI stretches credulity”: theguardian.com/books/article/…

“Cri d’alarme lancé en 2014 lors de la première agression russe, le livre du grand historien allemand Karl Schlögel restitue la place de l’Ukraine dans l’histoire de l’Europe.”: laviedesidees.fr/Karl-Schlogel-…

For a sec, thought Adorno was sporting a mohawk

Watched on Monday this new documentary on Daniel Patrick Moynihan. It becomes apparent about 30 minutes into it that his writings on the “Black Family” are the product of deep personal trauma of his father abandoning the family when Moynihan was a child and growing up in poverty

For J. History of Ideas, Zac Endter and I spoke with Paul North and Paul Reitter about their new translation of Capital, Volume 1. We talked about different editions and previous translations, the call of Capital, Neue Marx Lektüre, and their future plans. jhiblog.org/2024/09/10/the…

A ridiculous account but a fact nonetheless