Write about politics, labor, architecture, etc; email is petermluc at gmail
Sac and NYC
Joined December 2012
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“While Goldman has voted reliably for pro-labor legislation, Region 9A’s endorsement of Lander suggests that a strong AFL-CIO scorecard alone may no longer be sufficient.”
Full piece for @thenation here: thenation.com/article/politi…
They are still trying to invent a shirt collar that buttons comfortably. Sources tell me they are “close” but “have run into some trouble”
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thanks for reading, senator
The Socialist Who Ran (thankfully, unsuccessfully) for the White House nytimes.com/2026/10/27/books…
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Happy to get a positive review from the NY Times:
American Socialist "capture[s] Debs’s remarkable appeal while also resisting the temptations of beatification."
nytimes.com/2026/10/27/books…
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It was such an honor to do an American Socialist book event with Kim Phillips-Fein, one of the great historians working today!
There isn’t a better person than @shawngude to tell Eugene Debs’s story with a fresh pair of eyes. Shawn in conversation with Kim Phillips-Fein about “American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs”
There isn’t a better person than @shawngude to tell Eugene Debs’s story with a fresh pair of eyes. Shawn in conversation with Kim Phillips-Fein about “American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs”
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Anwar Shaikh was the most brilliant Marxist economist of his generation.
He leaves behind a legacy that has the potential to drive political economy forward for years to come. jacobin.com/2026/10/shaikh-o…
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“An essential story about one of America’s greatest champions for workers.” —@BernieSanders
My biography of Eugene Debs, American Socialist, drops in two weeks! Preorder it today.
simonandschuster.com/books/A…
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"The Blueprint is the clearest, most forceful, and most detailed case for market socialism that anyone has made for a generation, or more. It should be read, and debated, by all of us who want to build something better than capitalism, as well as the skeptics."
– Cosma Shalizi on our book, which is officially out in an hour.
Read about the model and order the book: blueprintforsocialism.com
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Very happy to see my long piece on the ethics of labor under socialism in the new @catalyst_theory, in which I take on the question of how a socialist society might realistically, and justly, fulfill its labor needs.
Read it here: catalyst-journal.com/2026/09…
"Come with me to the White House – see how I work” is seriously such a crazy line lol
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Here's what Trump said to Mamdani yesterday outside Gracie:
“I’ll look after you, you look after the New Yorkers. And we can both make it work. I wanna support you, help me. Come with me to the White House – see how I work.”
nypost.com/2026/09/22/us-new…
I don’t start reading until the second cliché
"You get at most one cliché per book."
Jonathan Franzen doesn't finish most books people send him. He reads until the second cliché, then stops.
"People send me a galley of a book that's coming out. I read along until I get to the second cliché, and I say, thank you."
"They tell me this is not an attentive writer. Aren't you aware that that's a cliché? Didn't it occur to you to stop and take 20 minutes to find a better phrasing than that?"
"You can also have borrowed feelings, borrowed ideas, borrowed situations. Sentiment can be clichéd, or unearned."