Assistant Professor, Spelman College. Author of The Political Right and Equality and The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism. @edgelordpod.
Atlanta, GA
Joined June 2018
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Very pleased we have a release date and website for "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" for @routledgebooks. Coming out November 22nd!
routledge.com/The-Political-…
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Policymakers know price explosions are related to corporate profits, but refuse to act, endangering democracy & affordability.
Listen to @avilewis & @IsabellaMWeber on why we need 'Anti-Fascist Economics' to defend democracy .
🎙️ perspectivesjournal.ca/anti-…
The Preface to the Contribution, The Communist Manifesto, The Critique of the Gotha Programme, Capital I Chapters 1-4 for primary sources.
Dave Harvey's Companion to Marx's Capital, Cohen's Karl Marx's Theory of History, and Althusser's For Marx will give very different angles.
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The rise of general anticapitalist sentiment, especially since it's so generational, so the noteworthy thing here
Cheers
Second, @MattPolProf offers a critical appraisal for the Illiberalism Studies Program at GW:
illiberalism.org/a-fusionist…
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First, @LawLiberty released a symposium on fusionism with essays from three brilliant interlocutors — @bradleybirzer, @ThomasDHowes, and Michael Lucchese:
lawliberty.org/the-once-and-…
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Second, @MattPolProf offers a critical appraisal for the Illiberalism Studies Program at GW:
illiberalism.org/a-fusionist…
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There is something deeply wrong with a political system that allows one trillionaire to buy his own personal U.S. Senator.
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Me: "Do you know how many times you've tweeted about Piker since you wrote that tweet [about not tweeting about him] on August 30th?"
@mattyglesias: "Probably more than I intended to."
Me: "8 times.... you tweeted about Mike Rogers 6 times. So you're tweeting about the streamer you didn't want to talk about more than the Republican candidate you say you want to defeat."
Yglesias: "Yeah, that's fair."
Me: "Why?"
Yglesias: "What do you want me to say? You got me."
From my new Zeteo interview with the top centrist pundit - on the left, Michigan, Gaza, immigration, polls, electability, and more:
zeteo.com/p/matt-yglesias-me…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Yglesias's posts since Aug 30 include ~5 mentioning Piker and at least 9 mentioning Rogers/Rodgers, not 8 and 6. Hasan posted about Piker ~35 times in the period.
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This reminds me of what Yglesias wrote after my Substack essay on him last year. Hilariously, he also implied I was "ripping off" @NathanJRobinson's essay in Current Affairs, because apparently only one person is allowed to argue he's consistently wrong about things.
Matt Yglesias's debate with @mehdirhasan isn't even out yet, and Yglesias is already doing damage control.
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The OG is coming back to Michigan.
Join us in Grand Rapids on Sunday, October 25th: mobilize.us/abdulforsenate/e…
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Are you interested in joining Democratic Socialist Mathewos Samson in the Georgia State House?
As we enter the final stretch of the campaign, we are looking to assemble a team of committed individuals to support Mathewos as a legislator and serve the constituents of District 58.
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Learn about Steven Pinker's flawed takes on Marxism and the Enlightenment in my interview with Dr. Matthew McManus (@MattPolProf). #Economics #Politics
Full interview: youtu.be/ljRJjrJMy5o
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Sunday’s election will determine the fate of Brazilian democracy, the fate of Latin American sovereignty, and the survival of the Amazon rainforest — which is to say, that of all humanity.
In a sane world, Trump's (and Zuckerberg’s) escalating efforts to bring Bolsonaro back to power would be front-page news, but alas… we are not so lucky to live there.
Instead, we live in a world where Lula and Bolsonaro are neck-and-neck ahead of Sunday’s run-off. progressive.international/wi…
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I asked Abdul El-Sayed about his exchange with the GOP plant about religion. El-Sayed has a theory of how to combat MAGA bad faith: Don't let it frame the discussion. Flush out the assumptions underlying the outrage bait.
Here's El-Sayed's full answer:
newrepublic.com/article/2169…
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Thank you to the packed house in Houston, Texas.
We’re going to win Texas.
We’re going to win back Congress.
We’re going to finally hold Trump and the oligarchs accountable.
Let’s get it done.
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This is private equity, this is what it does.
Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit.
The developers at BioWare know how to run the studio. They know how to make the games we all love. They should be given the first opportunity - and the federal support - to buy it and run it themselves.
And if we want to avoid the Mass Effect effect in Canada, we should be keeping private equity out, not welcoming it in.
pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/…
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TORONTO: There are still a few tickets left to see Avi discuss the future of the NDP at TMU!
When: 12 PM (EST) Thursday October 22
Where: TMU
Get your ticket here: eventbrite.ca/e/ndp-leader-a…
Can't make it in person? You can still tune in tomorrow! Watch the livestream at: youtube.com/live/7ChxbCKTeYA
