The Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi's story about eating honey in a Circassian village is the most insane thing you'll read today

What does instant messaging imply for democracy?
Read my new article on ‘WhatsApp Government’, online now Journal of Politics @[email protected]
journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/KSTQXFH…

A very good review in Jacobin of Victoria Smolkin'Victoria Smolkin's, 'A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism': jacobin.com/2024/04/the-st…

The question is whether the CHIPS act main purpose was ever about reindustrialization. Or, from the very start, a geopolitical move against china.

My latest project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-…

Incredible, brutal self-indictment by Draghi (although Trichet takes the biggest hit). Speech in Brussels yesterday. I’ve never seen anything like it from anywhere near the top of the ECB. And we just spent five years digging around. Extraordinary.

geopolitique.eu/en/2024/04/16/…

Academics, please consider signing this -- it's strictly about academic freedom and freedom of speech, so it affects us all.

Revoke Professor Jodi Dean's suspension from teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges - Sign the Petition!

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Great review lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-tax-…

'The Soviet Union had started out as a dictatorship of the proletariat run by intellectuals; what it had become, in the eyes of the children of those intellectuals, was the dictatorship of the former proletarians who remained culturally proletarian'

Valuable account of the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in spring 2022 by Samuel Charap and Sergey Radchenko. (Given the level of detail, I was a little surprised they don't discuss what on earth happened with Denis Kiryev.)

foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/talks-…

E.O. Wilson here recalling cormac mccarthy and werner herzog in his evocation of nature's brutality. 'For millions of years human beings simply went at nature with everything they had [...] Life was short, fate terrifying, and reproduction an urgent priority' (Biophilia, 1984)

Ahead of the final Trance Party of the season, evian joins Harmony Korine/EDGLRD at EartH London on 10 May.

Very limited tickets
→ go.edglrd.com/evian-london

Weinig landen waar politiek links in die mate is vervangen door leeg moralisme en management dan Nederland. Uniek hoe volhardend de posthistorie daar wordt voortgezet.

All these moments will be lost in time, like the exchange-value of Porsche headlights used in a cannabis factory

50th anniversary edition of what's widely hailed as one of the best solo guitar albums of all time ✨

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This is what 'mobilising private investment' in infrastructure often looks like.

Thanks to London Review of Books for getting me to reread this superb piece by Edward Said about Sartre in his dotage & his failure to support Palestine: 'The doorbell announced the delivery of a telegram and as I tore it open I noticed with interest that it was ... 1/ lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/…

After a year of work, my piece on writing and contemporary Hollywood has been released as the cover of the May issue of Harper's. ... harpers.org/archive/2024/0…