ICYMI — a Jewish staff member at a US college who ran a program screening films screened a documentary made by Jewish Americans about Jewish Americans’ views on Israel. The college fired her.

We are so excited to welcome Lauren Turek, Greg, and Moon-Ho Jung to Storrs to join our own Manisha Sinha and Brad Simpson (bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social) TOMORROW (4/17) for the Spring 2025 #DraperSeries! RSVP for livestream here: forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

Folks like ⁦Glenn Greenwald⁩ who argued for months that Tulsi Gabbard was some anti-war hero and anti-interventionist are some of the dumbest, most gullible people alive. “US spy agencies told to expand surveillance of Greenlanders and Danes.” thetimes.com/us/news-today/…

Page proofs!

Greenwald, et al spent months pretending that Tulsi Gabbard was something other than an opportunistic, cynical liar, willing to defend Trump’s most insane war mongering impulses. Trump cuts Gabbard out of the loop, says she is wrong on Iran, and within hours she posts this.

So my book on the history of self-determination has a website and is available for pre-orders! Digital release in August, hardcover in October. I'm on leave this year and so glad to do book talks! Will flog weekly, so please bear with me. global.oup.com/academic/produ…

My new book The First Right Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941–2000 is available for pre-order and shipping: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

So I finally made a website with links/PDFs to much of my writing, media, and other stuff. Hoping soon to upload many of the primary sources from my self-determination book so others can use them as well. bradleyrsimpson.com

I am mostly done with the archival material I used for my book The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transfomation of International Order, and so I am putting as much of these materials as I can online, where they can be used by other scholars: bradleyrsimpson.com/self-determina…

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined” If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days: politico.com/news/2025/10/1…

My book is officially here! Today (well tomorrow, actually) is the release date for The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-2000. The cover art -Journey Into Freedom - is from my old friend Shakti Kroopkin. shaktikroopkin.com

A reminder to folks in Boston: Professor Bradley Simpson Brad Simpson (bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social) will be giving a book talk on The First Right next Monday Oct. 27 at 4pm at 121 Bay State Road, Boston University. Come join us!

Read the first chapter of The First Right: Self-determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-2000 here google.com/.../The_First_…... or here read.amazon.com/sample/B0FR5C2… ! Order from OUP here: global.oup.com/.../the-first-…... and use promotion code AUFLY30 to save 30%

I will speak on my new book at Dartmouth College tmw 10/30 at 12:30pm, focusing on the last chapter: Self-Determination in the Age of Globalization: register here forms.gle/C1892JBQZUdy..… connect via Zoom, follow this link: dartmouth.zoom.us/j/9655445568.... Meeting ID: 965 5445 5680

You can read a PDF version of the intro to The First Right: Self-Determination and The Transformation of International Order by clicking on the link below. You can also get a 30% discount using the promotion code AUFLY30 from the Oxford website. academic.oup.com/book/60825/cha…