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America Second.

Really smart piece by Stephanie Mawson. Folk magic in the Philippines, 1611–39 | Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/40kyMJm

Helen Keller was born on this day in 1880. "How did I become a Socialist? By reading."

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received both her undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University. She graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Harvard Law School, graduating cum laude. While

Cover for my new book, Assassins of Memory, just arrived.

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This will be the last post preceding actual publication at the end of this month. Please order it for your libraries. It's been a long-drawn process but totally worth it. A preview is available on the site, under the rubric 'major work' in cultural theory. uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-…

No. Not an exaggeration. Mindanao, during the Quezon era, we were supposed to take in some tens of thousands of Jewish refugees for a state-sponsored settler expansion. From the same set refugees who went to Palestine in 1948 and who promptly massacred Arabs in that same year

I don't know why this hasn't received more publicity, but this fifty-foot sculpture was unveiled recently in South Dakota. It's called 'Dignity' and was done by artist Dale Lamphere to honor the women of the Sioux Nation.

Language learning as a counter colonial project. facebook.com/share/p/15T5uB…

The full interview “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It”: Prof. Omer Bartov on the Growing Consensus on Gaza democracynow.org/2025/7/17/omer… via Democracy Now!

Francesca Albanese: “The narrative is shifting — away from Israel’s endlessly invoked ‘right to self-defense’ and toward the long-denied Palestinian right to self-determination.” Full remarks: jacobin.com/2025/07/albane…

The myths that billionaires earn, invent, or give their way to virtue don’t survive scrutiny. Billionaire wealth isn’t built on genius — it rests on public investment and ends with the power to shape law, labor, and markets. jacobin.com/2025/07/billio…

Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality - Cambridge University Press, August 2025 cambridge.org/gb/universityp…

Chartbook 400: Murder not crisis - Why Israel's starvation of Gaza is exceptional in a global context. , by Adam Tooze open.substack.com/pub/adamtooze/…

South Park rocks!

This was one of the last bridges between Jews and Arabs. Israel demolished it, too haaretz.com/israel-news/20…