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NatSec at the Symphony

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A couple months back a student of mine wrote a paper about orchestral music and the national security state, which put me into a contemplative mood. My students are grad students and I give them a great deal of latitude with respect to the topics that...

Mamdani Discourse

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Unsurprisingly, there's a lot of writing out there on the Mamdani-governed New York. That's based on the centrality of New York to discourse always (annoying to everyone else in America),.

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The New Fugitive Slave Act

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Jelani Cobb makes a really good historical analogy here between the Fugitive Slave Act and ICE actions today. See, before the Fugitive Slave Act, most Americans, even what would pass for "liberals" of the time (if we are trying to shoehorn people into modern categories, which...
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January Reading List

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Here's my reading list for January. Here's the December list and you can follow it back from there. Professional Reading: Sanford Jacoby, Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal (Princeton University Press, 1998). I miss labor histories like this, when historians engaged in serious histories...
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