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When White Women Matter

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On February 2, 2026
Interesting essay about when the far right thinks white womanhood needs protecting and when it is happy to murder white women like Renee Good. It looks back to that ur-text of the far right in American popular culture, Birth of a Nation, to help us...

The Killers

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On February 2, 2026

The killers of Alex Pretti have been identified and, depressingly, they are both Latino men. The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in.

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Mamdani Discourse

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On February 1, 2026
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), curiosity over the man, and the hopes that so many on the left have placed...
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January Reading List

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On February 1, 2026
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...
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