‘Did they think you were a spy?’ Lewis Mudge asked me later. I told him about trying to explain I was writing for Granta. ‘Oh yeah,’ he laughed. ‘You were fucked.’ Incredible dispatch from the Central African Republic by James Pogue granta.com/wagner-in-afri…

‘What has changed my mind is its sustained policy of obstructing the movement of humanitarian assistance in the territory.’ In The New York Review of Books, the great Aryeh Neier concludes that Israel is engaged in genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

I asked the great Bruce Robbins to return to Immanuel Wallerstein's 'University in Turmoil', a book which emerged out of the Columbia campus uprising in 1968, and which still holds critical lessons for thinking about campus activism today: newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/05/…

I'm not sure I'll ever forgive the Gen X left-liberals who made hay on the 'death of democracy' wave but have stayed silent when speaking out involves political choices that might discomfort part of their social circle and donor circle beyond.

'Whenever all of this ends ⁠– whenever we find ourselves ready to survey what’s left of Gaza and its people and ask whether we could have done more to prevent the use of our weapons and our money in their destruction ⁠– what will we have to say for ourselves?'

Brilliant Granta convo w Thea Riofrancos on extractivism as the 'modality through which capitalism is lived in the periphery' and conflicts shaping 'period of major energy addition in which both fossil fuels and renewable sources are growing at a rapid clip.' granta.com/the-extracted-…

Immanuel Wallerstein on Columbia in 1968. newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/05/…

Technologies of a political class ... an essay I wrote The New Statesman
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I asked the great Bruce Robbins to return to Immanuel Wallerstein's 'University in Turmoil', a book which emerged out of the Columbia campus uprising in 1968, and which still holds critical lessons for thinking about campus activism today: newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/05/…

Back in February I published a Washington Post piece on Zone of Interest. That was before Jonathan Glazer's Oscar speech. Thanks to Journal of Genocide Research & Dirk Moses I've had the opportunity to revise & re-think - a little. Open access below
#ZoneofInterest

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‘The language of Palestinian protest was not forged on western campuses or media, but in refugee camps, on the walls of bulldozed houses, in prisons and in segregated populations, and among those driven from their homes and yearning for a right of return’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

'The issue...is not one of nationality but of class. The solution can only lie in collective action to defend both British workers and 'international seafarers'.' Great piece by Kenan Malik updating some of the plotlines of Crack-Up Capitalism theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Great piece by Arielle Angel theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

For The Baffler I wrote about fake Jews, could-be Jews, would-be Jews, and, well, Jews in Germany: thebaffler.com/latest/how-ger…

'It is hard not to see those years as having returned. But this time it’s even worse.'

You really called the state-Springer Schulterschluss, zeithistoriker, huh?
newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/12/…

Extremely galling to have these people sanctimoniously mention Sudan not getting attention because of Gaza when they know very well it wasn’t getting any attention before Gaza either

'There are enough differences to get people through a 10-minute interview'. ft.com/content/69064e…

This piece by Anahid Neressian, a poetry critic, on the horrors of Gaza, the death of Rafaat Al Areer, and the violence inflicted by IDF soldiers and Proud Boys on UCLA students is just...

lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/…