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'Even in the postwar decades, even when the direct and lived memory of the fascism was most alive, in most of Europe there was not a harmonious ‘antifascist consensus’ shared uniformly across political sides, still less throughout the population.' tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/ve-day…

The US’ leading dystopian magazine newrepublic.com

In the last month or so the Atlantic has called Trump fascist, Stalinist and now Maoist theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Now on FirstView: Race in Marshall’s economics? Colin Danby examines how Alfred Marshall used an evolutionary theory of race to ground individual psychology and explain economic behavior in Britain bit.ly/3Q47gu0

A defense of stop and frisk Bloomberg

There is no such thing as “trickle-down” economics. jacobin.com/2023/04/trickl…

Heading to France to tie up loose ends in the archives for my almost completed-finally--book. Sure hope PSG win's CL while I'm there.

Forthcoming from Chicago UP: "Adventures in the Archaic: Primitivism, Degrowth, and the French Social Sciences, 1945–1975" by Ryan L. Allen: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

What a week for Villanova graduates

“he resembles Francis in his commitment to the poor and migrants and to meeting people where they are. He told the Vatican’s official news” nytimes.com/live/2025/05/0…

New Pope

Wait until you read the Gospels

Maybe embattled liberal democracies should look, of all places, to the Catholic Church for how to successfully resist rightwing forces

Pope Leo XIII was known as the “social pope” or the “labor pope,” and his encyclical Rerum novarum made the case for a just wage, and that the earth is for the benefit of all.

Marx taught that a reactionary document in its time could become, in the future, a revolutionary one (referring to the Spanish constitution of 1812). This I think is true of Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum, which was as much anti socialist as it was a socialized of capital, but… 1/3

He’s also a Peruvian citizen, a duel national. So much for MAGA bullshit. America, América.

“Eighty years ago today, Europe celebrated the defeat of fascism after a titanic struggle. Yet as historian Enzo Traverso points out, the latest anniversary of VE Day comes at a moment when the far right is stronger than at any point since 1945.” jacobin.com/2025/05/ve-day…

Time Square Pope

The struggle against Nazism in France was also a struggle against homegrown reactionary forces embodied in the Vichy regime. Eight decades after a seemingly decisive defeat, the heirs of Vichy are banging at the gates of power in Paris. jacobin.com/2025/05/europe…

Maybe not happy with the choice?