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📢Attn. reporters and editors: Princeton SPIA faculty are coming to D.C. for an all-day media briefing on Jan. 31 to discuss current policy topics as the new administration takes over. Full agenda and registration details at spia.princeton.edu/media-day-prin… Princeton SPIA in Washington DC Julian Zelizer

Finally.. #FreeAlaa

.Hay Festival FREE film of the week! The late great, magnificent, #tonimorrison in conversation with me at Hay in 2014. It was a career highlight, the second time I interviewed her and she was truly marvellous. Watch it, and enjoy!

Looking forward to this with Amitav Ghosh Shout out to Washington DC peeps!

"I found myself, I made myself, and I said what I had to say.” - Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) French artist #InternationalWomensDay

Delighted that our podcast on #JamesBaldwin “Notes on a Native Son” has been shortlisted New York Festivals Well done Tony Phillips Axel Kacoutié & all at WNYC Studios 🙏🏽🙏🏽 You can listen here wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anxie…

Isn’t it clear: you either side with justice or with power? Which is it?🙏🏽 Omar El Akkad “One day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”

A book and discussion for our times: if you are in D.C. on May 6, come Princeton SPIA in Washington DC and hear two people in TIME magazine’s 100 top thinkers on #AI Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor in convo with me!

If you're in the DC area, join us next Tuesday May 6 at 6pm for a discussion of AI Snake Oil at the Princeton School of Public & International Affairs center. mailchi.mp/princeton.edu/… Sayash Kapoor and I will be in conversation with Razia Iqbal. We will also touch on AI as Normal Technology. There will be time to mingle

The west’s shameful silence on #Gaza .. @ft editorial board speaks, 19 MONTHS in… ft.com/content/f5fd6f…

A ten minute video that everyone should watch. And everyone should repost..

Why aren’t these pictures and the names of all these children on the front pages of every newspaper?

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87 such a shame the Nobel Committee over looked him for the prize. theguardian.com/books/2025/may…

This 👇🏾is important from Gershon Baskin, who I just heard on the BBC World Service #Newshour about Israeli plans to turn illegal outposts in the West Bank into 20 illegal settlements which will prevent the creation of a Palestinian state. Follow him!

Piece I wrote ⁦The Guardian⁩ on Palestinian American writer, Hala Alyan & her memoir: a story of exile, addiction and surrogacy: ‘I had to do something with the fragments’ theguardian.com/books/ng-inter…

As an American Palestinian, Hala Alyan asks the starkest of questions: “how many slaughtered Palestinians are enough slaughtered Palestinians?” The Guardian

The “impish, self mocking” writer, who never saved for his old age because he didn’t think he would have one, has died at the age of 85: Edmund White, acclaimed novelist. washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…

Please read this from Dr Ezzideen in Gaza:

What fresh hell … nytimes.com/live/2025/06/1… via @NYTimes