This is a solid takedown by Sophie Pinkham of @TimothyDSnyder and the ideology that underpins his recent work, “a certain paranoid style that has emerged among liberals in Trump’s wake.”https://www.thenation.com/article/timothy-snyder-zombie-history/ …
Review of @zeithistoriker Globalists, by @adam_tooze:"neoliberals set out not to demolish the state but to create an international order strong enough to contain the dangerous forces of democracy and encase the private economy in its own autonomous sphere"https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/neoliberalism-world-order-review-quinn-slobodian-globalists …
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@dbessner on the ideological shortcomings of "globalist" liberalism: "Soros’s failures are so telling; they are the failures not merely of one man, but of an entire class—and an entire way of understanding the world."https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-globalist/ …Show this thread -
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@ErnestoSeman: partisan use of the Spanish term caudillo in modern American politics "demonstrate a peculiar ideological agreement, conceiving the threat as an external and untranslatable contamination, a political import that refuses to speak English"https://popula.com/2018/08/13/the-untranslatable-caudillo/ …Show this thread -
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@PatBlanchfield’s superb and scathing review of Woodward’s new book: “Why narrate when you can regurgitate? Less than even the stenography of power, this is stenography of power by the numbers.” https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/dupe-throat/ …pic.twitter.com/0kqdJ5mFW9
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This1996 review by
@joandidionline of6 Woodward books is gold: "Washington, as rendered by Mr. Woodward, is by definition basically solid, a diorama of decent intentions in which wise if misunderstood and occasionally misled stewards will reliably prevail"https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1996/09/19/the-deferential-spirit/ …Show this thread
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