Aaron Wistar
@aaronwistar.bsky.social
Associate Editor, @beaconpress.bsky.social
Words in Jacobin, LA Review Of Books, Current Affairs, and elsewhere.
Words in Jacobin, LA Review Of Books, Current Affairs, and elsewhere.
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Aaron Wistar
@aaronwistar.bsky.social
· Sep 8
Happy to announce that I’ve joined the amazing team at @beaconpress.bsky.social as Associate Editor. Starting today, I’ll be acquiring in history, political economy, parenting, and urban studies.
Send me your book proposals!
Send me your book proposals!
Couples counseling should be about creating equal partnerships. Instead it often helps men feel better about their shortcomings—without doing much to fix them. @lsherper.bsky.social is brilliantly exploring the limits of therapy in a patriarchal world.
February 19, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Couples counseling should be about creating equal partnerships. Instead it often helps men feel better about their shortcomings—without doing much to fix them. @lsherper.bsky.social is brilliantly exploring the limits of therapy in a patriarchal world.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
February 17, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
Sorry to report that the ghosts of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter left my kids lumps of coal this President’s Day. (They took “Rewilding the University” instead of “US Presidential History” 🫤)
February 16, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Sorry to report that the ghosts of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter left my kids lumps of coal this President’s Day. (They took “Rewilding the University” instead of “US Presidential History” 🫤)
In Dan Wang’s Breakneck, American industry is stifled by the “lawyerly society”; but “bankerly society” is more like it. Financial logics commit US tech-capitalists to build more expensively, riskily, and, often, shittily than their Chinese rivals.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/the...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/the...
Sinophobic Sinophilia | The Editors
In the contemporary Chinese context, the idea that crucial parts of the central government could simply cease to operate for more than a month, as part of a procedural standoff between rival governing...
www.nplusonemag.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:46 PM
In Dan Wang’s Breakneck, American industry is stifled by the “lawyerly society”; but “bankerly society” is more like it. Financial logics commit US tech-capitalists to build more expensively, riskily, and, often, shittily than their Chinese rivals.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/the...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/the...
Kojève approached Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit rather like a Christian theologian interpreting verses from the Hebrew Bible, conjuring meanings not so much from the text itself as from subsequent events and revelations
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jonathan Rée · We are all layabouts now: Kojève v. Hegel
Alexandre Kojève described his book on Hegel as ‘very bad’, and he had a point. His take on The Phenomenology of...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Kojève approached Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit rather like a Christian theologian interpreting verses from the Hebrew Bible, conjuring meanings not so much from the text itself as from subsequent events and revelations
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
February 6, 2026 at 11:43 PM
I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
Odysseus of Ithacambridge, MA
February 1, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Odysseus of Ithacambridge, MA
Very fortunate to be working with @seamus-malekafzali.com on this book!
January 29, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Very fortunate to be working with @seamus-malekafzali.com on this book!
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“With Amazon and Walmart, it’s King Kong vs. Godzilla. Either way Tokyo’s fucked.” - Whole Foods Vice President Errol Schweizer
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
Benjamin Y. Fong | Profitability estimates in retail and e-commerce
Capitalist society is structurally oriented towards the future. In Marx’s formulation, capital is the process of realizing the M-C-M’ circuit, wherein an initial investment (M) in commodity production...
www.phenomenalworld.org
January 25, 2026 at 2:34 PM
“With Amazon and Walmart, it’s King Kong vs. Godzilla. Either way Tokyo’s fucked.” - Whole Foods Vice President Errol Schweizer
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
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Abolishing ICE is the moderate position. The whole DHS needs to go.
Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."
January 25, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Abolishing ICE is the moderate position. The whole DHS needs to go.
“With Amazon and Walmart, it’s King Kong vs. Godzilla. Either way Tokyo’s fucked.” - Whole Foods Vice President Errol Schweizer
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
Benjamin Y. Fong | Profitability estimates in retail and e-commerce
Capitalist society is structurally oriented towards the future. In Marx’s formulation, capital is the process of realizing the M-C-M’ circuit, wherein an initial investment (M) in commodity production...
www.phenomenalworld.org
January 25, 2026 at 2:34 PM
“With Amazon and Walmart, it’s King Kong vs. Godzilla. Either way Tokyo’s fucked.” - Whole Foods Vice President Errol Schweizer
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
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THEY WILL NOT BREAK US
THEY CAN NOT BREAK US
THEY DIDN'T BRING ENOUGH GUYS
FOR EVERY ONE OF US THEY TAKE, ONE HUNDRED MORE TAKE TO THE STREETS
THERE WILL FOREVER BE MORE OF US THAN OF THEM
THEY STAND FOR NOTHING, WE STAND FOR EACH OTHER
THEY WILL REGRET COMING HERE
MINNEAPOLIS WILL WIN
THEY CAN NOT BREAK US
THEY DIDN'T BRING ENOUGH GUYS
FOR EVERY ONE OF US THEY TAKE, ONE HUNDRED MORE TAKE TO THE STREETS
THERE WILL FOREVER BE MORE OF US THAN OF THEM
THEY STAND FOR NOTHING, WE STAND FOR EACH OTHER
THEY WILL REGRET COMING HERE
MINNEAPOLIS WILL WIN
fear.
they need to demonstrate that resistance is worse than useless, that it will be broken, and that their agents have impunity regardless of their actions.
they need to demonstrate that resistance is worse than useless, that it will be broken, and that their agents have impunity regardless of their actions.
So… what’s the strategic goal for the administration in Minnesota, exactly?
I’m not being cute, I don’t understand the theory of victory here and want someone to explain it to me.
I’m not being cute, I don’t understand the theory of victory here and want someone to explain it to me.
January 24, 2026 at 1:40 AM
THEY WILL NOT BREAK US
THEY CAN NOT BREAK US
THEY DIDN'T BRING ENOUGH GUYS
FOR EVERY ONE OF US THEY TAKE, ONE HUNDRED MORE TAKE TO THE STREETS
THERE WILL FOREVER BE MORE OF US THAN OF THEM
THEY STAND FOR NOTHING, WE STAND FOR EACH OTHER
THEY WILL REGRET COMING HERE
MINNEAPOLIS WILL WIN
THEY CAN NOT BREAK US
THEY DIDN'T BRING ENOUGH GUYS
FOR EVERY ONE OF US THEY TAKE, ONE HUNDRED MORE TAKE TO THE STREETS
THERE WILL FOREVER BE MORE OF US THAN OF THEM
THEY STAND FOR NOTHING, WE STAND FOR EACH OTHER
THEY WILL REGRET COMING HERE
MINNEAPOLIS WILL WIN
I don’t know, seems woke!
January 23, 2026 at 10:40 PM
I don’t know, seems woke!
At the Harper’s office, each intern is given a cardinal direction, reflected in their email address (i.e., [email protected]) and then a desk that is—for reasons nobody could explain—oriented opposite their direction.
@nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
nyra.nyc/articles/666...
@nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
nyra.nyc/articles/666...
666 Broadway, <em>Harper’s</em>
“Have we been the most gregarious?”
nyra.nyc
January 19, 2026 at 2:35 PM
At the Harper’s office, each intern is given a cardinal direction, reflected in their email address (i.e., [email protected]) and then a desk that is—for reasons nobody could explain—oriented opposite their direction.
@nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
nyra.nyc/articles/666...
@nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
nyra.nyc/articles/666...
WHICH KIND OF CHÂTEAU RENOVATION is me? Rock star? Relic thief? Australian? In the châteauverse, the logic of a 2010s Buzzfeed quiz is projected onto medieval parcels.
@nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
nyra.nyc/articles/gro...
@nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
nyra.nyc/articles/gro...
Group Chât
In the Châteauverse, content is king.
nyra.nyc
January 19, 2026 at 2:22 PM
WHICH KIND OF CHÂTEAU RENOVATION is me? Rock star? Relic thief? Australian? In the châteauverse, the logic of a 2010s Buzzfeed quiz is projected onto medieval parcels.
@nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
nyra.nyc/articles/gro...
@nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
nyra.nyc/articles/gro...
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The Atlantic laundering yet another right-wing narrative into the mainstream
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
January 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM
The Atlantic laundering yet another right-wing narrative into the mainstream
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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CBS News is doing Fridays the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
January 15, 2026 at 2:34 AM
CBS News is doing Fridays the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash.
Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.
Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.
Statistics Canada to cut 850 jobs in 'dark time' for public service, union says
Federal statistics agency entered its workforce adjustment period Monday, sending notices to thousands of employees.
ottawacitizen.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash.
Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.
Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.
Buckeyes don’t need RFK to tell them to eat real food
January 15, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Buckeyes don’t need RFK to tell them to eat real food
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A Cat Left Paw Prints on the Pages of This Medieval Manuscript When the Ink Was Drying 500 Years Ago
A Cat Left Paw Prints on the Pages of This Medieval Manuscript When the Ink Was Drying 500 Years Ago
An exhibition called "Paws on Parchment" tracks how cats were depicted in the Middle Ages through texts and artworks from around the world—including one example of a 15th-century "keyboard cat"
www.smithsonianmag.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:30 PM
A Cat Left Paw Prints on the Pages of This Medieval Manuscript When the Ink Was Drying 500 Years Ago
Scott Adams for comparison
January 14, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Scott Adams for comparison
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"Through INTERSEX, we can begin to imagine the true demedicalization of intersex. By admitting the failure of the promise of normalization...we can see the necessity of charting a new way forward..." Read the full review from SCIENCE. buff.ly/TZ5mFNO
January 14, 2026 at 4:32 PM
"Through INTERSEX, we can begin to imagine the true demedicalization of intersex. By admitting the failure of the promise of normalization...we can see the necessity of charting a new way forward..." Read the full review from SCIENCE. buff.ly/TZ5mFNO
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boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider
January 14, 2026 at 3:35 PM
boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider
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Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
January 14, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread: