David Johnson Lee
@dedalive.bsky.social
Historian of US foreign policy, Latin America, etc
Book: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501756214/the-ends-of-modernization/
Book: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501756214/the-ends-of-modernization/
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David Johnson Lee
@dedalive.bsky.social
· Sep 14
Miguel Ángel Asturias, Week-end en Guatemala - DJL
Week-end en Guatemala I’ve just signed a contract with Verso Books to translate this wonderful book, Week-end en Guatemala, by Miguel Ángel Asturias. Written in the immediate aftermath of the US-spons...
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I’ve just signed a contract with Verso Books to translate this wonderful book, Week-end en Guatemala, by Miguel Ángel Asturias: davidjohnsonlee.org/2025/09/14/m...
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My translation of Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Weekend in Guatemala now up in the @versobooks.bsky.social fall catalog. Seventy years without an English translation, and more relevant than ever.
February 13, 2026 at 11:06 PM
My translation of Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Weekend in Guatemala now up in the @versobooks.bsky.social fall catalog. Seventy years without an English translation, and more relevant than ever.
My translation of Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Weekend in Guatemala now up in the @versobooks.bsky.social fall catalog. Seventy years without an English translation, and more relevant than ever.
February 13, 2026 at 11:06 PM
My translation of Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Weekend in Guatemala now up in the @versobooks.bsky.social fall catalog. Seventy years without an English translation, and more relevant than ever.
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Broken Social Contract
February 6, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Broken Social Contract
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Badly needed from @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
The Left Case for Great Books | The Point Magazine
A great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually ...
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February 1, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Badly needed from @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
Book haul. Clockwise from top left: tz’utujil, q’anjob’al, jakalteka, uspanteko, español, uspanteko, kaqchikel, kaqchikel, kaqchikel, kaqchikel
January 10, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Book haul. Clockwise from top left: tz’utujil, q’anjob’al, jakalteka, uspanteko, español, uspanteko, kaqchikel, kaqchikel, kaqchikel, kaqchikel
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a lot of these people try to spin their retrograde attitudes about gender as a form of women's empowerment by appealing to the idea that femininity has been undervalued. but they don't want to elevate the status of femininity, they just want women to be more feminine so they can undervalue them
You might have read something about Ross Douthat’s podcast last week. Becca Rothfeld reviews the new book by Leah Libresco Sargeant, one of the guests on that show. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Review | A conservative argues we need to value ‘women as women.’ But what does that mean?
Leah Libresco Sargeant argues that we need to better acknowledge human need and vulnerability, and that valuing women “as women” is a start
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
a lot of these people try to spin their retrograde attitudes about gender as a form of women's empowerment by appealing to the idea that femininity has been undervalued. but they don't want to elevate the status of femininity, they just want women to be more feminine so they can undervalue them
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Synechdoche, DC
a live look this morning at the demolished East Wing of the White House
October 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Synechdoche, DC
Synechdoche, DC
a live look this morning at the demolished East Wing of the White House
October 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Synechdoche, DC
I’ve just signed a contract with Verso Books to translate this wonderful book, Week-end en Guatemala, by Miguel Ángel Asturias: davidjohnsonlee.org/2025/09/14/m...
Miguel Ángel Asturias, Week-end en Guatemala - DJL
Week-end en Guatemala I’ve just signed a contract with Verso Books to translate this wonderful book, Week-end en Guatemala, by Miguel Ángel Asturias. Written in the immediate aftermath of the US-spons...
davidjohnsonlee.org
September 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I’ve just signed a contract with Verso Books to translate this wonderful book, Week-end en Guatemala, by Miguel Ángel Asturias: davidjohnsonlee.org/2025/09/14/m...
This is a jobs program for fascists, dark New Deal here we come
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is a jobs program for fascists, dark New Deal here we come
At a time when people saying insane things in public is so commonplace as to be unremarkable, this is still breathtaking: “The real way to deflect rape is to turn on 100 percent, because then there is nothing to rape,” Ms. Daedone said.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/n...
Leaders of ‘Orgasmic Meditation’ Group Are Convicted of Coercion Charges
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
At a time when people saying insane things in public is so commonplace as to be unremarkable, this is still breathtaking: “The real way to deflect rape is to turn on 100 percent, because then there is nothing to rape,” Ms. Daedone said.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/n...
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Counter-messaging going great, guys
March 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Counter-messaging going great, guys
Friday, noon to 2, South side of Philadelphia City Hall: Labor Spring event in support of contingent faculty across the Philadelphia area. Speakers include Senator Nikil Saval, Representative Rick Krajewski, and contingent faculty from 8 local universities. Come out and support!
April 4, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Friday, noon to 2, South side of Philadelphia City Hall: Labor Spring event in support of contingent faculty across the Philadelphia area. Speakers include Senator Nikil Saval, Representative Rick Krajewski, and contingent faculty from 8 local universities. Come out and support!
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I’m hosting first in a series of talks on Labor in Higher Ed at Temple, Tuesday, October 31st. Bryan Sacks from Rutgers AAUP will be speaking. Zoom in or come in person, let’s talk about labor in higher ed!
October 30, 2023 at 2:10 AM
I’m hosting first in a series of talks on Labor in Higher Ed at Temple, Tuesday, October 31st. Bryan Sacks from Rutgers AAUP will be speaking. Zoom in or come in person, let’s talk about labor in higher ed!
I’m hosting first in a series of talks on Labor in Higher Ed at Temple, Tuesday, October 31st. Bryan Sacks from Rutgers AAUP will be speaking. Zoom in or come in person, let’s talk about labor in higher ed!
October 30, 2023 at 2:10 AM
I’m hosting first in a series of talks on Labor in Higher Ed at Temple, Tuesday, October 31st. Bryan Sacks from Rutgers AAUP will be speaking. Zoom in or come in person, let’s talk about labor in higher ed!