Marc Palen
@mwpalen.bsky.social
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Historian. Editor, The Imperial & Global Forum. Author, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691199320/pax-economica. New Yorker “Best Books” list 2024. Financial Times “Best Books of 2024.”
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Wow! My book, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World (@princetonupress.bsky.social), has just been named one of the 'best books of 2024' by @financialtimes.com. Truly honored to be included.

"This book is an excellent counter to contemporary conventional wisdom."

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Best books of 2024: Economics
Martin Wolf selects his must-read titles
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mwpalen.bsky.social
Pax Economica "unsettles modern orthodoxies...it challenges the tendency to universalize England and the United States, and it invites engagement from scholars working on many different traditions"

- Prof. Mo Moulton, American Historical Review

🙏

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mwpalen.bsky.social
"Pax Economica offers the most detailed, synthetic prosopography of the free trade movement to date....Palen recovers an extensive and truly global network of progressive and socialist activists battling tariffs and imperialism" - Frank Trentmann

🙏

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World. By Marc-William Palen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 328. $35.00 (cloth or e-book). | The Journal of Modern History: Vol ...
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justfara.bsky.social
Original #ANTIFA
He refused to make America cruel.
It was May 1945. Nazi Germany had surrendered, Eisenhower — calm, disciplined, moral in the way that doesn’t shout but simply holds.
He could unite impossible personalities — Patton, Montgomery, Churchill — and make them fight as one, was order.
mwpalen.bsky.social
“For generations, Indigenous peoples freely exchanged goods, knowledge and culture…disrupted by colonial laws that divided families and communities but they are now being reimagined as a modern supply chain grounded in Indigenous law and sovereignty.”
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fisherdanar.bsky.social
Everyone in academia should read this story. I don't know Mark personally but I know his work (wishing him and his family safe passage out of the US)! 👇
dearsarah.bsky.social
Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.
Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats
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soumayakeynes.ft.com
Trump is effectively bullying the UK to pay more for its drugs

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mwpalen.bsky.social
“the European Commission could kick US goods and services out of Europe’s market, or apply tariffs to them. It can strip their intellectual property rights, block their investments and require reparations as a condition of readmittance to Europe’s market.”
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karlgalle.bsky.social
Through Oct. 31st, @princetonupress.bsky.social has a 70% off sale on a wide range of titles -- Susan Dackerman on Albrecht Dürer, Judith Herrin on Ravenna, Jed Buchwald & Diane Greco Josefowicz on the Rosetta stone, James Costa on Alfred Russel Wallace, and more: press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off
Book cover for Susan Dackerman, Dürer's Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East. Book cover for Judith Herrin, Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe. Book cover for Jed Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Book cover for James Costa, Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace.
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jdportes.bsky.social
In fact this *understates* the point here.

Tory policy is not (just) to remove benefits but to remove ILR and deport, exactly like the Farage plan the PM correctly described as racist.
nisreenalwan.bsky.social
“Another part of the plan would limit benefits to people with UK citizenship, removing it even from those who have been in the country for years or even decades and have indefinite leave to remain”

If this is not xenophobia then I don’t know what is.
Sickening.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tories say people denied benefits in UK can return to home countries
Mel Stride outlines plans to slash £47bn a year from public spending, including £23bn welfare cut
www.theguardian.com
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davidwearing.bsky.social
ICE is the Sturmabteilung of Trumpian fascism, characterised by racial profiling, flagrant lawlessness, and sadistic violence. The fact that Badenoch wants that for us is a shocking illustration of just how extreme and sinister her politics are.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice
Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration
www.theguardian.com
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annacusack.bsky.social
If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!
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jacobtlevy.bsky.social
Very possibly no political official in history has made so much corrupt money at a pace like this. Mobutu and Marcos looted a greater share of their countries’ wealth over decades but in absolute terms and in speed, Trump shamelessly puts them to shame.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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williamgmoseley.bsky.social
This is part 2 of a conversation I had w/ Million Belay of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa on my recent book: "Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology & the Need for Radical Transformation."
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The Battle for African Agriculture Podcast || Episode 7 William G Mosley (Part 2)
YouTube video by Battle For African Agriculture Podcast
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bostonreview.bsky.social
“These memos are not difficult to draft; a competent law student could write one. It wouldn’t be compelling as a matter of law—in fact, it would be legal drivel—but it’s not meant to be compelling. It’s meant to establish conclusively the appearance of lawfulness.”

Joseph Margulies:
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jfallows.bsky.social
We have spent a lot of time talking w South Dakota farmers over the past decade.

What has happened to the US soybean-growing business is comparable to Great Depression. Black Plague, etc.

By "what has happened," I mean "what Trump did to them," with these idiotic tariffs.
factpostnews.bsky.social
Soybean farmer: Our entire cost structure has increased, but our revenue has decreased. It's quite challenging. It's a bloodbath
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jamellebouie.net
great piece from the always-great @pastpunditry.bsky.social and a welcome antidote to vacuous commentators whose historical memories seem to go back no further than the first iron man movie
Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left
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