i love reading 20th century postwar history
imagining a 1970s leftist convinced that Watergate was a plot by Washington to end detente
October 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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See also the emphasis by the likes of Blinken and McGurk and Sullivan on the technocratic elements of a postwar administration of Gaza. No political elements, only the technocratic colonial administrative method.
October 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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New post just out:
"Never again?"
On how the radical right are trying to change our collective memory about World War Two as part of their assault on the postwar order.
And why that memory remains a critical defence against nationalism.
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"Never again?"
On how the radical right are trying to change our collective memory about World War Two as part of their assault on the postwar order.
And why that memory remains a critical defence against nationalism.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/n...
Never again?
Memory entrepreneurship and the radical right’s assault on the postwar order
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October 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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They realise *just fine*, but as with Reform here, this is about unpicking and rolling back the postwar gains for working people, and to get people to vote against their interests it is necessary to divide and appeal to emotion.
October 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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"The postwar firewall between far-right & mainstream policy-making has eroded. A host of far-right ideas and policies have come tumbling through the breach."
@kenanmalik.bsky.social on the ethnonationalist radicalisation of the Conservative Party & much of UK media.
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@kenanmalik.bsky.social on the ethnonationalist radicalisation of the Conservative Party & much of UK media.
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Expelling legal migrants is a move straight from the Idi ...
Katie Lam’s plan for expulsions opens the door to curtailing the rights of us all
observer.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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A rare direct meeting between Fatah and Hamas took place yesterday in Cairo on formulating a unified Palestinian position towards the postwar government of Gaza
Egypt hosts Hamas, Fatah to broker united Palestinian response to Gaza s future
Palestinian movements Hamas and Fatah met in Cairo to discuss how Gaza will be governed as part of a transitional phase as it emerges from Israel's war.
www.newarab.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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French Postwar Contemporary artist Marguerite Bordet
The invisible, 1968
#31DaysofHalloween #ContemporaryArt
The invisible, 1968
#31DaysofHalloween #ContemporaryArt
October 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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That picture above was taken at noon.
This event was one of the most important toxic events in the postwar period that sparked the rise of the environmental movement and groundbreaking legislation to protect Americans from the worst impacts of industrialization.
This event was one of the most important toxic events in the postwar period that sparked the rise of the environmental movement and groundbreaking legislation to protect Americans from the worst impacts of industrialization.
October 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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All the reporting indicates that the Saudis, UAE, Jordan and Evypt are all conditioning participation in the postwar stabilization of Gaza on the formation of a completely independent Palestinian-led technocratic committee with PA oversight. Qatar and Turkey are not conditioning this, though.
October 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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That early postwar moral clarity hits different
October 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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He was a critic before he was a director, an angry young man who denounced his peers for being too cosy.
Born in 1945, Wim Wenders has spent six decades grappling with Germany’s collective postwar amnesia:
Born in 1945, Wim Wenders has spent six decades grappling with Germany’s collective postwar amnesia:
Postwar man: Wim Wenders at 80
The great director was born in Düsseldorf in 1945. He and his films are as perceptive as ever in 2025
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Few people know that Douglas Percy Bliss painted me at Over Place, Lambeth, in 1919-20. The spot in today's Black Prince Rd is at right.
October 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Barcelona this week! Today at @politiquesupf.bsky.social (IPA) I’m presenting joint work with Alejandro López Peceño and @eliasdinas.bsky.social on how Civil War refugees mobilized the left in postwar France. Next Thursday @ IBEI JCPOP: career incentives vs. ideology in Fascist Italy’s surveillance.
October 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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TWICE AS DEAD is out in trade paperback, if you don't want to pay hardcover prices. A noirish postwar urban fantasy, featuring a hard-drinking private eye, vampires, zombies, corrupt cops, and the Central Avenue jazz scene.
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Twice as Dead (City of Shadows)
Twice as Dead (City of Shadows) [Turtledove, Harry] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Twice as Dead (City of Shadows)
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October 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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This basically squares with the way things were in my dad's era. A huge chunk of the small postwar apartments in California were built by people who weren't professional developers. Things were so simple you could just show up to the desk and get approval.
Interesting new paper compares divergent outcomes of California's ADU reforms, legislation enabling lot-splitting, & San Diego ADU policy.
ADUs successfully attracted investment thanks to ease of use by homeowners; opposite was true for lot-splitting: too complicated for homeowners to undertake.
ADUs successfully attracted investment thanks to ease of use by homeowners; opposite was true for lot-splitting: too complicated for homeowners to undertake.
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October 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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The city that once defined postwar prosperity — where wide streets, endless subdivisions, and freeways to the horizon promised a future of limitless growth — has been dealing with a $1 billion budget shortfall.
But the story here isn’t about a bad year. It’s about a bad model.
But the story here isn’t about a bad year. It’s about a bad model.
October 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Perhaps when one takes on a broader viewpoint of the entire situation: the only permanentized military occupation on Earth in which the state totally disclaims responsibility for the occupied, also the state is racially self-defined, also it's the precious love child of postwar Western hegemony,
October 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Snakeskin is still my favorite postwar mechsploitation story and it's still not even close
SNAKESKIN
"A few hours in the life of a (mostly) rehabilitated hound, years after the end of the war."
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Bumping my first jam story because 1) I'm proud of it, and 2) it's gotten more kudos for an older piece lately, so seemed like a good time to give it a push!
"A few hours in the life of a (mostly) rehabilitated hound, years after the end of the war."
archiveofourown.org/collections/...
Bumping my first jam story because 1) I'm proud of it, and 2) it's gotten more kudos for an older piece lately, so seemed like a good time to give it a push!
Snakeskin - RoxyNychus - Original Work [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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October 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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for a while and a) it was rooted in an unprecedented + unmatched since economic boom partly due to US-sponsored postwar reconstruction (which is why it was also fiercely anticommunist), b) it ultimately fell apart both for structural and (geo)political reasons - that's the neoliberal
October 24, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Lizabeth Cohen's book The Consumer Republic is a great treatment of this development. She argues that postwar economic policy and suburbanization led to personal consumption becoming central to social identity and status. Been thinking about that book a lot lately.
October 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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A beautiful, melancholy character sketch of Lorenz Hart (lyricist who worked with Richard Rogers before Oscar Hammerstein) on the night of the Oklahoma! premier. At a moment of historical rupture, between interwar period and postwar, a moment also heralding change for music theater. Nostalgia
October 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Thomas Pynchon's body of work "is among the most unified in postwar American fiction." In SHADOW TICKET, his signature paranoia turns more despairing.
A preview from our forthcoming winter issue: Richard Beck on Thomas Pynchon.
A preview from our forthcoming winter issue: Richard Beck on Thomas Pynchon.
October 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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• The bankruptcy of the state that Syria's post-Assad leadership has now inherited, with almost no resources for postwar recovery;
• Congress's potential inability or unwillingness to remove sanctions originally imposed on a government that doesn't even exist anymore.
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• Congress's potential inability or unwillingness to remove sanctions originally imposed on a government that doesn't even exist anymore.
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October 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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COMMENTARY: Coalition and negotiations — these were the two words Germany’s postwar democracy was based on.
Now, Chancellor Friedrich Merz needs to clearly demonstrate that all isn’t lost for the painstaking politics of reason.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/germ...
Now, Chancellor Friedrich Merz needs to clearly demonstrate that all isn’t lost for the painstaking politics of reason.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/germ...
October 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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