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Aaron Wistar

@aaronwistar.bsky.social
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Associate Editor, @beaconpress.bsky.social Words in Jacobin, LA Review Of Books, Current Affairs, and elsewhere.

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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
An eternal 2011 reigns in the minds of the pathological optimists in charge of the American landscape. Each new coastal eco-folly reminds us that nobody has yet imagined an appropriate form for the contested commons of the 2020s—let alone the next decade. @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Looking forward to learning the six laws that all historical processes obey
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meta doing some innovative, experimental tax avoidance
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
(c/o Sid Prabhu)
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Doing My Own Research.
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
An Egyptian revolutionary: (via Rachel Nolan's review of Vincent Bevins in @nybooks.com)
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Unnamed literary agent in @thedriftmag.com's anonymous AI confessional. (love this format.)
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Nice review of William Whyte's THE UNIVERSITY: A HISTORY IN STONE, SILK, AND BLOOD in @chronicle.com
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
On vacation in South Carolina and had an extraordinarily vivid dream that I got this tattooed on my shoulder.
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Breaking: new NYT investigation uncovers that Mamdani likes sports, seems fun.
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Pass by this amazing building every morning. Sacred Heart Church in Waltham, designed by Aldo A. Minotti, 1964
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
How much of the “woke 1 / woke 2” shift is the product of right-wing pseudo-intellectuals needing to sell a half-baked periodization for their next book? Or sell a new slogan for homeland empire? @alexbronzini.bsky.social
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Great essay from @vincentbevins.bsky.social on why the “vibe shift” toward anti-wokeness is mostly just ambient awareness of whatever right-wing bullshit Elon’s platforms are churning out.
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A perfect gift for the freeloaders and malingerers in your life
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Woke 1 was crazy
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
high priority cross post
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Visited 19th-century landscape painter Frederic Church’s estate in Hudson NY, and learned his wife Isabel was caught up in the Victorian-era craze "pteridoma-nia" or fern-fever, an obsession with collecting, cultivating and decorating with ferns.
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Finally someone is speaking up for vulnerable men living in their mom’s pied-à-terre because their girlfriends are too depressing
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Forget white boy summer it’s
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
One possible cause of the cyclosporiasis outbreak from @prospect.org
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I’m not scared to say it: Every adjunct professor should have to pass their GED BEFORE cashing their $79.95 paycheck.
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New dads often imagine that they are not biologically “wired” to care for their kids in the same way that moms are. In Dad Brain, @darbysaxbe.bsky.social shows nothing could be further from the truth. An amazing, necessary book!
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
What makes American architecture American? @katewagner.wehwalt.net in @thenation.com
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The two political parties
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s quasi memoir of his parents time in the Weather Underground is fantastic—absolutely worth reading—but Emmett Rensin’s review in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social captures exactly what is wrong with it.
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Sophia Rosenfeld on Richard Bell’s new global history of the American Revolution in @thenation.com
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Great article on why hegemonic decline will not be enough to dethrone the dollar. Moving from sterling to USD in the 1960s required a massive multilateral effort, including Britain itself. Hard to imagine a similar coalition emerging today to move to Euro or RMB. @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
NYT says Democrats fear Darializa Avila Chevalier’s inflammatory tweets, like … “deportations are wrong”
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Bon Voyage to the most Armando Iannucci PM ever to have done it
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Princeton sociologist Dalton Conley “joins the long parade of biological determinists whose work has served to buttress the institutions of their society by exonerating them from responsibility for social problems” (as reviewers of EO Wilson’s Sociobiology put it 50 years ago)
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
You believe these frogs? They’re calling it LIBIDINAL economy
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The North Korean economy is booming, thanks to weapons exports to Russia, among other factors. New housing is going up rapidly in Pyongyang and satellite imagery shows the country now shines roughly three times as bright at night as it did five years ago
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Why supply-side reforms—necessary as they are—don’t address our broader anti-tenant legal regime. @lpeblog.bsky.social
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
A 1927 pitch letter from Paul Revere Reynolds, the first American literary agent. In its entirety. Agents have come a long way.
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Tim Barker evaluating Samuel Huntington’s argument that “The United States is unlikely to decline so long as its public is periodically convinced that it is about to decline.”
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
US overreach with sanctions and tariffs has pushed its adversaries into hardening their own financial systems, accelerated the development of substitutes for American products, and forced its allies into self-sacrificial choices while offering them nothing in return. @quinnslobodian.com
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
As the spammers who impersonate me get darker and more threatening, the spammers who spam me are getting friendlier and friendlier
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Scammers have been impersonating me—please don’t take the bait!
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Might have to start ending all my emails like this
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Got my first impersonator—apparently targeting self-published fiction authors. Please note this is not me!
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Tech workers have more power than they realize when it comes to stopping AI use for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, says Kate Andrias.
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Tech workers have more power than they realize when it comes to stopping AI use for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, says Kate Andrias.
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
🫡
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Indie bookstores making a comeback
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
If job openings are at a “five-year low,” how do you explain this???
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
One of the benefits of working at a nonprofit publisher is that we have the wherewithal to keep publishing heavyweight nonfiction without chasing immediate market trends. If you are hearing this from big commercial publishers,I humbly suggest you send your proposal to me.
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Great anecdote from Duval’s Native Nations
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Employee stock ownership plans sound great; in practice, they often foist assets of dubious future value on workers in exchange for immediate concessions on wages and conditions. Great piece from Francis Northwood in @thedriftmag.com
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Great symposium on the profession that does not exist from @thebaffler.com
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
“I don’t want to be a fraud. I don’t want to die. Those shouldn’t be the only two options” — a food service worker on the cruelty of means testing, from Maia Silber, @thedriftmag.com
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