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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
Looking forward to learning the six laws that all historical processes obey
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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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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I just think women should be able to get educations without a constant threat of sexual violence.
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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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
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Can Resistance Be Copied? | Rachel Nolan
From 2010 to 2020, more people crowded onto the streets around the world to protest than at any other time in known history. Starting with what is often
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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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The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 14/09/2026
Read Issue Eighteen Mentions from @izzyampil.bsky.social, @madeleineebaker.bsky.social, @juliangeorge-abhf.bsky.social, @aaronwistar.bsky.social, and more. www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...
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Issue 18 Mentions
Extremely abbreviated reviews by Isabella Cacdac Ampil, Max Arambulo, Madeleine Baker, Elizabeth R. Blackburn, Sascha Cohen, Ariel Courage, Drew Dickerson, Greta Dieck, Ben Gambuzza, Julian George, Dr...
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This Labor Day, let’s never forget that we have the 8-hour workday thanks to years and years of protest. The efforts of this willpower did not happen overnight. buff.ly/xwurW7y
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“A Protest History of the United States” with Gloria J. Browne-Marshall | Book It
This month on Book It… we chat with activist, attorney, author and John Jay College Professor Gloria J. Browne-Marshall about her new book, “A Protest History of the United States”, which chronicles…
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day! WORK, CAPITALISM, AND DEMOCRACY, edited by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, explores the meaning of work, capitalism, and democracy in the past to shed light on the same conflicts today—one of many great Penn Press titles grappling with the history of labor in America bit.ly/4r4YTjW
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Work, Capitalism, and Democracy – Penn Press
A collection of essays exploring the meaning of work, capitalism, and democracy in the past to shed light on the same conflicts todayChanges to the meaning a...
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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 · 31/08/2026
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How the University Constructed Itself
A history of higher education, in buildings.
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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 · 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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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It's hard to square "it's wasn't racist" with the breathtaking and distinct callousness that's everywhere in response to this death.
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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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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/08/2026
and I wrote about this: newrepublic.com/article/2143...
Each time the anti-woke crowd revive themselves, it is not because anything was stolen from them, but because they feel as if someone has challenged their presumed ownership. This is, as ever, an expression of white power, in particular an expression of its fears that it is losing its historical dominance. That is what happened in
2020. It is not complicated, even as it takes on other forms. It is MAGA crowds holding mass-produced signs reading "mass deportations now." It is endless iterations of the same conspiracy theories about non-white usurpers and invaders stealing elections. It is Southern white prosecutors in Scottsboro.
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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It’s a Third World After All | Alex Bronzini-Vender
The right claims wokeness is dead. In its place, Third Worldism rises.
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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 · 14/08/2026
thebaffler.com/latest/its-a...
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It’s a Third World After All | Alex Bronzini-Vender
The right claims wokeness is dead. In its place, Third Worldism rises.
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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
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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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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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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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Heaven help us. Over the past week I have received thirteen different AI-driven scamming emails from fictive people who say they want to feature one or another of my books in reading clubs. I hope no one out there is falling for this kind of thing.
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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 · 29/07/2026
Forget white boy summer it’s
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Happy UK paperback release day to our book! www.penguin.co.uk/books/468070... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social
Image of cover of the UK paperback edition of The AI Con. The background is a blue gradient, with the title in black and white letter press font: THE AI CON How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want. Author names Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna. Blurb quotes: 'You need to read this book' -Brian Eno, 'A powerful antidote to the hype' -Grace Blakeley, 'Truly eye-opening ... indispensable' -Ha-Joon Chang, 'A book to inoculate your mind' -Yanis Varoufakis
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Which campus panic decade are you anti #MeToo/BLMer, 10s post-9/11 patriot, 00s anti PC future billionaire, 90s neocon, 80s anti affirmative action racist, 70s imperialist war hawk, 60s second red scare anticommunist, 50s libertarian, 40s patriotic mother, 30s fundamentalist, 20s >>
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Especially true of historians. Precious few willing to consider that the course of history was fiercely contested—and hardly inevitable.
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Json Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 18/07/2026
Add this book to your wishlist, we will need it in the near future when we rebuild
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Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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How Donald Trump Created the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak This Century - The American Prospect
The ‘MAHA Trots’ are what happens when Republicans implement their anti-government agenda.
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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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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea
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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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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 16/07/2026
If any twins who play roller derby follow me, I think you should call yourselves Scary Kate and Slashley. Ok thank you for your consideration
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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 · 14/07/2026
Some recent titles from the NYT nonfiction bestseller list: - All-American Patriotism - The Case for America - Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World - America, USA
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