Reposted by Aaron WistarAaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Looking forward to learning the six laws that all historical processes obey 221
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026An 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 021
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Looking forward to learning the six laws that all historical processes obey 221
Reposted by Aaron WistarAngela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I just think women should be able to get educations without a constant threat of sexual violence. 91380206
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...nytimes.comHow Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal TaxesMeta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky. 000
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Meta doing some innovative, experimental tax avoidance 100
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026www.nybooks.com/articles/202...nybooks.comCan Resistance Be Copied? | Rachel NolanFrom 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 000
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026An Egyptian revolutionary: (via Rachel Nolan's review of Vincent Bevins in @nybooks.com) 100
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Unnamed literary agent in @thedriftmag.com's anonymous AI confessional. (love this format.) 011236
Reposted by Aaron WistarThe Drift @thedriftmag.com · 14/09/2026Read Issue Eighteen Mentions from @izzyampil.bsky.social, @madeleineebaker.bsky.social, @juliangeorge-abhf.bsky.social, @aaronwistar.bsky.social, and more. www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...thedriftmag.comIssue 18 MentionsExtremely 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... 132
Reposted by Aaron WistarBeacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This 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/xwurW7yyoutube.com“A Protest History of the United States” with Gloria J. Browne-Marshall | Book ItThis 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… 054
Reposted by Aaron WistarPenn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Happy 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/4r4YTjWbit.lyWork, Capitalism, and Democracy – Penn PressA 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... 075
Reposted by Aaron WistarAaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Nice review of William Whyte's THE UNIVERSITY: A HISTORY IN STONE, SILK, AND BLOOD in @chronicle.com 111
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026www.chronicle.com/article/how-...chronicle.comHow the University Constructed ItselfA history of higher education, in buildings. 000
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Nice review of William Whyte's THE UNIVERSITY: A HISTORY IN STONE, SILK, AND BLOOD in @chronicle.com 111
Reposted by Aaron WistarAaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026On vacation in South Carolina and had an extraordinarily vivid dream that I got this tattooed on my shoulder. 001
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026On vacation in South Carolina and had an extraordinarily vivid dream that I got this tattooed on my shoulder. 001
Reposted by Aaron WistarAaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Breaking: new NYT investigation uncovers that Mamdani likes sports, seems fun. 031
Reposted by Aaron WistarErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026It's hard to square "it's wasn't racist" with the breathtaking and distinct callousness that's everywhere in response to this death. 2677
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Breaking: new NYT investigation uncovers that Mamdani likes sports, seems fun. 031
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Pass by this amazing building every morning. Sacred Heart Church in Waltham, designed by Aldo A. Minotti, 1964 010
Reposted by Aaron WistarMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/08/2026and I wrote about this: newrepublic.com/article/2143... 0402109
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026thebaffler.com/latest/its-a...thebaffler.comIt’s a Third World After All | Alex Bronzini-VenderThe right claims wokeness is dead. In its place, Third Worldism rises. 000
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026How 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 110
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026thebaffler.com/latest/its-a...thebaffler.comIt’s a Third World After All | Alex Bronzini-VenderThe right claims wokeness is dead. In its place, Third Worldism rises. 000
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Great 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. 154
Reposted by Aaron WistarAaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026A perfect gift for the freeloaders and malingerers in your life 001
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026A perfect gift for the freeloaders and malingerers in your life 001
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Visited 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. 000
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Finally someone is speaking up for vulnerable men living in their mom’s pied-à-terre because their girlfriends are too depressing 000
Reposted by Aaron WistarMarcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Heaven 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. 7323
Reposted by Aaron WistarAaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Forget white boy summer it’s 042
Reposted by Aaron WistarEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Happy UK paperback release day to our book! www.penguin.co.uk/books/468070... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social 623355
Reposted by Aaron WistarLauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Which 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 >> 2141
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Especially true of historians. Precious few willing to consider that the course of history was fiercely contested—and hardly inevitable. 000
Reposted by Aaron WistarJson Momoa @jotatx.eurosky.social · 18/07/2026Add this book to your wishlist, we will need it in the near future when we rebuild 1286
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026prospect.org/2026/07/16/h...prospect.orgHow Donald Trump Created the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak This Century - The American ProspectThe ‘MAHA Trots’ are what happens when Republicans implement their anti-government agenda. 000
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026One possible cause of the cyclosporiasis outbreak from @prospect.org 100
Reposted by Aaron WistarJorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 14/11/2024We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea 14675721702
Reposted by Aaron WistarAaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I’m not scared to say it: Every adjunct professor should have to pass their GED BEFORE cashing their $79.95 paycheck. 331
Reposted by Aaron WistarClaire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 16/07/2026If any twins who play roller derby follow me, I think you should call yourselves Scary Kate and Slashley. Ok thank you for your consideration 1499
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I’m not scared to say it: Every adjunct professor should have to pass their GED BEFORE cashing their $79.95 paycheck. 331
Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026New 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! 193
Reposted by Aaron WistarAaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Some 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 011