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Bonnie Honig

@bonniehonig.bsky.social
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PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic. 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind), and 2025 International Fellow, British Academy

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 52m
Always read @espiers.bsky.social but especially this: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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My Rape, the Cornell Case—and Why We Need Better Approaches to Teaching How Consent Works
I tried to process the experience of being raped by disassociating. We have to show our kids a better way.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 20h
If this is what I think it is, I love it! Use it so they know we value it.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Beautiful train ride home after a lovely day and half of thinking at the English Institute
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
See below for Very funny lampooning of tv’s takeover by “the Process Genre” as in www.dukeupress.edu/the-process-...
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The Process Genre: Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stunning interview
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Sylvester Stallone Hid His Struggles for Decades. Now He’s Coming Clean.
The legendary actor on his disturbing childhood, his Hollywood missteps and the pain he caused to his loved ones, his body and himself.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great reflection by Simon Critchley on all the new Philosophy jobs out there. It’s because the AI machine is a hoarder. Will it be the task of philosophy to organize an intervention?
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Opinion | The Id, the Ego and the Superintelligence
Artificial intelligence isn’t coming for philosophers’ jobs — it needs philosophers, and always will.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Saw/heard Chad Hollister Band and Sirsy last night and wow! They know how to turn a concert into a party.
Chad Hollister, with singer from Sirsy up on stage, and Primo on lead guitar. Vermont.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“‘When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in… a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master-- that's all.'”
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
SIGH…
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is an excellent book!! My blurb says it all. PLUS 1970s feminism made new! No I do not personally know the author. I was just fortunate to be able to read the book and now to be sharing it with all of you. Highly recommend!
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Arendt said the crime was his refusal to share the world with others: “For the society that executed Eichmann to…each of them in their own way, justifying…saying they were not decision makers, or they were technical staff, or they were building the system and not actually carrying out the killings”
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just cuz he’s dead doesn’t mean they can’t kill him again
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What really want is a pepper mill that self-refills. Would trade AI for that in a heartbeat.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rebecca Traister’s amazing documentation of zombie/takeover of locally powered campaign/candidate by ppl who prefer numbers to ppl which is usually, imo, driven by the belief that there are “certainties” to be had (or at least probabilities) tho the only certainty in politics is authenticity matters
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Troy Jackson, the Accidental Candidate
How the Democratic Party is seizing control of his Senate campaign.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Things reported as scandalous, eggheaded, out of touch with regular folks, during Obama’s presidency are now just gosh-darned common sense, useful info: “drivers can achieve greater mileage by doing simple things like making sure their tires are properly inflated, which helps decrease resistance”
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How ‘Hypermilers’ Are Trying to Beat High Gas Prices
Gas prices have risen sharply since the start of the Iran war. Some drivers are using special techniques to maximize their miles per gallon and save at the pump.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This was so far off when I said yes! Now the English Institute is nearly upon us and I think more and more about what is irreversible; and what is wreckage. I am told sign-ups are welcome. And I am looking forward to all the (other!) talks
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The English Institute 83rd Annual Meeting
October 2-3rd, 2026 at Yale University
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good article about the near metamorphosis of a would-be democracy into patrimonialism. But civil society is tough to turn; language slips more easily into new forms, as when the authors say: “He uses his Justice Department to wage personal vendettas and his pardons to indemnify his cronies” “his”?
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Opinion | Trump Has Finally Lost the Plot
It is now apparent that many Americans — probably enough Americans — are determined to live within the truth rather than the lie.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Panic is chaos without direction, affect set free from the discipline of curiosity, debate and accountability” Cui bono? Not us… The sentence re affect freed of location is so fantastic and fit well with the provenance of Pan (source of the term) whose screams could be heard far from their source
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Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in love.
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2026: Time for the Midterms
YouTube video by Hamilton
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
👇👇👇👇
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Read it. It’s about pain and abandonment, government acting like the medical insurance companies to make everyone ultimately operate with no safety net. That the man at the center of this daughter’s story was himself working at a height of 35 feet with no net is just a perfect metaphor for it all
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Opinion | The $15,000 Settlement That Destroyed My Father’s Life
A 35-foot fall didn’t kill Michael Wagner. The nearly 18-year failure of the safety net did. Before he died, he recorded 694 videos explaining how.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In addition to everything else good it does, Macklemore’s transparency also vindicates Kaepernick’s claims about collusion among team and stadium owners. If they’re smart enough to collectivize (he in effect says), we should too …. Too bad for Sheeran he didn’t see it coming. The world is changing
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How many more?
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British Man Pleads Guilty to Drugging and Raping Wife Over 20 Years
The police said that a dozen other men conspired with the husband, who is in his 60s, to abuse the woman in northern England.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I was wondering about this… this is acquisitions behavior. Buy something more or less healthy. Make unreasonable demands. Claim you’re forced to sell/close it because it’s not profitable (you’ve made it unprofitable), pocket the change, walk away, find next target. BUT these are PUBLIC things
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I clicked on NYT article listing worthwhile shows to watch this fall. The second one was 60 Minutes with a Bated breath “let’s see what it will be!” Stopped taking that article seriously…
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Make it make sense: “Mr. Trump’s 50 percent tariffs were themselves partly retaliation for tariffs Canada imposed last year, after Mr. Trump placed levies of up to 50 percent on Canadian steel, aluminum and autos — a move that violated the free trade agreement between the two countries and Mexico”
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Why Carney Isn’t Rushing Back to the Negotiating Table
Canadians back his tough stance on trade with the U.S. An expert says that support gives him little incentive to reopen talks soon.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New book on agonistic abolitionism as a kind of realism for politics. Clear, learned, and honed in the context of prison education practice, by Anna Terwiel.
Book cover of Prison Abolitionist for Realist. Minnesota press. 2026. By Anna Terwiel
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
9 minutes to the Shelton Show 🤞
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What is false and what is missing from publications about US higher education. Pithy, quotable, and correct:
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bill Connolly passed away last February. This is his amazing review of a book that sounds equally amazing. Very timely. I found it on his blog, The Contemporary Condition, which hosted many of us writing about theory and events. It will soon host an APSA plenary panel's reflections on his work
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Mussolini: Parables For Today
By William E. Connolly Author, Resounding Events: Adventures of an Academic from the Working Class M . by Antonio Scurati, translated int...
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So sweet 🍎🍯
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It was amazing!! Paul Giamatti in a miraculous performance and Turturo also magnificent. I think the run is sold out but if you’re in town try try try to get in!!
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm going to see this tonight -- it looks amazing -- and will report back
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Rhinoceros at A.R.T.
Everything seems normal… until it's not.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The last show I saw before covid was officially declared a fatal airborne virus the next day.
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The Most Enduring Piece of 9/11 Art? A Musical Set in Canada.
“Come From Away,” about a remote Newfoundland community that embraced grounded travelers, is playing all over the world — even in the town where it takes place.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Me too! Final final final. Then fnl. Then dates then FINAL Plus — click through to watch draft writer And final copy duke it out.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Perfect. No notes
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“lawyers for the president wrote that ‘just seven years ago, the Center named a substantial portion of its grounds, ‘The REACH,’ without a semblance of protest. Nobody had any idea what it even meant.’” Ahem; it’s “an acronym: Renew, Experience, Activate, Create and Honor” the reporter … reports
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Kennedy Center Begins Removing Outdoor ‘Blue’ Sculpture
The towering artwork, added to the campus in 2019, was targeted for elimination after President Trump’s takeover of the center.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yay. Markey!!!! I know. No surprise. But looks like it might be by a LOT. Which is awesome and means people do know “younger” does not equal “progressive”
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How can anyone in goood conscience worry(!) that the fertility rate (ie pregnancy) for girls/women at 15-19 is ….down ??
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
:)
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Do not batch ballots? I mean this is hole situation is reprehensible. But might that help? I keep hearing Alito from the Dobbs decisions saying women are not without power to change abortion laws — and then everything since has favored getting rid of that power. How he must have smirked penning that
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Does NPR/Boston Public Radio think it’s OK to play&re-play story today on primary voting day in Boston & as that story incl’s interview w/ a Moulton voter listing 5 reasons to vote FOR Moulton &then repeat one staple criticism about Markey? W/ NO pro Markey view stated? It sounds like a Moulton ad!
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Dems should show discontented condo owners/resort members who invested in living in his buildings to testify to the brokenness of everything he built before and show the continuities with now…
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Progressive Mass @progressivemass.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The primary is next Tuesday! Check out all of our endorsements here. #mapoli www.progressivemass.com/our-2026-can...
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
But we are ALL directly harmed by the project! “The justices said the preservationists who challenged the construction of the planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom did not have legal grounds known as standing to bring their lawsuit because they were not directly harmed by the project”
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Trump Live Updates: G20 Summit Begins; U.S. and Iran Exchange Attacks as War Continues
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If Clyburn wants expansion it’s already viable. If he wants 13 though, we should push for 21 or more. De-cult the Court so that no one knows their names… (sorry that this lands on KBJ’s time since she deserves all the hero worship we can muster…and this is a way to solve a problem that is not hers)
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A beautiful, reflective, informative, essay about teaching under austerity by @johannawinant.bsky.social
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The Claims of Close Reading
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It would be kind of funny to have everyone send Legos to the White House…..
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