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Corey Payne @coreypayne.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

You can read more about it here open.substack.com/pub/coreypay...

Corey Payne @coreypayne.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The ink is dry on the contract, and I’m excited that my book, *Making Endless War*, will be published sometime next year by Stanford University Press. It is, unfortunately, still as timely as when I started working on it a decade ago.

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Corey Payne @coreypayne.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Decided to join the Substack party. Check out my first post on Trump, Iran, and Americans' quasi-anti-war sentiments. open.substack.com/pub/coreypay...

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Corey Payne @coreypayne.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

"We're leveling Gaza to build hotels" "We're bombing Nigeria to please our base" "We're invading Venezuela for oil" Of course, these have long been unspoken factors in US wars. But Trump's honesty is no more comforting than his predecessors' lies. Waking up in this empire still sickens the stomach.

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Corey Payne @coreypayne.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

My "Making America's Wars" class today read @attackerman.bsky.social on Trump, & then examined "Salaam," a song written by a rapper named @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. They discussed how the War on Terror certainly drove nativism, but also how it might now drive an alternative universalist politics.

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Corey Payne @coreypayne.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

From the Costs of War Project

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Corey Payne @coreypayne.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

On a more granular level, the activities which propelled world-magnates to extraordinary wealth and power were often eclectic, and involved various institutional forms and labor arrangements. Contra some expectations, free wage labor was not a prerequisite of innovation or extraordinary profits.

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Corey Payne @coreypayne.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Historically, manufacturing was a minor sector for world-magnates and, even as it boomed in the 19th century, other sectors such as extraction grew as well. Meanwhile trade and finance—capital's most flexible forms—were major areas of extraordinary accumulation across time.

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Corey Payne @coreypayne.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The geographical distribution of world-magnates over time follows some expectations, but with some interesting new insights. For example, we find the Low Countries were far less dominant in the 17th century than we expected.

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Corey Payne @coreypayne.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I have my social theory students make memes. They never disappoint. (Thanks due to @stschrader1.bsky.social, from whom I stole this assignment)

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Corey Payne @coreypayne.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Is there a more apt manifestation of imperial decay than using emojis to plan the deaths of 53 people? Every day a new synthesis of tragedy and farce.

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Corey Payne @coreypayne.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Statement from @aaup.bsky.social president Todd Wolfson on Columbia's cowardice is spot on www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...

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Corey Payne @coreypayne.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Penny has really been enjoying @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social's *Blue Collar Empire* (and so have I!)

A cat sitting on a lap looking at an open book

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Corey Payne @coreypayne.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

My Burawoy story: Last spring in Trinidad, while the rest of us were enjoying the beach, Michael spent the whole day under the umbrella on the phone, organizing past ASA presidents to support Sociologists for Palestine. A dedicated, kind, generous man—and an intellectual giant—gone far too soon.

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Corey Payne @coreypayne.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Excited to work with my colleagues at the Arrighi Center for Global Studies to organize an interdisciplinary conference on "Strikes and Social Conflicts in Hostile Environments" in DC this September. Please join us! Deadline for abstract submission is March 1. The theme, in short 👇

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Corey Payne @coreypayne.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Thanks @stschrader1.bsky.social for visiting my 'War and Society' class this week to chat about global counterinsurgency, cops at war, and the police-military continuum. (I forgot to take a picture, so instead here's one of Stuart's book, which you should all read!)

A picture of the book "Badges Without Borders" by Stuart Schrader

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Corey Payne @coreypayne.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

A packed house tonight for a conversation with @susanstryker.bsky.social at the UR Humanities Center!

Susan Stryker in conversation with students at the University of Richmond

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