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Samuel Earle

@swajcmanearle.bsky.social
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Writer + PhDing at Columbia Journalism School Author of Tory Nation (Simon & Schuster 2023), words all over the place Email: s.wajcman.earle[at]gmail.com

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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My fav detail is that Steve Hilton married into the family that gave us the Institute for Economic Affairs, the Manhattan Institute and the Atlas Network, and that used to have Hayek and Friedman over for dinner. It's very @quinnslobodian.com coded - on the neolib --> populism pipeline
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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
How has the nature of political influence changed? What are the implications for journalism? And what can the left learn from the right’s success? Kim Phillips-Fein & @swajcmanearle.bsky.social join @emilybell.bsky.social & Heather Chaplin on Journalism 2050. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I spent a lot of time reading US government records documenting the torture of prisoners in US military prisons and CIA black sites, so I'm relatively inured to this kind of thing, but the accounts in this @nickkristof.bsky.social story are truly sickening. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...
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Opinion | The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/05/2026
Britain’s visceral dislike of Keir Starmer illuminates a problem for his successor | Samuel Earle
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Britain’s visceral dislike of Keir Starmer illuminates a problem for his successor | Samuel Earle
There are many good reasons to not like the prime minister. But ours is an age in which hatred is a remarkably popular currency – leaders need a strategy for countering it, says author Samuel Earle
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Some more thoughts on Starmer and the hatewave he's unleashed www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain’s visceral dislike of Keir Starmer illuminates a problem for his successor | Samuel Earle
There are many good reasons to not like the prime minister. But ours is an age in which hatred is a remarkably popular currency – leaders need a strategy for countering it, says author Samuel Earle
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I'm in here with an essay on Walter Lippmann - Manhattan Zeus, Sage of Washington, monument to a lost media world www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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The Sage of Washington | Samuel Earle
Walter Lippmann was the most influential political commentator of his generation, but behind his preternatural confidence was a far more complicated and unsettled character.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026
relentless poll chasing + contempt for your political base + a total absence of principle or vision = political disaster www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...
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Opinion | Democrats Should Pay Attention to Keir Starmer’s Fall
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Todays NYT holds up Starmer’s miserable premiership as a warning to Democrats. Hope they heed. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
"Building associations across the country, including mine, have banned residents from using delivery services for fear the apps will be abused by desperate refugees seeking shelter from the strikes."
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
A very relatable account of news avoidance in the 17th century
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Time to do this for London
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Scott Patrick, PhD @neimanmarxist.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Starmer has one reason to be happy: as he exits the stage in disgrace, Mandelson gives Burnham the kiss of death “I remember Andy Burnham 25 years ago as a good Blairite, therefore I still think he has a lot of potential.”
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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
How the Gawker Trial Was the Gateway to Trump. The Journalism 2050 podcast returns with guests @mariabustillos.com, @marinedoux.bsky.social, and @swajcmanearle.bsky.social, hosted by @emilybell.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/01/2026
At Zohran Mamdani’s block party, I observed a simple truth: people want more politics, not less | Samuel Earle
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At Zohran Mamdani’s block party, I observed a simple truth: people want more politics, not less | Samuel Earle
Years of scandal and disappointment have left a void in our politics. But New York’s new mayor offers an alternative to more apathy: hope, says author Samuel Earle
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I have a piece in today's guardian, a dispatch from a moment of optimism on Jan 1, which now feels a lot longer ago than it did last night www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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At Zohran Mamdani’s block party, I observed a simple truth: people want more politics, not less | Samuel Earle
Years of scandal and disappointment have left a void in our politics. But New York’s new mayor offers an alternative to more apathy: hope, says author Samuel Earle
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
"What a year for the ultra wealthy. The world’s 500 richest people added a record $2.2 trillion to their collective fortunes in 2025’s… booming markets, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. And about a quarter of this year’s gains went to just eight billionaires.” — Bloomberg Morning Brief
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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
We have already had some great episodes of this new #Journalism2050 podcast - this is one of my favorites so far with @jayrosen.bsky.social - the internet that promised so much, what went wrong, and where do we go now
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
A pretty fascinating ad from 1918 for an early PA system: the fascism vibes are strong
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 13/12/2025
And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Chapter 4 in my dissertation from 1986 is "From Crowd to Public." pressthink.org/j/rosen-arch... Here's journalist and PhD candidate, Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social who is working in similar territory, but 39 years later. We asked him to comment: pressthink.org/j/rosen-arch... 3/
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
maybe this was the plan all along
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
yep, and a successful one - at least for now (let's see how the spurs fans respond..)
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
me, seeing the headline: hmm, that's a strange & counterintuitive take me, seeing the author: ah
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Claire Fox, chairing a 'debate' on populism at the Battle of Ideas, apologises: "This wasn't intended as a Reform rally." Oops
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Blackout to Help Out
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
America's answer to Zac Polanski - what a success story
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Ann Coulter NOT a fan of me - though unclear what she made of the piece www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Thanks, Charlie - happy it found you!
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This is great. Come for the Farage profile, stay for the drive-by on the PM. "Labour’s dour and directionless year in power, defined by a centrism of the blandest variety, has led Mr. Starmer’s approval ratings to reach record lows in record time..."
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
My essay on Nigel Farage 2.0, what he learned as Trump's apprentice, and his gleeful forecasts of violence - for @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
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Opinion | The Insidious Joviality of Nigel Farage
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
"This is not the same thing as persuading people that the thing itself matters: they usually know it does. The task is to persuade people that they matter: they know they usually don’t." haven't seen it said better than @alybatt.bsky.social says it here
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
great episode
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I did wonder if Marshall was one character too many! All very disconcerting. Great piece
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
At the Washington launch, with Farage and lots of MAGA people there, Paul Marshall said: “We need you to come and save us" (3/3)
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
When Farage then appeared at the House Judiciary Committee, "orchestrated by the ADF", GB News timed their US launch to coincide with it (Farage even wore a GB News lapel, turning the entire thing into an advert) 2/3
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Paul Marshall and GB News aren't mentioned in this but their involvement is key - look where the meeting between Farage, the anti-abortion group (ADF) and Trump's team happened: Marshall's private member's club at UnHerd (1/3)
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and ideas that have led to mass shootings." Banger from @embits.bsky.social
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 09/09/2025
Extract from Financial Times profile of Peter Mandelson: 


We are on our way north, on a high-speed Avanti train, when I ask Mandelson about his relationship with Epstein. “I regret ever meeting him or being introduced to him by his partner Ghislaine Maxwell,” he says. “I regret even more the hurt he caused to many young women.” An icy chill descends in Carriage J. “I’m not going to go into this. It’s an FT obsession and frankly you can all fuck off. OK?”
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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It's hard to explain how delusional it is to believe that there is some magic level of anti-migrant policy that this government can hit that will somehow neutralise this issue.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.
Headline: BBC under pressure to pull Sally Rooney dramas over vow to fund Palestine Action Headline: Tory minister Robert Jenrick pictured with former Nazi terror chief at far right protest.
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Further evidence for the giant void at the heart of Keir Starmer - from @trillingual.bsky.social's long read www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
“It’s clear what Farage gets from this – the good graces of a US president who wants to be king and prizes sycophancy in his court above all – but the benefits to UK voters are naught” V good on the US-lite con that is Reform and its idiotic policies of prejudice www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Will Nigel Farage’s attempt to copy and paste Trump’s policies work in the UK? | Samuel Earle
The Reform leader is trying to import Doge’s cuts to spending and ‘DEI’. It’s clear what he gets out of it – not so much the British voter, says author Samuel Earle
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Samuel Earle @swajcmanearle.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
"Rhetorically, this was among the less-remarked gifts of this campaign: to see and speak to working people in both the bonds of universality and with the dignity of specificity." A great (and even euphoric) essay on Mamdani
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