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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
@daniel_dsj2110
Assistant Professor in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University; Running interview series @thenation; Views are my own—RTs ≠ endorsements
New York, New York
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    Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
    @daniel_dsj2110
    Dec 30, 2022
    Bertrand Russell: “The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich”:
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    Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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    Nov 18, 2020
    Obama on his how his discovery of Marx and Foucault in college became inseparable from “a strategy for picking up girls”:
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    Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
    @daniel_dsj2110
    Feb 6, 2025
    In class, I asked the students, why the resistance to Trump has been underwhelming this time, and one interestingly said because a chunk of it was brutally put down last spring on college campuses during the Biden admin. Def generated discussion.
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    Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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    Sep 24, 2023
    Benedict Anderson’s, “Imagined Communities,” was published 40 years ago in 1983. Given the current times, a bit surprising that not much has been written, as far as I know, on the fortieth anniversary of the book.
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    Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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    Nov 6, 2024
    For liberals, it is easier to blame “fascism” (or “white rural rage,” or “deplorables,” or “Christian nationalists”) for causing our country’s problems than the deregulatory, financialized, and militarist neoliberalism of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Those liberal priorities
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    Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
    @daniel_dsj2110
    Dec 1, 2020
    Obama’s immediate guess as to the circumstances of Henry Louis Gates being arrested for attempting to enter his home own in July 2009:
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    Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
    @daniel_dsj2110
    Mar 25, 2025
    Rashid Khalidi: Columbia University is now “Vichy on the Hudson.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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    Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
    @daniel_dsj2110
    Jul 3, 2023
    The cover to Judith Butler’s forthcoming book. Also a summary: us.macmillan.com/books/97803746…
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    Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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    Apr 27, 2022
    Greg Grandin: “Clinton was Reagan’s greatest achievement. He carried forward the Republican agenda by combining a postindustrial fatalism with a folksy postmodern optimism, offering sunny bromides touting the “politics of inclusion” that endless growth would make possible.”
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    Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
    @daniel_dsj2110
    Apr 7, 2024
    The other reason for why Sartre’s existentialism became a fad during a War economy: Being and Nothingness was large enough to substitute for copper weights: theguardian.com/books/2018/jul…
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    Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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    Dec 15, 2024
    Judith Butler’s response to being asked if identify politics lost Democrats the election: english.elpais.com/culture/2024-1…
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    Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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    Jul 6, 2024
    What a rich book:
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    Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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    Sep 21, 2024
    Forthcoming from Quinn Slobodian: “Following Hayek’s bastards from Murray Rothbard to Charles Murray to Javier Milei, we find that key strains of the Far Right emerged within the neoliberal intellectual movement not against it. What has been reported as an ideological backlash
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    Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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    Dec 31, 2024
    Books I’m looking forward to in 2025 1. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747326/a…
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