Aaron Wistar
@aaronwistar.bsky.social
Associate Editor, @beaconpress.bsky.social
Words in Jacobin, LA Review Of Books, Current Affairs, and elsewhere.
Words in Jacobin, LA Review Of Books, Current Affairs, and elsewhere.
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Aaron Wistar
@aaronwistar.bsky.social
· Sep 8
Happy to announce that I’ve joined the amazing team at @beaconpress.bsky.social as Associate Editor. Starting today, I’ll be acquiring in history, political economy, parenting, and urban studies.
Send me your book proposals!
Send me your book proposals!
Big Jim McClain (1952), in which John Wayne stars as a HUAC investigator hunting down communists among labor unions in postwar Hawaii.
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Big Jim McClain (1952), in which John Wayne stars as a HUAC investigator hunting down communists among labor unions in postwar Hawaii.
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"When ‘reformism’ judges change,it makes change impossible:it denies the contradictions and undermines comprehension of them by the working class and undermines the potential of the working class for transformative activity."
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"When ‘reformism’ judges change,it makes change impossible:it denies the contradictions and undermines comprehension of them by the working class and undermines the potential of the working class for transformative activity."
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The year is 2031. ShamWow guy and My Pillow guy trade barbs in the Republican primary as the Newsmax moderator struggles to get a word in edgewise. The team at Pence-Harris HQ is getting nervous…
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The year is 2031. ShamWow guy and My Pillow guy trade barbs in the Republican primary as the Newsmax moderator struggles to get a word in edgewise. The team at Pence-Harris HQ is getting nervous…
The year is 2031. ShamWow guy and My Pillow guy trade barbs in the Republican primary as the Newsmax moderator struggles to get a word in edgewise. The team at Pence-Harris HQ is getting nervous…
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The year is 2031. ShamWow guy and My Pillow guy trade barbs in the Republican primary as the Newsmax moderator struggles to get a word in edgewise. The team at Pence-Harris HQ is getting nervous…
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Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place
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Ruining great art with the nano banana pro command “Make this much more cheerful with as few changes as possible”
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Ruining great art with the nano banana pro command “Make this much more cheerful with as few changes as possible”
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After dutifully listening to the soundtrack of k-pop demon hunters every day for six months, I think it’s time to switch gears. Tonight I will be showing my kids DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE, so we can listen to Bruce’s intimate classic NEBRASKA every day for the next six.
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
After dutifully listening to the soundtrack of k-pop demon hunters every day for six months, I think it’s time to switch gears. Tonight I will be showing my kids DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE, so we can listen to Bruce’s intimate classic NEBRASKA every day for the next six.
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Leave it to David Fucking Brooks to bothsides the Epstein Files. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | The Epstein Story? Count Me Out.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Leave it to David Fucking Brooks to bothsides the Epstein Files. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
After dutifully listening to the soundtrack of k-pop demon hunters every day for six months, I think it’s time to switch gears. Tonight I will be showing my kids DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE, so we can listen to Bruce’s intimate classic NEBRASKA every day for the next six.
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
After dutifully listening to the soundtrack of k-pop demon hunters every day for six months, I think it’s time to switch gears. Tonight I will be showing my kids DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE, so we can listen to Bruce’s intimate classic NEBRASKA every day for the next six.
In an email to Summers in December 2018, Epstein volunteered that Trump was “borderline insane,” compared to Dershowitz, who was “a few feet further from the border but not by much.”
thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…
thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
In an email to Summers in December 2018, Epstein volunteered that Trump was “borderline insane,” compared to Dershowitz, who was “a few feet further from the border but not by much.”
thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…
thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…
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Great news everybody
November 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Great news everybody
Great news everybody
November 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Great news everybody
So glad to see the rest of the world catching up with Naomi Klein and @claudia-sahm.bsky.social
In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
So glad to see the rest of the world catching up with Naomi Klein and @claudia-sahm.bsky.social
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In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
Reposted by Aaron Wistar
This lede is an entire article on its own. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This lede is an entire article on its own. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
If the California Ideology grew out of the collision of the computer industry and the counterculture, the Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity. @fredturner.bsky.social
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
The Texan Ideology | Fred Turner
The Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity.
thebaffler.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
If the California Ideology grew out of the collision of the computer industry and the counterculture, the Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity. @fredturner.bsky.social
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
With declining birth rates slowly depopulating rich northern countries and climate change making poorer southern countries increasingly uninhabitable, the 21st century will likely see the biggest global movement of peoples in history. @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
With declining birth rates slowly depopulating rich northern countries and climate change making poorer southern countries increasingly uninhabitable, the 21st century will likely see the biggest global movement of peoples in history. @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Abundance is the solution du jour: more homes, more energy, more cures, more construction. But here’s the thing: the US, of all places, doesn’t need more. —Brett Christophers in @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Abundance is the solution du jour: more homes, more energy, more cures, more construction. But here’s the thing: the US, of all places, doesn’t need more. —Brett Christophers in @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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This will be the first book in English on Jean-Pierre Boyer’s presidency and his coerced agreement to pay a massive, unprecedented indemnity to France—reparations paid to enslavers (and their banks) after the world’s first successful slave revolt. Very excited to work on it.
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This will be the first book in English on Jean-Pierre Boyer’s presidency and his coerced agreement to pay a massive, unprecedented indemnity to France—reparations paid to enslavers (and their banks) after the world’s first successful slave revolt. Very excited to work on it.
This will be the first book in English on Jean-Pierre Boyer’s presidency and his coerced agreement to pay a massive, unprecedented indemnity to France—reparations paid to enslavers (and their banks) after the world’s first successful slave revolt. Very excited to work on it.
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This will be the first book in English on Jean-Pierre Boyer’s presidency and his coerced agreement to pay a massive, unprecedented indemnity to France—reparations paid to enslavers (and their banks) after the world’s first successful slave revolt. Very excited to work on it.
Reposted by Aaron Wistar
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Meet LARB Publishing Workshop Alumni @aaronwistar.bsky.social , Associate Editor Beacon Press! Applications for the 2026 Publishing Workshop open Jan 1. #publishing #publishingworkshop
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Meet LARB Publishing Workshop Alumni @aaronwistar.bsky.social , Associate Editor Beacon Press! Applications for the 2026 Publishing Workshop open Jan 1. #publishing #publishingworkshop
With every Bezos-fueled editorial the tagline reads a little less like a warning and little more like a metal album title.
“Reign in Blood”
“Peace Sells…but Who’s Buying”
“Vulgar Display of Power”
“Democracy Dies in Darkness”
“Reign in Blood”
“Peace Sells…but Who’s Buying”
“Vulgar Display of Power”
“Democracy Dies in Darkness”
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
With every Bezos-fueled editorial the tagline reads a little less like a warning and little more like a metal album title.
“Reign in Blood”
“Peace Sells…but Who’s Buying”
“Vulgar Display of Power”
“Democracy Dies in Darkness”
“Reign in Blood”
“Peace Sells…but Who’s Buying”
“Vulgar Display of Power”
“Democracy Dies in Darkness”
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Big congrats to Jon White @civilwarjon.bsky.social and Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social and @beaconpress.bsky.social!
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Big congrats to Jon White @civilwarjon.bsky.social and Aaron Wistar @aaronwistar.bsky.social and @beaconpress.bsky.social!