Arash Davari
@arashdavar.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Dept of Political Science, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Political Theory, Revolution, Iran
Political Theory, Revolution, Iran
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One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad is very much worth your time.
June 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad is very much worth your time.
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Rather than doing space fascism the Imperium should try running a mixed economy social democratic welfare state.
May 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Rather than doing space fascism the Imperium should try running a mixed economy social democratic welfare state.
13 years late, I read Toni Morrison's Home, and then this awful review by @davidulin.bsky.social ---so awful it teaches what the book's about: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Review: 'Home' by Toni Morrison feels distant
This is not among her best works. The novel about Korean War veteran Frank doesn't seem to engage even its author.
www.latimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
13 years late, I read Toni Morrison's Home, and then this awful review by @davidulin.bsky.social ---so awful it teaches what the book's about: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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American-Moroccan scholar @HishamAidi traces #Morocco’s role in Afro-Arab solidarity—first via the #Fanon-inspired Souffles publication (1966-72), then through the Afro-Arab Forum in Asilah (1980), grounded in Senghor’s vision of civilisational métissage. buff.ly/j3foTp6
Senghor, Asilah and “Afro-Arab Civilization” - ROAPE
Hisham Aidi offers a compelling account of how Morocco became a key site for competing political and cultural discourses in support of African and Arab pan-African solidarity. He shows that a…
roape.net
April 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
American-Moroccan scholar @HishamAidi traces #Morocco’s role in Afro-Arab solidarity—first via the #Fanon-inspired Souffles publication (1966-72), then through the Afro-Arab Forum in Asilah (1980), grounded in Senghor’s vision of civilisational métissage. buff.ly/j3foTp6
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The message from Baltimore, where Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s detention odyssey began
April 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The message from Baltimore, where Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s detention odyssey began
"History shows that almost all tyrants have been demagogues who gained the favour of the people by their accusation of the notables" (Aristotle's Politics, Book 5)
April 20, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"History shows that almost all tyrants have been demagogues who gained the favour of the people by their accusation of the notables" (Aristotle's Politics, Book 5)
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📣 New Release📣
For our special issue on armed insurgency:
@sohampatel.bsky.social on Eqbal Ahmad and the duty of intellectuals in this era of authoritarianism, genocide and pacifist pathologies.
For our special issue on armed insurgency:
@sohampatel.bsky.social on Eqbal Ahmad and the duty of intellectuals in this era of authoritarianism, genocide and pacifist pathologies.
March 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
📣 New Release📣
For our special issue on armed insurgency:
@sohampatel.bsky.social on Eqbal Ahmad and the duty of intellectuals in this era of authoritarianism, genocide and pacifist pathologies.
For our special issue on armed insurgency:
@sohampatel.bsky.social on Eqbal Ahmad and the duty of intellectuals in this era of authoritarianism, genocide and pacifist pathologies.
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Agree.Which is why folks should be thinking abt what kinds of civil formations,institutions,&policies could be on offer when people are searching for a way out of this.New, bold,21st c solutions are necessary.Now’s the time to think through frameworks that are not yet possible but could be made so.
Feel deep in my bones that the backlash to all of this is going to be enormous. Not sure how it will manifest and when it will explode into view, but confident it’s coming.
January 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Agree.Which is why folks should be thinking abt what kinds of civil formations,institutions,&policies could be on offer when people are searching for a way out of this.New, bold,21st c solutions are necessary.Now’s the time to think through frameworks that are not yet possible but could be made so.
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Mike Davis puts it succinctly in 1992, “this de facto war against cities has been one of the strategic pillars of modern conservative politics, embodying profound electoral & economic objectives.” He discusses how the American Enterprise Institute sought to cut urban aid & undo the Great Society.
January 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Mike Davis puts it succinctly in 1992, “this de facto war against cities has been one of the strategic pillars of modern conservative politics, embodying profound electoral & economic objectives.” He discusses how the American Enterprise Institute sought to cut urban aid & undo the Great Society.
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This sentence from Mike Davis’s DEAD CITIES about the LA riots in 1992 reverberates into the present: “And inequality, as we all know, is Southern California’s most famous fire ecology.”
January 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM
This sentence from Mike Davis’s DEAD CITIES about the LA riots in 1992 reverberates into the present: “And inequality, as we all know, is Southern California’s most famous fire ecology.”
So much to say about this horrifying article, a look into the mind of the tech bro. I couldn’t help but think about the cow in Nietzsche’s Untimely Meditations. Apparently, to make progress & attain individual autonomy, we must be ruled by our transparent past.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Opinion | AI Can Work for Us
A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
So much to say about this horrifying article, a look into the mind of the tech bro. I couldn’t help but think about the cow in Nietzsche’s Untimely Meditations. Apparently, to make progress & attain individual autonomy, we must be ruled by our transparent past.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
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this dynamic—basic econ implying one conclusion, a detailed look at empirics complicating it to the point of overturning the previous answer—is pretty much all over our public policy of the last few decades and it is MADDENING for those of us trained in ways of knowing that aren't basic econ
If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
www.theatlantic.com
January 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
this dynamic—basic econ implying one conclusion, a detailed look at empirics complicating it to the point of overturning the previous answer—is pretty much all over our public policy of the last few decades and it is MADDENING for those of us trained in ways of knowing that aren't basic econ
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If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
www.theatlantic.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Republicans have been making the case against birthright citizenship since at least the 80’s/90’s - it was a big concern of their 1996 convention, which tracked in my 2001 book, Democracy and the Foreigner. There are some firsts here, but this is also a long old story for Republicans.
Asserts in one sentence that birthright citizenship under the 14th amendment - which has been interpreted the same way for 156 years - doesn't mean what you think it means because the President said so. I'm no lawyer but this is totally bonkers.
January 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Republicans have been making the case against birthright citizenship since at least the 80’s/90’s - it was a big concern of their 1996 convention, which tracked in my 2001 book, Democracy and the Foreigner. There are some firsts here, but this is also a long old story for Republicans.
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As Chicago braces for an impending wave of raids, local activists discuss what rights and procedures immigrants in the Windy City and around the country need to know to protect themselves.
Trump’s assault on immigrants is coming—here’s what you need to know
As Chicago braces for an impending wave of raids, local activists discuss what rights and procedures immigrants in the Windy City and around the country need to know to protect themselves.
therealnews.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
As Chicago braces for an impending wave of raids, local activists discuss what rights and procedures immigrants in the Windy City and around the country need to know to protect themselves.
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A proposed bill in Mississippi would create the “Mississippi Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program."
People who help arrest undocumented migrants would be given $1,000.
And the crime of "trespass by an illegal alien" would be punishable by life in prison.
www.supertalk.fm/mississippi-...
People who help arrest undocumented migrants would be given $1,000.
And the crime of "trespass by an illegal alien" would be punishable by life in prison.
www.supertalk.fm/mississippi-...
Mississippi lawmaker files bill to create ‘bounty program’ for undocumented immigrants - SuperTalk Mississippi
A Republican lawmaker from DeSoto County introduced a bill on Wednesday that would offer a cash reward to registered bounty hunters who turn in undocumented
www.supertalk.fm
January 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A proposed bill in Mississippi would create the “Mississippi Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program."
People who help arrest undocumented migrants would be given $1,000.
And the crime of "trespass by an illegal alien" would be punishable by life in prison.
www.supertalk.fm/mississippi-...
People who help arrest undocumented migrants would be given $1,000.
And the crime of "trespass by an illegal alien" would be punishable by life in prison.
www.supertalk.fm/mississippi-...
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It amuses me in a very dark & bitter way that this alarm is coming from the NYT who have aided and abetted the cowing of academe in every way they possibly could.
First they came for the pro-Palestinians, but I didn't speak up because I didn't like them
Then they came for trans studies and I didn't speak up because they wrote badly
Then they came for the DEI programs and I didn't speak up because they were tedious
Then....
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
Then they came for trans studies and I didn't speak up because they wrote badly
Then they came for the DEI programs and I didn't speak up because they were tedious
Then....
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
Opinion | Harvard Has Already Capitulated to Trump’s War on Academia
The administration is trying to assert political control over American higher education.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It amuses me in a very dark & bitter way that this alarm is coming from the NYT who have aided and abetted the cowing of academe in every way they possibly could.
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I once thought everyone saw war in Iraq as a failure. @naomiaklein.bsky.social's book showed me that it was a success in the eyes of its architects--a sector that profits from creating chaos. Now US security firms will profit from the genocide the US funded in Gaza.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/w...
U.S. Security Contractors Going to Gaza to Oversee Truce, Officials Say
The contractors have been enlisted to do weapons checks on vehicles carrying displaced Palestinians back to their homes in the north under the terms of the new cease-fire.
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I once thought everyone saw war in Iraq as a failure. @naomiaklein.bsky.social's book showed me that it was a success in the eyes of its architects--a sector that profits from creating chaos. Now US security firms will profit from the genocide the US funded in Gaza.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/w...
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"We must grapple with the reality that the current models we have for philanthropy are not up to the task of incubating, developing and supporting strategy on the left."
on the list of serious election post-mortems, highly worth your time to read
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
on the list of serious election post-mortems, highly worth your time to read
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Left Organizing Is in Crisis. Philanthropy Is a Major Reason Why.
Progressive philanthropy lacks good strategy, so too many of our organizations are hollow—and that left us unable to prevent a second Trump term.
www.thenation.com
January 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"We must grapple with the reality that the current models we have for philanthropy are not up to the task of incubating, developing and supporting strategy on the left."
on the list of serious election post-mortems, highly worth your time to read
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
on the list of serious election post-mortems, highly worth your time to read
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Its not the laziness that i take issue with, its the way that it encourages -in higher ed- the continued deskilling of the teaching/research profession, in line with managerial vision, at the same time that it encourages students’ worst tendencies. There is an overlap there.
January 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Its not the laziness that i take issue with, its the way that it encourages -in higher ed- the continued deskilling of the teaching/research profession, in line with managerial vision, at the same time that it encourages students’ worst tendencies. There is an overlap there.