Caleb Zakarin
@calebzakarin.bsky.social
Editor at New Books Network, mostly posting about books, education, higher ed, and edtech
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We’ve hit a new milestone! 1 5 0 members in our @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast host group over on LinkedIn! A big welcome to everyone who's recently joined. It's amazing to see a space for #podcast enthusiasts to support each other. Excited to learn from all of you and see where we go next!
August 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We’ve hit a new milestone! 1 5 0 members in our @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast host group over on LinkedIn! A big welcome to everyone who's recently joined. It's amazing to see a space for #podcast enthusiasts to support each other. Excited to learn from all of you and see where we go next!
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@calebzakarin.bsky.social, editor of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, interviewed me for a podcast about my John McPhee book. It's a wide-ranging conversation, including talking about what makes McPhee so extraordinary and the many discoveries in the book.
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Ideas Podcast: Looking for a Story
Looking for a Story is a complete reader’s guide to McPhee’s vast published work, documenting much rarely seen or connected with McPhee, including remarkable early writing for Time magazine published ...
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June 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
@calebzakarin.bsky.social, editor of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, interviewed me for a podcast about my John McPhee book. It's a wide-ranging conversation, including talking about what makes McPhee so extraordinary and the many discoveries in the book.
bit.ly/3SyEvXT
bit.ly/3SyEvXT
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Great to see my new book "Coming Clean" (@mitpress) highlighted by @calebzakarin.bsky.social, Editor of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. We discussed the future of progressive #politics.
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Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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May 17, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Great to see my new book "Coming Clean" (@mitpress) highlighted by @calebzakarin.bsky.social, Editor of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. We discussed the future of progressive #politics.
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newbooksnetwork.com/coming-clean
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Thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social and to @calebzakarin.bsky.social, a terrific interviewer.
Listen to Noel Rubinton discuss John McPhee, the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, teacher, and pioneer of creative nonfiction, and his inspiring career.
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@noelrubinton.bsky.social #JohnMcPhee @newyorker.com @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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@noelrubinton.bsky.social #JohnMcPhee @newyorker.com @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social and to @calebzakarin.bsky.social, a terrific interviewer.
What Substacks should I subscribe to?
March 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
What Substacks should I subscribe to?
This will be a boon for elite, non-American institutions. Classes are better when the student body is internationally diverse. We make education in America more parochial at our own peril.
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www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
Colleges Fear Decline in International Student Enrollment
International students are a financial lifeline for many colleges, and enrollments are just recovering from the pandemic. The Trump administration is pushing them away.
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March 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This will be a boon for elite, non-American institutions. Classes are better when the student body is internationally diverse. We make education in America more parochial at our own peril.
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
Middle class families are often squeezed the hardest by higher ed tuitions. I imagine the high fees, without a clear return on investment especially for parents, are a major source of the backlash against elite institutions.
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news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Harvard expands financial aid — Harvard Gazette
New effort ensures that more undergraduates, especially from middle-income families, will receive support.
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March 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Middle class families are often squeezed the hardest by higher ed tuitions. I imagine the high fees, without a clear return on investment especially for parents, are a major source of the backlash against elite institutions.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
"Ultimately, the transition beyond single title purchase models for ebooks seems to be picking up, suggesting a sort of second digital transformation for the monograph..."
@rschon.bsky.social
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A Second Digital Transformation for Scholarly Monographs?
Today, Roger Schonfeld examines several key drivers transforming the monographs marketplace and reflects on strategic opportunities ahead.
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March 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"Ultimately, the transition beyond single title purchase models for ebooks seems to be picking up, suggesting a sort of second digital transformation for the monograph..."
@rschon.bsky.social
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@rschon.bsky.social
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Europe courts US scientists after cuts
on.ft.com/41xIOqy Europe courts US scientists fleeing Donald Trump crackdown
on.ft.com/41xIOqy Europe courts US scientists fleeing Donald Trump crackdown
Europe courts US scientists fleeing Donald Trump crackdown
Cambridge university among institutions seeing chance to hire talent unsettled by US spending cuts
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March 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Europe courts US scientists after cuts
on.ft.com/41xIOqy Europe courts US scientists fleeing Donald Trump crackdown
on.ft.com/41xIOqy Europe courts US scientists fleeing Donald Trump crackdown
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TEA TIME!
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Tea Time
Featuring the 6th Annual African American Book Festival in San Antonio, Episodes on Tea, Talking Thai Politics, Meet a Host, and the NBN YouTube channel
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February 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
TEA TIME!
Read the latest edition of our newsletter every Thursday.
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Read the latest edition of our newsletter every Thursday.
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I’ll be at odd lots trivia tonight
February 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I’ll be at odd lots trivia tonight
The electric red pill acid test
February 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The electric red pill acid test
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I wrote up what happened to the CFPB this weekend, made possible by a years long lobbying campaign by Wall St and a recent push by Silicon Valley. Plus, a bunch of under the radar recent actions the Bureau took that enraged the business world
The Deregulation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
One of the Right's long running projects is now being enacted with help from Silicon Valley and Wall St.
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February 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I wrote up what happened to the CFPB this weekend, made possible by a years long lobbying campaign by Wall St and a recent push by Silicon Valley. Plus, a bunch of under the radar recent actions the Bureau took that enraged the business world
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Just wrapped our weekly roundup show with @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social, where we broke the news: this is the final day of his 2-year fellowship with @theprospect.bsky.social. It was a great run and we look forward to seeing his career continue. Congratulations!
January 31, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Just wrapped our weekly roundup show with @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social, where we broke the news: this is the final day of his 2-year fellowship with @theprospect.bsky.social. It was a great run and we look forward to seeing his career continue. Congratulations!
I've listened to a few interviews with Lionel Barber about his new book on Masayoshi Son, including his profile in the @financialtimes.com. I might have to buy the book...
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Lionel Barber, "Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son" (Atria, 2024) - New Books Network
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February 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I've listened to a few interviews with Lionel Barber about his new book on Masayoshi Son, including his profile in the @financialtimes.com. I might have to buy the book...
newbooksnetwork.com/gambling-man
newbooksnetwork.com/gambling-man
An interview I recently did with Rumu Sarkar on international development. Seems relevant.
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Rumu Sarkar, "International Development Law: Rule of Law, Human Rights & Global Finance" (Springer, 2020) - New Books Network
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February 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
An interview I recently did with Rumu Sarkar on international development. Seems relevant.
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newbooksnetwork.com/internationa...
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If there is any doubt that tariffs are passed through to consumers, the cost of propane to heat my house just went up by the amount of the tariff
February 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
If there is any doubt that tariffs are passed through to consumers, the cost of propane to heat my house just went up by the amount of the tariff
I think this is one of our best newsletters yet!
In this week’s newsletter…
-The best bookstore in Australia
-5 Tips for completing your dissertation
-AHA’s best history books of the year
-The history and geopolitics of talking to aliens
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-The best bookstore in Australia
-5 Tips for completing your dissertation
-AHA’s best history books of the year
-The history and geopolitics of talking to aliens
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Mixed Signals
Bookstore Spotlight, Graduate Student Corner, American Historical Association prize winners, and an interview with Dr. Rebecca Charbonneau
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January 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I think this is one of our best newsletters yet!
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A modern home in Pacific Palisades survived the fire while all the homes around it burned. It was luck, but also it was made to withstand a wildfire, and it did.
I spoke with the architect who designed it, plus other architects, about designing for disaster: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I spoke with the architect who designed it, plus other architects, about designing for disaster: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
January 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
A modern home in Pacific Palisades survived the fire while all the homes around it burned. It was luck, but also it was made to withstand a wildfire, and it did.
I spoke with the architect who designed it, plus other architects, about designing for disaster: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I spoke with the architect who designed it, plus other architects, about designing for disaster: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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In 2013, I started a French Studies channel on the New Books Network & hosted it solo for over a decade. This interview w/Emily Marker re: BLACK FRANCE, WHITE EUROPE is my last official episode (for now, anyway).
Biggest gratitude to all the authors & listeners out there. I had the best time!✌️
Biggest gratitude to all the authors & listeners out there. I had the best time!✌️
Emily Marker, "Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era" (Cornell UP, 2022) - New Books Network
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January 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In 2013, I started a French Studies channel on the New Books Network & hosted it solo for over a decade. This interview w/Emily Marker re: BLACK FRANCE, WHITE EUROPE is my last official episode (for now, anyway).
Biggest gratitude to all the authors & listeners out there. I had the best time!✌️
Biggest gratitude to all the authors & listeners out there. I had the best time!✌️
If you read anything at all about the LA fires, please read this:
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Burning Down The House
1057 Chautauqua Blvd. (After) Our house burned down in the Palisades fire. There. I said it. It’s real now. I guess. Not 100% sure why ...
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January 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If you read anything at all about the LA fires, please read this:
burningdownthehouse2025.blogspot.com/2025/01/burn...
burningdownthehouse2025.blogspot.com/2025/01/burn...
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NEW PODCAST 📚🎙️ | Explore the Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (2024). Spanning up to 600 CE, this 6-volume set bridges NT studies & patristics, linking Judaism, ancient history & philosophy. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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January 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
NEW PODCAST 📚🎙️ | Explore the Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (2024). Spanning up to 600 CE, this 6-volume set bridges NT studies & patristics, linking Judaism, ancient history & philosophy. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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