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For @thepointmag.bsky.social, my dispatch from Trump’s birthday parade:
June 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
In honor of Elon Musk’s retirement from government, read my first post, on Elon Musk, vampires, Edmund Burke, and much more, written during the early days of DOGE: lewispage.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...
Elon Musk and the New American Gothic
Some thoughts on vampires, Edmund Burke, and the cause of our present discontents.
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May 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I’m doing it. Joining the herd. Taking the leap. Making my voice heard. Doing the writerly equivalent of buying Bitcoin—or a zoo.

That’s right: I’m starting a Substack. It’s called The Page Review. It would mean a lot if you subscribed: lewispage.substack.com?fbclid=PAQ0x...
The Page Review | Lewis Page | Substack
Dispatches on culture and politics. Click to read The Page Review, by Lewis Page, a Substack publication. Launched 3 hours ago.
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May 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
A careful study of how consolidated capital (Spotify) ruins art, and a cutting romp through ghostly Davos. Harper’s is on a roll right now.

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At the Summit, by Caitlín Doherty
The last days of Davos
harpers.org
January 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Reposted by Lewis Page
Sad to learn that renowned education scholar & 1979-80 CASBS fellow Lee Shulman, best known for developing the concept of pedagogical content knowledge, passed away recently.

Read the @stanfordgse.bsky.social tribute:

news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...
Lee Shulman, influential education scholar, dies at 86
Shulman was best known academically for introducing the concept of pedagogical content knowledge, and in personal circles for creating community wherever he went.
news.stanford.edu
January 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
A great piece by Sam Anim on Botswana’s recent elections and how observers welding simplistic metrics of “democratization” often overlook longstanding precolonial civic traditions. In @jodemocracy.bsky.social: www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
Botswana’s Misunderstood “Miracle” | Journal of Democracy
The country’s 2024 presidential contest was a big surprise, as voters elected a new party for the first time. Despite decades of dominant-party rule, a strong democratic culture has long been…
www.journalofdemocracy.org
January 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Sad to send one of my favorites of the year back into the inter-library-loan ether. In @realbrianjudge.bsky.social’s book, neoliberalism emerges not from the grand plans of a few economists, but out of attempts to keep the false promises of infinite growth at liberalism’s core. Worth checking out.
December 18, 2024 at 6:19 PM