John Ganz
@lioneltrolling.bsky.social
dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
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John Ganz
@lioneltrolling.bsky.social
· Apr 6
When the Clock Broke
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2024One of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2024Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award...
us.macmillan.com
The hardcover of When the Clock Broke is on sale at many outlets!
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
A lot of people are a little puzzled that @jamellebouie.net and I do a podcast about political thrillers in the 1990s, but if you ever doubted that Harrison Ford movies were relevant to understanding US policy...well
January 4, 2026 at 7:35 PM
A lot of people are a little puzzled that @jamellebouie.net and I do a podcast about political thrillers in the 1990s, but if you ever doubted that Harrison Ford movies were relevant to understanding US policy...well
I'm sorry I missed this because it seems to confirm what I suspected about Big Oil
January 4, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I'm sorry I missed this because it seems to confirm what I suspected about Big Oil
Trying to think through the regime's actions in Venezuela.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/crude-ideo...
Crude Ideology
Some Thoughts on Venezuela
www.unpopularfront.news
January 4, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Trying to think through the regime's actions in Venezuela.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/crude-ideo...
Mmm I can think of a few worse ones...
Libertarianism has to be the most vile of all hard-right ideologies, if it can even be called an ideology
January 3, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Mmm I can think of a few worse ones...
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thewire.in/books/tracin... - When the Clock Broke is symptomatic history. But pair it with Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century for the inequalities of financialised capitalism, and Theodore Allen’s The Invention of the White Race for racialiased-class systemic foundations of order
Tracing the Prehistory of Trumpism
'When the Clock Broke' is brilliant symptomatic history. Read it for the human drama.
thewire.in
December 31, 2025 at 9:12 AM
thewire.in/books/tracin... - When the Clock Broke is symptomatic history. But pair it with Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century for the inequalities of financialised capitalism, and Theodore Allen’s The Invention of the White Race for racialiased-class systemic foundations of order
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new video up on jd vance youtu.be/zJuikC2nouc?...
J.D. Vance: From Trump Critic to Millennial David Duke
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
new video up on jd vance youtu.be/zJuikC2nouc?...
Believe I will be on @allinwithchris.bsky.social tonight
December 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Believe I will be on @allinwithchris.bsky.social tonight
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last episode of the unclear and present politics podcast of the year!
Unclear and Present Politics Episode 12 — White Man's Burden Edition (Video) | Unclear and Present Patreon
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December 23, 2025 at 2:19 AM
last episode of the unclear and present politics podcast of the year!
I've posted the full video and an analysis of Bari Weiss's memo.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/60-minutes...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/60-minutes...
60 Minutes's 'Inside CECOT'
The Full Video and Bari Weiss's 'Memo'
www.unpopularfront.news
December 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I've posted the full video and an analysis of Bari Weiss's memo.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/60-minutes...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/60-minutes...
Last roundup of the year. (I'm on vacation.)
www.unpopularfront.news/p/fighting-f...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/fighting-f...
Fighting Franco; Stormin' Norman Podhoretz; Italy's Red Cities
Reading, Watching 12.21.26
www.unpopularfront.news
December 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Last roundup of the year. (I'm on vacation.)
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www.unpopularfront.news/p/fighting-f...
Yeah including you, you sonuvabitch
Ben Shapiro: "Today I want to talk about something even more important — how to discern those attempting to speak truth from frauds and grifters…The conservative movement is in danger from charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracy and dishonesty."
December 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Yeah including you, you sonuvabitch
The United States government is controlled by the mob.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-high-t...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-high-t...
The High-Tech Lynching of Mustapha K.
Mob Rule in America
www.unpopularfront.news
December 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The United States government is controlled by the mob.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-high-t...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-high-t...
The grotesque, campy evil of MAGA is on full display.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-horror
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-horror
The Horror
MAGA's Heart of Darkness
www.unpopularfront.news
December 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The grotesque, campy evil of MAGA is on full display.—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-horror
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-horror
There are three tickets left!! 730 tonight!
interintellect.com/salons/broke...
interintellect.com/salons/broke...
Broken Clocks and Conspiracies: Talking Democracy with John Ganz
Join us for a provocative discussion on the uncomfortable patterns between past and present politics with historian and writer John Ganz. After his excellent panel at our New York festival 'The Ideas ...
interintellect.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
There are three tickets left!! 730 tonight!
interintellect.com/salons/broke...
interintellect.com/salons/broke...
Anson Rabinbach's study of Nazi culture; the early bibliophiles; Lionel Trilling on Shakespeare vs. Kafka
www.unpopularfront.news/p/rememberin...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/rememberin...
Remembering Anson Rabinbach; Petrarch's Library; Shakespeare vs. Kafka
Reading, Watching 12.14.25
www.unpopularfront.news
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Anson Rabinbach's study of Nazi culture; the early bibliophiles; Lionel Trilling on Shakespeare vs. Kafka
www.unpopularfront.news/p/rememberin...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/rememberin...
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New post just out:
My Top Ten Books of the Year for 2025
Hopefully lots of ideas for late presents. And links to all my previous lists too.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
My Top Ten Books of the Year for 2025
Hopefully lots of ideas for late presents. And links to all my previous lists too.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
Books of the Year - 2025
It’s that time of year when I reveal my top ten books and hopefully give a bit of help to late present buyers.
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
New post just out:
My Top Ten Books of the Year for 2025
Hopefully lots of ideas for late presents. And links to all my previous lists too.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
My Top Ten Books of the Year for 2025
Hopefully lots of ideas for late presents. And links to all my previous lists too.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
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Rufo's problem is his job is giving the right's most reactionary ideas the valence of intellectual rigor for more liberal audiences, but his base audience wants nothing to do with that kind of respectability politics. He's the pornographer that imagines himself to be a great auteur
Chris Rufo is a cheap thug. The fact that there are cheaper thugs out there doesn't change the fact.
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www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-attack...
December 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Rufo's problem is his job is giving the right's most reactionary ideas the valence of intellectual rigor for more liberal audiences, but his base audience wants nothing to do with that kind of respectability politics. He's the pornographer that imagines himself to be a great auteur
Chris Rufo is a cheap thug. The fact that there are cheaper thugs out there doesn't change the fact.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-attack...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-attack...
The Attack on Somalis is Hate Politics
Right-Wing Terror Descends on Minnesota
www.unpopularfront.news
December 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Rufo's problem is his job is giving the right's most reactionary ideas the valence of intellectual rigor for more liberal audiences, but his base audience wants nothing to do with that kind of respectability politics. He's the pornographer that imagines himself to be a great auteur
Chris Rufo is a cheap thug. The fact that there are cheaper thugs out there doesn't change the fact.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-attack...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-attack...
The Attack on Somalis is Hate Politics
Right-Wing Terror Descends on Minnesota
www.unpopularfront.news
December 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Chris Rufo is a cheap thug. The fact that there are cheaper thugs out there doesn't change the fact.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-attack...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-attack...
Reposted by John Ganz
In this piece for @financialtimes.com, @lioneltrolling.bsky.social fears for the future of New York's poker clubs if the casino approvals go ahead as.ft.com/r/e6eb3203-3...
Casinos could deal New York’s poker dens a losing hand
[FREE TO READ] They are among the few truly democratic spaces left in the city
as.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
In this piece for @financialtimes.com, @lioneltrolling.bsky.social fears for the future of New York's poker clubs if the casino approvals go ahead as.ft.com/r/e6eb3203-3...
In 1945, Thomas Mann declared, "The really characteristic and dangerous aspect of National Socialism was its mixture of robust modernity and an affirmative stance toward progress combined with dreams of the past: a highly technological romanticism.”
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www.unpopularfront.news/p/talking-to...
Talking to Jeffrey Herf about Reactionary Modernism
Author Series No. 6
www.unpopularfront.news
December 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
In 1945, Thomas Mann declared, "The really characteristic and dangerous aspect of National Socialism was its mixture of robust modernity and an affirmative stance toward progress combined with dreams of the past: a highly technological romanticism.”
www.unpopularfront.news/p/talking-to...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/talking-to...
What is technology doing?; Hannah Arendt's thought, 50 years after her death; the cost of conscription in Ukraine
www.unpopularfront.news/p/questions-...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/questions-...
Questions Concerning Technology; Arendt, 50 years later; Ukraine's Agony
Reading, Watching 12.07.25
www.unpopularfront.news
December 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
What is technology doing?; Hannah Arendt's thought, 50 years after her death; the cost of conscription in Ukraine
www.unpopularfront.news/p/questions-...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/questions-...
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My politics are the left wing of the unclear and present danger podcast (radicalized 90s nostalgia where antifascism is government policy)
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
My politics are the left wing of the unclear and present danger podcast (radicalized 90s nostalgia where antifascism is government policy)
My notes from last night's panel on Brenner-Riley.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/politics-a...
Politics and Capitalist Stagnation
Live from New York
www.unpopularfront.news
December 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My notes from last night's panel on Brenner-Riley.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/politics-a...