Max A. Cohen
cohenmaxa.bsky.social
Max A. Cohen
@cohenmaxa.bsky.social
Economic justice agitator. PhD @ Princeton. Writing an anthropology of venture capital, startups, & tech.
Philly/Baltimore/SF Bay Area.
Views my own. He/him.
yup, the OP put it in his 2nd post on the thread
www.aclusocal.org
July 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I'm embarrassed at my alma mater @upenn.edu but not surprised. Grow a spine, Penn administrators. Protect trans people.
July 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"All of them hope that the [feast] will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But. . . [it] will not pass. It will rage and it will roar ever more loudly, ever more widely."
-Winston Churchill (an imperialist, yes, but he was right to skewer those who appeased the Nazi fascists) 2/
July 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I’m thinking of how Nathaniel Rich in his book, “Losing Earth,” recounts how environmentalists’ congressional climate hearings in the ‘70s were way more effective at capturing headlines and swaying politicians’/public opinion when scheduled during sweltering summer than at any other time of year
June 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This Machine Kills is a phenomenal anti-capitalist take on tech & political economy

Seasoned leftists might forget Democracy Now! when listing podcasts. But it’s vital for (esp budding) leftists as a reliable daily source not only of global news but of well-informed leftist takes on current issues
June 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
June 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"the response to this kind of thing is not to meet it halfway with warmed-over rhetoric about how you too favor reasonable restrictions on immigration. the response is a full-throated advocacy of multiracial democracy, of immigration as a positive good."
June 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM